Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Two thousand women became artists
in 1891.
Returns for India will show decrease
in leprosy
The Chinese are beginning to be notice.
able in Africa.
A New Mexico man has three well
defined tongues.
At Missouri wolf hunt IS dogs were
killed in mistake.
"A New York boiler maker has been
working with his heart exposed to view.
Orange county, n. Y, is overrun with
foxes. The farmers are hunting them with
fox hounds.
The pcsterity of one female sparrow
in fen years is something like two hundred
and seventy-six billion birds.
"A gold nugget weighing six and half
pounds was found in the Brandy Flat ce-
ment mine, near Washington, New, last
week.
The first theatrical company to play in
this country. it is said. came from England
in 17j2, and nade their first public appear
ance at York, Va.
The latest location for watch is in a
door handle. There is one in shop in Bond
street and another in the handle Of a doc
tors brougham.
Europe signifies a country of white
complexion: so named because the inhabi-
tants there were of a fairer complexion than
those of Asia and Africa.
, AN old record of the Civil War has come
to light in New York 1t contains some i'm
portant official documents and was brought
at auction many years ago.
-vacaville, Cal, has haunted house.
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is said even the hunters in that vicinity will
make wide detour to avoid passing the
place at night.
"A company making aluminium in Neu-
hausen have again lowered the price of that
metal from to 5 marks kilogramme. This
price is one-third that of nickel and only 20
per cent higher than copper.
I'm ancient Egypt the cat was an object
of religious worship, and was even an in
mate of the temples. There was actually q
cat goddess named Bubastis, whowaS always
depicted as having cats head
The American Bell Telephone Company
has so forwarded its experiments in the
field that it has perfected a tele-
phone bv which whispers can be trans
mitted 500 miles with perfect distinctness.
DR. Bide reports before the Royal Geo.
graphical Society in Madrid the discovery
of strange people In Caceres living in
caves and inaccessible retreats, speaking a
curious language and possessed of hairy
skin.
Paterson, n. j., has adopted new seal
1t has in place of the American eagle, which
was in the old seal. the representation of a
man planting mulberry tree. This was Sc
lected as being the most appropriate for q
city so famed for its silk industry.
"A four-pronged buck was killed few
nrIo Co in fha of
foot OF which, just above the hoof. a circular
bone of some portion of a cows skeleton
was found firmly clasped. 1t had worn
through the flesh and into the bone of the
limb, and disabled the animal.
An orange tree in yard in Yuba City,
Cal, has full yield of large ripe oranges of
this seasons crop, and hanging among Them
are number of oranges of the previous
wear in a good state of preservation. On the
same tree is a lemon branch in full bearing,
with ripe fruit and also beautiful blossoms.
The tree presents q very striking appear
ance.
The instructive fear which cats have Of
dogs is illustrated very amusingly by stro<-
ing a dog and then caressing blind and
newborn kitten with the same hand that
has touched the dog. At once the kitten will
spit and fluff itself up in the most absurd
wav, distinguishing the smell of the beast
which experience for thousands of genera
tlOnS has taught IL most TO dread.
Two cannon balls have been found at
the Glen Mills stone quarries. near Philadel-
phia, embedded in rock about 20 feet below
the surface of the earth. About eight feet
of this covering was solid rock on which
earth and underbrush had grown. 1t is sup
posed the balls have been there since the
War, and probably from the
time the battle of Brandywine was fought.
-Fraulein Susanne Morgenroth, SO years
Did, died recently in abject squalor at Mois-
ling, near Lubbock For many years she had
gathered all her firewood on the highway
and had drawn monthly upon the poormas
ter. Eventually she starved to death. In
her mattress were found bank books and
securities showing that she had more than
10 900 invested, and stockings full of gold
and silver coin were discovered in dirt heaps
and under the floor.
During the Mozart centenary at the
Imperial Opera House at Vienna an old gen.
tleman applied to the Court Counsellor for a
stall at the magic Flute" the booking Office
having told him that the house was sold
Upon being asked WHY he was so anxious to
see the magic Flute" he said that he had
seen it first performed at the Vienna Opera
House, and he wanted to see 1t again 1t
was first PLAYED in Vienna Just so years ago,
when the old man was IL. He got seat.
Many of the giant reptiles of long ago
Known as the triceratops had a big horn
over each eye and little one on its nose.
The dinoceras and the tinoceras, gigantic
mammals of the tertiary epoch, had three
pairs of prominence on their heads which
ire believed to have supported horns. How
,yer. the material of which horn is COM
posed quickly decays, being largely com
oosed of gelatine and other animal matter,
10 that these apDendages are apt to be found
,bsent when the fossil bones of beasts which
lad them are found.
The adult Fangs, of the Congo, decline
n learn auy other language. If they engage
n trade they speak Fang. If they have any
controversy with another tribe they will
liscuss the merits of the case only in the
fang tongue. 1t is absolutely necessary for
missionaries and merchants, and even other
,eqro tribes, if they are to make headway
md get on with the Fangs, to learn their
anquage The commerce of GabOon is in
heir hands. They alone supply ivory to
rhite traders. If q merchant understands
heir language business is speedily trans
lcted. If he talks through an interpreter is
sometimes takes days to complete sale.