Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
China can boast of a soap tree.

| CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
China can boast of soap tree.
The South African milk tree produces .
good substitute for cows milk.
Mrs. Anne Young. the Gypsy queen, is
dead. She was buried at Paterson, N. j.
Last year the aggregate loss of property
from fire in the United States was $4,000
The youngest New York burglar is said
to be a 9-year-old lad captured a few days
ago.
| "A Tifin, o.. man carries gold coffin
screw 100 years old for luck. He found it in
q graveyard.
! Mrs. A T. Branch, of Orient, Fla,
killed a sixfoot rattler in her strawberry
patch the other day.
1t is proposed to police PennsylvaDis
avenue, Washington. with patrolmen who
| are over six feet high.
"A New Jersey firm manufactures 80,-
| 900 dozen eggs daily. They expect to manu-
| facture spring chickens year hence.
"A Missouri judge presented to the e1-
Confederate Home SO cents, but they were
very old coins, and are to be sold at auction.
The New York city flags were hoisted
Good Friday. 1t was blunder on the part
of an employe. The flags were up until four
O'Clock.
Five hundred thousand Londoners save
five days per annum each by riding on rail-
WAYS. a total saving of 500, 900 days, worth
f83O,000.
Ono million four hundred thousand
pounds of sturgeon have been packed by a
single firm in Kalama, WASH. this season,
and shipped to the East.
"A man without legs is the latest freak
to join the Barnum aggregation. His feet
connect directly with the body. In moving
about he uses his hands and one foot.
The people upon the two continents Of
North and South America, without the Arc
tic regions, are less than 122, 900 900 IN num-
Der, or only eight to the square mile.
-Lizzy Kerwin, of New York city, early
on the morning of March % paraded the
streets in a somnambulistic fit, but nothing
else. Saturday morning she fell from win
dow while asleep and was I'M jured.
"A rat attacked pigeon on the window
sill of the upper story OF the Boston Federal
building. The rat bit the pigeon, and the
latter dropped its enemy Off the sill. and it
fell to the pavement. Both are dead.
j. n. Pickett, of Obion county, Tenn,
1t is said, has mule % years old. Notwith-
standing his age he is quite a mule, and his
owner Is careful never to leave him hitched
GO WaUOu 1OE ledI u6 Will uu away duu pGk
spoiled.
According to the "Secret Doctrine" we
are now living in the Kali Yuga, the last of
the Four Ages, and it began nearly 5000 years
ago, with the death of Krishna, B. G. 3l02.
The first minor cvcle of the Kali Yuga will
end in the years lS91-3
In the matter of transatlantic pas
senger travel, the White Star heads the
English lines with 81, 1893 passengers; the
Cunard comes next with 323, 900, the Inman
follows with 322, $50, and the Guion with 237,-
$50. The total of these amounts to ], ,255, ,659.
The Gulf of Georgia is reported to be
almost choked with large schools of herring.
The Washington and British Columbia fish
ermen are catching the fish by the ton with
no trouble whatever, and are making good
money by packing them for shipment East.
A German importer of immigrants has
offered to settle 100000 Germans in the
Northwestern territory of Canada, but wants
a price per capita for all whom he lands.
But he can't guarantee they WON'T do as the
Canadians do and emigrate to the United
States.
Ants are eaten by many nations. In
Brazil they are served with n resInous sauce
and in Africa they are stewed with butter
grease. The East Indians catch them in pits
and carefully mash them in handfuls, like
raisins. In Siam curry of ant eggs Is q
costly luxury.
"A man ID new Jersey HAS DceH uncu
$500 for selling copies of the song, "Maggie
Murphy's Home" This is not to be taken as
an indication of musical culture on the part
of Jerseymen, however. The only fault
found with him was that he was violating
the copyright law.
j. A. Buchanan, of Obion county, Tenn,
has in his possession an old hunters powder
gourd, such as was used by all the old pio-
neer hunters, in which they carried their
powder, that belonged to his grandfather,
and is, according to Mr.. Buchanan's estima-
tfon, over 100 years old.
Rev. Sam Bettis, the cowboy preacher,
is having boat built under his direction at
Clinton, East Tennessee, in which he pro-
poses to collect an Anderson county exhibit
for the Worlds Fair. This craft when COM
pleted will cost s., SOC, and is to be finished
with brass ratings, will carry two masts
and a sufficient amount of canvas.
of the large number of orders of knight
hood in Europe several are exclusively fe-
male, Some are of old or peculiar founda-
That of the Bee, in France, established in
1703, would suitably honor female industry;
that or Neighborly Love, in Austria, dating
from 170S, commends an excellent virtue.
The Ottomac tribes of earth-eating
Indians kneed the earth into balls of five or
six inches in diameter, which they roast by
q slow fire until the outside is hard. They
remoisten them when they are required as
fOOQ, and, according TO u monk VINO nVe0
IL years among them, one of them would eat
from three-quarters of q pound to a pound
of this peculiar food in day.
Collectors who pick up strictly genuine
apostle spoons tor a couple of dollars
spoon will be interested to know that a set
of 12 such spoons recently sold at
Christie's in London, for 81, 900. They had
silver-gilt stems, surmounted by gilt figures
OF the apostles, but their great value arises
from the fact that they were present from
Charles IL to the wife of Sir Robert Clayton,
Lord Mayor of London.
Henry A. Bower, of Adams township,
Hamilton county. in 1854 slipped small
cucumber in glass bottle, and he permitted
the vine to furnish nourishment until the
cucumber had filed the available space In
side the bottle. The vine was then clipped
off, the bottle was filed with alcohol and
ca re fully sealed. The cucumber still re-
tains It's original appearance, and it looks
as perfect as il did when bottled up 81 years
ago.
-Pews, in the modern sense of the word,
namely inclosed seats, did not come into use
until about the period of the Reformation.
In 1908 galleries were introduced, and as
early as 1914 pews were arranged to afford
comfort by being baized or cushioned, while
device of the Puritans to avoid
being seer by the officers who reported those
who did not stand when the name of Jesus
was mentioned.