Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-04
Curious CONVERSATIONS.

CUklUUS CUNUENOhllVNS.
Women of every rank 60 bareheaded in
Mexico.
The next president of the United States
will receive about 100000 votes.
Women were employed in printing Of
fees as long ago, it is said, as 1880.
"A Russian can plead infancy for long
time, as he does not come of age till he is %
years old.
A Connecticut scientist calculates that
there are 43, 10000 mosquito Iarve to an acre
of swamp land.
In Pentonville prison out of 1000 con-
vicrs at one time in Jail ISL had been Sunday
school scholars.
In South America there is race Of
cats to which 'smeowing" is an unlearned
accomplishment.
-Firteen thousand children are numbered
in the membership of the Norwegian Total
Abstinence Society.
The number of exhibitors to the Worlds
Fair is estimated to be H5,O00. Their mail
will be delivered every hour.
Many persons will not allow the rock
ing of an empty chair. because they say it is
forerunner of death in the family
"A New Hampshire cure for sore throat
is to wear about the neck a stocking. in the
toe of which potato has been tied.
Most of the men in the islands of South
western Japan lead lives of idleness, and are
cheerfully supported by the women.
According to Maine belief nutmeg
pierced and hung on a string around the
neck prevents boils, Group and neuralgia.
I'm Japan, it is said, there are appls
trees growing four inches in height, which
bear fruit freely about the size of currants.
All the chickens in the Western part Of
French Guinea are perfectly white. 1t is
impossible to find one with a colored
feather.
In the Old Testament, although great
numbers of women are mentioned, there is
but one-Sarah, Abraham's wife-whose age
is recorded.
III at the table little salt is split be-
tween two people, the way to prevent a
quarrel is for each to take pinch and throw
it over his left shoulder.
1t is interesting to note that of the
$4,000 divorces granted in the United States
during the last 20 years S16 200 were granted
at the request of wives.
There has just died in Poland a once
celebrated beauty, who refused the hand of
Napoleon Ill. She was the Princess Helene
Sagonsko, and died unmarried at the age
of 81.
People who like frequent changes in
government may find variety in Mexico.
During the past 81 years that country has
had 81 Presidents, one regency and one En-
peror.
Frau Probsti, who enjoyed the distinc-
tion of being the heaviest woman in Europe,
has just died at Traubring. in Bavaria, at
the age of Al. At her death she weighed
over $50 pounds.
The French flag was adopted during the
revolution. The Republic first took green,
but gave it up, and blended the Bourbon
white with the red and blue, the colors Of
the city of Paris.
Some of the New York hotels provide
chaperons for female guests unacquainted
with the city. A shopping tour, un der the
guidance of one of them, soon familiarizes
stranger with the city.
Watch CRYSTALS are made by blowing
sphere of glass about one yard in diameter,
after which the discs are cut from it by
means of pair of compasses having a dia-
mond at the extremity of one leg.s
"A tender-hearted Partisan lady has
made her pet dog comfortable in cold
weather by clothing it with embroidered
fur-lined blanket, and decorating its little
legs and feet with shoes and stockings.
AT house for waits in England one of
the inmates is the unfortunate possessor OF
hands and feet hich closely resemble
extremities of beaver The fingers
toes are Joined together by layhro Of skin
The Psychologists are continual
making fresh acquisitions of knowledge. A
valuable find of skeletons belonging to the
fourth dynasty was recently made in Egypt.
This is the earliest known data of Egyptian
remains. .-....I-
in London there is cripple entirely
without legs who is said to surpass
his comrades in school in his skill of SWIM
ming. He is furthermore an excellent run
ner, moving along rapidly by means of his
muscular arms.
The following are a few examples of the
rate of pay of women in London: Making
paper bags, 4d per 1000, possible earnings,
IS to 9s per week. Button holes, Sd per
dozen, possible earnings Ss per week.
Shirts, I'd. each worker finding her own
cotton. can get six done between A. M. and
II P. M.
When marriage takes place in Italy
in princely family the bride and groom,
after the religious ceremony, present them
selves to the Pope to receive his benediction.
Then the young couple, in wedding costume,
proceed to st. Peters alone. and kneeling on
the bare flags before the statue of the
"Prince of the Apostles" pray.
Some years ago the burial vault of the
Chaplin family at Blankney, in Lincolnshire,
large gray bat which has been found within,
the place on several occasions whel4-,He
vault was opened, was still a living inL pf-
tanJ OF the said vault. 1t was calculated
that the bat had lived in the tomb 80 yearA
Hundreds OF years ago the Old World
printers used to chain copies of their books
outside their offices and reward peripatetlc
scholars who might detect errors with
prizes graduated according to the serious
ness of the slip-a cup of wine for broken
letter, cup OF wine and plate of meat for
a wrong font or q turned letter, and so on
in proportion.
The German capital maintains and pays
an official bird catcher. The catching of
birds is prohibited, but the collections and
educational institutions of the university
require, for scientific purposes, birds, birds
eggs, nests, ETC., and the taxidermist Lemm
is the only person commissioned to furnish
them within the precincts of Berlin and the
districts OF Teltow and Niederbarnim.
I'm Persia the first time a man is caught
in the act of stealing he is "bastinadoed,"
(beaten on the soles of the feet with an iron
rod) and made to sign a paper declaring
that that will be his last offense. II he for
gets this when the soles of his feet quit burn
ing, and tries it again, the second offense
calls for the amputation of his right hand.
If he is still obdurate, and goes at it left
handed, the third, and, of course, last resort
is decapitation.
ErCHINGS IN BLACK.