Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Ten percent of the population of Indis
| are widows.
Vanilla favosug is obtained from the
| fruit of an orchid.
The foreign trade of China last ve.,
aggregated $3.50, 100000
"A college for undertake. is the late..
thing in Philadelphia.
New Hampshire has three won-u treas.
urers of savings banks
| When terrified an ostrich will travet>t
] the rate of 25 miles an hour.
The human skin is exactly like that Of
fish, as it is covered with minute scale
| overlapping each other.
The royal title of Majesty was no
known in England until 1527, when it was as
sumed by King Henry VIII
AT recent test in Sumatra the oil O
| that island was found to be superior % eithe
! the American or Russian product.
There are over 1000 tons of silver bars
S. 900, 900 silver dollars and s55,OOO. 900 in go
| coin stored in the Philadelphia mint.
1t is stated that among every LOO
| bachelors there are 3s criminals; anon
married men the ratio is only Is per l,O0o-
The original portrait Of Pocahontas
painted in 1872, now the property OF a Lon
doner will be exhibited at the World
Fair.
1t is proposed to rear insects for orna
mental purposes the same as foreign flower.
and plants are acclimatized in hothouse.
and gardens.
The bull ring of gay Paris has been
continued since the Exposition Of 's9 ir
! spite of the vehement protests Of the HUI
name Society.
An engineer has recently devised a nev
| electrical machine by which weeds and OF
noxious grass can be destroyed in mini
mum or time.
"A woman in Paris recently committed
suicide by applying leeches all over he
body and in that way died from exhaustiol
OF the capillary system
"A Bangor somnambulist, while walking
in his sleep, hooked five-pound black bas:
in Lake Chemo. and awoke to find himsel
struggling in the water.
Most of the immigrants this year cam
from Germany, the Fatherland furnishin
1885, 600. Ireland sent 6O,OO0 and Italy fev
more than that number.
The heat prevailing at Bombay is ab
normal, and the death rate has risen to owe
40 per 1000 per annum, being the highes
figure attained within II years.
"A bachelor in Baltimore recently CAV
as reason for his refusal to marry that h'
considered young married women the mos
ill-behaved creatures in existence.
I'm New Holland the woman cut them
selves with shells. and keeking the wound
open long time, form deep scars which
they consider highly ornamental
"A California wine dealer discovere
that mice had forced their entrance to hi.
champagne bottles and got away with
hntt los of tha ch-pn 1rov
Six hospitals have been founded fo
women physicians, in Philadelphia, Nev
York, Boston, Chicago San Francisco ant
Minneapolis, all of which are successful.
In Iceland men and women are in ever,
respect political equals. The nation, whic
is about 10000 people. is governed by repre-
sentatives elected by men and women to
gether.
japanese jugglers are deft smokers
Several of them will sit before curtain an
rom the tobacco smoke, which issues fror
their i,ouths, will form succession of read
able letters
1t is proposed to introduce new specie
of vermin into tits country. The people
California are plagued with gophers, an,
and they propose tC bring the woDgoore
war on the gopher.
"A New York lady hes a weakness f
murderers. She spends ali her -poeke
money on bouquets, which she carries to tn
cells of the condemned and presents theI
to the occupants.
During last year 3,741 bodies were ere
mated in France. Three new crematorie
were added to the number in Germany
1884, and Italy has q crematorfes, severe
being movable ones.
"A pursuit among Englishwonen is tha
of bookbinding. Many country houses hav,
rooms specially fitted for the purpose
where the ladies of the family exercis.
their industry In this direction
The usefulness of carbonic acid waite
in extinguishing fire has often been referre'
to, and notlong ago a pharmacist who haT
pened to have lively incipient fire on hi
hands. used his soda fountain for this pun
pose with most satisfactory results.
According to recent report of the in
spector of mines, g. l12 w omen are employe
at coal mines in Great Britain. No wome
are employed now to work below the su
face, but OF the number named 5S19 wome
are employed in the actual handling OF Goa
Twenty-Five acres of land are needed
sustain a man on flesh meat. while the sam
amount of land under wheat feeds AZ people
under oats SO people; under potatoes India
corn and rice, l76 people, and under th
plaintain or bread fruit tree, over 5000 pet
pie.
1t is claimed that double-yolked eg
was Matched by a hen near Gettysburg r,
Gently. The farmer was greatly amazed
find two little chicks grown together afte
the fashion of the Siamese twins. On
or the chicks is said to be hen and tn
other COCK.
There are 955 religious papers in tn
United States, whose combined circulatio
ia about one-eighth of all the newspaper
published in the country. The Methodisi
publish A7 papers, the Roman Catholics l2
n ehuto inn
Episcopals Al.
The microscope has revealed many wor
ders, among others that the common cate
pillar has 4, OOO muscles in his body: that tb
drone bees eyes each contain 300 mirror
and that the large prominent eyes OF tn
brilliant Oregon flies are each furnished wilt
2s 900 polished lenses.
What the handsome is to London an
the four-wheeled cab is to New York, th
fiacre is to Paris. 1t is a more confortabl
vehicle than the other two, and was name
not after st. Fiacre, who Is the patron sair
of the gardeners, but because the first Off
kind was made in the Hotel St Fiacre, in tb
Rue st. Martin, in Paris.
The way people cross their feet is ofte
indicative of characters. Neat peopl
usually put the right foot over the left, Will
disorderly people generally put the left owe
the right. Everybody knows how muc
character Is expressed in the wearing OF th
hat, and why should it be Thought surprh
ing III a man should tell what he Is by th
way he places his feet.
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDOM.
Gus De Smith-Whew!
uostetter McGinnis-Whats the matter?