Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

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Nearly 20, 900 horses are imported int
England yearly.
Germany sells $40, 900, 900 worth of toy
| in England annually.
The people of Bengal lately shot
leopard credited with destroying la ma
| sons.
Last week in Tarboro, N. c., two men
aged Is and 81 years, were arrested for ste.
ing hog.
"A tiny electric light. attached to per
Gil, enables French reporters to take note
in the dark.
Boston has colored Samson, who, it
said, once lifted three tons of iron clear fro,
the ground.
Eighteen ninety-one saw the first il
crease in the export of Chinese tea that hs
occurred in ten years.
The collections at the parish church {
st. Mary, Kensington. in England, for th
past year exceeded $4,000.
-Two-thirds of the total numb.r of chi
dren under 10 years of age in the Urdte
Kingdom are insured in one form or a.
other.
In the schools of Cambridge CITY, Ind.
Uurln& The IaSt year, tOeTo were uFe pall
OF twins, one set OF tripless aud a -7-fear-oJ
boy weighing lis pounds.
There are hermits in China who tear OF
their eyes in order, they say, that by clos1r
the two gates of love they may open IL
thousand gates OF wisdom.
If there was but one potato in IL
world a careful cultivator might produt
10 900 900 900 from it in ten years, and tn,
would supply the world with seed again.
Dean Swift proposed to tax female Low.
liness, and to have each lady rate her ow
charms, saying, "The tax would be chez
fully paid and would prove very produ.
tive"
Prior to 1866 the horses of Englan
were never shod, William the Conquerc
being the person who is given the creditc
Introducing horseshoeing into the BIRTHS
Isles.
On August Mars will arrive at poi
directly opposite the earth; which it reach
but once in every Is years. when the distant
will be reduced from IA, 900 600 to $4,000
miles.
Six hospitals have been founded fc
women by women physicians in Philade
phia, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Fra
cisco and Minneapolis, all of which are su
ceSsiul.
-Accrington, England, is more given
sports than to churchsoing. A recent Su
days census showed that out of a popul
tion of sc, 900 over 81, 600 did not attend diviI
service that night.
There are in London $50 common lod
ing houses, which have nearly so 900 inha
itants. In these warrens are about es
women and girls, and of this number son
4,6O0 are under the age of q
Gold was probably the first metal di
covered and used. 1t was mined in Egyl
and we'll known in the Eastern Empires 18
years u. c. 1t was doubtless known an
used in India many hundred years befoI
this period
New Yorkers have formed societ
with branches in Philadelphia and 9TH
American cities, for the suppression of ii
"intolerable annoyance created by the fr
quent noisy changing of inharmonioI
church bells"
Bank holidays were first established
statute passed in the year 1s7L The holida.
were at first only intended to relieve bank
but were subsequently extended to custom
inland revenue offices, ETC., and now we net
hardly say that they have become almo
universal.
"A man living in Minneapolis has S.
worth of wooden legs and arms and wea
them all himself His left arm and bothle
are gone, and all but the stump of thun
on his right hand. Yet he can write a go,
hand, gets about briskly and do more bu
ness than many whole man.
In ancient times Greece possessed som
thing like 1900, 900 acres of dense forest, 81
she was comparatively rich in timber un
half q century ago. Many forests'f1av nc
disappeared, and the result is seen both
the scarcity of the water supply and in va
ious injurious climatic effects.
On taking off the roof of house ne
Cambridge, which had been on fire, 1t
found that q quantity of straw had be-
carried by birds between the roof and
ceiling, and this had been ignited fron
hole in the chimney. Altogether the bir
had taken up three or four sacks of rubbis
Many of the dwellers of the deep Sc
have no eyes, and are, therefore. unafrect
by the total absence of light. which is one
the characteristics of great ocean depti
Others besides having from one to 100 eyt
carry torches of phosphorescent light, whit
nature has kindly provided for the deniZeI
-of the deep.
Woodstock and Worcester leath,
gloves are of ancient celebrity. In the Mi
die Ages the giving glove was ceremoI
of investiture in bestowing lands and digr
ties In England. in the reign of Edwal
IL, the deprivation of gloves was Il Ger
mony of degradation. The importation
foreign gloves into England was not pc
mitted till 1875.
Electricity has been recently applied
establish the state of q horses foot. Usas
is to put one pole of q battery in conta
with the inside of the hoof, the other po
in contact with the iron shoe. If the ho
has been pierced with a nail TO the quic
the horse will feel the electric current an
become irr1tated in the other case, the Gu
rent cannot pass through the foot.
"A novel plan for training trotting hors
is being tried in San Teancho, Col. Instes
of trotting them around track they
made to swim around course in tank
feet long, 20 feet wide and feet Deep tt
water Is tepid and strongly imuregnati
with salt to prevent the horse from takiT
cold. Four times around the course Civ
the horse as much exercise as mile OF tr6
ting.
1t is reported from Santa Fe, N. NJ
that in excavsting some ancient Aztec ru1'
near Chaco canon Governor Prince has
earthed 10 stone idols of different tyi
from any before discovered. They are C
cular in shape, forming disks varying fro
to Is inches in diameter, the upper ha
con tanning a deeply carved face and q
lower half rudimentary- arms in relief III
idols are believed to be at least 600 years o.
sHREDs AND PATCHES.