Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


ore fields of Eastern Texas will yield 100000
tons to the square mile.
"A little salt sprinkled over the surfaes
of mustard plaster will enable the patient to
Keep it on for hours without much sunerlng'
The highest individual score at cricket
was made by A. E. Stoddart, in the match
Hampstead against Stoics, played in 1856 The
total score was ass.
An Ossge City, Kan, man has started
new kind of lunch counter. He serves only
one dish.ground pop corn and cream. which ne
sells at III cents bowl.
The people of Northern Europe consume
more alcohol, per capita, than their neighbors
IN tne South, for the reason that, relatively,
tney are not so well-fed.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 183 feet
high, and is, if the cornice be included, 13 feet
elnenes out OF the perpendicular. The walls at
1t is said that for more than so years
ESQ, which was originally intended to be sp-
piled to the education of slaves in Georgia, has
been lying in the Bank of Scotland.
AS an instrument of tillage, the spade
costs four times as much as the plow. The
horse or the OK. as a motive power. is equally
at disadvantage compared with steam.
Take in your hand a crystal of quartz,
a stick of deal. a daisy. an acorn, and you will
not find in them a single element of matter that
is not also found in your physical frame.
I'm 1920 Italylwas land of beggars.
The people were so poor that in city of 10000
inhabitants a traveller was unable to purchase
a pair of gloves, or, In one of u, LOCO, cake OF
soap.
The Italia and Lepanto, OF the Italian
Navy. are two of the largest warships ever
built. They are 400 feet long, "a feet broad. and
ma dran of fnnr
30 feet.
"A physician has compiled some very
elaborate statistics to demonstrate that men Of
thought live, on an average, three years and
half longer than men IN the ordinary vocations
of life,
Sheriff Alison is authority for the state
ment that in the city of Glasgow alone, $1,000
people get drunk every Saturday night, and
crime has increased six times faster than popu-
lation.
In 1881 Belfast had 208, 100 inhabitants;
Dublin. 2I9, ,662; Cork, SO,124 In 1871 Belfast
stood at ia. Az, Dublin at 326. The decrease
OF the one and the increase of the other are re-
markable.
A recent survey has established the
number Of glaciers in the Alps att ,l55. of which
249 have a length of more than AZ miles. The
French Alps contain ia glaciers. those of Italy
~, Switzerland AL, and Austria 462
The distance travelled by Stanley in the
interior OF Africa is estimated by him at 5, 400
miles: Of which all but 1000 were on foot The
expedition occupied three years. and rescued
800 persons. at cost of less than $4,000.
in ancienta Greece q law OF Pittacus
enacted that "he who commits a crime when
drunk shall receive double punishment one
for the crime itself, and the other for the in
ebriety which prompted him to commit it.
I'm England one person out of every
5,250000 people carried is killed. In France
one out of every 600 passengers is killed.
In Belgium one out of every 9.0OO,OOO is killed.
In Prussia only one out of q 100000 is killed.
The first water-mill ever built was
erected on the river Tiber at Rome A. D. 50.
Windmills were in original use in the twelfth
century: Tidemills were operated IN Venice
about 170S. Sawmills are said to have been in
use at Augsberg, Germany, about 1882
Slaves were sold publicly in Liverpool
in the latter half of the last century. Sir James
Picton. In his Memorials of LIVERPOOL" quotes
two advertisements of the sale of slaves in Liv-
erpool. which appeared in Williamson's Liver
pool advertiser in the years 1765 and 1766.
Careful experiments go to show that,
for the maximum efficiency of mind and body
of the working population in the northern coua-
tries of Europe and in the United States, meat
or animal products of some Kind should con-
stitute at least two-thirds of the total supply.
Several attempts have been made to
establish the tack industry in the South, but
they have failed from difficulties in handling
the material. This branch of the iron trade is
in the bands of New England manufacturers,
and is practically confined to Massachusetts.
The deepest mine in the world is be-
lieved to be that of st. Andre du Po1rier,
France. 1t produces 100000 tons of coal in
year. and is worked by means of two shafts.
one 800 and the other $40 meters deep. The
-sAI
soon.
"A species of porous terraeotta tiling is
rapidly coming into use. Sixty thousand dollars
worth of it was recently put into one building in
New York City. Experts say. however that as
far as freproOf floors are concerned alter
nate LAYERS of plank and cement form the most
impenetrable of constructions
From a paper read before the Biological
Section of the British Association by Prof.
Newton, 1t appears that the native fauna of the
Sandwich Islands is now undergoing modifica-
ton, and is in danger of determination on ac-
count of the changes which are taking place in
the vegetation of the islands.
The London Metropolitan Public Gar
dens Association has offered f1O0 apiece to 20
metropolitan yestries and district boards to be
expended in planting plane trees in suitable
public thoroughfares in each district on con-
dir1on that the local authorities agree to MAIN
tain the trees when planted, replacing such as
may die.
"A geological expedition, consisting Of
Prof. Romanoffsky and three mining engineers.
has just returned to ST. Petersburg from geo.
logical survey of the Khirgbiz steppes, Turkes-
tan. and the southern portions of Siberia. The
expedition, which traversed over 1900 miles,
discovered in the district of Semertchinsk and
Akmolenski rich deposits of silver, copper and
other valuable minerals.
1t is a curious reflection on the intelli-
gence of mankind that while animals easily
learn our language we make no advance at all
in learning theirs. One cannot help hoping
that some future generation of men may be
sufficiently kind and patient and large-hearted
to believe that what these dependent creatures
have 10 say to us may sometimes be as i'm
portant as what we have to say to them and to