Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The German Emperor's train cost alto
gether s75O.ooo.
A hen at Hawthorne, Fla, Matched 10
chickens from Is eggs.
One pound of cork is sufficient to sup
port man of ordinary size in water.
"A Brooklyn inventor proposes to tan
the earth's interior for heat and thus save
| fuel.
The hardest known wood is cocus wood;
it turns the edge of any az, however well
/ tempered.
1t is reported to have rained alligators
| during a severe rain storm at Ottumwa, la.s
| on Friday.
"A 14-year-old boy at San Jose, Cal,
thrashed his father because he ordered him
to bring in some hay.
"A train on the Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad Killed seven COWS in
one day near Leesburg, Fla.
"A blacksmith's tools of the present day
are almost identical with those used In the
same trade over 800 years ago.
Georgia processes to have a girl from
whose mouth there runs constantly q stream
of water as from a small spring.
1t would take 40 years for all the wster
in the Great Lakes to pour over Niagara at
the rate of COO, 900 cubic feet second
The Registrar Generals returns show
that for every 100 deaths in English country
districts there are 100 deaths in the towns.
"A collar button was recently found con-
cealed in cow; ana this has caused wonder
as to how the COW crawled under the bureau.
The gavel used at the convention of the
Peoples party was made of timber from the
first homestead entry in the United States.
The German and Austrian Alpine So
ciety has erected 4l9 taverns in the mount
aims where students can board at reduced
rates.
Russia now exports 14,000, 900 pounds
of caviare; and she Is believed to import
great deal of American sturgeon roe to make
It with.
Jewellers report that gold dollars are
note a similarity in the silver and the paper
varieties.
The auction of the Borghese art treas
ures at Rome on April IA realized only 1Soo.-
900 francs, q mere fraction Of the real value
of the articles sold.
1t is reported from Paris that NJ b
Blaedel has invented an apparatus by which
a driver of a vehicle can release carriage
from runaway horses.
The mortality among cattle at sea, re-
sulting from cruelty, want of water. etc, was
formerly stated aC 10 per CeuL, Willie " bu8
present time it is per cent.
An interesting literary relic has just
been unearthed by the London johnson
Club, viz, an original copy Of the sale cata-
logue Of DIR. Johnson's library.
Miss Catherine Y. Curry, of Syracuse,
can type-write lss words minute. speed
that Is believed to top of the record She
has been operating five years.
A young man in Texas started to town
the other day to get marriage license, but
the clerk had sold out. he invested in q
pair OF shoes and went home perfectly salts
hed.
There are in Great Britain and Ireland
no fewer than 2,7Ss, 900 acres of woodland.
Notwithstanding this fact, timber to the
value of 10000, 900 is annually imported into
the country.
The largest town clock in the world il
IN the tower of the Glasgow University at
Glasgow, Scotland. The clock weighs about
a ton and half and has pendulum weigh
ing 300 pounds.
"A Spanih lady has succeeded in cross
ing the Andes in a carriage, distance OF
800 miles, The journey was completed in II
days, though nearly mile of the road had
to be built for her use.
Few families can show a record like
that of the Gross family OF Richmond, Ind.
There are six brothers and five sisters OF the
family and there has not been death
among them for 80 years
The nebula in Orian is fine telescopic
object now. The great black space in this
nebula is known among unpoetic star-gazers
as the coal hole. No star has ever been seen
in this hole i'll the universe.
Pope Leo XIII. owns q Iearl left to
him by his predecessor on the throne of st.
Peter, which is worth 500 and the chain
of 80 pearls owned by the Empress Fred
erick is estimated at E35,O0O.
Elizabeth More, pretty young girl Of
Edgeworth, with the help OF a girl friend,
has recently built a little cottage for herself,
laying the foundation, doing all the carpen-
tering and plastering the rooms.
They are fond of old things down in
Delaware. A Sussex county farmer pre-
serves with pious care and exhibits with
pride an ear OF corn grown upon his fathers
Iarm in 1886, and another produced from the
acres in 1735.
France points with pride to its Tunisian
colony where there are now 80, 900 French
citizens and persons claiming French pro-
lection. Great results are expected from
the opening of the harbor of Tunis next
year and of Bizerta the year following.
In ancient times Greece possessed some
thing like T. 500 600 acres of dense forest and
she was comparatively rich IN timber until
half century ago. Many forests have now
the scarcity of the water supply and in vat-
ions injurious climatic effects.
"A good deal of the dew which we see in
the morning covering the leaves Of grasses
and other plants comes from the interior Of
the vegetables themselves. The extremely
fine dew. as a rule, is atmospheric, but the
larger drops, which we find on the margins
of leaves, are in general exudations from the
plant tissues.
1t has always been generally believed
that snow keeps the ground warm, but no
very accurate data on the subject has hith-
srto been forthcoming Accordingly it is in
,eresting to learn, from observations recent
" made at Katberin en- burg, that at a depth
If IA inches the soil, when covered with two
eet OF snow, was 100 warmer than at the
surface