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

for streets.
The bicycle was invented by a German
baron go years ago, and was first called
tresina.
One of the employees of st. Louis
brewery is said to receive so glasses OF beer
as his daily allowance
Sing Sing Prison, in New York, has
five lawyers among its tenants. They were
all sent there recently.
1t is estimated that there are less than
10 ooo paupers in the Jspanese empire with
its population of 2S7. 100000
Gladstone, a fawn rabbit, was sold In
England recently for $50. Its ears are Tx
inches in length and ~ inches in width.
According to a computation recently
published in financial journal, the percent
age of net dividends returned to the stock
holders OF street railways in the United
states is three times as great as that or
steam railways.
ireland by birth, marriage or creation, are
Iree from arrest or imprisonment on civil
process; and in the event of peeress being
charged with q criminal ofrense she would
De tried by the House of Lords.
The vaults of the Sub-Treasury in San
Francisco are being fitted with wires for
protection from thieves. The wires are to
be between every two rows of bricks, and
any attempt to interfere With the cement or
Drlcks Will disturb an electric circuit and
sound warning.
The sailing ship Maria Rickmers, re-
Gently launched at the Russell yards at Port
Glasgow, Scotland. is claimed to be the
largest sailing ship in the world. She is s75
feet long, with breadth of beam of 45 feet,
draws % feet of water, and her net tonnage
Is 1922 ieet. She is built of steel
"A naturalist SAYS the sacred scarab, or
beetle, of Egypt, was the "tumble-bug,"
which forms a ball for laying its eggs in.
Two individuals. male and female, always
roll the ball together, and they 90 this
merely for the purpose of conveying it to q
safe place and hiding it.
Rats are natives of Asia and their raids
westward belong to comparatively modern
times The black rat first came from Asia
to Europe in the sixteenth century-along
with the plague-and was first known the
graveyard specter," because he preyed on
the flesh of those who died during that awful
visitation.
The Parish Prison of New Orleans, the
scene of the late Italian lynching, and one
of the oldest in the country, was put up at
auction recently and the highest bid wes
only 81 500. The prison is after the Spanish
type. four stories high and covers an entire
square; More than 100 persons have been
hanged in it.
Some unique features were introduced
at a wedding in Wisconsin recently. Besides
the maids of honor, best man, four brides
maids and four ushers, one lady acted the
part of Queen Venus, dressed in classic
robes, with ieweled crown on her head.
Her part was to bring the minister from
some hidden retreat.
During the trial of a liquor case in
Portland, Me-, q few days ago the courtroom
looked like the storehouse of wholesale
liquor dealer. The aisle in front of the jur,
Wa, lull of ren-gallon kegs, fiye-gailon ke1s,
demijohns, jugs, beer cases and bottles,
while on the tables were measures, bottles
of wine boxes of corks, corkskrews, tags Tor
jugs, etc.
Men have various WAYS of carrying
money. Butchers grocers and bakers carry
it in a big crumpled wad. Bankers carry it
in nice clean bills, laid at full length in
q morocco pocket-book. Brokers always
fold their bills twice The Young business
man carries his money in his vest pockets
while the sporting man carries 1t in hiS
trousers pocket. Farmers and drovers carryt
their money in their inside vest pocket.
-Mayalipuram, India, is graced with
seven of the most remarkable temples in
the world, each of these unique temples of
worship having been fashioned from solid
granite boulders The "Hevasa- Goda-CIa
the lirscSC OF the seven, IS three ana one
half stories high; its outlines resemble those
of an Atlantic steamship. The inside of the
boulder has been chisleG away until the
walls do not exceed eight inches In thick
ness.
The Rev. Mr. Moore of Boston has In
his possession a diary kept by his great
grea t-= rnndfather in 1858 at which time the
latter began his so years labor as a minister
in Portland, Me. The old-time parson records
in the diary that OF one sunday his opening
PRAYER lasted an hour and quarter, and he 4
that he was wonderfully sustained
And in those days 1t was the
custom for the congregation to stand during
prayer.
An examination of recent university
shows that practically every civ
iliZed nation in the world Is represented by
students now in America. In single great
institution the University of Pennsylvania,
there are students from 90 foreign countries.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
alone shows students OF Is nattonalities; IL
are represented in the University of Caliior-
nia IS in both Harvard and Yale, IA at Cor
nell and Michigan, 10 at Princeton. 9 at Le-
high and each in Brown and wesleyan.
There was considerable nervousness
among the population of Carteryillc, Mo,
some weeks ago, besides marked increase
in the attendance at church and Sunday
school because in zinc mine there the ore
could not be handled without heavy gloves.
A few days ago one OF the State geolcgists
made some investigations and reported that
,he great heat was caused by the decomposi-
lion of pyrite, and not necessarily because
)I any proximity to Pluto's domains. Since
then the attendance at the revival services
las Iallen off.
Portland, Ore, newspapers were re-
,ently trapped into bit OF free, realistic"
ldvertisinS. The story goes that man,
With his face covered with blood and
screaming murder, dashed from cigar
tore into one of the principal streets, fol-
owed by another yelling wildly and brand
shtng a hatchet. The thief mad snatched
rom the pursuer's mouth q fine cigar upon
,eing told by the cigar dealer that it was
he last one of certain brand lie had III
stock This act made the man furious and
ne followed and shot the thief. The next
Law the scheme was made known before
when the victim testified that
le had bribed n doctor to say he was fatally
Wounded. All the papers gave prominent
pace to the supposed fatal ahray and pub
ished the name of the brand CT cigars.