Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A patent has been issued to wor
for an improved fastening for shirt butte
The Mohammedans, it is said, eonsi
silk unclean, because it is produced b.
worm.
The town of Roanoke, Va, has gre
in ten years from a population of 600 to-
of % co.,
I'm the Louisiana Legislature thef
said to be about II different species Of
mocracy.
About 800 organ grinders arrive in L
don every June from Italy, and leave ag
about October.
Bread must not be cooked on cert
days, and on Holy Friday lin Brittany,
during the night of All Saints, when
ghosts would eat it.
Forms of etiquette and good mann
take wide range, and it seems strange t
two centuries ago the first gentlemen
England habitually wore their hats wi
eating.
To-day American factories turn out
600 watches a week. Almost the only til
pieces imported are repeaters. stop-watcl
and those having special movement, VIII
bring a high price.
"A little more than 100 years ago
work of man at common or unskilled lal
was worth but so cents day; and on this
supported his family in what was no dor
regarded as entire respectability.
When young Chinese woman is mf
riageable she is allowed to select her o
partner, who is called her lover or soo-l
If they are fond of each other they dan
together in order to settle the match.
The Brazil nut contains from Is to
seeds, which all germinate at one time. 7
most vigorous one gets first through a,sm
hole at the top to the open air. and the
upon it strangles and feeds upon the rest.
"A woman in Springfield, O., has,
cording to dispatch. apparently died fc
or five times during the past year, laid {
for burial, and each time returned toy
orous life just before being consigned to
grave.
Joseph Bossbagen, German living
New Haven, has petitioned the Super
Court to change his name. He says that
Yankees all Call him BOSS Bargain" ~
that the ridicule involved is detrimental
his business.
The Russian likes no sleeping place
well as the top of a big soapstone stove
his domicile Crawling out OF this blisteri
bed in the morning he likes to take plum
in cold stream. even II he has to break
ice to get into it.
The Chinese trader, with view to er
tom, has an ingenious method of doing bu
ness. grocer will advertise himself
John Bull & Co., while u marine store deal
uses familiar name by describing his fiji
as Cheap Jack & Co.
The Chinese believe there is seas
for everything. and, in accordance with I'll
belief, they think the opening year-t
season when the peach petal bursts 'front.'
caliN-is tine most auspicious season
forming matrimonial alliances.
1t is considered unlucky for the moth
and her baby to go out of doors until t
child is baptized; for the child to be ba
tized in q Scotch church, but lucky for
child to be chr1Stened In the house it "
born in; for lovers to be engaged with a ril
containing either opals or emeralds.
Thirteen girl graduates from Mou'
Auburn Young Ladies' Institute, of Cincii
natl, banqueted on Saturday night, defyiI
in every possible way omens of evil. Th
walked under q ladder, broke a miro
raised umbrellas in the house, had l3 waiter
and caused the orchestra to pl;ty l3 pieces
"A wealthy old bachelor of Liberty tow
ship, Porter county, Ind, has advertised
the public prints in effect that for the ne
81 DAYS he is open to sealed proposals .
Ill
ladies inclined to disturbing domestic trai
or extravagant tastes are warned not
compete.
In cemetery indefinitely located &c
the Susquehana River" there is gray
with this epitaph on the marble memori
slab: "Charles Lewis: he voted for Lincoln
A Ba ton Rouge, La, graveStone bears tn
legend: "Here lies the body of David Jone
His last words were: die Christian Al
Democrat
AT Sharpsburg man purchased a pie
of land ut Aspinwaft on which tn ere were
number oftrees. These were cut down fe
DAYS ago, and in one, white oak more tha
two feet in diameter, was found large Si5
seven-inch horseshoe. The shoe was in Il
center of the tree some distance below til
main fork, and was a feet from the grount
The statistics are given for the year 189
in which it appears that the whole numbt
of steam vessels of all nat1ons-none bein
included OF less than 100 tons burden-wf
10, lO3, and their total tonnage. 13 SCj, 0cS {
this aggregate more than half i'll numbe
and nearly half in tonnage belonged to En-.
land, the figures for that country oeIng 5,4I
steamships and 5369. .9jl tons.
Travellers in Washington and BIRTHS
Columbia frequently tell of seeing tres
dripping with moisture when neither raj
said to be due to the remarkable condensin
power of the leaves of some of the fir tree:
which when the humidity of the atmoSpheT
closely approaches the dew point, collec
the moisture from the air until the droE
fall to the ground
There is considerable interest connecte
with the word dip which is still used
some parts of the country for sauce" an
perpetuates the memory Of the days whel
the sauce was common dish, into whic
each person at table dipped his bread o
meat 1t was this custom that led to tn
Identification of Judas as the one VIII
should betray Christ, for he dipped his so
in the dish with the Master.
The cat always turns a rabbit skin in
side out, leaving it reversed like q glove
The weasel and stoat eat the brain, ,nibble til
head, suck the blood, and leave the body. !
fox always leaves the legs and hinder parts
They generally bite the head OFF to begh
with, and then skin the body neatly, as the,
hate the fur in their mouths. A tog tears
all to bits while crows and magples peel
the eyes out before touching the rest OF th'
body.
Some extraordinary finds have at time
been made within the trunks of trees.
woodman, for instance, when engaged IL
splitting timber for rail posts, in wood il
Sc otland, discovered in the center of a larg'
wild cherry tree living bat of Drigh
scarlet color, which he foolishly allowed tt
escape, from superstitious fears that 1t wa:
a "being not of this world" The tree showed
a small cavity in the center, where the bal
was inclosed, but it was perfectly sound and
solid on each side.