Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

1
In Germany II and II are very usually
the hours for dinner.
"A Brooklyn inventor proposes to tap
the earth's interior for heat and thus save
fuel.
Japan has no fewer than 700 earthquake
observing stations scattered over the en-
To be perfectly proportioned man
should weigh % pounds for every foot OF his
height.
The king clam of Penobscot Bay was
taken at Islesboro recently. 1t weighed s
ounces.
While endeavoring to swallow mouse
an owl choked to death at Nockamixon q
few days ago
-On an average there are 106 boys born
70 every 100 girls, but more boys die in
infancy than girls.
Massachusetts has more cities with q
population of $4,000 or over than any other
State in the Union.
-Nlne young men are about to walk from
Americus, Ga, to Chicago, ILL.,. distance of
1ooo miles by road, on a wager.
"A family now living at Helena, Mont,
possesses bones so brittle that they are
broken by the most trivial accidents
The boiling water fad at meals is diving
out. Thousands of people are glad, and now
some doctors who recommended it say it's
all nonsense.
The people of Paris have consumed
within the year 21 POI horses, 229 donkeys and
40 mules, the meat weighing, according to
returns, 4,6l5 tons.
"A large cave was recently discovered in
Montana which contained the bones of hum
dreds Of animals that had fallen into it and
were unable to escape.
Several additions have recentIy been
made to the appropriations made by the
states and Territories to the Worlds Fair,
which now aggregate ss, 10000.
1t is an accepted fact that America is
more lavish in the matter of hospitality and
entertaining than any other country. In
the matter OF flowers alone at entertain-
ments the Americans spend small fortunes.
Only two congregations of the Armenian
Church are in this country-one at Worces-
ter. Mass, and the other at Hoboken. That
at Worcester grew out of what was perhaps
the earliest immigration of Armenians to
America.
In distance the moon is 24O, miles
away from our earth, around which she
gravitates like satellite, Her diameter fs
about 2, l53 miles, she has solid surface of
u 6Oo oo0 miles and solid content of about
10000 of cubic miles.
Thousands of books in the Magyar and
slav1sh tongues are sold in New York. The
books extend over the whole range of liter
ature. from the simplest fairy stories to the
classics. Prayer books. hymn books and
Bioies In the various languages spoken in
hungary have large sale.
The yearly fair in the Carpathians is
still vigorous, and on the feast day all the
marriageabie maidens of the regions round
q hon ~
5000 feet above the level of the sea- in order
tnat they may be wooed and won by bache-
lois VINO can afford co keep q wife.
Some doctors say that flowing boards,
in addition TO tempting tornadoes to blow
through them, undoubtedly attract and re-
tain the grip microbes. From inquiries it
seems that bewhiskered gentlemen have
suffered more from the disease than those
who walk about with clean-shaven faces
Lewiston, Me-, has % physicians and
81 drugstores, while Bangor with about the
same population, has IA drugstores and "a
physicians. few of the Bangor drugstores
do as much, or more, business IN liquors as
in medicines, but nearly all of Lewiston's
establishments are poorly disguised bar
rooms.
The bicycle has been introduced into
Central Africa. Two Englishmen arrived
at Tabora a few weeks ago with two of the
latest improved bicycles. They had trav-
eled large part of the way from the coast,
more than 800 miles on the machines and
they say they worked finely along the WELL
trodden native paths.
The Rev. DR.. Parr, when perpetual
curate of Hatton. Warwickshire which liv-
ing the held from 17s3 to 1870, regularly
SMOKED in the vestry while the congrega-
ton were singing long hymns, chosen for
the purpose, immediately before the SER
mon. The doctor was wont to exclaim: "My
people like long hymns, but prefer a long
pipe"
There is but one pauper in the town of
Whitneyville, Me-. and that one is festive
widow who looks out for herself ten months
in the year. 1t is evident that she will soon
be entirely independent, forher last request
OF the oyerseers reads as follows: please
send me ten yards of red ribbon and new
dress, and LET the dress be good enough to
wear as principal at o wedding"
Ernest Frevert, 9 years old, AL inmate
of the Orphans Home at Carson, New, be-
came stone blind about the middle of last
week. The following day he became deaf
and dumb, and the third day he went insane.
Sunday rapid change took place, and the
boy now shows every sign of recovery of all
his lost senses. The case has baffied the
doctors, and has no known parallel.
The longest cataIeptic sleep known to
medical science has been attracting at
tention in Germany. The latest report
states that the mana miner of SileSia-had
been unconscious for four and a half months,
with no unnatural appearance except abso-
Lutte rigiditv of the limbs. During this time
the patients hair has grown, but his beard
has remained stationary. Food is given by
tube.
The buffalo bug is best known as a
hard-shelled, dark-brown thing, not unlike
the lady bug in shape. The bug will eat any
fabric, wooden or hempen, and what he
does not eat he destroys. Sometimes he
starts on the edge of a carpet or rug and
eats his way around a room. Only poison
can stay his course. Sometimes he gets into
the crack of q floor and eats the carpet in q
straight line from end to end.
To-day in England, at Harrow, the boys
are doctored en- masse. Each one is served
with two grains of quinine at morning and
night as safeguard against the influenza.
The drug is administered after prayers, and
the ceremony has thus double solemnity.
AS the boys 20 out in single file they are met
by the matron. who gives each one his
choice of powder or pill. The choice is
made the drug is swallowed, and SO the line
is gradually shortened.