Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Uncle Sam has 8, s,955, ,s12 dwellings.
"A man in Vermont has an aluminium
nose.
The Isle of Guernsey exacts tax from
all aliens.
One thousand American misses ara
studying art in Paris.
The University of Pennsylvania has
established hospital for sick dogs.
Sparks from amber and other electrical
substances were mentioned by Pliny, A. D.
20.
I'm France 8,079 patents were granted
for electrical improvements during the past
year.
"A mill owner in Alabama only allows
Independents Democrats to fish in his mill
pond.
"A clock that can talk has been in
vented by q matchmaker in Geneva, s,switser.
land
The clay of Alden, in Arabia, has been
visited by rain but twice in the last 70
years.
-Xenophon is supposed to have finished
the "Ketreat OF the Tnousand' at about the
age or so.
Nearly three-fourths of the fires in the
United States last year was the result Of the
upseting or explosion of lamps.
The people of the United States read
and support as many newspapers as Eng.
land, France ana Germany combined.
"A Kansas newspaper man wrote q COM
munication to a rival editor calling him an
ass, and then signed it yours fraternally."
"A recent report shows that of 100, ,l74
regular soldiers in the British army serv-
ing at home, but 1893 are natives of Ire
land.
"A tulip show has been held annually at
the Orange Tree Inn, Butley, small village
near Macclesfeld, England, for the past 81
years.
"A number of Brooklyn's wealthy men
have raised a fund to build church in New
York where services will be held for deaf
mutes.
An eminent scientist has discovered
that in shape and general appearance the
head of Turk is most like tine head of an
American.
The weeds on the monitor Monadnock,
which vessel has been lying for some time
past at the Mare Island dockyard, were
found the other day to be from to Il inches
long.
Numerous experiments to determine
the best ire-resisting materials for the con-
struction of doors, proved that wood COW
cred with tin resisted the fire better than an
iron door.
The seasons nominally and according
to the calendar begin as follows: Spring,
March 20, at 8 A NJ; summer, June D, IL P NJ:
autumn, September p, P. NJ; winter, De-
cember 81, A. NJ.
An Indiana stone quarry company is
having life size figure of an elephant CHS
eled out of solid block OF stone. 1t will be
II feet high and weigh 80 tons. 1t is designed
for the Worlds Fair.
The latest form of steamship propeller
is an English invention. 1t is designed so that
when in motion there Is no weight OF water
on the blades on the rise and fall of the pro-
peller, due to the pitching of the vessel.
An ingenious Frenchman has invented
a contrivance for removing the hair by ma
chinery. 1t is said that it operates with as
great precision as DR.. Guillotin's, and does
not remove so much Of the man with the
hair.
Three Roman graves were found by
workmen near Hagneau. in Alsace, Germany,
a short time ago, in good condition. Each
grave contained Roman warriors skele-
ton, his arms, armor and many Roman
coins.
AT Colmar a lawyer bequeathed the
sum of 100 900 francs to the madhouse in that
locality. al earned this money" said he in
his will, "from those who spent their hfe-
time in lawsuits. This legacy is only q
restitution"
The oldest armchair in the world is the
throne once used By Queen Hatafu, who
fiourished in Egypt 1900 B. C. 1t is made OF
ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hardened
with age as to appear to be carved from
black marble.
Photography has determined the cause
of the recent glacial avalanche in the Alps.
1t was hydraulic pressure beneath and be-
hind the glacier. produced by masses of ice
falling into connecting water above and at
q considerable distance.
1t is not generally known that an
orange hit in the exact center by q rifle ball
will vanish at once from sight Such, how
ever, is the fact. Shooting it through tho
center, scatters it in such infinitcs1mal
pieces that it is at once lost to sight.
Oregon was a name formerly given to an
imaginary river of the West. Carver, an
American traveller, mentions It in 1853. In
describing the river he evidently confound-
ed 1t with the Missouri, but the name was
finally applied to the present State Of that
name.
Perfectly preserved salt fish, probably
10. 900 years old, are found in Nevada, Utah
and Arizona, where salt strata are often
struck in making excavations 100 yards be-
meath the surface. These fish resemble the
pike and pickerel. and are wholly unlike the
living fish found in the same region
AT the recent conversations of the
Royal Society, DR.. Gill projected on the
screen Photographic star map, containing
the images Of about a. 900 stars. AS every
star is a sun, we may infer therefrom some
thing concerning the immensity OF the
scale on which the university Is established.
1t is estimated that in the United
States the annual expenditure for public
charitable institutions IS fully sls5 000, COO
and not less than s5O0, 100000 is invested in
buildings and equipments for carrying on
the work of these institutions In this estf-
mate no account is taken Of penitentiaries
and jails.
"A woman recently made her two hun
dred and forty y-eighth appearance in . Lon
don Police Court. accused of being drunk
and incapable. She pleaded that she had
found it a long time between drinks, having
come out of prison on the previous day after
q months confinement. The magistrate
took the same view and discharged her.
The best lockwood comes from the Cau-
casus, hitherto Turkish territory, but taken
py Russia Since 1879 some OF the forests
have been closed and others denuded OF the
tree. At that time Qs79), in Persia, a wood
was discovered similar to the Turkish or
A Abasian lockwood, and as much as 5000 tons
have, in some years, been imported from
that country.
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDoM.
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