Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Chicago will erect an aluminium build.
ing.
London houses burn 10000 tons of coal
daily.
The white ants have an army of
solaiers.
-Brooklyn's women's clubs have about
10000 members.
Most of the German papers are owned
and edited by Hebrews.
The Caspian Seq is as long as from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
The best silk hats in the world are
made in the United States.
Biting off the thread when sewing Is
the chief cause of blood poisoning among
women.
In the manufacture of broadcloth there
are IS separate processes through which each
piece must 90.
The beaver is an architect, builder and
woodcutter; he cuts down trees and erects
houses and dams.
I'm order to collect a pound of clover
honey bees must deprive $1,000 clover bios
SONS of their nectar.
"A new substitute for quinine is known
as pumbutano. 1t is an aqueous extract
from root OF u shrub OF that name.
The large, richly furnished salon of
Richard Wagners home at Bayreuth is now
kept closed like s. tomb by his widow.
Pearls inclosed in box containing
piece of the root of the ash are claimed to
never lose one iota OF their pristine beauty.
Twelve years ago there were 20 mining
companies in full blast in the State of Maine.
1t is said that to-day not single one OF
them exists.
"A new variety of wheat. the grains of
which are almost twice as large as the Or
dinary kernels, has been grown this season
near Moscow, Wash.
The $500 sword presented to General B.
NJ. Prentiss, the "hero of Shiloh" was re-
Gently discovered in 3: New York pawnShop
and purchased for Sj5.
Suicide is less common among miners
than any other class of people. and self-de-
struction, strangely enough, is mort pre-
valent among soldiers.
The Pettiiohn family, of Walla Waila,
WASH. consists of ten people who are re-
puted TO average a4i pounds in weight anu
feet q inches i'll height
There are eight soldiers located in
Ireland to one in Scotland, and over 20 boys
in the British army undsr IS years of age
have won the Victorian Cross.
The proDortionate number of births in
fussin ia nearly double that of France, while
the German population increases faster
than that OF any other country.
The first trial of a steamboat with a
screw propeller, the invention of John
Fitch, occurred in New York in 1885, on Col
lect pond, situated where the Tombs Prison
now stands.
"A new scheme for supplying London
with water depends upon II system of wells
in the chalk belt in the Colne Valley, from
which it is said 40, coo gallons day
could be furnished.
The camera shows that the star Vega,
one of the brightest in the northern
heavens. is apparently double star, COM
posed of two suns, each revolving around u
point midway between them.
I'm the south of Europe the rosemary has
long had magic properties ascribed 'to it.
The Spanish ladies used to wear it as an
antidote against the evil eye, and the Portu-
gcse called it the elfin plant, and dedicated
it to the fairies,
Experiments are being tried in Germany
in making horseshoes of u material the chief
constituent of which is paper. Ii is said to
fit the hoof better than the iron shoe, TO be
impervious TO water and to grow rougn
under use, so rs to become safeguard
1t is an odd coincidence that the BIRTH
day OF the Youngest British Home Secretary
and the oldest fall on the same day. Mr..
Asqnith, the present occupant of the post,
has Just reached 40, while Spencer Walpcle,
who was in Lord Derby's first administra-
ton 40 years ago, Is So.
A portable boat has been devised by
Colonel Aposto.off, of the Russian army,
which may be constructed instantly BY max
ing d frame work with the lances OF the Cos
sacksnnd covering with u tarred cloth. Two
boats are capable of carrying thirty-six ruen
with their baggage and arms.
In ancient times Greece possessed some-
thing like 7,5o3, coo acres o: dense forest and
she was comparatively rich in timber until
half century aro. Many forests have now
and the result is seen both in
the scarcity of the water supply and in
various injurious climatic effects.
The chestnut tree thrives best BY the
roadside or at the edge of clearinghouse 50
well in thick woods-and its fruits is there
fore easy to find. II Sussex county, y. j.,
the trees are hardly seen. except on Il mar
row slate ridge, half IL mile wide, that runs
for some miles nearly east and west
Some English lady journalists recently
were desirous OF finding out whether the
people who sang in the streets made good
living. They, therefore, adopted a sufficient
and taking n guitar went forth TO
try their fortunes. After singing and play
ing Tor an hour and half they had collected
IS 411d.
"A giant sunshade, which is intended as
4 present for the Sultan of Morocco has just
been completed at Berlin. The stick, which
Is over "a yards long, IS gilded and richly
The outside of the parasol Is
Of bright green silk with a heavy gold
fringe round it. while the inside is lined
With pale straw color.
The Eskimo traditions are told over
md over again. Every one knows them
word for word, and should the relater omit
Or add q single syllable he would be cor
-ected instantly by some one OF the audi
,nce. Tie relater of the story sits at ore
,ide of the room. and, covering his head,
turns his face toward the wall away from
,he audience before he begins.
The record of the Norrie mine in the
Iogebic range along Lake Michigan entities
t to rank among the superlatives of the
world The output of this mine is lG0O,OO0
ons of high-grade Bessemer ore every year.
some of the shaI Is in the Gogebic mines are
100 feet deep. The nearest competitor OF the
Sorrie mine is the Chaplin pit, in the Me-
nominee range, Michigan, which in 1880 pro-
iuced 669, l92 tons.
PASSANT. II