Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A chicago restaurant Keeper urank 700
much of his own coffee and died.
Canada has 13, 400 Indian children of
school age, of whom 1874 are in attendance.
The whaling bark Progress, over 30
years old, will be OH exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.
"A little Freeport, Ia, girl imagines she
| is rabbit, and runs from everybody who
comes near heI.
The King of Dahomey worships statues
of the II apostles as gods. He is therefore
called Christian.
The microscopists say that a mosquito
has p teeth in the end of his bilI-11 above
and the same number below.
Last year 22,O8O patents were issued,
nearly twice many rs were granted dur
ing the first 80 years of the Patent Office.
The first instance that history records
Of the use of forks was at the table of John
the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and he had
only two.
In Russia law has recently been made
forbidding kissing at the theater. There
VIII be an exodus of second rate American
actors to Russia.
"A man was arrested at Lacrosse, Wis,
charged with counterfeiting old pennies
worth from 800 to 500 each. The dates
were 17s7 and 1850.
In Western town there are two BROTH
ers. twins, so much alike that when one of
them was recently taken sick the doctor
cured the other one by mistake.
The analysis, by chemists at the State
Agricultural College of sugar beets raised
in Iowa shows a. Al per cent of sugar, which
is not often e1celled in the best beet-grow-
ing countries of Europe.
"A great festival took place lately in the
Timok Valley, in servia, TO celebrate the
baptism OF 400 Mobammedan Gipsies belong
ing to the tribe of Ibrahim Hamil. The
Gipsies are gradually coming over to Chris
tianity.
DIR. PIE Smith says of gout, that not all
drinks will produce it, for 1t is rare in Scot
land. Not all wines will produce it, for it is
rare in Spain and Italy. Not all malt liquors
will produce it, for it Is rare in Vienna and
Munich
AT New York last Wednesday a cat
got into tree and seemed unable to get
down. After remaining there three days it
was rescued by n 5. p. c. A. agent, who
put n plank between the tree and a third
story window.
The Greenlapders laugh when they see
Europeans uncover their heads as a mark of
respect; the bow, which we esteem as the
outward sign of an inward grace, and the
very expression of courtesy, is to them q
ridiculous contortfon.
An old maids insurance company has
been opened in Denmark. Spinsters can in
sure themselves by q small sum on reaching
the age of l3, and if still unmarried at 40 are
entitled to a regular allowance. If they
marry. however, they forfeit all claim.
w. S. Holiday, whose home is at
Tucker, in Ripley county, Mo-, has curios-
ity in the peach tree line which he is think
ing of sending to the Worlds Fair The tree
4 in
diameter at the butt, is 81 feet high and has
no limb or branch on it.
AN italian tailor of New York swai-
owed, by mistake. 30 grammes of carboIfc
acid. He did not die as everybody thought
he would. and as he certainly would if Dr.
Morett had not pumped into his stomach a
strong solution of sulphate of soda, which
forms, with carbolic acid, q harmless COM
pound.
One variety of beetle is called the
Diamond Beetle" because it is covered
with minute points which reflect the light
They are employed for trimming dresses.
and sometimes n particularly fine one is
kept alive and allowed to wander over the
corsage OF the wearer, attached by q slender
cham.
"A New York physician has constructed
an instrument on the plan of the stetho-
scope with which he asserts that he can de-
termine the exact size and position of the
a
that he could thrust a pin into ones chest
within q hairs breadth of the heart without
touching it.
The white aigerettes, so much worn on
bonnets and hats and as ornaments for the
hair are obtained from the egret, OF heron.
The bird is found in warm climates and is
smaller and more graceful in line than the
English heron. The feathers of this bird
are white, very delicate and spirally curled
toward the point.
One of the largest and hardest log jams
ever known in the Northwest has been FORM
ing in the st. Croix river at Eagle Island. 1t
is over five miles long and the logs are piled
up in all shapes, and it contains over 150,-
900, 900 feet. The st. CroiX river is threaten
ing to cut a new channel, and unless checked
ft will do so and leave the logs on dry land.
1t was Queen Anne-Richard IFS
Queen Anne-who introduced trailing gowns
into England nearly 500 years ago. 1t was
the same royal lady who first set the fashion
of enormously high peaked headgear, from
which the matinee hat IS no doubt de-
scended; and also changed the mode of lady
from the cavalier style to the
AT a recent 'fshing of the locks" at
Delaware City, the eastern terminus of the
canal, nearly 1000 herring were caught. and
ir was estimated that between 5000 and S0-
600 passed through the locks that day. On
the same day 1t was estimated that the net
in the locks at St. Georges contained at one
time 60 OC0 herring. The weight was so great
that only 5000 could be brought ashore.
-Waukesha, Wis, is almost in state
of war. Armed men patrol the streets day
and night. and trouble seems to be immi-
nent. 1t is all about the project to pipe the
famous spring water from Waukesha and
have it on tap in jackson Park, Chicago.
When the pipe line man with a gang of la
borers appeared to lay the pipe he was met
by an injunction, a cannon and 800 men
armed with guns and pistols
The old chatelaine spoon has been re-
produced with historic fidelity. This was
the spoon with which the housekeeper was
to taste all dishes before they
were presented to guests, as a guarantee
in those rude and savage times
against the use of poison. This spoon is
about as large as tablespoon. 1t was form
erly arranged so that it could be hung on
chain from the girdle, as its name indicates.
"A South Jersey hen had the honor of
laying pair Of eggs the other day. Having
produced one complete egg, correct in size
and shape, she managed in trying to in
stantly duplicate 1t, to inclose it in flexible
sac of semi-opaque skin, which also con-
sained the complete yolk and white of an
1ther egg. The effect was, therefore, that
Of hard egg and an egg that has been
iropped out of its shell, both encl osed In q
seamless bag about four inches 10 ng andtw
inches wide.