Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| An Athens, Ga, man has a Spanish
coin that bears date of 1918.
The collective length of the London
streets would reach over 81, 900 miles.
There are 1900 blind people in Glasgow,
life.
"A Slatesboro, Ga., citizen has pair Of
| trousers in which he was married over 40 years
ago.
The Japs administer the oath by cutting
the witness finger and taking blood to seal the
| swear.
| There are In the British Islands 70 doc
tors to each 100000 inhabitants; ten years ago
| there only 81.
Gold can be beaten 1 200 times thinner
than printing paper. One ounce of it will cover
146 square feet
The current year has already witnessed
the burning of six theaters, half of this number
being in Germany.
Official figures show that there are cut
| every year in Aroostook county, Maine. 100.
| 0OO, 900 feet of lumber.
THE Falls of Niagara carry down TO-
5000 cubic feet of water per minute, equal to
| about 900 horsepower.
Sixteen barbecues have been given in
Wilkes county, Ca, this year. Two hundre d
and thirty-eight carcasses were consumed.
If pure.milk only were sold in London,
1t is estimated that from 20 900 to 10000 more
cows would be wanted to keep up the supply.
John Beasley, of Elbert county, Ga,
is 70 years of age. He does his own ploTing,
has been keeping house 55 years and never
bought but eight bushels of corn in his life.
The latest addition to the world of news
papers is entirely in Latin, advertisements and
all, and its object is to prove that Latin should
again become what it was in the middle ages,
the universal language.
Some prehistoric German tombs were
recently excavated on the road leading from
Apolda to Jena. About 20 skeletons were found
| 1.-TWO being without skuIls), and number of
ornaments and weapons.
Canton, Me-, must be fortunate town.
Having no other use for their jail the select
men have rented it to a man for a shoe-maker's
shop. The tenant, however, keeps cell or two
in readiness in case somebody should lapse
from virtue.
Among the best customers for Swiss
watches are the United States. although the
| industry is largely developed liz America.
Germany takes about Il, ,OO0. 900 francs worth of
Swiss watches annually, Great Britain l3 900 900
worth and France $500, 900 worth.
"A case is reported in an Australian
medical paper of woman who. on taking
dose of chlorodyne for the relief of pain, soon
after suckled her twin babies. The children
were found the following morning profoundly
narcotized, and died before evening.
One little 9OO-pound horse in Piscata-
quis county, Me-, recently hauled over the
rough roads a solid member of the school
board, a portly highway commissioner, fat
Justice of the peace. ana two ordinary citizens.
1t is notsurprising to hear that the horse has
since died.
"A party of boys killed a snake at Dub
lin, Ga, few days ago. In a few minutes
young snakes were seen to crawl out of the
old snakes side through hole made by the
sticks. They continued to appear until 49,
averaging IL inches in length, crawled out and
were killed
They have queer little 10-year-old girl
in Philadelphia who is normal in everything
else. but ever since she was a baby in her cradle,
when her mother first took her In charge, she
never could go to sleep unless the soles of her
feet were tlckled, and up till this day she is a
victim of the habit.
"A correspondent says that the price Of
good-looking female slave in the United States
OF Colombia is 500. These women. 1t is stated,
are usually excellent cooks and many of them
are expert in diving to the bottom of the
streams in the gold districts and bringing up q
gourd full Of gold bearing sand.
In the matter of railways, japan lap
pears to be going ahead tolerably fast. Con-
stderably over 1000 miles are already in oper-
alton while an equal quantity are under con-
struction OF surveyed, and will be open within
a year or two from now. The projected rail-
ways exceed 7C0 miles in length, with capital
exceeding f6,OOC.OO sterling.
The death rate of the world is calcu-
lated to be 81 in a miuute, or 4020 an hour, e6,-
4s0 a day, 81 2l5,2O0 a year. The birth rate
slightly exceeds this. 1t is calculated to be 20
per minute, 200 in an hour, lOO.5OO day, or
81 TAO m iua The estimated "a
annum, according to this is, therefore, little
over l,5OO,OOO
People have no idea Of the fatal speed
of express trains. 1t is a common thing to see
their buffers bespattered with blood after a
long and quick run. The noise of their ap-
proach disturbs the small birds from the hedge
rows, and as they tiy across the line along comes
the thunderer at a speed of which they have no
conception and dashes them to pieces.
There is an enterprising photographer
in the Isle of Wight. He posts himself at the
stopping place of a coach, and photographs the
vehicle and passengers, at about Ii o'clock in
the morning. By sin the afternoon. on the re-
turn Journey. the passengers are met it is said,
with q supply of mounted prints made from
the negative taken only a few hours earlier.
"A remarkable occurrence happened in
Lewiston, Me- A little 15-year-old boy was in
swimming near the falls while the Cowan mill
was shut down. He started for shore just as
it started up. The extra flow of water threw
him over, and carried him towards she falls
Before he could recover he was swept over. He
was not. strange to say, injured to any extent
He swan to the bar and was rescued by boy.
Wedding celebrations-The wedding
celebrations occur as follows: Three days, sugar;
go days vinegar; first anniversary, iron; fifth
anniversary wooden; tenth anniversary. tin;
fifteenth anniversary, crystal; twentieth ami
yersary china; twenty-hfth anniversary, silver;
chi cotton. tllrtT-Qttl ami
yersary linen: fOrtieth anniversary, woolen;
forty-fifth anniversary. sill; hftieth anniversary
golden; seyenty-ffth anniversary, diamond
"A few days ago Robert Smith, Of
ApaIachicola, Fla, was attracted to portion
of his field where his children were playing
Tho children were shouting and dancing around
some object lying on the ground Mr.. Smith
walked down to where the children were. and
was Mortified to find them playing around .
large rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike.
The children were just beyond the reach OF
the snake, unconscious OF their DANGER The
Iii lad