Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-Truckee, Cal, has baby with one
black and one blue eye.

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black and one blue eye.
Illinois has appropriated s24, ,772, ,160 TOR
| charitable purposes since 1889.
"A microscope is being made in Munich
which will magnify LOCO diameters.
"A few ANIMALS are voiceless, as the
giraffe, the armadillo and the porcupine.
About $4,000 worth of oysters are
shipped to San Francisco annually from the
oyster beds of San Mateo county.
"A walnut tree 81 feet in diameter and
so feet to the first branch will be the unique
exhibit of a Missouri town at the worlds
Fair
twenty-five new species of fish were
discovered by the officers of the Albatross
while surveying the Pacific Ocean for cable
to Honolulu.
The fiat pieces of iron shaped like the
letter which are frequently seen on the
walls of old brick buildings is the ancient
symbol Of the SUM-
Cole Harbor, Nova Scotia, is excited
the woods there. 1t is about feet high and
Is said 20 look like gorilla.
Experiments have shown that a person
speaking in the open air can be heard about
equally as well at q distance of 100 feet in
front, IS at each side and 80 behind.
DR. :Arnott says that the pressure of air
on the knee joint is sufficient to keep it in
place without ligaments, and that cannon dis
charges can be heard nearly twice as far as
thunder.
Cats die at an elevation of Is, 900 feet,
even though they are reputed to have mine
lives" when on a level with the ocean. Dogs
and men can climb the greatest known nat
ural elevations.
Married men are said to live longer
than single ones; tall men longer than short
ones. Women have more chances of life in
their favor previous to the 5Oth year than
men have, but fewer afterward-
The month of February, 1886, was
known among the lovers of the rare and
curious in nature as the '.moonless month"
from the fact of it having no full moon. This
can only occur eight times in a century,
The little cutie fish, which swarm in
such vast numbers along the North Atlantic
coast, are near cousins to the giant souids,
which grow to so feet in length, and have
afforded material for 80 many astonishing
sea yarns.
-Albinus, one who contended with
Severus for the Roman Empire, was the
greatest glutton of antiquity. For one
breakfast he ate 500 figs, 100 peaches, ten
melons, 20 punches of grapes, 100 small birds
and 400 oysters.
divers who helped to lay the foundation
of the great Eads Bridge found that while
they we're under a pressure Of four "atmos-
pheres," or 50 pounds to the square inch, the
ticking Of a watch was absolutely painful to
the ear. They also found it impossible to
whistle.
If an elephant was as altisonant or far
sounding as q nightingale in proportion to
his bulk, his trumpeting could be easily
heard around the world. On like conditions
an OK believing in Australia could be heard
in New York about Is hours after making
the noise.
Aristotle attempted to weigh air BY
weighing a bag when empty and again after
it had been inflated. The result of this
pertinent caused him to announce that air
had no weight. Without air we could see
the stars as plainly during the day as We
can at night.
The old question as to whether the
upper part of q carriage wheel in motion
moves faster than the lower part seems to
have been definitely settled by instantane-
Gus photography, which shows the top
spokes indistlnct, the bottom clear cut and
well defined.
The smallest railway in the world is
that from Ravenglass to Boot, in Cumber-
land. The gauge is three feet the engine
an absurd little thing, and the carriages like
miniature cages. As to the stations, they
anything else.
"A bright half dollar of the coinage of
1876 was found in a cows stomach recently
in Texas. 1t seemed little eaten by the
acids of the animals stomach, but was q
good silver half dollar. The COW was about
10 years old. When, where or how she came
TO swallow it is a mystery.
1t now turns out that the Atlantic and
not the Pacific is the higher of the two
oceans and that in place of the difference
in level being hundreds of feet, as has been
affirmed, the surface of the water on the
east side of the isthmus is exactly Ga feet
higher than it is on the western side.
Currents of water serve to a vast extent
the purpose of distributing seeds. Walnut,
butternut and pecan trees are found close to
streams, where they drop their nuts into the
passing flood, to be carried far away and
start other groves perhaps hundreds of miles
distant. Tree seeds of many sorts are car
ried by oceanic currents
The Vatican, the ancient palace of the
Popes of Rome, is the most magnificent
building of the kind in the world. It stands
on the right bank of the Tiber, on a hill
called the Vaticanus, because the Latins
formerly worshiped Vaticinium, an ancient
oracular deity of that place. Exactly when
the building was commenced no one knows
Charlemagne is known to have inhabited 10
over coo years ago.
Most of the finer fans sold here are
made in Paris and in three or four suburban
villages near by. No fanmaker knows the
whole art. All the workers in one village
make sticks; those in another fold: those in
a third supply the bows to hold the sticks
together The making of the upper sticks is
a trade by itself After all the parts have
been made they are sent to the great fac
tories in Paris to be put together.
Forty peaks of theiHimalayss are more
than 10000 feet in height. One of these,
Dhawalageri white Mountain) has an alti-
tude of q, s62 feet, and, till the height OF Mt.
Everest was computed, was believed to be
the highest mountain peak in the world.
Three others in this same range besides
Everest and Dhawalageri are higher than
the highest mountain in America They
are: Jawahir, %, 7f9 feet: Chamalari, 5000
feet and Gossingthar, "a, 740.