Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Violet is the Turkish mourning color.
"A potato weighing 26 ounces is a curios,,
ity or Gastana, N. C.
There are $1,000 commercial travele rs
in the United States.
"A canteloupe weighing Is pounds is
owned by an Alabama farmer.
-Seven-eighths of the bread made in Lon
don is made of American wheat.
"A man in Trenton has stamp worth
9, 900 for which he paid cents.
-Naturalists say that single swallow
will devour 5000 flies in one day.
Portland, Me, exported 81 800, 900 worth
Of Holsters during the last three months.
"A historic collection ofrailwsy tickets
will be one of the exhibits at the Worlds
Fair.
Girls in tight or short dresses are not
allowed to appear on the stage in Butte
City.
The first volume of Indian tales from
the pea of Cooper appeared when the author
was 30.
An interpreter in the employ Of the
Governments on Ellis Island speaks Is lam
guages.
An Atlanta paper announced the other
day that nsw college was to be corner
stoned"
/. The St Louis Chief of Police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city to be photo
graphed.
Jewish writers say that Isaiah wrote
the famous old ode on the fall Of the king OF
Babylon at %.
--Wasps' nests often catch fire from the
chemical action of the wax upon the paper.
like material.
"A French priest stationed at Jerusalem
recently found talent of the time of King
David in his door yard.
The expected has happened. A girl in
the New Jersey city of Camden has tried to
hang herself with her suspenders.
Unless an Austrian gains the consent Of
his wife, he cannot get passport to journey
beyond the frontier of his own country.
AT public entertainment in Paris
young man was hypnotized. Two days
elapsed before he was restored to conscious
ness.
buried recently 1t Winston, N. c. Her bur-
ial shroud was the dress in which she was
married 20 years ago.
The British general elections are never
held on one or the same day, because an
elector has the right to cast ballot in every
district in which he owns property.
"A distinguished botanist announces
that he has discovered in the Philippine
Islands plant which bears a flower nearly q
yard wide which weighs % pounds.
Kansas is named from its principal
river. A tribe of Indians, formerly in that
locality, were known as the Konsos or Rows,
and the State Is probably named from
them.
though only Is years of age, is slowly dying
OF essifcation. There is now scarcely any
flesh on her bones, and she weighs only %
pounds.
"A report on italian trade, issued BY the
British embassy, gives f20,0000OO as the
amount annually spent in Italy by tourists
and visitors from foreign countries. OF
this large amount one-third is Contributed
by Americans.
During a review of several regiments
in France, whittier he was sent, Hugo
Grotius one of the famous men OF the seven
teenth century, retained in his mind the
names of all the soldiers that were named
and passed before him.
-Justus Lipsius, an eminent man of the
sixteenth century, made bold to recite
Tacitus from beginning to end, with one of
his audience placed before him with drawn
dagger with which he was to be stabbed il
he missed one single word.
-Macrocystis, a seaweed of the South Pa
cif1o, it IS said, often grows to be 80 or 40
inches in diameter and l. 500 to 1000 feet in
length. In no case do any of these have
roots in the proper sense, their nourishmen5
being absorbed from the water by all parts
alike.
Melvin Atwood, the aged San Fran
cisco mineralogist, one of the discoverers Of
the great Comstock ledge, believes the
chances are excellent for finding in Califor-
mia one more of the volcanic pipes con-
tanning diamonds, as at Kimberly, Du Toit-
span and Bultfoutein.
The telephone has lately been arranged
for use of divers. A sheet of copper is used
in place of one of the glasses in the helmet
and to this a telephone is fixed, so that the
diver, when at the bottom of the sea, has
only TO slightly turn his head in order to re-
port what he sees, or to receive instructions
from above.
monsters and monsrosities during animal
development are not the results of patho-
logical changes in the embryo. as hitherto
supposed, but notifications OF the processes
OF organic evolution, such as bring about
the difference between individuals and races
in mankind.
The statement that until this year no
February has had five Mondays for 200 years
was referred to the Universal knowledge
and Information Bureau New York. whence
comes the reply that there were five Mon
davs in February of the years 1915, 1644, 1872,
100, H12, 174O 176S, 1896 1908, 1886, 1864, 1892
The like will occur in 1904.
"A curiosity was lately found in boat
load of Holsters brought from New Bruins
wick waters. The strange crustacean was
of BLUSH white-one of the rare and remark
able albino Holsters. 1t was sent to Wash
ington, where it ts to become part of the
exhibit of the United States Fish Com
mission. Only one other white lobster has
been taken in these or any other waters
Among the other great things in this
country the number of its high mountains
is remarkable feature. There are 800
mountains in the United States, each exceed
ing 10, 900 feet in height. The greatest num-
ber are found in Colorado and Utah. In
Alaska there are five which exceed 15 600
feet and Mount Elias 49, 500 feet high, is the
Ioftiest peak in the United States territory.