Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
| I'm Siberia silk is sold In frozen ststa
| The first steel pens cost the manufacA.
| urer 81 IS piece.
On April 8 Missouri school children are
expected to set out 10000 trees.
"A Biddeford, Me-, young woman has
hair that measures 81 feet in length.
"A Chicago thief a few nights ago stole
ana made way successfully with an entire
house, except the cellar and cellar walls.
"A bill is to be introduced in the CALI
fornia Legislature providing for a tax on
Dacheiors, similar to the one under consider.
alton in Georgia.
The honey of Trebizonde, as in Keno
phon's day, is an irritant and narcotic from
the bees feeding on the Pontic azalea and
rhododendron.
Amber is especially interesting to nat
uralists, from the fact that over 800 species
of insects and 1853 species of plants have been
preserved in it.
"A marine monster with the head Of q
beast, the tongue Of a snake, the teeth of q
Francisco Bay recently.
Cases of chronic arsenical poisoning
but for ordinary green baize to be imprea.
mated with arsenic is rare
"A gold brick was recently shipped to
San Francisco from Yuma, CsI, the value of
which was estimated at setween $4,000
and $4,000. 1t weighed q little over 49
pounds.
A Bank of England note for Id was by
mistake issued in 1928. 1t got into circula-
tlon, and Tor many years was a source of an
noyance TO the cashiers in making their ac-
counts.
The nimble thief ever keeps pace with
his opportunities. In London his latest
caper is to insert a bag in the letter box
which stops the letters, and is withdrawn as
soon as the carrier has made his deposit and
passed on.
"A tramp painter struck Brookheld,
Mo-, went to the Baptist church, professed
conversion and induced the minister to go
ms security for pair of trousers in which
70 be baptized. The next day he arose and
departed for some far country.
AT public ball given near Honesdale,
Pa, where the entire neighborhood partici-
pated, no less than 45 babies could be seen
sleeping together, huddled in the corner of
the room, placed their by their mothers
bent on the pleasures Of the night.
To-day there are over 1,OOO, 900 SQUARE
feet Of glass surface in Great Britain exclu-
sively devoted to the cultivation ana pro-
duction of tomatoes for market PURPOSES.
ano these tomatoes are sold at prices from
cents TO 10 cents per pound in the season.
In the language of colors, green is en-
blematic of hope, for the vernal regenera-
tion of nature is typical of life after death;
blue denotes faith, for 1t is the hue of
heaven; white Is the color of innocence, and
RED IS chosen to represent love, because the
hearts blood is of that color.
There are parts of Europe where severe
cold has been experienced, and further
aheld severer cold by far. The cold which
drove the Russian invader back from the
have repeatedly passed below the freezing
point OF mercury, and to have once fallen
TO 46o below zero;
The largest heathen temple in the
world is in Seringham, and it comprises a
square, each side being one mile in length,
inside of which are six other squares The
walls are 25 feet high and five feet thick, and
the nall where pilgrims congregate Is sup
ported by thousand pillars, each cut from
a single block of stone.
In the ceratodus, or the lung fish of
Queensland, the swimming bladder present
in ordinary fishes had become modified so
that it functions as lung. In Africa pro-
topterus; form closely allied to ceratodus,
makes for itself cocoon of mud, in which
during the hot, dry season 1t lives and can
breathe by means of its lung.
"A red quarry, known as Les Rochers
Rouges," has recently been discovered in
Mentone, France, where the tunneling Of q
railway ~ under some cllns brought about this
he rocng ciiY h. o,.and - penesrasion into
yrotto-a subterranean chamber sntirelv
with soft earth.
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IL oniu0 "as eon
SUI uo'eu aS Sht 10 an empress, and was
Always kept IN repair by the Government.
struck it in 1901 and tore AWAY the
three top stories. The injury was repaired
as soon as possible. 1t would probably be
standing to this day had not the Tapping