Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

| "A neW-SnapeQ eufclOpe Is SedleQ 0y
postage stamp.
"A genuine Irish village will be re,
sented at the Worlds Fair.
AN undertaken in Port Jervis assis
at the recent lynching there.
The British Museum has Chinese
printed about 1868. the oldest on record.
| "A town in Missouri of 1, 200 inhabit
is said to have over 5000 dogs. Nice tow
which to dwell.
1t is proposed by means of RATS or
toons to float the heaviest ships over
! shallow places of canals.
"A Florida boy is making map of
State, each county being a separate piec
native wood, for the Worlds Fair.
"A grand bazaar is to be held in G.
ireland, on the ed of June. One OF
prizes will be ia return ticket to Chicago
The Chief Judge in German East All
has sentenced II Arabs to be hanged
holding slave market within his territ
London has A theaters, with capa
for seating 10000 spectators. 1t music I
and other places of entertainment mum
AIS. with capacity of more than &c co.,
"A paper just issued by the Eng
Parliament shows that the number of
grants who left Irish ports in 1891 was 50
Of this number 81, ,273 came to this COUNT
"A Massachusetts man has invente,
recording device for scales. Upon a 70
is placed piece of paper, upon wi
a marker records the weighings of the SC
as desired.
"A test of plowing by steam power
soon be made near Garden City, Kan.
field locomotive with an attachment
gang plows will be used, and the engine
have a power of 40 horses. Fifty acres a
can be broken. Only two men are requ
to run the machine.
1t the trial of horse thief in Pho
A. T., recently, the prisoner rose at the
clusion of the testimony and asked
Judge to instruct the jury to bring in
dict of guilty without leaving their sc
He was accommodated.
Two California inventors have dev
a toll collecting apparatus for telephone
consists of the usual coin-in-the-slOt dev
with the addition of clockwork appara
that automatically cuts out the teleph
when the time for talk has expired.
"A new instrument that possesses v;
and novelty is speculum for e1amin
horses mouths. 1t is the invention of
Illinois man, and consists of bit br
enough to keep the horses mouth open
an arrangement of refiectors to detern
easily the condition of the throat and mo
The French are amazed that the Eng
should have built the Royal Sovereign, tl
biggest fronclad, in two years snd a !
The Neptune and Magenta, two Ere
ships. have been twelve wears build
The Messrs. Yarrow lately offered to bui
small vessel i'll 80 days.
A clockmaker of Warsaw will send
the Chicago Worlds Fair clock repres
ing a railway station, in which all the
cumstances of the arrival and departure
train, with whistles, bells, rattle of CO
ages, and so forth, are repeated with v
derful fidelity every quarter-hour.
The British ship Berean, which rece,
made the voyage from Tasmania arc
Cape Horn to England, encountered q
markable but not unusual phenomenon
sea. viz: A storm of dust. Fine dust fal
on vessels in the Atlantic near the Cape
Verde Islands has often been reported.
Tho Crystal Palace in London GOV
an area of 603,672 square feet, is 1,6Os
long by 3s4 feet wide; height H7 feet, and
Guiding the grounds, it covers 2s9 acres
land. The glass used weighed 500 tons,
an area of 25 acres, and if the panes
laid singly end to end thev would extenC
the enormous length of 243 miles
"A novel invention is bran packer
the use of millers who do large exI
business and to whom economy Of spaC
desirable. The apparatus consists OF
aucur working in the funnel that fills
bag. 1t Constantly revOlveS, at the Sc
time having an up and down motion.
the down stroke it forces the bran into
sack, packing it solidly at the same time.
"A correspondent writes to an agri'
tural journal that during the reuova
some old railroad ties on the line of
Windsor and Annapolis Railroad in n
Scotia, large garter snake with Young
discovered Immediately on being attac
she opened her mouth and the young sn:
took refuge therein. The mother was
killed and 36 young ones taken from
stomach.
The London County Council have pas
this resolution: "That all contractors
compelled to sign a declaration that
paw the trade union rate of wages and
serve the hours of labor and conditions
cognized by the London trades unions.
that the hours and wages be inserted in
form part of the contract by way of sched
and that penalties be enforced for
breach OF agreement
The French appropriations for 1898
be CAS- 900, 900 francs for the army and $50,
OOO francs for the navy. Ninety-elght
vessels are in course of construction
which eight ironclads are to be fms
next year. Twenty-One new cruisers vii
launched by 1896. Sixtytwo torDedo be
are to he built and the Bank of France
l.447, GOO, 600 francs in gold in its vaults; N
than any other European nation.
Probably the oldest known specin
of recorded language in the world to-day
the inscriptions on the door-sockets
brick-stamps found at Niffer by the B.
lonian Exploration Expedition of the
yer>ity of Pennsylvania, which has rece
returned. The brick-stamps. which are
yellow clay, about four by five inches,
an inch in thickness, bear the name
titles OF King Sargon and his son Narlm-
who lived about $500 B. c.
"A good-looking, well-to-do and pt
lar Young bachelor of Silverton was b.
teased by the young ladies of club for
getting married. He said: "I'll marry
girl of your club whom, on secret
you elect to be my wife" Each girlV
into a corner and used great caution IN
pairing her ballot and disguised the ht
writing. The result of the vote was
there were nine votes cast, each girl rec
ing one. The young man remains Dacnt
the club is broken up and the girls ar
mortal enemies.
. While walking over newly-plo
field at Barnegat, N j., recently three 70
white eggs one inch in diameter and ha'
a thick, rough skin, were found In
same field and about 200 yards from the
find, seven more were picked up, Wh
when placed side by side with the OF
three. could not be distinguished from tn
These eggs were placed in box of sand
in two DAYS time there were Matched Sc
small whitisI snakes as lively as ever Sc
Several days after the rest of the eggs
Matched, but in these were founo 81
turtles.