Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

cure for rheumatism,
There are 800, 900 white people and ST.
900 indians in Oklahoma
There are between 900 and 100 law
yers in Boston, with scarcely business for
2CO.
More than 1000 varieties of flowers
were gathered in Colorado last summer by
Miss Aida p. lansing.
Deer horns, flint, boars' tusks and bone
of all sorts were made to serve Che purpose
by anglers of the neolithic period.
I'm 1928 the Scotch Parliament passed
law permitting women to propose to men
during the reign of Queen Margaret
In the first families of Philadelphia"
it continues to be a gastronomic boast thas
they have always paid 81 pound for but
ter.
The prejudice against the wearing Of
whiskers is reported to be becoming very
marked in the leading clubs and restaurants
of New York City.
The gray hair of an Elbert county, Ga,
woman, 81 years old, is falling out and being
replaced by a lu1uriant growth OF jet black
locks, so it is said.
In the cemetery of Wall street, New
York. the unmarked financial graves out
number thousand to one the mol uments
erected to the successful speculator- .F
The blood vessels in the white of the
eye are so small that they do not admit the
little red corpuscles to which the ordinary
real appearance of the blood is due.
Among the latest patents issued in
Washington is one for an eIectro-propelIing
tricycle.. which, it is claimed, will run at the
rate of from to Il miles an hour at a nomi-
nal cost.
Farmers near Leeds, n. D., are COM
planning of Interpretations of aherd of an
the unthrashed grain, flax seeming to he the
favorite food.
An old gentleman from Keokuk, la,
met an old lady for the first time, fell des-
perately in love, proposed, was accepted.
secured license and married the lady in so
minutes after meeting her.
The Pratt, Kan, Times, voieing the in
dignation of the people at repeated jail de-
liveries, advises the county to sell the steel
cells and cages and hire a cowboy to herd
the prisoners in the city park
From an early date the Chinese seem
to have constructed suspension bridges Of
considerable magnitude, one in the Prov
lnce OF Junnan, constructed in the year 65
A D., being the most celebrated.
An ancient sword was dug up recently
III DlHey WOOus ln OcOr1lI, near L0e
forks Of the savannah river and Brier creek.
The hammer marks on the blade stamp it as
having been of home manufacture.
An absent-minded Toronto woman in
her hurry to start for church took from q
closet pair of her husba nd's trousers for
her dolman. threw them over her arm, and
did not discover her mistake until she had
thrown them over the back of pew in front
of her.
"A ghost eight feet tall and having
sepulchral laugh, is reported to be terror
iZing some of the inhabitants of Williams
burg, y. Y. A policeman. a fireman and a
milkman are among those said to have been
prostrnted with fright through this ghostly
visitant.
Hooded crows in the Shetland Islands
hold regular assizes at stated periods, and
usually in the same place. When there is a
full docket week OF more is spent in irving
the cases: at other times single day sufficeS
for the proceedings The capitally con-
demned are killed on the spot
"A Sacramento boy, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, found small mushroom
the other day which he planted and covered
with barnyard compost. 1t at once started
to grow and in q day or so measured up
ward of a foot across, having stem about
six inches in diameter. 1t weighed five
pounds.
I'm Argentine the drivers and con-
ductors of street cars are by law responsible
for any accident which may occur: so when
one happens their first care is to escape. In
case of a breakdown or collision, the care is
left to anyOne's mercy, and a new driver
and conductor must be procured before the
trip can be continued
The bridal veil had it's origin in piece
of cloth which was anciently held over the
bride to conceal her maiden bushes. In the
case of widows, this canopy. which was
called the "care cloth.'' was considered quite
unnecessary. a necessary portion of the
costume Of an English bride of the Middle
Ages was a carving knife stuck in her
girde.
wedding favors' are of Danish origin,
and the "true lovers knot does not, az
might be naturally supposed. derive its
name from the words. "true love- but from
the Danish "Trulofa." which means liter
ally sI plight my troth" A knot among the
ancient Northern nations seems always to
have been the symbol of faith and friend
ship.
In old times fishermen made their own
hooks. using very much the same methods
as are now practiced on a large scale in the
fa actories 1t is very curious fact that dur
ing the bronze age, when metals had first
come into use, fish hooks had the same form
as now, even to the shanks and curves. The
famous Limerick" and "Shaughnessy'
preferred in that early epoch.
The several lines of paper consumption
are estimated to require abou+ as follows.
each year: Journals published dairy, 49s,-
600 600; journals published weekly, monthly.
atc $50 OOn 900: books Of all kinds, 10000 O00:
1sed in Schools etc. $50 900, ,0O0 used by gov
ernments and cities, l60,000,0 900: in CORE
snondence 229 900 O00: for commercial use,
10 OO0 COO; for pastinG, 4jo 600; for papier-
mnche and art Objects 200 900.
"A curious result has followed the intro
ductfon of electricity for street lighting in
Orizaba. Mexico. Millions OF insects have
been attracted from the mountains, and
their dead bodies have collected in greu5
heaps about the lamp posts. Under hot
sun. an unbearable stencil has risen from
the decaying masses, and fever has broken
ont among the inhabitants. It has been
found necessary to send out wagons every
to carry away the dead insects
While Hutchinson, Kan, policeman
was standing under an electric light he was
startled by some object striking him u
heavy blow on the head and then falling at
his feet. As he stopped TO examine the OBJ
iect he received a second blow, this time on
tbe back. When ne recovered sufficiently
from his fright to gather himself together,
he found he had been struck by two wild
geese that had been killed by striking the
electric light wires. He then resumed his
slumbers.