Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
The woman tramp is increasing.

The woman tramp is increasing
Puget Sound furnishes 6o-poun
oysters.
Machines for setting type were invente
by Mitchell in 1854
\ Kansas has seven newspapers edite
and published by negroes.
| There are 30 towns called "Washing
ton" in the United States.
On an average between 2 and Pm. h
the warmest hour of the a.
-Thucydides wrote his "History Of tn
| Peloponesian War; after he was 80 year
| old.
The moon is apparently brought within
so miles of the earth by the largest tele
scope.
The first telegraphic line in Americs
was laid between Washington and Baltimore
in 1874.
The linen manufactured yearly in Eng.
land could be wrapped round the earth
seven times.
-Th wardrobe of q gentleman who died
| in Connecticut the other day included so
pairs of stockings.
Among Sir William Harcourt's sup
porters at Derby were two voters said to bt
1O2 and lO3 years of age.
The largest sample of gold quartz ever
mined in Montana was taken out of the Mo
1nty re lode. Its weight is 1,7s5 pounds.
An Oklahoma girl was married by 6
Judge, divorced by the same judge and
married to the same judge all in six months
In the official household of the Turkish
Sultan nearly 10000 pounds of bread are said
to be used daily. They knead an awful deal
| of flour there.
In the past century it is estimated that
over 100000 persons have been killed in
the wars of civilized countries and ], 200 600
during the last 80 centuries.
"A fresh egg contains the same amount
of nourishment as one and half ounces of
fresh meat and one ounce of wheaton bread,
but in a more digestible form.
"A blue crane, rare bird in that region,
was shot the other day near Manistee,
Mich. 1t measured six feet from tip to tip
| OF wings and five feet from head to feet.
AN English scientist has thrown out Q
fanctful calculation on the number of ideas
| of which the human mind in the aggregate
600.
The new South Australian Ministry
| has Premier aged ~, the Hon. Frederick
Holder. The Chief Secretary of the ministry
| is AZ The Commissioner for Crown Lands
| is "a.
! "A recent survey has resulted in the
award to Delaware of about 700 acres hero
| tofore counted Pennsylvania territory. The
next peach crop should be unprecedently
| large.
Holland has found q new remedy for
wireworms in strewing good-sized pieces of
| potatoes over the infested land which, when
collected, are found to contain several
worms.
The German telegraph service has
adopted copper-bronze wires and is replac-
ing all its iron and steel wires by the new
metal, which is used OF small diameter and
weighs about lsO pounds to the mile.
Anna Hallenbeck, an Albany widow,
aged 40 who was taken to the Utica Hospital
for the Insane has refused to partake Of
food for several days, because, she says, II
she breaks her last she will be stricken blind
"A strange custom is followed by Mexi-
can farmers. They use oxen of one color in
the morning and another color in the after
noon. They do not know why. but they know
| that 1t must be the right thing to do, because
| their fOrefathers did 1t.
The hunger cure was at one time very
| popular punishment in Siberia, but the
latest punishment invented is the eating of
| sailed herrings. This is regarded as espec-
| tally useful in the case of prisoners who re-
| fuse to disclose secrets.
Ireland has now population of 4, ,7O4,-
$50, and has lost since the famine 3,415. 400 by
I emigration alone in the same period. An
| other striking fact is that f1ve-sevenths OF
these emigrants have been young persons
between the ages of 90 and 45.
The following advertisement appeared
in the Birmingham Daily Post: ''New Re-
ligion.-Young gentleman is founding new
religion, which is sure to become popu-
! lar, and desires lady of means to assist
| him in the work Address -"
Chickens have been acting as gold col
| 1ectcrs for j. A. McConville, of Butte Mont.
In one chickens crop and gizzard he found
| some gold nuggets. He therefore killed the
| remainder OF his brood, 81 in number. and
found in them gold to the amount OF 1887.
An arolite weighing A pounds fell on
the farm of Lawrence Freeman, near Bath
county, S. D.. the other day. The advent OF
the stone was heralded by several sharp ex-
plosions, which were heard distance of Is
miles or more and in some instances created
considerable alarm.
In Bellavista, near Portici, a small
colony includes more than 20 people who
are more than 90 years old, headed by
farmer aged 100 who still works in the fields.
They are all natives, and have lived with
hardly any meat in their diet and drink king
only rain water from cistern.
1t is proposed that one of Montana's
contributions to the Worlds Fair, to be
made by women of the State, shall be foun
tain made of natural ore. The design will
be selected by open competition. 1t Is sug-
gested that the base be made of native min
erals, the bowl of silver, and the cup of gold.
The most active volcanoes known are
those on the island of Stromboli, in the
Mediterranean, at Sanger, in Peru, and
Mount Etna. For more than 200 years the
Stromboli Mount tain has discharged lava
constantly: the one in Peru has been throw
ing out masses of cinders, attended by
terrific explosions. for $50 years, and Etna
has a record of 81 eruptions since the sixth
century B. c.
"A florist says that the law governing
the coloring of flowers makes a blue rseo
impossible According to this law the three
colors, red, blue and yellow, never all ap-
pear in the same species of flowers; any two
NAV exist, but never the third. Thus We
have the red and yellow roses, but no blue;
red and blue verbenas, but no yellow: yell
low and blue in the various members of the
viola family (as pansies, for instancel, but
no red; red and yellow gladiol, but no blue.
and so on.