Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Two thousand women became artists In
1891
There are SO national cemeteries IN
America in which 52s, 115 soldiers are buried.
Before the Reformation 30 per cent Of
to the Church.
Bellows Falls, in Vermont, has a IT.
year-old giant. He is six feet eight inches
tall and weighs ls4 pounds.
s-Moet and Chandon were recently offered
$4,000 900 for their vineyards In Epernay.
This large offer was refused.
Every 1000 acres in 1890 maintained
1893 cattle and s33 sheep; in 1891 the numbers
had risen to 20S and 573 respectively.
Bar Harbor taxpayers complain that the
paupers at the town farm are better fed than
many of those who pay the bills, and also
object to paying IS for prayers at pauper's
funeral.
The manufacture of bay rum is carried
on at the northern end of Dominica. and
proves a very lucrative business to those en-
gagged in it, as the plants are plentiful in this
district.
On recent evening, at the TheatsR
Scribe, in Turin, a white ball was given,
winter scenery-ice, snow, glaciers and all
the picturesque accompaniments Of the sea-
son.
"A group of men who meet almost daily
at lunch in the cafe of the Chicago Club IN.
cludes Marshall Field, Potter Palmer and L.
q. Letter, who began life as clerks in dry.
goods stores, and are now worth from s., ,0O0s
600 to $40, 900 600 apiece.
Barton Turner, man found in Peeks-
r 1,xyt Nax To Irara thu
names of seven wives whom he had married
in his time. They had survived marriage
with him periods ranging from two weeks &c
90 years. He is now 81 years old.
Some painters in Geneva are painting
panorama of the Bernese Alps, which will
have a height of 81 feet and width of 345 feet
to go to Chicago. The whole will cos,
| about 100000. 1t was all sketched from the
summit of the Mannlichen. 5000 feet high.
"A coasting party in Guilford, Me-, re
Gently consisted of Orman Cimpher, aged
years; his mother, his grandfather, and hi:
great grandmother, aged "a. The part.
coasted down the long hills for an hour, an(
then enjoyed d hearty backwoods break
fast.
AT She recent term of the Suprem
Judicial Court of Franklin county, No, n,
indictments were found, and the member
of the grand jury, when dismissed, ,presentet
as an emblem of the purity of the county
morals.
Gertrude Souine, pretty girl of i
years who lives in a town in Aroostoo
county. Me-, has never been known to laug
or even to smile. While intelligent in othe
matters, she apparently cannot underStan
a joke. and is unmoved by the keenes5 wi
ticisms.
The Dark Continent is now completed
encircled by submarine telegraph; more tina
1900 miles of cable having been employe
in effecting it, and several companies, wit
more or less aid from the British, Frenci
Spanish and Portuguese Government is, hay
participated in carrying out the work
Italian papers tell of Neapolits
nobleman who fought IA duels during b
lifetime in defense of his assertion th;
Dante was greater poet than Ariosto. !
he lay on his death bed short time ago.
took pleasure in acknowledging that he ha
never read the works of either writer.
The largest gun manufactured at IL
Krupp Gun Works, Essen, Germany, weigl
go, 900 pounds and is of the finest quality
steel The caliber of this monster engine
death is 1871 inches, and the oIrrel is "A fe
long. The greatest diameter of this gun
615 feet, and its range is about II miles.
The Salvation Army is being boycott
in Finland. No mention of it of any XII
may appear IN puDilC pElHt. ~ stLiCLly
this law being carried out, that any menti
of the army or any advertisement beari
on the movement, is sufficient to cause
entire issue of a newspaper to be cancent
AS the elephant is nocturnal amin
it selects its trees by the senses of touch
smell Its sense of smell is so delicate tn
a wild elephant can wind an enemy
distance of 1000 yards, and the nerves OF
trunk are SO sensitive that the smallt
substance can be discovered and picked
by its tiny proboscis-
There has been discovered in Pompei
small domestic chapel of graceful archit
tural proportions, and adorned with
vivid and unspoiled frescoes. At the end
painting of Hercules with his cup and lilo
skin; on one Of the sides was boar, and
the other was sacrificial altar.
1t is proposed to cast glass, not nee
sarily transparent, into large blocks
buildings. This material is practically
destructible. perfectly non-absorbent
therefore, damp-proof in manner VIII
few bricks are, and in this way coarse gl
of this kind could be made nearly as CHI
as concrete, stone or baked clay.
To build kaiak marks an import
point in the life of the coast native.
youth, as soon as he is able to constructc
no longer observes any family ties, but
where his fancy takes him, frequently ro'
before he takes q notion to marry, to
cavate a miserable dwelling and TO Sc
down for time.
"A singular action was recently brou
by lady against the proprietor Of
Whitehall Court flats upon the Thames
bankment. 1t was stated that the lady
induced to take a fiat by the promise OF
proprietors that restaurant would be
tabiished on the premises. and that, as
had not been done, she bad been living
cipally on timed meat and sard1nes. On
suggestion of the Judge an arrangen
was come to, his Lordship expressing a b
that there would be no more living on
dimes and timed meat
The Castle of Heidelberg is the lar
in Germany. 1t stands $50 feet above
Neckar river. and was occupied as a ca
as early as 1894 A. ID. In cellar in one
ner of the ruins is the famous "tun,'
monster cask, capable of holding 5000
Ions This was for the storage of wine
by the nobility who dwelt in this castle
is believed that the Grand Duke Of Be
will aband on the idea which he recently
tertained of attempting to "restore"
ruins and convert them into q moo
palace.
RHYNKLES AND RHYMELErs.