Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Onions are more nourishing than any
! other vegetable.
of all symbolic signs none is so ancient
as the BARRIERS pole.
The Australians are the greatest tea
| drinkers in the world
AT the age of 40 man generally at
tains his highest weight; q woman at so.
The number Of deaths in the entire
world in century is estimated to be 4,5Oo-
100000.
The Shah of Persia will not remain at q
table on which is either lobster or
salmon.
Electric bell signals are now used in
London while navigating its streets in No
vember logs.
There are $50, 900 persons imprisoned in
s76 jaIls in Russia. The prisons were built
to hold only $4,000.
Tourists in Japan find the native guides
as avaricious us they are in the more trav-
eled parts OF Europe
Europe consumes upward of s24, 900, 900
worth of gold and silver annually for plate,
jewelry and ornaments.
During the month of October the RAIN
fall in Paris, it is reported. was heavier than
that OF any year since 1769.
Bohemia has 16O societies and clubs
which have for their objecrthe advance
ment of the cause of women.
The violin upon which George WASH
ington's wedding march was played IS in the
possession OF musical society at Sunbury,
The machinery at the Worlds Fair is
to be set in motion by the pressing of a but.
ton in Madrid, Spain, by descendant OF
Columbus.
A doctor in Kansas has produced
plant called "potomato," which is cross
between a potato and a tomato, and will
yield both fruits.
In the fourteenth century armour be-
came so heavy that many soldiers only 30
years old were deformed or permanently
disabled by its weight.
1t has been discovered that the Kongo
river is ,452 feet deep at its mouth. The
mouth of the Mississippi has depth Of 80
feet and the Thames of 40 feet.
Three new crematories were built in
Germany last year, and in Italy there are p
now in operation. In France 3,741 bodies
were disposed OF in 1891 by burning.
One Of the features Of the Missouri ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair will be a reproduc-
tion OF the Eads' bridge. on large scale,
composed entirely of grains and grasses.
-4HO nuuuEcu years dSO GuSAAou law
compelled BARRIERS to display ''a blood pot
on o striped pole, the whole to be sur
mounted with q symbolical cloth Of red
material"
-Oculists profess to have discovered .
connection between wood pavements and
opthalmia. 1t is said that the gaseous ema-
nations from the pavement are very injur-
ious to the organs ef vision
-Guttapercha was first introduced into
ToNn
consumption now amounts to 100000
pounds, and the East Indian trees which
supply the demand are diminishing at an
alarming rate.
New Orleans has new idea To pre-
vent disastrous street car strikes in future
it is proposed to place letter boxes in all
the street cars and thus bring them under
the direct protection OF the United States
Government
The first iron casting made in America,
a kettle, cast at the saugus Iron Works in
| 1882, has been presented to the city of Lynn
| by j. z. Hudson, of Boston, lineal descend
| ant of Thomas Hudson, the original owner
| OF the casting
The compass plant of Asia Minor,
| known all along the eastern shores of the
| Mediterranean and as far east as Arabia and
Persia, is mentioned in the Bible, where the
prophet refers to 'that senseless thing
which is more stable than man, inasmuch
| as 1t always pointeth in the one direction"
"A Frenchman died not long ago and
4 left large estate, which was divided among
the heirs withous quarreIing-aII but al
| umbrella which had been in the family for
over 30 years. This was fought for in .
| lively way, and the aid of the court had
finally to be invoked to quiet the disturb
ance.
The most lofty place in the world regu-
larly inhabited by human beings is the Bud
| dhist Monastery of Haine in Thibet, which
is about 1000 feet above the sea level. The
highest inhabited spot OH the Western Hem
isphere is GIlera, railway station in Peru.
| which is 1855 feet above the Pacific's level
at low tide.
The German branch of the Standard
| Oil Company now owns Is tank steamers, OF
all aggregate capacity Of 53975 tons, for
transporting oil across the Atlantic Ocean,
besides storage tanks in various inland
cities, tank boats for the river trade and
large cooperage shop, with capacity of
10000 barrels year.
The depreciation in the purchasing
power of silver in India, due to its decline
in value, has caused great suffering among
many Anglo-Indian officials whose incomes
have been thereby reduced. The rupee is
now about l0211d, a decline OF So per cent
from. the sterling value of shillings, which
it originally represented
"A Hartford, Conn, surgeon lately in
duceda woman, whose 2year-old child had
long been suffering irone peculiar attacks,
to submit the little one to an operation, on
SUSPICION that the baby had swallowed
diamond earring the mother had missed.
No earring was found, but % small carpet
tacks were taken from the child's stomach.
Fine edged tools assume a blue color
and lose all temper il exposed for any con-
siderable length of time to the light of the
sun, either in summer or winter A similar
effect is exercised by moonlight, a large
cross-cut saw withwhich the experimenters
ere working having been "put out OF shape
and its temper ruined by single nights ex-
posure to first quarter moon"
What thought transference actually
means was exemplif1ed the other day in
Philadelphia. when an entire school Of
blind pupils visited the Dore exhibition Of
paintings, accompanied by DR.. Stryker, the
principal. The latter explained with such
minutenesS of detail the general appearance
OF the picture and its various points of ex-
celence, that the children left tine place
gleefuly chatting about what they had
seen through their preceptor's eyes.
I'm Paris a novel apparatus has been
fixed in 'front.' of tile windows of a few shops.
pioneering the way Tor the Introduction Of
the invention. 1t consists of q small pipe
laid along tho exterior of the shop window,
from Which pipe, through numerous holes,
Is emitted n gentle current of warm air,
slightly secuted, which Is very agreeable TO
the shop window gaZers to sDtn, while IL