Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The swiftest runner on earth is the
ostrich.
The telephone has been known in India
for thousands o. years.
Baby does not commence to CRY tears
until it is months old.
Three times as many herrings are con.
sumed rs any other kind of fish.
The '1awn tennis elbow"is the latest
maIady the doctors have found out.
"A watch carried by the Emperor
Charles v. in 1880 weighed 27 pounds.
The order of communion was substi.
tuted for the mass just 3A years ago.
THE best honey in Persia is collected
from the orange groves of Kauzeroon-
No British sovereign has vetoed a Par
liamentary bill during the past 1S5 years.
Toxic has 800 bath no uses. The cost Of
q bath is only ! cent-about q third of Q
penny.
| During the unaccountable Franco-Ger-
man War of 1s70-7l go, 900 victims were slain
| on the two sides.
| I'm South America there is a race Of
cats to which "meaowingn is an unlearned
| accomplishment.
Sugar Is times sweeter than that pro-
QuceQ from tne cane Is DelQg MADE from
/ cotton seed grown at With.
I'm q thunderstorm it is unsafe to take
refuge under a white poplar tree, as that
| tree seems to attract lightning.
| Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fernan-
dez. is inhabited by about go persons, who
attend to the herds of cattle that Craze
there.
| Curling irons dry the hair by removing
/ fbo o,1o nrip ho;-
hot iron sooner or later causes it to crack
and break.
In certain parts of India cocoanut trees,
| once almost lifeless IN appearance. have
been made to yield abundantly by placing
| salt at the roots.
The cultivation of the pin eapple in the
bahamas is a very profitable undertaking.
At twopence each an acre OF pineapples re-
turns $500 to S225.
1t is said that there are 2, 400 disorders
to which the human frame is subject, and
when a man has got the influenza he i'm.
ag1nes he has got all the other 1883.
The drummer in Servian regiments
never carries the drum. It is placed on a
two-wheeled cart, which is drawn by a big
dog just in advance OF the drummer.
Several observant ladies have dis
covered that vegetarians have clear COM
plexions, and have either renounced the use
Of meat entirely, or partake of it sparingly.
The Chinese gardeners are the most ex-
pert fruit growers in the world. Marco Polo
even asserted tnat they produced pears OF
most delicious fragrance and weighing 10
pounds each.
Under Henry V. of England an act of
Parliament ordered all the geese in England
to be counted, and the sherifs Of the coun-
ties were required to furnish six arrow
feathers from each goose.
I'm the basement of the Bank of Eng
land is the barracks wherein half hundred
soldiers are quartered from o'clock every
evening until o'clock the next morning Tor
the protection OF the bank.
Some idea of the insect exhibit at the
Worlds Fair may be CLEANED from a recent
Official announcement from Pennsylvania
which says that that State clone will send
10000 mounted butterflies
General statistics prove that, since the
Trojon war, 5000 years ago-that is, since
the beginning Of history-not q single year
has elapsed in which some war has not
killed large number of men.
New Guinea is extremely rich in plants,
the number of species discovered in the s.
years since Lesson brought home the first
collection being 1000, or as many as are
known from the whole of Germany.
-Crystallized nitrogen is one Of the
greatest chemical curiosities. By cooling
nitrogen gas down to 367o degrees below the
freezing point, and then allowing it to ex-
pand, solid snowltke crystals are formed
Tho most indestructible wood is the
Jarrah wood, Of Western Australia, which
defles all known forms of decay and is un-
touched by all destructive insects, so that
ships built of it do not need to be coppered-
The monument to Alexander II. in the
Kremlin is almost complete. 1t has front
n Hal,x
mense bronze statue OF the Emperor in cor.
onation dress, the right hand extended in
blessing.
-Hezekiah Shepherd, an aged and
eccentric citizen of Davis county, Ia, was
recently buried at Drakeville, in the same
imitation OF the easy chair in which he had
sat for years.
An improved form of radial drill is
now built which appears to realize the high
est attainable usefulness of that instrument.
1t has length of arm measuring feet and6
inches, and will drill TO the center of circle
II feet inches in diameter.
Calculations deduced by a newly in
vented electric measuring and fash-iight
photograp phic apparatus prove that cannon
balls move through the air at the rate OF
1925 feet per second the average being
about three second TO the mile.
Recent astronomical calculations have
caused the "star gazers' to announce that
the surface of the moon is about as great as
that of Africa and Australia combined, or
about equal to the area of North and South
America, without the islands.
For more than 800 years fruit, vegeta-
bles and flowers have been sold on the pres
ent site of Covent Garden Market. In 1851
King Charles the Second granted William,
Earl of Bedford, the right for ever to hold
market in the parish of St. Paul's, Covent
Garden.
According to the records of the mint
49, $40 silver dollars were coined in the year
1904 or this number but eight are now
known, and they are valued at from $500 to
g., 600 each. What became of the remaining
19, 562 Is one OF the greatest numismatical
i'm summer at Paris the Seine delivers
to the two parts of the bridge Pont-Neuf
about 100 cubic inches of water every sec-i
ond, moving with a force of $500 horse
power. Every hour $50, 900 cubic meters of
water pass under the arches of the bridge,
OF 600 cubic meters in a day.
Bees, according to statiscian, must, in
order to collect pound of clover honey, de-
prtve g. 600 clover blossoms of their nectar.
To do this the 81, 900 flowers must be visited
by an aggregate of $3.50 900 bees; or, in other
words to collect his pound of honey one
bee must make 3,750,000 trips from and to the
hive.
IDYLLIC HUMORESQUES.
Chappie-How you do sneeze