Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are 10000 parishes in Engla
with only church schools.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are said
be the only fish that never sleep.
Ten thossand lead toy soldiers {
turned out in Nuremberg every day.
A 11O-ton gun can fire two shot
minute, each discharge costing sl,S75.
Waterproof umbrellas made of paI
are coming into very general use in Paris.
Last year 5000, 900 books were issu
to the people OF London from free librari
The cemeteries of London cover 2,
acres. and the land they occupy represeI
a capital of 100000.
Fourteen logs, each 16 feet long, W,
cut from one sugar pine tree, felled last W
ter in the Sierra Mountains.
One of the attractions of the forthco
ing Chicago Exhibition is to be pyran
of 400 pianos connected by electricity
manipulated by one woman.
japanese iugglers are deft smoke
Several of them will sit before curta
and from the tobacco smoke which issr
from their mouths, will form succession
readable letters.
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad, n
York, carries, it is claimed, 100000 pass
gers daily. At this rate, years to
would amount to 49,, 500, 900. and at see
fares the receipts would be So. l25,OOO.
To secure regular attendance at Divi
service Presbyterian church in Lancast
decided to give a medal to each person W
attended all the services throughout
year. Last year the sexton was the OF
person who won medal.
A committee of the Manchester On. I
Central Church is going to set aside one
its horse sheds for the use of bicycle
Quite a number of the congregation II
to and from the church on cycles on Su
day as well as during the week.
Bees are said to have such an antipatl
to dark-colored objects that black chicke
have been stung to death, while white on
of the same brood were untouched, and
man in black high hat is rarely stung,
, account of the attention the bees give
the hat.
Santa Barbara Island, off the coast
yentma county, Cal, is uninhabited save
cats, and millions of them are said to thri
there The island is entirely given over
them and how they exist is somewhat OF
mystery. 1t is thought, however, tnat the
cats live upon fish.
Cabbage has always been said to be
cure for intoxication. The Egyptians a
boiled cabbage before their other food
they intended TO drink wine after dinnt
and some of the remedies sold as Il p
ventive of intoXication on the contine
contain cabbage seed.
The business of supplying the menage
les and geological gardens of the world wi
wild animals is mainly in the hands of 70
men-Hagenbeck, of Hamburg; Reiche,
Altfeld, near Hanover: Jahrach, OF Londc
and Cross, OF LIVERPOOL. Their best cusi
mer Is probably the London Zoo.
CYRUS w. FIELD, emaciated almost tc
skeleton, and suffering from extreme ne
GUS prostration, lies in critical conditi'
physicians in attendance say that his dea
at any moment would not surprise theJ
MI. Field now weighs only IS pounds.
According to telephone authority, Il
easiest language for telephoning is Chimes
1t is principally monosyllables, and is paC
up OF simple rising and falling infection
German, it seems, is not as bad a langua,
for telephoning as might be thought. Frent
is not bad, but it is almost as sibllant
English.
"A Harrisburg, Pa, boy sent up in
balloon on the Fourth of July last yeaI
bottle with his name and address in it, 1
questing the finder to return it to hii
About ten days ago the bottle was picked
by a gentleman on the shore of Lake SUP
rior, near Duluth, Mimi, who immediate
forwarded it to the lad.
-Shoplifting by women is said to !
alarmingly on the increase in Paris, so mu'
so that the Justices have been instructed
be less lenient in future with rich wome
and to punish so-called kleptomania as siI
pie theft. OF Is arrests made recently in
single day, IL were women; foYf we
wealthy, and all were in comfortable C
cumstanceS.
There is a wonderful piece of mechanls
in tie United States Government Mint
the shape of the scales for weighing the go
coin. Two pieces of paper of equal weig
have been placed upon the balances, and {
one being removed and an autograph in lef
pencil inscribed on it,and the sheet replace
on the scales, the second piece has bet
found to outweigh the other.
"A box containing 10000 was four
near Payne, Ind, a day or two ago. A seve
storm had passed over this section and u
rooted a number of trees. Three young me
while examining the hole made by the u
roofing of large oak tree, noticed Il
corner of n box protruding from the ear
and on opening it found, besides the aboN
value in money, many rare coins of foreie
make.
A lady living in Norwich, Conn.,, abol
a month ago set dozen eggs under sma
bantam hen, but she could not cover all .
them, and, as the rooster was very attentiN
and set on the eggs while the hen was o
three were taken from the nest ana given :
him in q separate one. In due time
Matched three chickens, and is now paradiI
about with his family, taking better care :
them than even u hen could.
Considerable ingenuity is displayed b
a New York firm of engrayers and make.
of novelties in the form of a letter markt
personal" inclosing a faded rosebud wit
its leaves and the FIRMS card, with this no
in a girls handwriting: "Take back II
flower thou gavest. / love you no longe
All my affection is given to MeSsrs. So-ant
So because they do such beautiful printin:
L am no longer yours."-Maude-"
There is now on exhibition in Philade
phia gigantic tarpon and a splendid spec
men OF the silver king about six feet
length and weighing l25 pounds. 1t W;
taken at Fort Meyers, Fla, on a fine No.
Russian hemp line with a Nos 10 rinSe
O'Shaughnessy hook and with slngl
jointed bamboo rod. The fish jumped clea
out of the water six different times, an
took an hour and 25 minutes to bring him
gaff.
The automatic fortune telling machine
in railway stations and at street corners
New York and London have been turne'
into a new form of gambling. 1t will be IT
membered that the faces of these machine
are covered with variously colored triangle;
They are, in brief. handy roulette tables
and certain people have taken to droppln
a penny in the slot and betting upon wba
colored triangle the finger of the Gipsy gil
will rest.
LIFTINGS FROM LIFE.
Young Mr.. Fiddleback-1s Miss RedbuI