Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-An .Inm;num buggy /, announced

An aluminium buggy Is announced
-Alaska has 81 Indian schools with 200
pupils.
-Hyppotizers are not allowed to practice
their art in Belgium.
| Candles as we understand them were
! first used in England in 1854
| Pictures of helmets appear on the
| Egyptian monuments B. C. 1000.
In Ireland there are 10000 mud cabins
consisting OF but single room.
The Egyptian Is taxed 80 cents on the
palm tree that grows in his garden.
The inventor of the last new air flying
| machine claims that he can make 200 miles
an hour with it.
The French War Office has provided
| for the enrolment OF between 5000 and 1000
bicyclists in war.
Mexico has %, 500 miles of telegraph
and 500 of railroad. A district messenger
service will soon be introduced.
The first electric tower clock in the
United States was put up on the new court
house at Los Angeles, Cal, in lS9L
Prof. Marshall tells US that the oak in
a general way requires to grow from 12o to
200 years before it is ne to cut for large tim
ber.
Tho ocean is more productive than the
land. An acre of good fishing ground will
yield more food than an acre on the best
farm.
Boiling oil, hot water, melted pitch
and sulphur were always in readiness dur
ing a medieval siege to repel storming
parties.
The first French newspaper, the Gazetts
-
Renaudot. He also established the first Mont
de Pete.
News from Japan says that number of
japanese actresses are preparing to start on
a tour in Europe to illustrate the native style
of acting
BY liquor law recently put in force
in Cape Colony no traveller can be supplied
with drink unless with bona fide dinner or
luncheon.
Halt armor was worn in the Continental
armies until the present century In excep-
tional cases, body armor is still worn by
special soldiers.
An object of much curiosity observed
in music store window at Lynn, Mass. is
an ancient Egypt Tyre, believed to be more
than 1900 years old.
The new Mormon temple will be dedi-
Gated at Salt Lake on April G, 1898. The con-
StructlOn OF the Dull0ln ? was begun III years
ago, and it has cost s., 500 COO.
The first cornet in England or America
was blown by a Frenchman, name unknown,
and the instrument has since ior that reason
been generally called the French horn.
The most highly-valued gift at the
Queen of Denmark's golden wedding was a
crown of golden wheat ears and clover,
bought with the pennies OF 10000 school chill.
dren.
I'm Alachua and other counties in Flor
ida short time ago there was q shower OF
fine spider webs which covered the ground
for miles. Enough fell, it Is said, to start
cotton factory.
An Australian pearl diver says that
divers are always in bad temper when work
ing at the bottom of the sea. 1t is supposed
to be due to the heavy pressure of the con-
densed air the divers are forced TO breathe
In 1861 the famous Languedoc canal
was completed. This gave France an arti-
ficiai waterway 14S miles in length, with
summit level of 600 feet above the sea, and
including upward of 100 locks and 90 aque-
ducts.
in order to keep sea porgies through the
summer the fishermen OF Rhode Island have
nets so arranged that the passing schools
are let up into salt water ponds and the
channels connecting with the ocean are
closed.
-Noblenen in scores were created BY
Christophe, negro, who ruled as Emperor
of Hayti from 1911 to 1920 Among the titles
conferred were those OF the Duke OF Marina
lade, the CO.Int OF Lemonade and tile Earl
OF Brandy.
"A railroad with gauge of but "a inches
is now building in North Carolina. It is
to run from Hot SPRINGS, near the Tennes-
see border, to Laurel river, a distance OF -
miles. The main purpose OF It's conStfucuoh
RI, "a a pher ahOnt acres
land.
One of the industries in connection
with the tea trade is the collection of the
lead with which tea-chests are lined. China
has been noted for many centuries for the
purity of its lead, and this tea-chest lead, as
it is called, is regarded as the finest in exist.
ence There are many uses tor 1t; 1t Is found
very valuable in making the best kinds OF
solder.
The lowest barometric pressure on
record is "a. l35 inches, which was observed
in 1855 during small hut intensely fierce
storm over the Bay of Bengal. \ most re-
feature about this tempest was its
small size; its diameter was only about 100
miles. Vessels passing through 1T escaped
with great difficulty on account of the strong
centripedal draught.
The ancient Romans considered Febru-
ary 90 a most critical season, always reckon
ing 1t among their unlucky days. That this
belief has not by any means lost ground is
evidenced by q deep rooted dislike parents
have to a child being born on leap day, it be-
ing popular notion that to come into the
wOrd ii at such an odd time is OminouS as sig-
nifying the babes speedy exit
Some people suppose that rosewood
takes it's name from its color, but that is a
Rosewood is not red or yellow, but
almost black. Its name comes from the fact
that when first cut, 1t exhales a peffume
similar to that of a rose: and, although the
dried rosewood of commerce retains no
trace of this perfume, the name fingers as
relic or the early history of the wood.
Tortoise shell, as it comes to market
from the West Indies, is coarse, dirty and
Iusterless, and only the most skillful and
patient manipulation makes it the rich and
beautiful material 1t eventually becomes.
Ostrich plumes, as they arrive in this mar.
ket, look like Dedraggled turkey feathers
and they pas through a score of hands be-
fore they become the fluffy and graceful ad-
unct to feminine attire.