Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-04
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.


90, 900, 900 acres of the land of the United
States are held by foreigners.
The expedition for the relief OF General
Gordon cost England 100000
1t is estimated that there are 1000, 900
Methodists in the United States.
There are O,s62 school, districts, 62,3 ,372
teachers and 2SOO, 600 school children in Japan.
AN Euglishman proposes laying deep
sea electric cables by means Of submarine
boats.
There are over 1000, 900 pores in the
human body. and yet we are surprised because
some men are sponges.
The American Congregational Churches
have resolved to give E2.0O0 annually for
evangelical work in France.
George Ward and Frank Anthony,
Whitewater, Wis. took a six-grain pearl val
ued at slOo, from 81 so worth OF clans.
Near Canton, ILL.,, a farmed plowed up
a skeleton believed to be that or Frank Irwin,
who mysteriously disappeared nine years ago.
The pastor of the Presbyterian church
at Falls City, Kan, threw up. his job because
the women of his congregation played after
noon whist.
In London, recently, a large collie dog
saved girls life, seizing her DIR ess and swing
ing her aside just as she was about being run
down by horse
The average number of distinct wars
and expeditions in which England has taken
more or less active part since 1875 seems to
have been rather under one year.
"A baseball club, the smallest member Of
which weighs 225 pounds, has been organized at
Jeffersonville, Ind. The aggregate weighs OF
the team is a little under 1900 pounds.
"A convent at Rome, wherein malaria
long ragged. is now completely rid of the
disease and It's disappearance is attributed
solely to the planting of thousands of euca-
lyptus trees about the grounds.
What was hailed as one of the shortest
wills on record was offered for probate some
time ago in " aterbury. 1t read: II give all
my property to F. W. Johnson" But short as ig
was, the relations Of the decedent found
enough in 1t TO break"
The Swiss watchmakers have (says In
vention) invented watch for the blind. A small
Peg is set in the middle of each figure. When
the hour hand is moving toward given hour
the peg for that hour drops. The owner finds
which peg is down and then counts back to Il.
The most recent additions to the cata-
logue Of scientific terms have been made by
professor at Aix-la-Chapelle, DIR. Michaelis,
who has taken out patents for the manufacture
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and its
ydrazinbernsteinsacure.
applejack producing regions of the country "a
belt extending across Southern New York and
Northern New Jersey, between the Hudson
and Delaware rivers), owing to the failure Of
the apple CROP there will be little of the in
toxicant made this year.
r. Lyman, of st. John, N. B., is the
possessor of dog that he claims has quite q
keen instinct for business. A few days ago,
when the dogs license needed renewing he
turned up with a 81 bill and placed it at the
feet of the owner. Mr.. L Immediately went
and took out the license.
The worlds stock of diamonds has in
creased enormously in the last fifteen years.
In 1876 the output of the African mines was
about ]. 500 900 earats. last year it was over
4,000, 900, and the great trust which controls
all the principal mines assees that they have
100000 carats in sight" at the present time.
-Torrington, Conn.,, has a farmer whose
piety takes the form of watcbfulness on Sun
days to catch persons picking fruit or berries
on his grounds. He has such offenders arrested
and fined, asserting that it is not the loss of his
fruit or berries tha. be minds, but that he will
erty.
"A French scientist, Victor Mennier. has
calculated after careful inquiries that Amerf-
can dentists insert about S450000 worth of gold
annually into the teeth of their customers.
The Scientific American says, that making al
than 100 years American cemeteries will con-
tain larger amount of gold than now exists in
France.
The average life OF rabbit is put at
about years. The doe may have young eight
times a year. averaging eight each time. The
first litter is produced when but months old.
The progressions based on these figures lead TO
astonishing results. For three years the pos
sible progeny of two rabbits has been calcu-
lated at over IL, 100000, and for seven years at
1,500, ,0O0, goo.
The idea, generally current, the death,
following on disease, most frequently occurs
during the early hours Of morning, has been
proved by recent investiVation to be errone-
Gus. Dr. Burns. of the Charity Hospital, New
York, has made observations in some 1900
cases, extending over II years, with the result
OF finding that no particular hour or period Of
the day is specially fatal.
Among the things saved from the rub
bish when the home of the late Henry Ward
Beecher was broken up at his death were two
Battle-Ground books in which he had kept his
farm accounts and right in among the tables
OF dollars and cents, corn and potatoes turnips,
cabbages, etc., will be found descriptions of
flowers or trees. In one instance several pages
are given up to lamenting the death of his
farmer
The fall of William Hanlon, the aero
bat seems as nothing in comparison with that
was sent to the top Of the large brick chimney,
% feet high, at the glass works, to tear down
the structure. Hardly had he reached the top
when he slipped and fell into the stack, and
recoeheting from side to side struck the bot
tom without a scratch. He was at work again
in an hour.
An apiary on wheels is one of the latest
innovations in California. After the foot
hills have been pastured the bee her6er moves
his bees to a higher elevation, where the in
dustrious insects gather the nectar stored in
the blossoms of wild clover, chapparal and
other plants, and when these have been relieved
of their saccharine matter the bees are again
moved to a higher elevation, where flowers
peculiar to their region yield up their sweets to
them"
Regularly every six months the Treasury
Department receives either a $40 or $50 bill
which, from all appearances, ins; cad of being
made from plate, is executed entirely with q
pen. The work is of a very high order. and
several times these bills have defied detection
and passed their tour of circulation un-
hindered The counterfeiter seems to be a
genius who yearns for notorety, as he could
make bis living by his penmanship. The culprit
has not yet been captured, although efforts
have been made to find him, and it is believed
that he has had the pleasure of viewing his
handiwork in little frame which hangs on the
walls OF the Treasury building.
RROAD GRINS