Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The States contain 46, 900 oil wells.
| Maine has wild land worth SIC, 900, 900
at a low estimate.
| "A protective club Of mother-in-laws has
been organized in London.
The first telegraphic signals passed be-
tween America and Europe in 1858.
The dinner fork was first introduced
into Italy in 431, and in England in 1908.
Emanuel Swedenborg's "Arcana Gales
tia" was printed when the author was 81
There are 800 mountains in the United
States, each exceeding TO- 600 feet in height.
"A box turtle has been caught in
Rhode Island that is supposed to be 15o years
old.
Gloucester, Mass, will celebate its
two hundred and fftieth anniversary on
August "A.
For every four shilIings spent in Eng
land on drink, only halfpenny is expended
on education.
of the population in the United States
in 1890 1906, $50 were males and 30. .554, $40
were females.
The law of conscription makes every
able-bodied Italian liable to military service
from the age of 20 to 49,
M. Garvin, Camden, claims to have the
tallest sunflower stalk in New Jersey. 1t Is
more than IL feet in height.
West Chester, Pa, has a curiosity in
the shape of a woman who possesses a col
lection of the teeth of her relatives.
The railway companies of the United
Kingdom pay S35O0 a day as compensa-
tion for injuries done to passengers.
-Artesian wells were known at Thebes as
90 tt,a of q
before the beginning of the Christian era.
-Four of the five men that constitute
the Democratic Committee at Hickory
Mountain township N. c., weigh 1,0ls
pounds.
"A Philadelphia toy dealer made the
shocking discovery that nearly 100 of his
best wax dolls had melted during the recent
hot waves.
According to the United States statis-
tics farm land in New Jersey is rated at an
average OF s65 per acre, the highest OF any
State in the Union.
The pension agency in Topeka is the
largest in the country. IL pays out annu-
ally sl5000,OCO to the veterans of Kansas.
Missouri and Colorado
Seven of the Is Revolutionary widows
in the United States live in one Tennessee
pension district, and four of them bear the
I'm the Boulevard st. Germain, in Paris,
you can drop small sou into slot in a cir
cular column publicly situated, press but
ton and catch eight quarts OF hot water in q
pail.
Madame Sara Bernhardt is devoted to
dogs. Her favorite is a small Skye terrier,
given her by Georges Hugo. Every day it is
fed on the breast of chickens and the legs of
quafls.
"A Partisan electrician has succeeded in
forcing violets by the aid of his battery, and
recently sent bunch of these fiedglings,
only four hours old, to the ex-Empress
Eugenie.
st. Louis will have an attractive feat
ure during the Worlds Fair celebration in
the shape of an immense illuminated globe
with the different continents, etc, painted
on its surface.
BY judicious marketing the South
Carolina melon growers have made the $50
carloads which they shipped this year pay
them S7l,5OO, twice as much as they received
for ]. 169 carloads shipped last year.
The 15-inch aerial torpedo thrower,
now introduced as British service weapon
for coast Defense resembles in appearance
powder gun, having the axis of its trun-
mons at or near the center of gravity of the
barrel.
The Shakespeare trustees have pur-
chased the Ann Hathaway cottage for sl5-
600. Its previous owner, a Hneal descendant
OF the Hathaway family, inherited it from
his father, who bought it for about s, 700 30
years ago.
The ''waxftter" in Queen Victoria's
household arranges the candles on the dim
ner table, for which he draws ECO a year,
but he does not light them. The duty is
performed by two lamphghters, drawing q
salary of E1O0 each. 10 s'"71
"A ST. Louis man describes the honey
moon as "that state of ecstatic idiocy that
will cause Supreme Court Judge to shin
up shellbark hickory in his bathing suit to
harvest hornets nest for his Innocent
little tootsie wootsie."
"A strange custom is followed by Mexi-
can farmers. They use oxen of one color in
the morning, and another color in the after
noon. They do not know why; but they
know that it must be the right thing to do,
because their forefathers did it.
Mrs Ferdinand Clayton, of Marion,
Ind, owDs a peculiar bird brought to this
country seven years ago from Africa 1t has
beautiful plumagc, is not a songster, and 10
noted for its combative and vindictive
1t is called the ''mue'' or
"widow bird"
The rate of progression of storm is
often so miles an hour, and a series has
often been traced in direct line from north
to south q distance of 400 miles. The aver
age altitude of thunder storms has been
found to be not more than 500 feet above the
surface of the earth
The French Order of the Legion of
Honor at present counts no less than 5000
members, of which number Il, ,458 are civil
ans. OF grand crosses, including ID civil
members, there are SO; the grand officers and
number 1,400 the officers, in
cluding the army, 5000.
The city of Paris makes much of its
shade trees. The transplanting of largo
srees is done there with perhaps greater
success than anywhere else. 1t is now pro-
posed to make an official inspection of all
the trees in the city, with the view of re-
moving those that are not healthy and SUBJ
trees that are.
"A photographer in the Tyrol madesa
negative of ten tourists against back
ground of pine woods. When he developed
the plate faithful presentment Of large
pear in the act of making for the denser
timber appeared in the edge of the forest.
Neither the man with the camera nor any OF
hose in the group had known that the brute
vas near.
JOLLYIsMS FROM JUDGE.
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