Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

college footbag is 16 years old.
The Emperor of Gina orders 200 pairs
of boots at time.
-Gustavus Adolphus abosshed all armor
but light cufrass.
The golden bell flower CAM. from the
Madeira Islands in 1777. =
Some of the cranes now used in It'll.
lery work will hoist 1J0 tons.
The flesh of young asses, oung hawks
| and vultures was q Roman dainty.
Cotton Is indigeno nous to the tropical re-
| gions of India, Africa and America.
| The cholera germ propagates so rapidly
that in IS hours one will produce 2sO, 900 600.
| In the reign of Louis XVI the h ats of
| the ladies were two feet high and four feet
wide.
| Leading bicyclists propose to build an
| asphalt road 30 or IS feet wide from Chicago
to Now York.
i'm the Greek phalanx the soldiers stood
as close as possible to each other their
| shields overlapping.
-Brillat-Savarin, French glutton, used
| to eat from three to 13 dozen oyste rs before
| dinner as an appetizer.
In 1S89-90 it is estimated that Il, $50, ,973
pupils were enrolled in the elementary and
ScCOnuuTy puDllC SCuOOlS Oh Ln6 naEfOQ.
"A Paris laundryman uses plenty Of.
water and boiled potatoes instead of soaps,
sodas and boiling powders in cleaning
clothes.
The Indians in Eastern Washington
have themselves taken steps to prevent the
sale Of liquor by unprincipled white men on
their reservation.
Among the Saxons, when drinking
healths. ns many cups were drunk as there
were letters in the name OF the person COM
plimented.
Teak timber is now being used so e1-
tensively that in less than ten years the
forests of Burmah and Siam will be practi-
cally exhausted.
The chorus leader, the police, the
prompter and the flute players occupied in
q Greek theater the place now devoted to
the orchestra
"A carefully tanned deer hide, in fair
state OF preservation, was found in the GEN.
ter of an old oak tree, which was lately
ieiled at Pulaski, Ind.
During last year the number of electr 10
railways increased from 3s5 to 469. the capi-
tai stock from sl55 087 973 to s205 SO 900, and
the mileage from 3,9l6 to 5,446 miles.
champagne owes its quality to the soil,
mixture of chalk, silica, light clay and
oxide of iron, and to the great care and
NOANoIO III ildnuIaCLure.
There are several instances on record
OF the fall of live insects, serpents and
anima Is from the clouds-in short instances
when 1t has literally ''rained" such creatures.
The new iron monuments being placed
ON the boundary line between Arizona and
New Mexico are feet in height and weigh
about 800 pounds. They are laid five miles
apart
An old English 'tManners book" SAYS:
"a LADY should dip only the tips of her
fingers in the sauce bowl, and should not let
food fall out of her mouth on the table
CLOTH
Tine Victoria Railroad bridge over the
st. Lawrence river ut Montreal is two miles
in length. 1t cost about s5,OGOOO0. and con-
tafns 800 tons Of iron and 3OOO,O cuic feet
of masonry.
-Oculists profess to have discovered
connection between wood pavements and
opthalmia. 1t is said that the gaseous
emanations from the pavement are inj urious
to the organs of vision.
The United States now holds 81 law
firms made up of husband and wife. In
addition to these there are at least l0S Amer
lean women who practice law in the courts
or publish legal documents.
During the month of October the rain
fall in Paris was three times as great as the
average, and heavier than in any year since
1859. The mean temperature was III degrees
centigrade below the average.
Colonel D. H. Elliott, of Sanford, Fla,
has n flag that he prizes very highly, rs he
claims that it was the only foreign flag ever
permitted to fly from the top OF the Ettrel
Tower during the Paris Exposition. =
Five Presidents of the United States
were elected without the assistance of New
York. These were George Washington first
time), in 1880; James Madison, in 1915: James
Buchanan, in 1856; U. S. Grant, in 1868; T. b.
Hays, in 1876.
The compass plant of the Tartars is OF
what would be called a plant in the strict
sense OF the word, being a low, creeping
grass of no value whatever as a feed for
horses and only made use of by shepherds
with large herds of sheep and goats.
-Midgets have excellent appetites, as
rule. Tom Thumb ate more than Chang,
the Chinese giant. Any of the little folk
will eat as much dinner as a man feet
high. Giants, as rule, have small appe-
tites.
Brazil nuts are the seeds that lie in
large spherical pods, each of which con-
tains from 16 to 2t nuts. Once they have
been taken out of the pod it is an utter i'm
possibility to fit them in again, nature has
packed them so tightly.
Among curious facts relating to light
vessels is their mode of being moored. Ex-
cept on stony ground they do not ride to
anchors. but to "mushrooms," weighing
about two TONS which bury themselves in
the mud or sand and form an absolutely Sc
cure mooring.
Without opening a single additional
seam. there is probably enough coal in view
in New South Wales to enable 10, 900 900 tons
to be put out annually for some years to
come. This amount is moro than double the
present production.