Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| Massachusetts has justice Of the pea
who is deaf and dumb.
-Fitty-eight thousand women belong
the trades unions of England.
A dead cat is the basis of divorce 81
brought by Fort Dodge woman.
"A Schuylkill county, Pa, man has c
| three sets of teeth and is getting out
| fourth.
The public park in San Francisco I
| Gently received a cocoanut tree from Hon
| lulu which weighed six tons.
There are 80, 900 barmaids IN Engla
whose hours average "A daily for
wage of 10 shfllings per week.
"A New York policeman is going to II
land to take possession of an estate he
inherited, which is said to be worth $1,000
1t is said that the idea of putting
woman's head on one side of our col
originated from the saying that "mon'
talks"
"A Missourian nailed his wife in q be
and sent her as freight in order to save C
fare. The experiment resulted in payii
funeral expenses.
1t is announced that the secret of NAL
ing odorless whisky has been discovere
The name of the discoverer and his proce
alike are hidden from the world.
While the West is suffering from Il
floods the State of Maine is suffering fro
drought. Lake Sebago is feet inches b
low its normal level at this season.
One hundred and fifty negroes we:
lynched in this country during the past yea
and 1t is stated on good authority that tl
| numb Der of lynchings is on the increase.
1t is not generally known what marve
Gus progress has been made in recent yea
in the teaching of the dumb to speak. tia
pears from official records that last years
tfculation was taught to no less than ~
pupils.
"A few days ago an intoxicated man W;
found on the track ofa New England raj
road by a engineer and rescued from deaf
No sooner had he been pulled out of dang
than he turned and stabbed his rescuer /.
the back.
Some of the Venetians-thosew who hay
never been to the mainland-have nev6
seen horse in all their lives. A showma
once brought one to u fair and called it
monster. and the factory hands paid IS CEN
each to see the marvel.
I'm order to determine what infuenc
the moon has on earthquakes, Captain d
Montessus has collected in nformation of 6nO
earthquakes, and has arrived at the cor
clusion that our satellite has no effect upo
these phenomena.
There are many people now living VII
will have only one birthday TO celebrate 70
nearly IL years to come. This strange ci
cumstance is due to the fact that the
were born on February 29,and to the furthe
fact that the year 1900 will not be lea
year.
There is a tribe of South America,
savages who live in tree tops near Yer
ezuela, and their singular mode of e1istenc
gave the name to that Province. The VT
lagos Of these people are built over tn
bosom of great fresh-water lake-to escap
from the mosquitoes.
1t is said that 1000 horses are slaugt
tered for food every week in Paris, wher
horse flesh has come into general use anon;
the poor as an article OF diet. Palatabl
dishes of the same article of food are ais
frequently found on the tables OF the poo
of Berlin and Vienna.
1t has been shown that the white elm
our bottom lands and groves yields one yea
with another, at very moderate estimate
too, 329 900 seeds. Now an elm ordinarily
lives at least a full 100 years, and, conse
quently. in the course of that comparativel,
short Lille produces nearly 8. 900, 600 grains al
coming from one original seed.
Marriage NAV be failure in San Fran.
cisco, and it may not, but it is interesting t.
note that comparatively few people ar
making the experiment. During last yea
there were only 1926 marriages in the city
less than IL TO l000 OF the city's population
The rate in London is more than 1s per ,0Ot
What it is i'll the various cities and States
the Union is not recorded accurately.
1.-THE wind blew through his whiskers'
had its origin at st. Joseph, Mo-, ten year
ago. A lunatic, who had escaped to the roo
of a house and held at bay number
strong men for hours, was afterward asked
his reason for going on the root. He replied
that, his whiskerS being so thick, he wen
up there to let the wind blow through then
and cool his lace.
Miss Betsey Trumbull, who diet
recently at the almshouse in Skowhegan
Me-, at the age of g. was supported by the
town from the day OF her birth to the day o
her death, for, although able to do consider
able work, both indoors and ont, she was o.
feeble intellect and unable TO take care o.
herself. Ninety-two years on q poor tarm is
the longest time on record.
Immense schools of large sea bass were
found on the fishing banks by the New York
fishing steamers last week, and on Tuesday
more than l. 900 were taken with hook and
line The deck OF one boat was nearly GOV
cred with these fine fish. The run has made
its appearance unusually early, much to the
deli hit of the saltwater anglers. The sea
bass is not a frst-class game Tish, but it is
very snowy and has excellent table quail
ties.
In walking through the Central Park
one day last week Boston naturalist was
surprised by some of the trees. shrubs and
flowers he saw there. He says he found
even sugar NAPLES, Norway naples and
swamp NAPLES. He found moss pinks,
Asiatic magnolias Iilaos, the forsythia, the
cornelian cherry and other charming things
that are familiar to New Workers who stroll
through the park.
Who would think, to look at big rail-
way locomotive, that it could by any posi-
bility be put together in less than one dayP
A London paper states that the feat was ac-
compIished at the Stratford works of the
Great Eastern Railway of England The
locomotive was 81 standard freight locOmO-
tive of the six-coupled type, weighing more
than 81 tons, and able to haul load OF 55O
TONS" From the driving of the first rivet to
the application OF the final coat OF varnish,
the work occupied less than 10 hours.
AT the telling of an ancient hollow oak
in n German forest. when the tree crashed
10 the ground it disclosed a human skeleton
N excellent preservation. From his long
boots, powder flask and other articles found
ne appeared to have been II hunter, and IL
was concluded that the unfortunate man, IN
the tree in pursuit of some wound
ed bird or animal, had slipped into the hol-
ow trunk, had been unable TO e1trlcatei
himself, and so had perished mlseraDly Oh
III, n ~ M.