Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Boston has one Chinese voter
Newmarket jockeys earn $4,000 .
year.
The word 'girl" occurs but once in the
Bible.
in battle only one ball out of IS takes
effect.
There are 80 towns in America called
Washington.
-Michigan's murder roll for 1892 is the
largest in the States history.
Since the year 1868 there have been 26
interments in Westminster Abbey.
Nearly 1000 Russien convicts have
been sent to Siberia since April last.
1t is stated that the Russian Govern
ment is about to. purchase the telephone
system.
Iron bedsteads are about the only kind
OF hardware exported from England to Da-
mascus.
The average duration of lives in the
United States is I7.3 for mechanics and sal
for lawyers.
The death penalty has just been re-
sumed in Switzerland. For 25 years it had
been abolished.
Stockings made Of human hair are worn
by Chinese fishermen as preventive
against wet feet
Jerusalem is still supplied with water
from Solomon's Pools through an aqueduct
built by the Crusaders.
The town of Groton, Mass, has the dis
tinction OF having furnished eightNew Eng
land Mayors of prominence.
Two educated negro women at Vasten
have begun the publication of the first news
paper in the Congo Free-State.
The total appropriation BY Congress
last year for the propagation. distribution
and investigation OF fish was S290,OOh
1t is stated that it has cost the United
States Governments over 81, 100000 to collect
the So, 900 for which draft has just been
turned into the United States Treasury.
The cheapest dress made by Worth, the
Partisan milliner, even if of cotton, does not
cost less than $780, and this ho calls his
''pauvrette costume"-the poor girls dress.
Dogs have long memories. Simon Slade,
of Bethlehem, Pa. cut of pups tail two
years ago, and since then the dog attacks
him whenever it sees him, although gentle
as dove to other people.
st. Chad's Church clock at Shrewsbury,
which was made last century, has a longer
pendulum than any other clock in Great
Britain Its pendulum is % feet long and the
ball four feet three inches in circumference
and 200 pounds in weight.
japanese women put up their hair with
wooden, ivory or tortoise-shell pins, seven
or eight inches in length and fully half an
inch wide. The pins are usually carved and
fitted with pivotal figures, which dance with
every motion OF the wearer.
The Duke of Edinburg's Stradivarius
has notable history. The Duke received
| the instrument, which is extremely vslu-
| able from the late Duke of Cambridge, and
he hnH uraa him W000lnR
| gift by the late Sir Thomas Gladstone.
"A blotter can be made that will remove
ink spots from paper. Take thick blotting
paper and steep it several times in a solutiC n
| of oxalic acid or oxalate Of potassium. While
| the ink spot is moist apply the prepared
| blotter, and the ink will be entirely re-
| moved.
There is an art in making coal fire in
CRATE. An expert first clears the CRATE,
then fills it full of coal, on which is built
| wood fire. The wood ashes on top of the
| coal, it is said, prevent its rapid consump-
| tion, and fire thus constructed, burning
| slowly with u moderate heat, will last all
| day.
| Not many people stop to think about
| 1t, but the outside OF a lemon is anything
but clean. Ifyou will look at it you will
see some tiny spots, like scales, all over it.
| These are the eggs of an insect, and Il the
| lemon is not washed they are likely to be-
| come an ingredient in whatever dish the
| lemon is used for.
| The French newspapers tell of very
| interesting match that came of in France.
Two women in good society challenged each
other to talk fast. Each was to utter as
many words as possible in q fixed time. Each
| woman talked three consecutive hours. One
| uttered 203, 500 words. The other won the
match with 206. $50 words.
An electrical Journal that some tims
| ago called attention to the advantages of
electric roads for the freight carriage of the
farmer now returns to the subject with tho
| express assurance that a comparativel
short time will see the construction of many
| country trolley roads. IL points out that to-
| day large proportion of the American
| farming area is within touch or the 500
towns and cities that now enjoy trolley
traction
"A curious story is told of the recent
| funeral OF an old farmer of Maine. The sons
placed their fathers remains in rough cot
| fin and took a short cut through the woods.
| A deer crossed their path. Depositing the
| coffin in the bushes, they ran back for their
| dogs and guns, and were soon on q glorious
| hunt. Other game turned up, the hunt was
| prolonged and it was not till four days after
| ward that they remembered their lather's
corpse III the bushes and returned to bury it.
| This is probably the strangest epitaph
| in the United States: Here is laid Daniel
| Barrow, who was born in sorrow and bor-
rowed little from nature except his name
| and his love to mankind and his hatred Of
| redskins: Who was, nevertheless, gentle
man and dead shot, who through long
| life never killed his man except in self-de-
| fense or by accident, and who. when he at
| last went under beneath the bullets Of his
| cowardlv enemies in JEFF Morris saloon, did
| so in tile sure and certain hope of glorious
| and everlasting morrow"
AT certain mineral spring in an East
| ern State the cups that the patients drunk
from were fastened by brass chain to an
| iron bar which inclOsed the mouth of the
| bubbling spring. The drinker was pre-
vented from coming too close by another
iron railing about eight feet across The
ground about the spring ives naturally
moist and it was either this ground or the
iron which was one OF, the ends OF an open
electric circuit. The cup held by the chain
was the other end. The person drinking
simply completed the circuit through the
body, and when he had finished the at
tendant kindly and Immediately removed
the cup from his hand.