Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Some earters sell for $3.50 pair.

Some garters sell for $3.50 pair.
During long sea voyages all dogs lose
! their game nose."
Gotham gets away with 300, 600 pounds
of fish every day.
| -Gluck introduced musical glasses into
London in 1746
Chicago grain elevators will hold 3,OOO,-
| 600 bushels of grain in storage.
New York has 8.162 dwellings which
contain over ten families each
The oldest Egyptian monuments show
that tine saw was in use at least 1ooo years
B. C.
1t has been estimated that it would
take man 5000 years to read all the stand
ard works.
The highest inhabited place in America
is ut Galera, in Peru. which is l36S5 feet
above the sea level
The Swedes and Platt Deutsch work
for the lowest wages of any Immigrants that
come to this country.
"A collection of butterflies was recently
sold in Vienna for s.. 900, the purchaser being
Lord Rothschild, of London.
The old Roman legion was formed by
Romulus, B. C. 720. 1t originally consisted
of 5000 foot and 800 horsemen.
"A Rhode Island court has decided that
the father can name the baby II both the
parents can't agree on name.
The song ''The Star Spangled Banner"
was first sung in 1914, but the tune was the
old one of "Anacrem in Heaven
-Four million, one hundred and seventy
three thousand bananas were imported ps
New Orleans last wear and distributed to al
parts of the country.
The eight bones of the human crsni4m
or BRAIN case are united by means of irreEu
lar saw-like edges, which firmly lock thRm
together and yet allow of their growth
-Rolfe has counted the lines ShakI Iss
peare's great characters speak. Hamlet y "a
1859 lines. Iago, LII: OShello 38S, and LIE. II
no. Nobody ever counts Bacons lines.
The japanese Government has arrange
to send 2 900 Japanese of the middle class
visit the Worlds Fair, and afterward max,
q tour of the principal cities of the United
States,
What is considered the largest ostrich
found for q generation in Central Africa is
on its way to London, present from Ali
mary Samaden, the Mohammedan chief, to
Queen Victoria.
An Oregon man claims to have hen
that has established nest in the center Of
his flower garden in the most conspicuous
part of his front yard. and deposits an egg
regularly every day except Sunday
An important invention has been made
in the adaptation Of magnetic electricity to
the prevention of the slipping of car wheels
The use of it is said to increase the ha uline
power of an engine many per cent.
"A Portsmouth, N. H, man has put his
bicycle on a boat. 1t is connected with
gearing which turns propeller set in mo-
tion by tread1ng the pedals, and the boat il
said to move swiftly through the water.
The recent investure of Archbishop
Vaughan with the pallium is the first ceEe
mony of the kind that has taken place M
England since Queen Narys time. Arc
bishops Manning and Wisenan having be- y
invested at Rome.
The feat of telegraphing from St.Peter
burg to Boulogne, distance of 2.455 mile
is heralded as extraordinary by the fore1g
papers. Messages wero long ago sent frol
Portland, Me-. to- Portland, Ore, dlStanc
OF more than 1000 miles.
The heat produced from the light of
firef1y is only per cent OF an equal amour
of candle light. The Dug's light is produce
by chemical action, as it is increased b.
putting the t1v in oxygen a nd diminished IL
an atmosphere of nitrogen
A new porcelain has been obtained b
grinding asbestos to a fine powder, dissol'
ing out all soluble matters with hydr
chloric acid, making the powder into past
with water, and baking it i'll 4 porcelain fiji
mace lor Is hours at 20Jo.
The Compagnie Transatlantique hs
again brought forward the question o
lighting the Atlantic route from Ireland tt
Newfoundland. 1t is proposed to moor tt
powerful floating lights 200 miles apart,
connected by electric cables.
In one of the Comstock mines ar
water wheel is to be placed which is toI
], ,150 revolutions n minute, and have spe
at its periphery of 10 sos feet per minute
create head of water than has ever be-
been applied to 4 wheel will be used.
Sir Henry Bessemer's proposal to in.
duce aluminium tokens in place of the ST
gested Ell English notes does not seem
nave met with the favor that has bee
accorded q scheme to use the same metal
the place of the heavier iron woIk OF cayalr
saddles
The latest thing in the way of clocks
a European invention warranted to kee
correct time for 10 years without regulatio
or winding. One placed in the railwa
station at Brussels by the Belgian Cover
ment and sealed with the Government sc;
has kept per! ec5 time since lSS6.
M. p. Ketchum, of Brighton, Ont.,
the owner of trotting deg that has recor
of 2:lS. The animal earns from $500 to 81
per week during the racing season. NJ
Ketchum'S young son drives the dog
has deposited in bank S17 500, all OF whic
Doc, as the animal is called, earned for hin
AN article is said to be sold in Par
which consists of an aqueous solution
an iodide of starch and is specially Intent
ed for love letters" In four weeks chara
ters written with it disappear, preventir
all abuse of letters and doing away with q
documentary evidence OF any kind in IL
hands OF the recipient
1t is proposed to introduce the kangt
roo of Australia into North America as
substitute for the extinct or all but extinc
bison. Parts of the country, especially
the West unsuited for cultivation or otht
stock might, it is thought, be utilized
breeding kangaroos, which not only afor
good sport, but "hesh, fur and footwear
Artists in Paris have been known to
itase the works OF masters and sell them I
earn bread. The most conspicuous receI
case was that of a man who successfully in
itated the superficial characteristics
Corot and sold many false Corots at prict
ranging as low as $40 each. He made
concealment of the fact among his fello
students.
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDOM.