Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

! The medieval lance was 1Sfeet long.
-Corsets have been found on he waist
ofEgyptian mummies.
] The hawthorn is an American planla
was first mentioned in 1888
Before the year 1900. II papers wer
published in the United States.
"A colony of about 1000 Japanese is
be established in sinaloa, Mexico.
"A mountain of carbonate of zinc is tn
latest discovery near Hillsboro. Y. NJ.
A Newfoundland company has beei
| organized to gather ice from icebergs.
ELECTRICITY was first transported fror
place to place in portable form in 1881.
Mexican flint knives were made SO shar
that they could be used for trimming hair.
The State of Washington lays claim
300 Indian voters, while Oregon boasts of S
"A number of the finest coaching team
in and about Paris belong to American anna
teurs.
-Muffs were first used BY doctors to kee
their fingers soft and were adopted by ladie
about 1850.
The Greek stage had three doors, on
principal characters.
"A Portland, Me-, woman, who has
mania for cancelled postage stamps, ha
over million of them.
The international chess tournament
he held in Chicago in connection with tn
Fair will distribute 1000 in prizes.
Somebody claims that an electric plar
has been discovered in India, which will ir
nuence pap1It. fac ~
The highest price yet paid for viol
was e. 400 2iven for the instrument know
as the Belts Stradivarius 1t gained this di:
tinguishing title through remarkable Incl
dent.
"A New York oyster house keeper ha
discovered in Little Neck clam pearl, fC
which lie has already been offered q goo
price.
AT the exhibition at the Photograph
Society of Great Britain there is photo
graph of Mont Blanc taken al distance O
55 miles.
California mineralogists believe tn:
there is an excellent chance of CaIiforni
becoming a great diamond producing regio
at some time.
When playing FsIstaff GUN had a We
vet chair with gold claws and blue firing
placed on the battle field so that he migl
soltloquize in comfort.
"A complete suit of horse armor con
prised the champont. head piece; manifair.
neck piece: poitrel for the shoulders an
croupier over the hips.
In 1880 our domestic exchange
amounted in value to $500. 900 in roun.
numbers i'll 1880 the amount was SIG, 900 00o
600, the igcrease in ten years being S., 900, 600
0J0.
The cent which, in 1875, George Wash
ington dropped on the Ira Mead hom,
stead, near Turk Hill. Conn.,, has been rt
Gently found, and the finder of ir is an in
mense'y proud man.
Gable railroads are no features of mos
of the leading American cities. The frs
cable railroad in New FORK city was hui
OIL Tenth avenue by Lewis Lyon, an En-.
lishman, recently deceased
Manufactures of clothing increased du
ing the free trade period at the rate OF 81
10000 year. Since 1850 the increase ha
been u the rate OF sll, 30 900 annually.
Tho common daphne grown in flowe
gardens il one of the most deadly poison
known to the botanist. Three or four of til
berries will kill man quickly as strycI
nine, and one has been known to kill chill
in half an hour.
Mongolia Manchooria, Chinese Turllestaf
Kokanor and Thibet, occupy an area of 6
least 5.000,Co0 square miles. or about on
third of Asin. The pnpula tiHn is estimate
at from $50 900 900 to 450,OOO,OOO.
The first patent in the United State
was issued July 81. 1890, to Samuel Hopkir
for making pot and pearl ashes. Fonr hun
dred and hirty-three thousand four hundre'
and thirty-six parents were. issued durin
n I q mai nt
A successful trial was made on th
Erie Canal. at Lock port, n. Y, Tuesday,
a full-sized canaiboas equipped with tw
revolving portable wheels running lik
overshOt water wheels in air-tight recesse
cut in from the bottom OF the boat, littl
forward of the stern.
I'm Spain, about 1850, the hoop-skir
became so nonstrous that an edic5 Wa
issued commanding their reduction an
ordering the corf1scation of hoop-skiri
above the regulation size. The attempts
carry out the edict caused innumerGbl
riots, and wore finally abandoned.
What is said to have been the Iarges
blast ever fired in the Mississippi Vale
was discharged recently at Graniteville, No
Tre holes were drilled 40 feet deep and wer
scattered along n line @. 100 feet. The reSuI
was the dislodgment of 10000 cubic feet
granite, all in one solid piece, without !raG
LuTo OF Se1Hi.
Nearly the whole of the English vege
table produce is grown in tho Thames va
ley and the Home counties. Cornwall az
Devon contribute broccoli and early fruit
while potatoes come from all parts of TN
kingdom. Middlesex, however. is the cente
of the vegetable fruit-groviny industr,
which is annually extending.
The Prefect of the Seine had recentl
1,O7l offices at his disposal, ,all of a minor in
portance, and for these offices he had owe
40 900 applicants The offices were mostlya
supernumerary clerks. porters, local Gu.
toms collectors, tobacco Shopkeepers,
even chief funeral mutes and cemcter
rangers.
The Russians call the grip" Chimes
catarrh, the Germans call it the Russia
pest, the Italians name it the German di
ease, the French call it the italian fever an
the Spanish catarrh. The Italians invente
the term influenza in the seventeenth Gel
fury, and attributed the disease to the infI
ence OF certain planets.
Some of the tribes of India have a ma
rage custom which calls for the presence
q COW and calf at the ceremony TIL
prin cipals and the priest drive COW and
calf into the water an d there the bride an
groom, as well as the clergyman, clutch th
cows TAIL while the officiating persona"
pOur5 water upon it from Il glass vessel ar
utterS religions formula.