Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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Ireland spends $4,000, 900 a year on
whisky.
In France the copyright of an author is
for life.
The sun yields 800, 900 times the light of
the moon.
The population of the earth doubles
In $50 years.
The word 'its'' only occurs once in the
whole of the Bible.
London consumes over 100000, 900
pounds Of butter year.
The school teachers of Cincinnati have
not been paid their salaries since April.
1t is calculated at there is property
valued at sQ,OOOOoO at the bottom Of the At.
lantic.
Cocoa should never thicken in the cup:
If it does it shows the presence of starch Of
some kind.
The government of Chill, it is said, has
decided to purchase IA Krupp batteries, at a
cost OF s5OOOO0.
A sensation has been produced in Hell
delberg by the rumor that the government may
close the university.
Canada does an extensive business in
homemade cheese. In 1889 its exports
amounted to S9, ,O21 pounds.
DIR. r. 3. Edwards, of Ionia, while
driving to visit paralytic patient was stricken
Win apoplexy and died in his buggy.
"A gold nugget worth $500 was taken
from mine in the Big Bug district, Arizona,
recently. 1t is now on exhibition at Prescott.
The best shot of her sex must be the
Countess Maria Won Kensky, of Bohemia. who
on one dav last winter on her estate of Chlamce
shot 138 hares.
"A man at Brownfeld, Me-, who has
been married 16 years and has moved IS Times
record as rolling stone.
The ports of the West Central Ameri-
car coast are said to be crowded with imported
merchandise. There is NOT storage room for
consignments and goods arestacked haphazard.
"A towering plant has never been found
within the antarctic circle; but in the. arctic
region there are 1852 kinds of flowers Their
colors, however, are not SO bright or varied as
those OF warmer regions.
1t has been estimated that for every
1000 head of cattle in Great Britain 81 tons Of
beef or veal are annually sent to market, and
for every 1000 head of sheep and lambs I2L
tons OF mutton or lamb.
To shrink wooden goods: 1. After pull
ing, treat the goods on perforated table with
L
alum OF LO7 spirit grains for half an hour wiring
and dry; wash. soap, wash off aud dry.
Count Charles Dillon, who died in Paris
recently, was one of the four survivors Of tho
Court of Charles K, to whom he was page o.
honor during the last four years of his reign,
I I, ne Count had lived in England and spoke
English fuently.
An Australian musician has invented
trombone that is played by steam. Its God
adr11 h.
-FOUR miles. He had hard luck with il how
ever, Tor the people of his own town drove him
out as nuisance.
-OVerhead electric wires should never.
says Herr Siemens. have more than 500 volts
pressure; Underground conductors. with trans
formers, no more than 1000 volts. The trans
formers and conductors should. however. be
Tested up to 5000 volts.
The Russian War Department, it isre-
ported. is considering the advisability of ac-
quiring the sole right to new shirt of mail.
which is said to be extraordinary light inn
perVlous to bullets or saber thrusts and cheap
TO manufacture. A Russian general is the in
Tentor.
AT the eighteenth commencement Of
5wathmore, the Quaker college, the audience Of
1000 or more is described as fashionable one.
hough there were few of the older friends in
'road- d-brimmed hats and plain bonnets The
;arD OF the man or woman no longer proclaims
be Quaker,
There are 208 clubs in the city of New
FORK, and very few have less than 200 names on
heir rolls. Some are purely social while others
nix politics religions or literature or athletics
y nm sociaDIhty. Some Of them own great
u1ld1ngs and maintain expensive cuisiues
early every fourth adult man in New York Is
member of some club
Experiments made in Sweden by M.
andberg on the strength of iron rails during
inter have shown that steel rails containing
yer per cent of carbon are apt to break in
old weather. In fact, the result of his investi-
atlons points to the use OF rails having less
arbon than this-say per cent-in countries
S cold in winter as Norway and Sweden,
1t is not 20 years since the Japanese
egan to reform their institutions, and during
hat time nothing has more clearly shown their
daptability and intelligence than the progress
Thir b they have made IN education. Out of
740.920 children of school age in the Empire.
s0OOOO are enrolled in the public schools, while
commercial schools, schools Of fine
rt and OF music, schools for the deaf dumb
nd blind, law courses in German, French and
.nglish. libraries and museums, all form part
( thorough and progressive system.
"A young New York millionaire, who is
alled Eugene Aram" at the clubs, because he
is remote from alp and mopes, frankly ad-
its that he takes no interest in anything fa
10 "Ollu-IdCeo, Vase Ddll, ydCuLS ana OLner
ALTERS that generally engage the attention Of
oung men in good health like himself with
-eat fortune TO spend. He got tired OF them
ng ago. The truth Is 1" ne saws, Il began life
10 early. I have been cursed by too much
oney. wish l had been born poor. The
bison OF riches has made me unfit for anything
1t an ennuied and useless creature. 1knoW
y case would not awaken much sympathy,
1t tell you, sir, it's hard one."
The newest cocktail, the invention ofa
ELL known club man, is having a tremendous
!. 1t is prophesied that for some time. at least
e new cocktail will supersede the oldest es-
blished appetizers. And it is simplicity ITSELF
1T one drop of red tabasco in the bottom of
erry glass and then twifl the glass so as to
stribute the potent liquid over as large an
ca as possible. Then fill the glass with a dry
erry and put one more drop of tabasco into
g surface of the wine. Swallow promptly,
d the two drops of tabasco, meeting and
aking hands, as it were, under the mIdrIn
fuse a genial glow over the entire system
thout cutting away the lining of the stomach.
is claimed, as bitters of all kinds do. Pale
andy with double the quantity of tabasco is
id to be even more effective to some tasteA
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