Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Ofthe 3O7 members OF the Stenograpners
Association of New York 200 are women
The microscope shows human hair to De
ged teeth.
The United States has already referred
33 international disputes to arbitration during
the present century.
Someone with fondness for statistics
has discovered that the average man drinks 10
hogsheads of liquids during the course Of MS
lifetime.
According to the assertion Of the emf
nent physiologist sappy, the stomach contains
100000 glands by which the gastric juice is
secreted.
Labor is cheap in Ceylon. The coolies
there can live on 81. or shillings, a month. and
are glad to get l214 cents (about Gd.l a day for
their work.
AN American lady has a brass bed
| stead inlaid with real pearls. Across the top
runs brass rail, on which the owners name is
| wrought in pearls.
Investigations in Switzerland go to
show that on an average students are the tall
| est men, and the shortest the tailors and
workers In factories.
-Beggary has been reduced to an art as
well as a profession in Rome. In recent case
| before the police an old man admitted that he
| had as many as 50 lives in daily use.
Mr.. Gotschalk, of New York, owns the
| only genuine and perfect holy shekel in the
world. The interesting relic is about 400 years
old, and was used in King Solomons temple
Where soil is exposed to the direct ef-
feet of the suns rays and unobstructed sweep
! of the winds, it loses from six to ten times
more water by evaporation than Wnen covered
| by forest growth.
ALI dainty women are fond of scent.
Some of them use it very extravagantly. They
saturate their dresses with perfume, SO that
| when they are taken out of the wardrobe they
are as fragrant as a bank of Violets.
In France at present there are 1000, 900
households in which there has been no child;
25OO,GO0 in which there was one child; 100000.
two children; l,500.O0O three; about I,OoOOOO,
four: 55OO O00 five; 33O,OO0 six, and 100000, seven
or more.
The Biblical Society of London an
nounces that it - in its possession papyrus
manuscript whie. IS in the handwriting of the
great Apostle st. Peter. They claim that $780,
900 offered for the manuscripts by another
British society was refused
Venice is oDe of the poorest cities in
Italy. 1t has 10000 inhabitants. of these no
less than 40 900 have their names inscribed on
the books of the 'Congregazione di Carita" as
recipients of relief; that is TO say nearly one
fourth OF the population are paupers.
"A cork rope is one of the latest inven-
tions. 1t is made of small corks placed end to
end, and the whole covered with braiding OF
cotton twine: over this is a coarser Dralolng IL
heavy strands. According TO the inventor: 9
1-inch thick rope will stand strain Oh 1,UO'
pounds.
The Dutch have an original way OF CO.!
Iecting the taxes. If, after due notice has beer
given, the money is not sent, the authorities
place one or two hungry militiamen in tht
house, to be lodged and maintained at tne "a, eA
, pense of the defaulter until the amount OF the
, tax is paid.
France produces annually 10000, ,0OC
tons of coal, Germany, 10000 OOO England los.
, OO0Oo0 The annual consumption in Germany
, is 5000 pounds for each individual, in France
; 1.56O pounds, and in England 400 pounds. II
. | France wood and charcoal are lar more largely
used than in England.
1t is said that out of every ten clerks
: | mechanics and men of moderate salaries who
. have bought homes for themselves in Chicago
| only three have succeeded in meeting the pay
| ments and eventually securing deed. Th'
others have lost from $500 to 81 GOO each, but II
e most cases was their own faule-
. Stanley says that certain portions o
L Africa will always be worthless on account o
> the ravages of the grasshoppers. In one in
. | stance he saw n column of young grasshopper
= 10 miles broad by 80 long marching down a va
q ley. and when the grass was fired against theI
i
There are now in Paris A, ,646 person
n who claim the designation Of ''artist." The
> | comprise painters. sculptors, designers, ell
. | prayers wood carvers, painters porcelain
| also actors singers, musicians and public pei
q | formers of every grade. Aoout ZuVu o
5 nearly half the total NUMBER, belong To the 1al
II sex
!, The most famous gems extant are, pei
4 haps. the Gemma Augustea in Vienna. a sa
| Oua Of n ward long Whip
the triumph of Augustus is cut in the rares
workmanship by DESCRIBES, of Rome. Ther
are magnIfcently cut antique amethyst
though rock crystal was, and is, mainly use
l. for vases and cups
in Africa the date furnishes food nc
only for man, but for the camel and the hors'
e, For the latter purpose the stones are used il
" | MANY parts and are said to be more nourshin
Al | than the fruit itself. The Arabs make grea
" variety of dishes of which dates form the chic
- part. OF the sap of the tree palm WINE IS pr,
. pared, and the young leaves are eaten like cal
q bage.
Almost every typewriter sooner or late
- has trouble with her eyes. The typewritin
= | machine is supposed to save the eyes, but Il
+ effect is quite the contrary: The eyes are a
e the time in motion while writing. and II
y rapid Jerking OF the eye from one point
y another on the little keyboard soon tires Il
= muscles and makes the eyes and somerim
!. the whole head ache.
't The Chinese law imposes no disdualit
3 cations on sex, except in so far as they Al
= necessitated by family institutions. Daug
ters for instance do not inherit, as the LAY
y | giver did not wish that the possessions of
g. family should be scattered; it is obvious. ther
W fore that marriages. for money do not exist
r. China. A wife can ALLEVIATE. buy, or otherwl;
If dispose of property, 10 the same extent as Is
IS the power of the husband.
e "A company has been organized for th
- | -. II will la
e trolled by Council Bluffs capital. From e1
K periments made during the past week it ha
been ascertained that the new soap can be pu
on the market for less than one cent pouno
bushel OF cora makes 400 pounds of hrst-clas
washing SOAP 1t is claimed by the gentleme
~ embarking in thei business thatsthe finest tolle
N soaps can be made.