Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

CUklOUS CONUENSATlUNS
One hundred and seventy different spe-
oies of bees are natives Of Great Britain.
There are 700 Illinois farmers who have
accumulated fortunes Of from $4,000 to
ESQ 900.
There Is now gambling nickel-in-the-
slot machine. Sometimes three nfckels drop
out and sometimes none.
OF the total working expenses Of the
railways over so per cent goes in various
ways to the wage earners.
In one of the great Paris hospitals, out
Of So patients who suffered from epilepsy 80
were found to be the children Of drunken
parents.
1t is said that certain lady of Madi.
son, Fla, ate II catfish recently for supper,
Her husband, not to lose his prestige, ate
three more than she.
The last execution for forgery in Eng
land took place at the Old Bailey. on De-
cember 81, 1929. The name of the convict
was Thomas Maynard.
"A citizen of Moberly, Mo-, has curl
GUS collection. He has a slipper 70 years ole, ,
Bible and n trunk each 100 wears old. and a
razor hone 800 years old
In the DAYS when wigs and powder
W0To laSuIOudDlo, ldoleo are 6alQ TO nave
paid as much as e200 for having their hair
dressed for special OF state occasions
Several medical journals assert that the
young women of the present day are better
developed physically taller, plumper,
stronger and healthier than the young wom-
en- OF 80, 100. 15O or 200 years ago.
Because q coloreG minister at Yonkers
continued to preach to his congregation
after it was claimed his resignation had been
accepted, he was arrested on charge of dis
orderly conduct at the instance of some Of
the members.
The natives of Vera Cruz do large
trade in frefies, which they catch by wav-
ing O blazing coal ut the end OF stick. The
insects fly toward the light, and are CAP
tured in nets.
"A Massachusetts paper declares that q
Natick shoemaker walked to Boston and
home, pursuing his trade on the way, and
brought back with him nearly S100 in cash
and wife he had wcoed and won on the
way.
The American three-masted schooner
Wyer G. Sargent, which was abandoned OF
Hatteras on March 81, 1881, has drifted more
than 5000 miles since that date, and has be-
come famous among North Atlantic dere-
licts.
Influenza has commenced in England
some eight times in the autumn, six times
in the spring, twice in the early summer,
and twice in winter. 1t certainly does not
appear malariai or particularly prevalent in
marshy districts.
Belfast clans are proverbially good,
says the Belfast Journal, and their reputa-
tiol extends far beyond the State. One Of
tho dertvations Of the Indian name of our
RIVER, Passagassawakeag is "the great clam
clear, OF shallow water place."
According to recent reckoning,
human being, OF either sex. who Is . moder-
ate eater, and who lives to be 70 years old,
consumes during "the days of the years Of
his life" a quantity OF food which would I'LL
20 ordinary railway luggage vans.
There is no literary Institution to COM
pare with that of the French Society of Men
of Letters. Its property is worth from
gent members Its expenditure last year
was about f20,OO0 about e, 700 less than the
receipts.
There were on British pastures last year
nearly 20 900, 900 sheep and lambs, showing an
advance OF nearly o million and a half over
the number in 1880 Our total sheep stock
last year, moreover, exceeded by 8, 100000 head
the focks Of two years ago, and by more than
4, ,000, 900 the hocks OF ISL
Ivory is sensitive to weather. E1-
posure to cold soon cracks It and renders
billiard balls untrue. They are easily
knocked out of shape too, II not well sea-
soned or not veil made. The center OF the
tusk should go through the center OF the
ball to preserve best true spherical form.
The last census shows 3,715 towns in
the United States with population of more
than 900. There are cities with more than
400 o0O inhabitants; 81 between 100 900 and
ACC, 900: 80 between so, 900 and 10000 6S over
20, 600 and under $4,000; 90 over II, 900 and
under 25,o00, and 13s over 10000 and under
Il, 900.
Dutch military cycling volunteers have
to pass a real examination before they are
for the maneuvers, but when
passed they get forins q day, frst-class
fare travelling, and are lodged as officers at
the expense of the State. They have to be
able to ride 63 miles in seven hours and 81
miles in two hours and a half.
1t is stated that there has been dis.
covered in the forests of India a strange
plant, which possesses, to a very high de-
gree, astonishing magnetic power. The
hand which breaks leaf from it Immediately
receives shock equal to that which is pro-
duced by the conductor of an indication coil
The energy of this singular influence varies
with the hour OF the day.
When Herbert Sprague, of Bangor,
went to bed the other night he carried to his
room bull terrier pup. At midnight Sprague
snored, and the dog scratched his face to
awake him. Sprague cuffed the dog, where
upon the animal, with true terrier instinct,
seized his master by the nose and shook him
As he would rat. The dog is dead now, and
Sprague's nose has lost much of its beauty.
The phrase ga hair of the dog that bit
you, though now confined to symbolic and
alcoholic Interpretation, has an accurately
canine origin. In the Caucasus it is still
common for anyone who is bitten by a dog
TO lay handful of hair, taken from the
same animals coat, upon the wound before
and bandaging it. In somo
mystic way the hair is supposed to prevent
consequences.
Experiments in instantaneous photog-
,aphy have proved to us that the shots not
,nly spread out, comet-like, as they fly, but
hey string out one behind the other to q
much greater distance than they spread.
Thus, with cylinder gun, when the first
hot of charge reaches q target that is 40
,ards away, the last shot is tagging along
o yards behind. Even with the chokebore
.un some OF the shot will lag behind yards
n 40.