Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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The milk bill of London exceeds ESQ.,
900 daily
Just 25O, 900 women are married yearly
in England.
An infant grows eight inches during
the first year.
-Heligoland has national debt of R1O.
The revenue is between $1,000 and $1,000
The coins of Siam are made Of porce-
lain; those Of Japan are made principally of
| iron.
On October / Grand Haven had big
| fire. Yesterday in taking up the debris some
charcoal was found still burning.
| George Washington had big hands and
feet. He wore No. II boot and his gloves
had to be specially made for him.
"A Charlotte, N. c., clergyman wears
undoubtedly the largest shoe in this country.
The size is 81 and each shoe is 2GxS inches
The thickness of the human hair varies
from the 25Oth to the 6OOth part of an inch.
Blonde hair is the finest and red the coarsest.
After study of the Congressional Di-
rectory," the Charleston Netcs and Courier an
nounces that there are farmers in the Senate
and IS In the House.
"A story comes from Stratford, Conn.,,
| that enterpr's ing colt there the other day
dollars in the pockets thereof.
The 7-year-old daughter of Peter Olsen,
at Ludington died in terrible agony yesterday,
within ten minutes after she had been bitten
by a snake in a huckleberry swamp.
"A project is on foot for spanning the
Danube canal, in Vienna, with bridge lined
with shops. after the model of the famous
Ponte rialto, at Venice, and the Arno bridge
| at Florence.
Domestic servants are so scarce in Mon
treal that women in want of help are said to
visit the jail with a view to engaging young
women to work for them at the close Of their
terms Of Imprisonment.
"A peculiar industry of Kern county,
| Cal, Is the collection and shipment of horned
| toads. They are sold to the Chinese who use
them for medicinal purposes. They are con.
| sidered especially valuable IN the treatment Of
rheumatism.
John Fess, of MedaryYille, Ind, was
truck by lightning few days ago, every bone
| In his body being broken. Downey Knots,
seated on the wagon seat beside him, escaped
unhurt, and SO did the horses Fess was driving,
but dog trotting under the wagon was killed.
"A cable road is to be laid down on
Broadway in New York City before the begin
ming of next year. 1t is said that it will be the
cause of vast number of fatal accidents, as
people in New York are always in such fam
cied hurry that they will not take common pre-
cautions for their own safety.
ALI the officials in the various depart
ments along the Jersey Central Railroad have
been notified by the company that hereafter
employees must abstain from the use of intoxi-
eating liquors while on or off duty, and if seen
entering Saloons either during or after work
ing hours, will be discharged
The ink contract at 30 cents a gallon,
awarded by the Cincinnati school board, shows
how great profit there is in selling ink at re-
tail. The ordinary price is cents for a little
bottle holding less than gill, and any school
boy or girl can easily figure up about how much
gallon Of ink would cost at that rate.
AT the head of Onion Valley, in Inyo
county. Cal, are two abrupt mountains,
one 1900 and the other IA, 900 feet high. Tumb-
ling down the side of one is a cataract 500 feet
| high, which in the distance resembles falling
snow, and two other waterfalls Of equal
height are visible from the head Of the valley.
1T is proposed to use the electric motor
extensively in military operations in England.
One of the latest ideas IN carrying on active
warfare is to build railway at the scene of
hostilitles for the transportation of ordnance.
IL IL is highly desirable that the trains used for
this purpose. which are arInor-Dlated and armed
with Gatling guns should be as rapid and in
conspicuous as possible.
Just after the war ended the Navy De-
parsment gave Ericsson 15-inch shell found
among the ruins of Sumter 1t had been fred
from one of the monitors and somehow the
fuse had failed TO go of. Ericsson sent it to
the King of Sweden and the good Oscar placed
1t IN the great museum at Stockholm, with
fitting and touching inscription in honor of one
of the most honored of Swedes. It's there
now.
Frank E. Patterson, one of tie executors
OF the Patterson estate at Manyunk, recently
found an old brass cannon among the debris Of
the storeroom that had been used in the Mexi-
can War and sent home by the late General
Robert Patterson as trophy of his victory at
Natural Ridge, on the way from Vera Cruz to
the City of Mexico. The old relic will be pre-
sented to the Historical Society at an early
date.
"A Western papers definition of the
term volt: The volt gives one blow Of
specified force. As volts are added together
the force of the blow is increased until the en-
durance limit is reached. 1t takes about Is
volts to make a perceptble tinging sensation.
ling sensation becomes unmistakable, but not
strong, while 100 volts feels lively, 200 volts
strong, 300 volts powerful, 400 volts Titanic, and
500 volts will knock man fat"
Near Somerset, in Perry county, o., ID
an ancient ruin, whose walls, inclosing 40 acres,
were built of undressed stone. now lying in con-
fusion. They have been estimated sufficient to
build wall feet high and feet broad around
the whole 40 acres inelosure. One gateway be-
tween two large rocks opened into the country
and was defended by huge bowlder. The in
closure contained large stone mound. No
skeletons have been found, and the inclosurs
was certainly used for other purposes than
habitation or sacrifice.
Darius L. Gof, of Pawtucket, r. L, vhe
has fancy for mechanical curiosities, pos
sesses clock that never runs down. Through
an ingenious contrivance it is kept wound by
the simple opening and closing of the front
door of the house. Electrical appliances,
operated by the running of the clock, raises the
gas let in the hall at dusk and lowers It at bed
time; ring an early rising bell for the servants,
a later one for the family. and an hour later the
breakfast bell, and when the hour IS struck
musical cathedral chimes respond in the cham
bers of the house.