Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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buildings this year.
The valuation of the State of Maine il
placed at s265 100000.
Kansas mines produced 69O00,00O
bushels Of coal this year.
The town of Forsyth, No., is 80 years
old and never had church
A menagerie to cost 81 500, 900 is being
talked about for the Worlds Fair.
Nails can be- driven into hard wood
without bending If first dipped in lard.
The highest average speed attained by
railway trains in England is 81 miles an
hour
Pneumatic tires have been placed on
baby carriages, and are meeting with some
| success.
/ The theater at Romelius Scaurus, in
Rome, nearly 20 centuries ago, could seat
$1,000 people.
Two hundred and eighty-nine bull
fights have taken place in Spain during the
/ present year.
"A Kansas policeman walks so little that
he has worn only one pair of shoes in the
| last three years.
1t is stated BY an actor that the electric
lamp used as footlights is harder on the ewes
| of the performers than either gas or candle
| light.
| I'm the wine districts of France, Spain
and Italy grapes are still trodden with the
/ bare feet under the idea that the wine i5
| better.
Black patches shaped like stars, cres-
| cents. horseshoes ana even like coaches and
| horses were worn by the ladies OF the court
| OF Anne.
-Marshy n. Lyles, eolored woman Of
| Sylvania, Ca, who is now over 20 years Of
age, started TO school for the first time few
| days ago
| "A Maiden, Mass, woman recently
| ended letter with the following sentence:
Il had pigs, hens ana children baptized
| last week"
! H. II. Hogmire, of Fenneville, Mich,
claims to have raised of small piece Of
ground Turing the past season So, $40 worth
! OF peppermint.
| "A drying-house for lumber has been
erected at Ottawa, in which electricity Is the
| heating power. This is the first establish
! ment OF the kind in the world
"A new marine light which will soon be
in place near Havre will be the most power
fui in the world 1t will be visible at sea a
| distance OF from p to % miles, according to
| the condition of the weather.
Mrs. Mary King, 65 years old, native
| of England and resident of this country
| for nearly half century. was naturalized
on frlaay IN the court at Mobile, Ala, so as
| to enable her TO make homestead entry.
The Probate Judge of Cowley county,
Kansas, has announced that he will make
special rate to clubs of ten or more who
| procure marriage licenses and secure him
| to perform the ceremony during the holt
| days.
| "A veteran Washington clab man who
| hasn't it on his conscience that he ever
missed making love to q pretty young
debutante during the past 80 or 40 years,
| now goes among his fellows by the sobrique5
| OF 1.-The Souvenir Spoon"
The Fayette City, Pa. Ners contains
! the following unique advertisements: u. G..
| Sanforth, undertaken, Is years experience.
| In that time have buried over 1000 per-
! sons. My motto is Live and Let Live
| Good goods and low prices to everyone"
Electricity, where unretarded bv at
mosDheric influences, travels at the rate Of
2sS,OOO miles second. Along a wire it is of
| course. vastly slower; a perceptible period
| OF time is occupied by the electric current
IN sending telegrams over long distances.
| Three years before the invention of
| center-fire cartridges the idea was hit upon
/ by nomad Indian. He had collected the
shells thrown away by our troops and fitted
| a percussion cap into hole which he had
sbored in the top. These shells, which he in
| turn discarded, testified to his ingenuity.
One of the professors at Vassar College
tailed to put in an appearance several days
ago. After the class had waited aboutta
quarter of an hour for his arrival, they Ap-
pointed one of their number professor pro
TEN, and when the teacher arrived about
half an hour later she found the recitation
| going on as usual.
"A novelty seen at a recent sale of
| fancy work was.a broom cover to be used in
dusting down walls and ceilings. 1t was
made of linen, the shape of the broom itself.
and was really an inverted bag when ad-
Justed. After it was drawn over the broom
shirr strings held it close where the handle
Joined the sprlnIs.
When Joseph Lynne picked up pheas-
ant he had shot on the mountain near Belle
ionte, Pa, he was surprised to find that the
bird was constructed on the plan of the
Siamese twins. Both birds were perfectly
developed, and the connecting link was
half an inch thick anc Joined them Just in
front of the wings
About $40, 900, 900 is paid every year in
Germany for the creation and preservation
OF forests; 200 900 families are supported from
them. while something like 3,OOO, 600 find en-
ployment in the various wood industries OF
the empire. The total revenue from the lor-
ests amounts to S14 100000 and the current
expenses are SS5O0,0O0.
Japanese men and women in their own
country are distinguished chiefly by their
hair. The men shave the crown of the head,
while the women not only allow all their
own hair to grow, but frequently add to iG
by purchase. The hair is usually twisted
and coiled in the most fantastic way. The
higher O woman's rank the more elaborate
is her coiffure-
The Brazilian Government has entered
into negotiations with the 8Iikado OF Japan
for bringing into the Brazilian plantations
a number of agricultural laborers to take
the places of the emancipated negroes.
Companies are started in Rio and San PaulO
for the establishment OF line of steamers
between Brazil and the East for the purpose
of bringing over Asiatic immigrants.
If Napoleon III. was a poor General,
he was at least nrst-class scrapper, and
learned the manly art when he was con-
stable in London. The Steele says that when
he was in New York rowdy once pulled his
long mustache, whereupon the future man
of Sedan pulled of his coat, sailed into the
fellow in John L. fashion, and knocked him
out in short order. For this he was arrested
and fined.
Ever on the lookout for fresh markets,
the New Zealanders have been attempting
to get up a frozen venison" export trade
with the old country. The venture has
proved disastrous. The average price OBJ
tanned was 10 cents per pound, and out OF
this all charges had to be betrayed On the
other hand, Scotch and English venison was
selling at II cents. Russian frozen deer
fetches cents per pound on the London
market, SO that the New Zealanders VIII
have to abandon any attempt at business In