Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

CUhlUUS OUNUENCd1lVNC1
The kaiak of the Arctic region is the
most seaworthy small boat in existence.
The tusks of the walrus and seahorse
form but a small part Of the worlds ivory
product.
The name of the Postmaster General Of
Siam is Lomdetch Phra Chon Nong Va Thor
Shah Fa Bahaumangsi Swanguvusga Kooma
Araph aunbhaddaroongasee Vavadey-
. Captain Baker, an engineer in the
British service, published book in 1877
which clearly proved, to his mind at least,
that the end Of the world would como on
September 20, 1878.
"A Washington man has mounted .
strange shaped deer head. 1t is said to be a
cross between a cariboo and q blacktafl 1t
presents a novel appearance, being different
from the ordinary deer head.
Portland, Ore, used to be quite center
for collecting furs, but year by year, as the
country is settled up, the fur-bearing AMI
mails grow more scarce and the amount Of
furs marketed here become less
"A Marion county, Ia, physician is the
owner of remarkable human monstrosity
a male child, 16 inches long, weighing nine
and one-lalf pounds, its head the perfect
counterpart Of that of some gigantic serpsnt
Beach, Block Island, discovered the hip
bones of some gigantic species of extinct
animal. The combined weight of the two
bones generally speaking, the sacrum Is
called a single bone), was nearly 500 pounds.
The hydraulic railroad now daily
operated in Paris consists of four carriages,
or car, each having capacity of % passen-
gers The train runs as smoothly as boat
on water There are no wheels, no steam,
M AnnarantlY evervtlin0
moves Of own accord
I'm a cave in the Pantheon the guide, by
striking the flaps of his coat makes a noise
equal to that pIoduced by firing a l2-pound
cannon In the cave ofSmellin, near Viborg,
Finland, stone thrown down certain
abyss makes q reverberating echo which
sounds like the dying wall of some wild
animal.
The coolest region in the United States
lies along the northern border of Mime
sofa, between the southern point of the
Lake of the Woods and the Dakota bor-
der. The temperature along that line often
falls as low as 80 degrees below Zero In
1873 the instruments at Pembina registered
from Sc to 60 below.
William Miller, the founder of Seventh
Day Adventist faith, figured on the prophe-
cies of Daniel and John until he finally
decided that the world would come to an
end in 1913. Some of his followers had even
selected the day upon which the great event
would occur, going so far as to make "ascen-
sion robes' for the occasion.
There are about 5000 varieties of post
age stamps row used by the different nations
of the world. The museum of the Berlin
postoffice alone contains a collection of be-
tween 1000 and 500 different specimens of
these little colored pastors. Half of this
number are European stamps, the remainder
divided between America, Asia, Africa and
Australia.
"A section of roadway under the gate
leading to the departure platform of the st.
Pancras terminus, London, has for some
years past been paved with India rubber,
and many people must have been pleas
antly surprised at the deadening of sound
when passing over it on wheels and at the
grateful elasticity to the tread when travers-
ing it on foot.
One of the hottest regions in the United
States is along the line of the Southern Pacific
Railroad in Arizonia- At Bagdad, in that
Territory, the thermometer has been known
to stand as high as 140 in tho shade Tor days
in succession. The ticket agent at Ba9dad
says that he has seen the mercury standing
at l2s on the cool side of the depot building
at midnight.
In many countries of the world, most
especially in England, France and Ger
many, not only the peasants, but the mid
die classes and the mobiles believe that bees
are curiously and mysteriourly connected
with the veal or woe OF the human family
in general. 1T is a common saying in all the
English shires that bees do not "do we'll
when the redcoats are engaged in wars
abroad.
A "good eater" may require as many as
80 cars to carry luggage for the inner man
sufficient to last his lifetime, but what those
people would require who are always
rrvhO ST m
tents and purposes, bOttomless pits, the
statiStfcian is unable to indicate further
than by pointing out that not only special
engines, but probably special lines, would
have to be built which their special
trains might run at will
If one potato would produce, when
planted, only a crop of ten potatoes, in ten
years the total product of this one potato
would be equal to 10 900, 900. which would
be sufficient TO restock the whole world with
the seed. The real value of that single
potato, then, would be such that it would be
better that the city of New York or Chicago
(Philadelubia-never) should be totally
blotted off OF the face OF the world than that
one tuber should be lost to mankind.
The Victoria Colonia SAYS there arrived
in town five young men who are all sons of
Northern Indian chiefs. Three of them are
skilled jewellers, and all have with them
large stocks of native trinkets, costly and
They have brought down. in ad-
dition to their ordinary goods, new style OF
Indian ring, which recently seemed to be
the cause of great deal of curiosity and adj
among their friends on the reserva-
ton. The innovation consists of plated
circle OF silver and bear skin.
"A Detroit man has a novel walking cane
that represents the work of odd hours every
day for six weeks. 1t is made of old postage
stamps of various denominations and six
n Observation-Disclosures a States. Canadian, Eng
lisb. French. German and Italian. 1t took
OLA stamps to make the cane. The face
value OF tie stamps was sl0O The surface of
the cane when the stamps were all on. was
filed smooth and finished until It glazed
heavy gold knob completes one of the hand
soonest and most unique canes ever seen in
Detroit.