Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The giraffe will soon die out In Africa
Georgia took in $500, 900 on watermelons
this season.
The mocking bird hates-the red color as
much as the bull.
There are 400 head Of bison at the
Yellowstone Park in Wyoming.
in SaIony about 20 per cent Of the work
ingmen earn less than $50 year.
Queen Victoria's new dining room at
Osborne cost 100000, and she paid for 10
herself
"A raft containing $1,000 logs has been
brought to Saginaw from the Georgian Bay
| country.
The youngest man in the new House Of
Commons England, Is q years old and the
| Oldest 90
/ "A man in Bavaria only needs to see Q
| play twice in order to be able to repeat 10
| scene for scene.
| 1t is estimated that nearly 20, 900 ounds
of bread are daily eaten, in the Sultan Of
Turkeys household.
| Japan is shaken 500 times year by
earthquakes and has 700 stations erected for
observing seismic shocks.
One thousand francs was recently paid
| for the broken wooden horse with which
Napoleon played as q child.
There are now 1888 journals and
maeazines printed in Germany yearly, while
| in 1891 there were only 3.443.
Nickel Scent pieces of 1877 are worth
IS cents each. while those of 1878, 1882, 1885
and 1885 are worth cents each.
-London's six principal railway lines
carry annually over 200. 100000 people and
the tramways about l50, 600. 900.
According to the census the Methodist
Episcopal Church mad 2229,2sl conmuni-
cants in 1890, as against 1,7O7. 600 in 1880.
French florists are cultivating plant
which bears a flower that is white in the
morning, red at noon and blue at night
When the Turk goes to his mo squs to
worship he keeps his hat on. as he thinks it
unbecomingly familiar with the divinity to
remove IL.
About 250, 900 canary birds are raised
in Germany every year, and of these about
10O, 900 come to the United States and 10000
go to England
Several autographic letters of Luther
Melancthon have been discovered in the If
brary of an obscure town in the Prussian
province Of Sa1ony.
"A French prince advertises that he de-
sires to sell his title and arms, "the whole
guaranteed by authentic parchments of the
reign of Henry w."
III Is BLdIeQ as q curIOuB IdCt LHdL sui
eide is more prevalent in warm than in cool
weather. Extreme heat breeds both melan-
choly and desperation.
AN eel that is ordinary in all respects
except that it has skin of a "beautiful
golden color" has been added to the collec.
tion in the London Geological Garden.
The definition of "A Friend" that took
the prize in late contest conducted by a
London journal was: "The first person who
comes in when the whole world goes out"
The largest book ever known is owned
by Queen Victoria. 1t is IS inches thick and
weighs 63 pounds and cotains the addresses
Of congratulation on the occasion ofherJu
lice.
Colorado appears to show a surplus of
commemorative holidays. Among the ami
melon day, peach day, potato day and grape
and cherry day.
There is, perhaps, no more curious
place on the Pacific seaboard than Iquique,
which was bombarded by the Chilian fleet
last year. 1t stands in region where rain
has never been known to fall.
That was a shrewd sort of girl at Read
ing who, when her dearly beloved father
climbed the golden stairs sent in bill to
the executors charging for the time and
trouble she had in nursing him.
The world-famous grapevine at Hamp-
ton Court, the largest in England and sup
posed to be 125 years old. bore nearly 1900
punches of ripe grapes this year. The fruit
was packed in boxes and sent to the Queen.
Half eagles of 1896, 1871, 1898 and 1928
can be sold for from SIS to SIS each. Quarter
eagles of gold issued in 1876, 1897 and 1926 are
valued at SO each. The $50 gold piece of
California commands a premium OF from $40
to sl5.
The total number of lunatics in Eng
land and Wales increases by LOO q year.
Fifteen thousand people go mad every year,
or five out of every TO- 900 people alive in that
country enter an asylum as inmates during
the year.
One of the few women who were privi-
legged to call Mr. Gladstone ''William" died
recently near Liverpool in her S7th year.
She was Mary Anne Mexican, and for more
than half a century she was in the service OF
the Gladstone family.
The points of the compass can be told
frcm trees by the following simple observa-
tions: The side of q tree on which most OF
the moss is found is the north. Ifthe tree
be exposed to the sun the heaviest and long
est limbs will be on the south side.
The passage through the Suez Canal
grows shorter every year. According to the
annual report the average duration is q
hours 81 minutes. some 35 minutes less than
u months ago. This improvements is due to
the electric light enabling the vessels to
continue their voyage at night.
-BellefoEte physicians are reported to
be puzzled over barometrical sort of young
lady OF that place, who is Of the most ami
able and pleasant disposition in clear, sunny
weather, but who gets ugly and morose
when clouds gather, and so unruly before q
big storm that she has 20 be restrained.
The Duke of Portland possesses a col
lection OF newspapers which has no parallel
outside the British Museum. These were
collected by his predecessor, the fifth Duke,
who caused to be filed and bound no fewer
than four sets of all the chief daily and
weekly newspapers, metropolitan and pro-
vincial.
Two English women fought, made up
th cir quarrel, and kissed. Then one of them
caused the arrest Of the other for ASSAULT
and battery. Thereupon the claim was
made that the kiss had cancelled th9 griev-
ance and there could be no cause for action.
The Magistrate has the question under ad-
visement.
MISCELLANEOUS MERRIMENT.
Janet-Why should YOU have informed