Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


invented for boring rock
The town of Forsyth, Mo-, is 30 years
ole and never had a church.
The rice crop in the South this year ID
estimated to be 225, 900. 900 pounds.
The city of New York cares for 1S, 900
lunatics at q cost OF s625. 900 year.
The Swiss and German pikemen were
during the fifteenth century esteemed the
best in Europe.
Intoxicating liquors have been made
from the sap of the birch, the willow, the
poplar and the sycamore.
Kentucky will try the experiment Of
permitting three-fourths of a jury in civil
cases mine jurors) to render verdict
-Unbroken 4-year-old colts, suitabls for
military purposes, can be bought in theAus-
tralian colonies at from $50 70 s75 each.
"A sawmill was stolen bodily in Ham
cock county, Ky, few days ago. Not .
trace of the machinery could be found.
Finland has just been celebrating the
two hundred and fftieth anniversary Of the
establishment of printing in that country.
1t is expected that 5000 carloads Of
exhibits will be received at the ground Of
theWorld's Fair between now and the 1st Of
May.
1T has been discovered that a manufac-
tory of ''relics" has been in operation in Ed.
fnburgh, Scotland, Tor some time. Relics Of
Burns were the staple product.
During the eleventh century a fashion
of embroidering the initials of the name
and the family arms on the garments began
in Italy and spread all over Europe.
Miss Maud Observation-Disclosures, Of
Chicago, was married recently. 1t took the
minister so long to pronounce the name that
they had to have the wedding the day be-
fore.
An advertisement for a school teacher
in an Indiana paper reads as follows: HE
must be man sound in body and intellects
not afraid to use the rod. Wages SO per
month and board around"
"A study of German map, on which il
plotted the stations of the troops in their
huge army, shows that the majority are so
placed as TO be conveniently moved in Sec
tions to the French frontier.
Probably the most interesting section
of the transportation Building at Jackson
Park will be that devoted to primitive
methods OF transportation and the canoes
and sleds OF unciviliZed tribes
The Athenian Archaeological Society
has carried out some excavations on the site
OF ancient Corinth, which have resulted in
the discovery of 9 considerable building be-
longing to the fifth of sixth century 3. c.
Many of the so-called hotel bell boys in
this country are fathers, and some are
grandfatheIs. San Francisco lays claim TO
three who are over 30 years of age, one Of
whom recently retired from business r1cn-
The superiority of tea over brandy in
many cases is beyond question The idea
still fingers that alcohol keeps out the cold.
As a matter of fact, mountaineers have
found by repeated experience that the OppO-
site of this holds true.
Vanilla is an orchid, which in the West
Indies creeps over trees and walls like ivy.
substance called "salep." somewhat re-
sembling arrowrOOt or sago, is obtained
from the tubers of variety that grows in
Turkey and Persia, where it is highly es-
teened.
Recent studies of cancer not only indi-
cate that it is an organic growth, but almost
certainly prove that it is itself liable to the
attack OF another parasite. Better acquaint-
ance with the relations Of these parasites
may possibly brins. the long-sought method
of arresting cancer.
There are two fixed rules for proportion
ing the human form; just two. They are
that eight heads (that is, skull lengths)
make the total height of the figure, and that
the invariab BILE center of the total length of
the whole figure should be the front termin-
alton of the lowest part of the pelvis.
Senator Don Cameron has seeded 100
acres of his Donegal farm, near Marietta,
with Kentucky bluegrass. which he
believes will doas well on his ground as
it does on the historic soil where it is fndi-
genous He intends to put the nutritious
pasturage to the use OF fancy blooded stock.
About SAC, 600, 600 is paid every year in
Germany for the creation and preservation
of forests; 100000 families are supported
from them, while something like 5000 900
find employment in the various wood indus
tries of the empire. The total revenue from
the forests amounts to sl4, OO0 and the
current expenses are S. 100000.
1t is the ambition of every Turkish
official to get his daughter into the Sultan's
harem, each occupant of which receives the
title of Princess, together with a large
DOVER a staff OF 10 servants, a carriage and
four, and last, but not least, the possibility
of gaining influence over the Sultan, and so
raising her family in Iank and power.
Hungary is stated to bs the country
where railway travelling is the cheapest. It
is said to be possible to journey from BuGa
Pesth to Kronstadt, distance of 500 miles,
for IS sJ being at the rate of six miles
penny. Low as this price is it is liable tOa
reduction of one-half in the case of laborers
journeying in parties of not fewer than ten.
The latest feat in spoon-earYing is re-
ported from the capital city of Iowa, and
was accomplished by S. E. Wilcox He took
n common Iowa souvenir spoon, one bearing
the Iowa coat of arms On its handle, and
wrote the whole of the Lords prayer IN its
bowl. Every letter and comma is in i5s
proper place, and can be easily read with the
naked eye.
Dogs are slaughtered for culinary pur-
poses in considerable numbers at Munich.
The friend of man comes 20 table not only as
sausages, but dressed in various forms, and
with divers sauces. without any attempt at
incoEnito. TINS departure IN gastronomy IS
said to have been introduced by the numer-
Gus Italian laborers who have settled in the
Bavarian capital.
1t was either the precise telegraph
operator who objected to abbreviations. or
the intelligent compositor or telegraph
editor who filed in the omission of the un-
intelligent operator, but the Butte Inter
Mountain the other day paraded Mgr. Satolh
before it's readers as manager SatOli," and
thus set him forth in heavy black display
type at the head of the column. too.
The Mikado's government has come to
the conclusion that both the stature and
of the Japanese people are unsat-
sractory and in need of improvement. A
commission appointed to in
ves5igate the causes OF this lack OF stamina
has, after prolonged investigation, aScrtbed
it to the ve;.eta Dle diet to which the jap
anese have hitherto mainly confined them
selves.
Calculations, based on the observation
Of the refraction Of light, have caused it to
be supposed that the air becomes so rare at
the height of about so miles that the dis
tance may be regarded as the limit to its
sensible extent; but other calculations, made
during the present century, of the distance
from the earth at which meteors ignite, in
licate that the atmosphere extends co up