Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

nually in China.
There are 500 newspapers published in
the State Of Texas.
The factories of England, France, Ger
many, and Holland produce about S7OOO,OOO
pins daily.
For every Is yards we descend into the
earth the temperature increases about 100
Fahrenheit.
"A novel dinner card is chunk OF paper
pulp. with little flower painted on it in water
color, and the name appended.
The sewers of Paris are about 2, 2,625, All
Ieet in length, and the amount expended each
year on streets is about 100000.
The latest news from Stratford-on-AVon
Church is that crosses are being sold there.
made from the wood of the old gallery.
The engines Of the large ocean steamers
make about 100000 turns in crossing the At
lantic between New York and Liverpool.
The credit of being the first place where
the lymph was used in this country goes to Yale
college. The crimson must dip its colors.
"A West End, London, bootmaker has
had an order from an American patroness for
several pairs of boots and slippers to be en-
crusted with precious stones.
Some German newspapers are venerable
with age. The Frankfort Journal is 26l years
and 9S others are over 100 years old.
There is just one-ffth as much nutri-
ment in quail on toast as IN the same quantity
of weak mutton broth; and there is even moro
difference in the price of the two articles.
In 1894 it will be 1000 years since Hun
gary was established as an independent Govern
ment. There is a movement among the Hun
garians to celebrate that anniversary with great
pomp.
"A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face is a complete security
against sutfocation from smoke; iI permits free
breathing, and, at the same time, excludes the
smoke from the lungs.
-Aout 20 years ago the japanese author,
Kioyte Bakin, completed a novel upon which
he had been at work for 50 years. 1t comprises
LOG volumes, and said to illustrate all classes
OF Japanese society and life.
The most expensive legislature in the
world is that of France. 1t costs annually
about So, 100000. The Spanish Parliament costs
$4,000; the Italian, $3.50 900: the Belgian $780,
OOO; the Portuguese, slj0,0U0
The Salvation Army has a revenue of
s75O,OO0 year. The Var Cry has circulation
of 100000 a week. and there are close on 80
newspapers at home and abroad attached to
the service OF the organization.
There must be an inexhaustible supply
of dogs somewhere in Burmah. The municipal
iry of Mandalay has been killing them at the
rate of 1000 in month, and yet there is said to
be no diminution of the numbers.
"A Russian peasant named Namisehef
entered the barn of usurer to whom he owed
money and hanged himself upon the door,
writing upon it with chalk the words: This
pays off my indebtedness 10 you"
So serious has the plague of rabbits be-
come in New Zealand that a mercantile COM
pany connected with that country is paying IS
Cd. apiece for stoats delivered, alive and IN
good condition, to certain agents in England
La Villa, Fla, boasts snake charmer
His business is a dangerous one, but he pursues
his calling day after day and makes consider
able money. He shipped 81 ratt.eSnakes to
Chicago last week and sold them for SIS EACH"
-Parisians eat about $4,000 pounds of
poultry each year; 93S 900 oxen are slaughtered
for their use, 203, 900 calves, 100000 sheen and
400. 600 hogs. Sixty million pounds of fish and
81 00O, 900 pounds of fruit must also be added to
the list.
Man is the universal animal 1t is esti-
mated that there is 1,25O, 100000 of him on the
globe. The sheep rank next with 5O0.O00OOO;
300 OOOOO0 cattle; 100 100000 hogs (Ghe four
footed Variety, and 60,O0QOO0 horses continue
the list.
AN Australian paper alleges that the
late Earl of Carnarvon acquired 100000 acres
in Australia during his colonial tour oE 1887,
that the Duke of Sutherland owns 200 900 acres,
the Duke of Manchester ljO0OO, and Lord Bras
sey 10000 in the same colony.
"A Maine vessel put into Gloucester,
Mass, on Monday having board a novel
cargo. 1t consisted of 4.2OO Christmas trees,
She had a deeklOad which filed her deck
almost completely from stem to stem, present.
ing solid mass of evergreen
German subjects are vacciuated in the
early months of life, again on attaining the age
of Il, and all males third time on entering
upon their term of compulsory service in the
army. Vaccination is always done with calls
lymph; never from arm to arm.
Canadian sardines are to be brought to
Europe IN hopes of competing with the Med1-
terranean and Breton product Immense guam
titles OF sardines are caught on the New Bruns-
wick coast, and this year the yield is so large
that the fish are almost unsaleable.
The Cherokees are probably the most in
telligent of the American Indians John Ross
the present Treasurer of the Cherokee nation;
Bushyhead, BOudinot and others of them ara
college graduates or have been educated in the
East, aud don't indulge in the Sioux ballet
An extraordinary incident occurred in
the court of the Deputy Commissioner of
Hoshangabad. Japan. recently. A man walked
up to the dias where the magistrate was sitting
hearing case, and handed him something
wrapped up1n pipail leaf, which, when opened
was found to contain his wife's nose the hus-
band having come in to take the consequences
of his act.
The total annual income Of the gaming
tables of Monte Carlo is about 20, 900 900 francs
or in the neighborhood of 81 00O 600 Aroulette
table shows an average daily profit of from
81 600 to 81 250 and occasionally. when a reck-
less player has been putting down the maxi
mum stakes the tables winnings will amount
to SIS OOO Eight of these tables we're in action
at Monte Carlo throughout the busiest part of
last season.
The Imperial Court OF Leipsic, which is
now the supreme tribunal in Germany, has just
given Judgment in a case which has been pro-
ceedinC for nearly 200 years 1t is a suit which
was commenced early in the last century by the
Free Hanse Town of Lubbock against the gov
ernment OF Meckeuburg with the object of OBJ
tanning declaration that the said town has the
sole privilege of free navigation ami fishery in
several rivers and lakes. Lubeck's claim is
founded on charter of the Emperor Bar
barossa.