Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-Icebergs can last for 200 years.

The supply of terrapin is almost ex-
hausted.
-Chrysanthemums are Chinese, and were
brought to Europe in 1880.
The bleaching of one piece of linen re-
quires A distinct operations.
This country has 70, 900 lawyers, II 900
Of whom are in New York City.
Whiting contests have been inaugur-
ated at church festivals in Sedalia, Mo-
I'm the dreary deserts of Arabia the rose
mary and lavender flourish to perfection.
| The Nouyeau Temps, the leading St.
| Petersburg paper, is to establish q Paris
| edition.
| Three of the four Dutch universities are
open to women, namely: Leyden. Utrecht
| and Amsterdam
| Wire glass is about one-fourth of an
inch thick and in it is imbedded mesh.
| work of strong wire
In 1918 there were SO papers in London
8 morning, evening, every other even
| ing, 16 every Sunday.
| Saxon women never appeared in public
without the hood, which covered the hair
and large part of the face.
ALI the pawn shops in Moscow, Russia,
owned by Hebrews are shortly to be closed
by order Of the Government.
-Electroplating has been applied in an
| ingenious and effective manner for the
preservation of lace forms in metal.
| No less than IS, 900 incandescent lamps
are manufactured every day at an average
| selling price of about 70 cents apiece.
The misericorde was a small dagger
| with its blade made to reach the vitals OF
an antagonist between the joints of the ar
NOR.
"A Mexican brickIayer lays about 500
bricks in IL hours. An Englishman lays
about i've times this number in day of ten
hours.
The most powerful and heaviest gun in
the world weighs 135 tons, is 40 teet in
length and has a projectile weighing I,SO0
pounds.
The word 'fpreface," used in the begin
ming of books, was originally word of well
come to a meal and was equivalent to much
good may it do you"
The celebrated high electric light mast
| at Minneapolis, which is 257 feet high, has
proved ineffective for lighting purposes,
| and is now no longer used.
Among the stsSents of the University
| of Michigan, it is said, are Messrs. Turnip-
| seed, Toothacher, Greensteak and Cham
payne and Miss Annie Rooney.
"A Frenchman has discovered BY means
temperature of the average incandescent
| electric lamp is about $500 degrees f.
AT the table of Cambaceres a sturgeon
of 1s7 pounds was served, brought on by
footmen, preceded by futists 4 violinists
| and Swiss guardsman. halberd in hand.
AT the better class of Partisan cafes
writing paper, pens, ink, ETC.. are fur
nished to the guests free. In hotels of the
same city the guests have to pay for
them.
"A prospector in Eastern Oregon lately
found an opal field, which appears to be in
exhausuibIe. Among the specimens he
found, it is said, were q number of beautiful
black FIRE opals.
AT a certain church near Ledbury an
annual sermon is still preached against the
vice of duellIng. This is done in accord
ance with the last will and testament of q
damsel whose rival lovers died fighting Tor
her hand.
I'm the attempt to obtain a supply of
fresh water on Galveston Island an artesian
we'll has been sunk 8 1910 feet and inches
without success. The city will now sink
shallower wells on the main land and bring
the water to the island through pipes.
"A new idea in distress signals for ships
at sea, or off dangerous coast, is sheet
iron kite carrying incandescent lamps. The
current cable is the kite string, and so long
as the SD1D'S dynamo Will WOThJ Luo
signal will serve to attract attention and
help.
The ruby, sapphire, the oriental emer-
aid. the oriental topaz. the oriental ame-
thyst, the oriental al ua marine, the oriental
chrysolite, the hyacinth and other precious
stones are all allumina, the varieties OF color
being causen by inappreciaDle quantities Of
metallic oxides
The highest statistical authority in the
oil hot
the yearly waste in the United States,
through drink, is, at least $500, 100000. In 40
years $40 600. 600 have been thus wasted.
This is equal TO the whole savings OF the
people from 1888 to 1857.
Miles Orton, the proprietor of a circus
which exhibited in Chattanooga, Tenn, on
election day, bet an elephant against 500
that Harrison would be reelected. A young
Democrat named Divine won the elephant
and later the big elephant marched in the
Democratic procession.
The great organ in the old Mormon
church at Salt Lake City has 2,7O4 pipes, each
32 feet long and large enough to admit the
body of 4 man of ordinary size. 1t was built
in the early days. when all freight was
handled from Missouri river points across
the plains with OK teams.
Italy stands at the head of the wine
producing countries of Europe. She manu-
factures half as much again as France. Next
on the list is Spain; then follow Austro-Hun-
gary. Germany and Switzerland in the order
mentioned. 1t is not generally known that
the country outside of Europe which pro-
duces most wine is Algeria
The recent application'of electricity to
tanning in France has resulted in reducing
the time of tanning large OK hide from l6
to IS months in pit tanning, and from to-
months IN liquor tanning, to &c hours in
both cases and also does away with contin-
uous hand labor and the disagreeable odor
so characteristic of tanneries.
The most curious and unique clock in
the United States. or in the world for that
matter, was constructed by Amos Lane, or
Amedee, during the past summer. Lanes
curious clock, which, by the way, is all face,
hands and lever, is attached to geyser
which shoots upward an immense column
of hot water every 50 seconds exactly.
"A remarkable instance has occurred IN
AMMAN OF q lark voluntarily returning to lts
cage after having enjoyed fortnights
liberty. One day the cage was blown to the
ground by q gust of wind. and the door
opening the bird escaped. A fortnight after
the lark returned to the house, and mani
tested an unmfstakable desire to return
to its former abode. This it dlo 20
the astonlshment of its owner, Wnen INC
cage door was opened.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.