Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| The total production of maple sugar
this country last year was 81, ,s52.s pound
| There are 4, 200 men hard at work
| the fourteen buildings which are to be eret
ed on the World'sFair grounds at Chicag'
| "A Philadelphia lawyer won a case thi
had been in the courts since 1S14 by e1hi
iting a l7s4 signature that was lately di
| covered.
| Modern London occupies only one-ha
of the area of the great city of Nineveh whe
the latter was the capital of the aneieI
Assyrian Empire
| -Aurelien Scholl, French journals
Is authority for the assertion that only IL
s47 duels fought in France with the pa
| three years had tragical results.
Anyone that has an empty purse shoul
pc careful that the moon does not shine
| IL, OF else that purse will not have any thin
| III IL as iong as the moon doth last.
| An expert safe opener in Charleston
Mass, lew days ago, mastered in 40 mil
| utes, SO it is said, the intricacies of Il loc
that was capable of l0o, 900, 600 combination
| A man has been arrested down at Bee
| ford for sitting under the window of h,
/ divorced wife in the small hours of the nigl
and playing "Home, Sweet Home' on
| French harp.
MIR Potter, visitor to Dade City,
years of age, is one of IL living brother
Not single death has occurred in the fan
| lily for IS years. Mr.. Potter resides at Bow,
| ing Green, KY.
The first train run in Great Britain wa
| between Stockton and Darlington on Ser
| tember p, 1925. George Stephenson was tn
driver, and the speed was not more tha
nve miles an hour.
| "A Kansas City man has mania fo
killing rats. He salIies out at night will
| terriers and engages in the work with mucr
enjoyment. He says he will not stop unit
he has killed 100000 rodents.
Some scientists say that the peculia
flavor of maple sugar is due to the presenc,
of impurities in the sap, and that if thes.
impurities could be eliminated the sugar
would taste exactly like pure loaf sugar.
-An italian entertainment is most frugal
a little wine and water, some very warn
orange flower water and a few cakes are of
fered. The Germans entertain simply. ant
| one has to be educated up to their peculia
| cooking.
The report just issued for the past yeal
on the trade of the consular district
Mozambique states that in the port
Lourenzo Marques. with its population OF
$780, there were 7i3 deaths in the year, O.
about 200 per 1000 or the inhabitants.
There are many people now living wht
will have only one birthday to celebrate fol
nearly II years to come. This strange cir
cumstance is due to the fact that they were
born on February 80 and to the further faci
that the year 1900 will not be leap year.
The capital of the column of polished
syenite from Hanes, Egypt. in the Museum
of Archaeology of the University OF Penn.
sylvania is in the British Museum. The
column is il 8 feet in height and is engraved
with hieroglyphs giving the names and
titles of Ramses II.
The two longest words in Worcester,
Webster or the Century dictionary are said
to be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and trans
Observation-Disclosures A longer one is noted
in american Notes and Queries;' it
is methylbenzomethoxye hyltetrahyd dropy-
r1d1necarboxylate.
AS to the Guelph fund at last sur
rendered by Germany to the representative
of the late King of Hanover, it is of interest
that the defunct Majesty by his will APP
pointed Queen Victoria eXecutriX, and also
left to Her Majesty and to each of the Prin-
cesseS, Ter daughters, q legacy of 1000 600
thalers, or S150,000.
DR. Leon Paul, of Paris, has lately come
out in favor of sterilized subcutaneous in
jections of solutions of sleeps brain as a
cure for paralysis. He claims for this ex-
traordinary medicine that it has no injuri-
Gus reaction, and that in almost every case
in which he has tried it there has been q
marked improvement in the patients con-
dition.
The microphone is the latest absolute
test for death. Recently st. Petersburg
woman, who was subject to fits of catalepsy,
apparently ceased to breathe, and was
looked upon by her friends as dead. her
medical attendant, who knew the history of
the case, applied the micropbone to the re-
gion over the heart, and was thus enabled to
sounds
-Calman Levy, the great Paris publisher,
for many years sold an annual average Of
1.725,00O volumes and 100000 periodicals.
Besides this he maintained IL paper mills, 81
printing offices, u bookbinding establish
ments and So other manufacturing establish
ments He began life as the proprietor of a
little open-air bookstall with a capital OF
81 % and died worth about Sl5, 100000
There are 900, 900 miles of telegraph
lines in the world with approximately $780,
900 miles OF separate wires. Europe alone
has ST. 465 telegraph stations out of the total of
465. 600. The worlds yearly messages are put
down at 296 600 000 From this number 81, SOC, 900
are messages transmitted from one country
to another The total receipts for the
worlds telegraph service amount to upward
of s45O, 900.
A recent case shows that it is not en-
tirely imagination that attributes abnormal
time ago, Nancy Sharp. a colored woman, 32
years old. died suddenly and mysteriously
without medical attendance at her home IN
ST. Louis. At the autopsy it was found that
her skull was fully an inch thick at the fore
head, increasing gradually to an inch and q
half at the back of her head.
"A new means has been found for shut
ting off an electrical current without in
Jury to the dynamo when wires happen to
get crossed or there is overheating from any
cause. The essential parts of the apparatus
are four needles so arranged that when the
voltage in the wire Is increased above the
limit from any cause, one of the needles will
emit SHARKS and so burn through fine
thread. This thread is connected with
springs which shut off the current when the
tension is broken
One of the best limitations of gold that
has vet been made consists of 100 parts Of
pure copper, "A Of tin. of magnesia, 50 Of
salammoniac, Is of quicklime and of cream
of tartar To the melted copper the mag
nesia, salammoniac, quicklime and cream OF
tartar are added in this order, each in the
form of a powder. After the mixture has
been stirred for half an hour the tin Is incor-
porated with it, and the mass is then heated
tor a further period of IS minutes. The re-
suit is a malleab bic compound capable Of
taking high polish and very slow to tar
nish.
IDYLLIC HUMOREsQUES