Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-06
CURIOUS CONDENSATi0ES.
"A kind of ash in Sicily has sap viii

"A kind OF ash In Sicily has sap who
hardens into crude sugar. r -sr
Crete, Neb., has young ladies' corn
band which is said to be the equal of "ar
male barss band in the state"
Among the Anglo-Saxons the bride W.
led by q matron who was known IS &
''bride-woman," :" while the young girls W.
followed in her wake were then called,
they are still, 'bride-maids." er
I'm the reign Of Richard II, 1890 Il
dandies OF London wore shoes with toes fro
one foot to IS inches in length with the poi
or horn turned up and iastened TO Il
garter by a gold or silver chain
! -Leprosy is increasing at an alarmir
rate in Spain. From Aleanta it is reporte
that several villages are afflicted with ii
terrible malady. In Benid0rm there a.
eight families every member OF which is
leper.
The anti-slavery societies Of Europe ar
talking of an exhibition ut the Chicago FL
which they think will help their cause. Tn
proposal is to show all the instruments use
in the capture, control and guarding OF I'll
slaves.
"A horse has 40 teeth, mare only
(wanting the tusks or so-called wolf teeth
the OK and sheep tribes have only g. want
ing the eight incisors in the upper jaw. Tn
mankind only 81.
The following advertisement appearet
recently in paper: "a stamp collector. th
possessor of a collection OF 19,54f stamps
wishes to marry a lady who is an ardent co
lector and the possessor of the blue penn
stamp of Mauritius issued in lS47.", Th
stamp the young woman must possess !
worth about $1,000.
Our word "bride'' is derived from tn
Anglo-Saxon verb ''bredan,9 to cherisI
while groom or 'fgrom," IS an old Dutc
and is quite different from the term apple
to our equine dOmeStfcS, which either come
from the Persian ''garma" "a keeper
horses). or else from the AngIo-Saxon wor
"Suna" Ia caretaker or seryant).
The mcst popular and honored Persia
poet is the Sheik Maslihed-din, who wrote
the thirteenth century, and has the highes
distinction as a poet and moralist. Hi
"Place of Roses is appreciated out of Pei
sia, and it may be seen in India, printed G
autographed in cheap form, packed i
chests and sold in hundreds and thousand
for use in the many schools where Persian
taught.
I'm 1890 North Dakota had 2,615,31
acres sown with wheat, giving a yield {
1854 GIL bushels, or ten bushels and a f-ac
tion to the acre, and that, in 1891, 2,S55, sc
yield being 647l3, 32s bushels, an average
over 2212 bushels to an acre. Of other crop
raised in the State the figures are: Oats
H.S7l, ,52S: barley, 5270,6S5; lax, ,24,0l an
rye, 3lO.O67 bushels.
-Khalifa Abdullah makes good deal
gunpowder in his arsenal at OmdurmAn. bu
1t IS inferior in quality to that which come
from Europe, and he is eager to get as mucl
of the imported article as possible Not
natives Gnnth IN he.i
very poor quality of gunpowder. havin.
plenty of the materials used in its mann
facture. while the Portuguese have taugh
them the art of making it.
At Pembina, n. D., the thermomete
stood at 4so below zero one day recently
At Spiritwood Lake, in the same region, tn
ice is three feet thick, and in cutting it o.
cold days the saw stuck fast frequently, ant
had to be cut out with an ak. The Weatte
has been so cold that few people have beel
about the farming districts. The SvlSeSr1I
Gazette remarked the other day: "We com
munfcate once more with the outside woTit
to-day, by means OF an auger-hole, made b
the rotary plow through the drifts"
An inexplicable habit in a church q
Valsbol has at last been explained. VIE,
the men went to the altar to receive tlIt
sacrament and then returned to the body
the church each made a genuhection in tn
direction of the women, always on the sam
spot. No one for long while had know
why this was done. Lately one Of the walls
was being cleaned, and a picture Of th,
Virgin was discovered which had been GOV
cred up for 400 years by the whitewash. TI,
genutiectfons originally made to this Dietur,
had been continued by the force OF hGbit fOI
centuries after it had disappeared.
"A curious contrivance by which thoss
whose kitchens and cellars are over-stockeC
with black beetles can get rid OF at least
10 nf has "a
been patented. 1t consists of circUIa'
casing with Inclined sides, up which the
beetle or other insects can run, and an in
verted saucer-Shaped dish on pivot in thu
center OF the casing, with receptacle foi
bait at its upper part. The Arrangements l.
such that when a beetle steps up a side OF
the casing and over on to the inverted dish
its weight will tilt the dish and cause the
beetle to fall to the bottom of the trap, tn,
dish righting Immediately the weight OF the
beetle is removed.
Colonel Gallieni, the French soldiel
who has served his country in senegal ane
the Western Soudan, tells an amusing Incl
dent that occurred to him while in the fai
interior In 1929 Rene Caillie, the EuroDeal
traveller who wrote description of Tim
buctoo, passed through tnat region on his
way to the famous city. A while ago COlOne
Gallieni was surprised by q bill which was
presented to him by the chief of an interior
town 1t purported to represent deb;
which Caillie had incurred. The Colonel hac
no doubt the claim was spurious, but IL
order to dispel a "detestsble reputation 70.
dishonesty" which he says Europeans en-
joy in that region, he discharged the obi
CATION.
"A new arrangement, designed to super.
sede chains in safety bicycles and obviatc
the annoyance, with which bicy are Sc
familiar, of loose and Ndirtclogged chain
gearing, has recently been protected. Ac-
cording to this invention a toothed wheel is
provided on the hub of the driving-whecl,
which gears into circular rack This rack
is supported by two cranks mounted OF
piyots and is oscillated through connectinF
iods by small toothed wheel driven by
pinion on the crank shaft. This wheel hai
q pin on its face which engages with the
connecting rods and at each revolution
oscillates the rack which acquires circular
motion by reason of the cranks, and thus
revolves the driving-wheeL The speed ~
which the driving-wheel is rotated depends
upon the proportionate number Of teeth on
the rack and on the wheel with which it
gears.
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