Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
The mole is q meteorologist

The mole is q meteorologist
Most spiders have eight eyes although
some species have only six.
The smallest qnadruped in the world is
the pigmy mouse of Siberia.
Three thousand marriages arc performed
every day all over the world.
"A century plant is coming into bloom In
the greenhouse of a London florist.
-Naturalists assert that q healthy swal-
low will devour 6o0o flies every day.
Consumption is more prevalent in Ire
land than in either England or Wales.
Five colored people were baptized in
the Sound at Oak Point, N. u. on Sunday.
In the House of Representatives there
are 20 members who are under 26 years OF
age.
An inmate of Sing Sing prison has
composed a number Of songs, which he
shows to visitors.
"A dishwashing machine in . London
hotel can. with two persons to attend to it,
wash l,000 dishes an hour.
On the Royal Sovereign, the new En-
glish battleship there are 800 electric lights,
connected by 30 miles OF wire.
The speed of the fastest Atlantic
steamer is now greater than that of tho ex.
press trains on Italian railways.
The region about the Dead Sea is ono
Of the hottest places on the globe, and tho
sea Is said to lose 1,OO0, coo tons of water
day by evaporation.
"A company has been formed at Chris
tiana, Norway, to reproduce an exact model
of the old Viking boat that was discovered
some years agO in an ice foe.
A bal Dor, for
short time ago. 1t had gone around the
world after the person to whom it was adj
dressed and bore y postmarks.
The Merchants National Bank of Bal
timore received, the other day, an old con-
tinental $50 banknote. 1t is not known
whether the note is genuine or not.
According to an English scientist, the
red in flowers is a single pigment, soluble in
water and decolorized by alcohol, but
capable Of being restored by the addition Of
Frogs and many fishes suffer no injury
from freezing solid: while, in q few cases,
even warm blooded animals have been re-
stored to life after apparent death from
freezing.
Few people know that there is a kind
of spider which spins no web. 1t is called
"rhe hunting spider" and it's favorite hunt
are exposed to the sun.
If it were possible to cut sections out
of the side of soap bubbles, and then by
some delicate contrfvance handle the pieces.
there would be required $4,000 900 films laid
one upon another TO make pile one inch in
height.
The word "pig" as applied to iron is .
mere play on the word SOW" When iron
is melted it runs off into channel called a
SOW" the lateral branches of which are
called the pigs" Here the iron cools and is
called ''plg Iror."
AT Cahoes, France, the workmen on the
foundations for y convent unearthed large
house of the Colo Roman period the mosaic
floors of which are in place and enough of
the walls TO reveal frescoes in fair state Of
preservation.
In London auction room recently Q
pair of bellows of Italian workmanship
and designed, it is supposed, by Benvenuto
Cellini-was sold for 40 guineas. No such
price has ever been fetched before by any
article of that kind.
The moose in Penobscot county, Maine,
are so accustomed to the train that they
gaze calmly and critically ct the locomotive,
and are not frightened by whistles or Kissing
steam jets. People frequently snCot at them
from the car windows.
One of the smallest women in the world
is the daughter OF Nathan Harris. of Rich
Valley, Va. At the age of 10 she is only
feet 10 inches in height, weighs just 4OH
pounds. and is perfectly natural and whole
some in her ways OF life.
Applications for space in the Electric
ity building at the Worlds Fair aggregate
3ss,000 square feet, while $4,000 feet are
been assigned So 900 feet and several of them
are urgently asking for more.
In some parts of the country, narrow
necked bottles filled with sugar and water
or beer are suspended from the fruit trees
in order to catch the various members of
the insect tribe, which delight in spelling
all the fruit before it mas chance OF getting
ripe.
"A kitten became lodged in the fly
wheel of an engine in Portland, Ore. The
wheel rem for six hours and half The cat
was taken ont nearly lifeless, but recovered
The hy-wheel makes 256 revolutions per
minute and every revolution pussy travelled
II feet.
A strange story comes from Wells
vile, Mo-. where a stroke of lightning about
six years ago. is said to have left ON the
ceiling of q church the image or human
face. Nobody dared to disturb it. and it re-
manned until the recent removal of the
church.
Cats are not the only creatures that en-.
joy plurality oflives; many animals havea
remarkable power of existing while ap-
parently dead. Infusoria have been dried
and restored to life by moistening after re-
manning inert dust for q years. and the dry
ing and resuscitatiOn have been successfully
tried II times on u lot OF rotitiers.
The District of Columbia was formed
OFT of Washington county, Maryland, and
Alexan dria county, Virginia, and the
national Goyernment was removed tn tha
capital in $500. The Virginia portion of the
District was ceded back in l846 Citizens OF
the District of Columbia have no vote for
national officers, and it is governed by Con-
gress.
Every Mussulmsn, however high his
rank, from the Sultan down to the lowest
dervish, is compelled to have a trade. The
of the present Sultan was a
toothpick maker. The boatman, porter or
groom is eligible to the grade of Pasha. The
butcher of to-day may be the Generalissi-
mo OF tomorrow, and the lowest slave may
become Grand YIZer