Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Louis XIV. had 732 wigs.

Louis XIV. had 732 wigA
| Roman soldiers wore Q hooded cloak
over their armor.
Death and Clutch Is the name of Q
Franklin, o., firm.
-Four million people have already
grasped Corbett's hand.
Linen was used for wrapping mummies
probably about 5000 B. C.
| La Voleur (the thief, is the name Of
new popular paper started in Paris.
| Only one $4,000 legal tender note
out of an issue of 900 is now extant
| Several Cinnamon have proved them
| selves successful farmers in Montana
Breton, France, has ful1-grown sheep
that are about only the size of rabbits.
Married couples in Norway are privi-
! legged to ride on railroads at fare and
More than 1900 varieties of roses
worthy of cultivation have been produced
during this century.
Some of the houses in Berlin are num-
bered with luminous figures, which are
easily visible at night.
AT the battle of Bannockburn, 1914,
Robert Bruce Glove an Englishman to the
waist with a battle ak.
In the twelfth century hook was at
tached to the footman,s spear to enable him
to drag knight from the saddle.
The first ship canal on the line of the
present Suez Canal was projected by Necho
an Egyptian King, about COO B. C. The two
seas were actually united 80 B. c.
France has population of SO, ,218, ,903,
comprising about 100000 families, and of
these 1000 900 couples have no children,
while 1000 600 have only one child each.
The first orthodox Hebrew to be made
peer OF England was Sir Nathaniel Meyer
de Rothschild, who was created Baron
Rothschild Of Tring by Mr.. Gladstone on
July 9, 1885.
The highest temperature on the globe Is
at Death Valley. Inyo county. Cal. Its sur
face is l59 feet below sea level, and in sum.
mer the thermometer has occasionally
marked 1920.
In 1871 we produced 81, ,152 tons of steel
rails; in 1890. Ls7l, 1856 tons. Our imports OF
rails were 531 ,537 tons in 1871; in 1880 only 1x
TONS In the latter year we exported Il, SSI
tons Of rails.
1t has been found that bicyclists who
ride to excess are afflicted with a catarrhal
laryngitis. Mouth breathing and the rapid
ity and pressure with which large Quantities
OF air are forced into the larynX are said TO
be the cause.
The average annual per capita con-
sumption of textile fabrics by the inhab-
itants of Europe in 1884 was valued at 50 Oh
that OF the people of the United States at
$ll 40 per capita.
The Egyptians had operas and enjoyed
them. The first use of the term, "opera in
musica," which subsequently gave place to
''opera," was in 1856, the first opera per-
formed being the "Orpheus of Peri"
"A pear tree which was set bv Governor
John Endfcott in 1880 is still standing near
Danversport, Mass. 1t blossoms freely, al
though 262 years old. but the fruit, like most
OF the pears of that date, is of poor quality.
I'm 1880 the Duchess de Fontanges had
the misfortune TO have her hat blown Off at
a hunting party and tied her hair with one
of her ribbon garters. Hair dressing with
ribbons remained O fashion for seven years.
in some of the ancient temples of Egypt,
known to be more than 1000 years Old the
stones were doweled together with hour
ties OF the Timarish or Shittim
wood, the'dowel sinks being only about one
inch deep.
The first smoke-consuming railroad
locomotive ever built was turned out of the
Chicago and Alton car shops ut Blooming
ton, H., in October. 1891. Its inventor, A. K.
Cavner, says 1t not only consumes its smoke
but economies fuel.
The early Christians, to manifest their
dislike of pagan vanity, in the efremi-
navy Vi AOuS ahu CuIlue anu carefully
cultivated boards, shaved their faces and
kept their hair cropped close. In the time
of Tertullian this was mark of the
Christian.
One of the uses of SKINNED milk is In
The manufacture OF an artificial ivory which,
n every respect, resembles the original
The milk is mixed with borax, and subjecred
to o high pressure. The product Is well
suited for combs. billiard balls and pipe
mouth pieces.
The ruby, the sapphire, the oriental
emerald, the oriental topaz, the oriental
amethyst, the oriental aqua MARINE the orr
,ntal chrysoIite, the hyacinth and other
precious stones are all allumina, the varfe-
lies of color being caused by inappreciable
quantities OF metallic oxides.
The most marvellous of clocks has been
built by Black Forest maker and sold for
4. 000 Besides doing everything that most
clocks do in the matter of time and calendar,
9 shows the time in Berlin. st. Petersburg,
Madeira, Shanghai Calcutta, Montreal, San
Melbourne and Greenwich.
There is little lane in Fairmount
'arK, on the schuylkill, that is pointed out
g a favorite haunt of Tom Moore the poet,
Turing his sojourn in Philadelphia nearly 80
rears ago. Here he wrote the poem about
he S sehuylkilps n, yerdans or banks; ana here, it
rho had captured his fancy, on the bark OF
tree, and his own name beside it.
"A novel plan for training trotting horses
being tried at San Teencho, Col. Instead
{ trotting them round track, they are
lade to swim round q course in a tank 90
,et long, 20 feet wide and feet Deep The
Tater Is tepid and strongly impregnated
nth salt, to prevent the horse from taking
old. Four times round the course gives the
lorse as much exercise as q mile OF trotting.
AT the opening of the Jaffa-Jerusalem
ailway a curious Moslem rite was OBJ.
srved. Three sheep were slaughtered and
heir blood besprinkled on the rails before
he first train was allowed to proceed upon
s Journey. This superstitious ceremony
ad for its object the soaring away of evil
emil, who would otherwise have exertea
aneful influence upon passengers using the
ne.
MISCELLANEOUS MERRInENT