Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

AT the end OF 1889 Belgium numbered
6,093, ,79S inhabitants.
"A scientist is said to have discovered
an insect with Ii, 900 eyes.
Liverpool is POI miles distant from
London by the shortest railway.
The New York Central Railroad has 70
women employed as station agents.
The quantity of coal carbonized per
year in the United Kingdom is l0.6oo.OOO tons.
The Mohommedans Of India number
no less than 5O,OOOOOO of Her Majesty's sub
jects.
The latest idea in Boston weddings is to
have the pulpit draped TO match the brides
costume.
Berlin drank in 1889 269, 247, 100 quarts
of beer-that is about $50 quarts to every man,
woman and child
kid, reindeer skin and Russia leather
are much used for trimming LADIES' shooting
and travelling dresses.
"A New York Italian fruit vender has
"Chois Kaliforny Craps"
The wonderfully cosmopolitan city Of
New York IS said to number 800 native Armen-
ians among its population.
In a biographical dictionary of Russian
to those whose name begins with A.
1t is stated that the completion of the
Panama Canal will take at least 20 years, and
involve an expenditure of f12O.OOO,OOO.
Seals have good appetites. 1t is calcu-
lated that 40 600 600 pounds of fish day are re-
quired to feed the fur seals that the United
States want to protect
"A lawsuit begun 200 years ago has ust
been decided by the Imperial Courts at Leipsic.
1t was between the city of Lubbock and Meek
lenburg, and concerned the possession of lands
on the river Trave.
Justices of the Peace were first ap-
pointed in England by Edward ILL.,. in the year
1927. and in 1360-1 they were empowered TO try
felonies, while their wages were fixed by
Richard II. in 1889.
The total number of barrels of beer
brewed in the United Kingdom in the year
ending March 81, 1889. was 2S, GA. .793. Of these
2346. 682 barrels were brewed in ireland, and
1,4S5. 700 in Scotland.
The Gar has three sets of police to
watch over him. The Ordinary or Third Sec
tion Police; the Palace Police under the Con-
troller of the Households; and the Private
Body Police, whose chief takes his orders from
the Car in person.
The smallest piece of money in Mon
tana is 'bit." Two bits'' make a quarter.
which purchases a drink of whisky and a cigar
Higher wages are paid there for uuskilled la
Dor than in any other State, but there is enough
gambling and drinking prevalent to offset the
increase in wages
There is married man in Atlanta, Ca,
who wears eyeglasses with golden rim. His
wife wears eyeglasses. too and the two pairs
are lust alike. They are the parents of three
children, the youngest being ten years Of age,
and each of the children Is near-sighted- They
wear eyeglasses, too.
that the best and finest silk waterproofs are
made in Rhode Island, but on account of the
foolishness OF American customers they have
to be sent to London and stamped with an
English trademark and reshipped to this coun-
try as English goods.
Brakeman Sam Harris, OF Laramie, was
on the top of freight car of a Union Pacific
train running between Wilcox and Rock Creek,
Wyo, when the top of the car was torn off by a
strong gale. He was sent sailing over trees, as
well as telegraph wires. He was found several
hundred yards away fatally injured.
While swimming in the Marine dock,
st. Louis a few days ago, Richard Jackson felt
sharp. singing PAIN in his leg and thought he
was bitten by a snake. Dressing himself, he
was on his way home, whom he fell, screaming
in agony. Investigation disclosed that the
''Snake bite' was two-ineh silver of wood.
"A lady returning to her home in Cur
sons Mills. Mass. on Monday, was greatly as
tonished to see live pickerel weighing about
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cnrsd the Hsb from one of the nsiabboyr,no-
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Cloud, Mimi. for nine days, little Tommy
O,Eonrl,o ,y,s discovarad bv a searobing nartv
-,,o-I is,,ot - ~ aI,,h.is,pd -
tire1v nnon acorns and water. That the child
should have survived is considered little short
of a miracle by those conyersant with the cir
cumstances
"A man at Ioceoa, Ga., mas been totally
blind from infancy and has not been educated;
vet il is claimed. possesses unusual intelligence
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