Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


which inhabit Alaska.
Nearly one-half of the area OF the prov
ince of Utrecht, Holland. is under grass.
There are about 80, 900 arrests each year
in Paris, and Of those arrested 55 are assas
sins.
-IE Paris there are $4,000 gaslights, so
was century ago.
Into the streets of Denver S25,OO0,O 900 in
gold and silver coin are shoyeled from the
mountains every year.
The shipments OF wheat fromsAntelope
Valley. Los Angeles county, for 1880 was S4,s94
sacks, equal to 4,6O7, $50 pounds
-Daimio persimmons weighing IS ounces
have been grown on the place of Colone
Church, Just east of Orlando, Fla.
Over 40 species of fish abound along
the coast Of Uruguay, and more than 1000
species Of insects have been classified within its
borders.
The Humboldt river, CAL, and some of.
Its tributaries are said to be gorged in many
places with careasses OF cattle that perished
last winter.
Nine hundred and ninety-two women
registered at Cheyenne, wy, for the recent
elections. Several women rode % miles into
Cheyenne to vote.
Most of the province of Uralsk, in
Southeastern Russia, having area of al, ia
square miles and population of over 10000,
is below sea level.
There are more evictions for non-pay-
ment of rent in New York and Brooklyn in
one year. says judge IN the latter city, than in
ireland in two years.
up to the end of October the loss from
fires in the United States and Canada for the
year 1890 was 1875, S05 less than for the cor
responding months in 1880
"A little armadillo. the mulita, of Uru-
quay, is mentioned as the living representative
of those antediluvian giants, the mylodon
mastodon. megatherium, etc.
I'm one single day last summer 105
Americans visited Burns birthplace The ptl-
grims during the year numbered 10000 to the
cottage and $4,000 to the monument
"A golden eagle weighing 35 pounds was
killed short time ago on the Sisseton reserva-
ton. Montana. The bird stood three and
half feet high and measured nine feet from tip
to tip.
Uruguay has a healthy climate, and,
according to its tables of mortality for 1882 out
of a total of 9640 deaths. 40 were of persons
over 100 years OF age. Its death rate is only
1850 per 1000
About a century ago it was estimated
that Paris had only about so pickpockets; now
the police reports show that their number has
reached 4000 in the metropolis alone, and
about 10, 900 in the rest Of France.
Mr.. S. F. Hershey says in a recent ar
ticle: woman lives longer than man. goes in
sane less numerously, commits suicide one
third as often, makes one-tenth the demand on
the public purse for support in jail, prisons and
almshouses.
There are 16, 900 public schools in Mis-
souri,. The new State Superintendents pro-
poses to introduce a uniform system of instruc-
tions and specified course of instructions to
be published in pamphlet form and sent to each
teacher OF the State.
The Detroit Free Press says: 'If boy
Is years of age should be left ten acres of LAND
in Michigan, and his guardian should cover it
with hickory trees, the income of the boy when
he came to be 80 years old would be from SO 900
to ST., 900 clean cash of his little farm"
Occasionally the return of the swallow
or the nightingale may be somewhat delayed,
but most sea fowls may be trusted, it is said. as
the almanac ITSELF Were they satellites re-
volving around this earth. their arrival could
hardly be more surely calculated by an as
tronomer.
"A special train of three cars arrived in
| the Union Pacific depot at Walla Walla,
| Wash, last week with a CHASTITY cargo. con-
| sisting of the entire contents of the military
| graveyard at Fort Lapwai, Idaho. There wee
upwards of so caskets, nearly all receptacles al
soldiers bones.
According 10 the latest issde of the
Newspaper Directory" there w.*e no iess
than 8 481, $40 0O0 copies of magazines, papers
and periodicals issued in this country. or a num-
ber more than sufficient to afford every man,
woman and child in the United States one pa
per week for year.
The Ural Mountains were anciently the
| subject of various myths. The Slavonians,
who in the eleventh century frequently visited
| the region of the Urals for trade, described
| them as mountains reaching the sky, inter.
| sected BY terrible precipices, and as beng in.
| habited by population of cave dwellers,
One woman has made the silk gowns Of
the Justices of the United States Supreme
Court for the past 40 years, and she gets 500
for each one of them. They are all made
alike the only difference being in the material,
the Chief Justice wearing black Chinese satin.
while his associates are robed in black silk.
1t has been estimated that the volume
of water poured into the Rio de la Plata ex-
ceeds the aggregate discharge of all the rivers
of Europe put together. Its ordinary flow az
some points is 100,00C cubic feet per second.
The ordinary volume of water in the Uruguay
river averages H. 600. .0O0 of cubic feet per min
ute.
Within a few days past, says the Vic
toria Colonist. an Indian burial has taken place
in due and ancient form, and above ground, on
the reserve. At the head on either side were
placed two white flags. Over the top of the
wooden cover is spread gray blanket; on one
side of 1t is a cracked looking glass, and in
front there is gilt framed mirror, near it be-
ing disposed handkerchiefs and pieces of gay
colored chintz.
The work OF constructing the cutoff on
the Southern Pacific Railroad west of San An
tonic, Tex, from Shumla to Flanders. will be-
gin in short time. The cutoff is to be only
seven miles long but will cost not less than
81 OCO OOC The bridge that is to be thrown
across the Pecos river will. it is said, be the
highest in the United States the center span to
be S78 feet above the water. The entire length
of the bridge, from cliff to cliff. will be 200
feet The I5 miles to be abandoned cost 81, 0O0.-
OOO and the track runs along high cliffs, through
two tunnels and over Is bridges.