Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


doubled ITSELF
Age for age, girls are tallest IN Sweden,
| and heaviest as well.
| -Wedgwood ware was first produced oY
josiah Wedgwood In 1852
The English Channel at its smallest
breadth is 2O1l miles across.
In Victoria, Australia, bricklayers and
masons work but n hours per day.
There are as many as 556 lighthouses
round the coast of the United States.
There are more public holidays in Hon
olulu than in any other city in the world.
! The new French tariff imposes duties on
over LOCO articles, while ours covers only about
! Siam keeps up with the procession.
| She is to have an electric railroad 80 miles
| lnrg
-Canada has $500 miles of telegraph
wire. and did business in 1889 of 4OZ7 ISL DIS
| patches.
The people of the United States con-
sumo. it is said, 2OO,OO0OOO bottles of pickles
annually.
The full strength of the military forces
! in Ireland is 5000 officers and men, exclusive
of the militia.
During the past 73 years the American
Bible Society has distributed over 52,T36,OJJ
copies of the Scripture.
"A man died in the Maine State Prison
last week who had been about so years in prison
during life OF rs years.
The expenditure for liquors and mar.
cOtics absorbs the net proceeds OF one days
work Of the world per week.
Open canned fruit an hour or two before
it is needed for use 1t is far richer when the
oxygen is thus restored to II.
This season 121, 900 head Of cattle have
been sent from Montreal to Scotland and En-
gland. as against So 6J6 last year.
The largest factory in the world devoted
exclusively to rubber shoemaking was dedi-
Gated in Woonsocket, r. l., last week.
Somebody with plenty of leisure time
has figured II out that one journal is published
for every IS 100 individuals in the world.
The population Of Quebec is about
1,5nO OOO of whom /. 200 OJO at least are French
IN blood. language, sentiment, and Instincts
AT wears of age we love our mothers;
at g. our fathers; at TO- holidays; at 16 dress; at
| 60 our sweethearts; at D. our wives; at 40 our
| children, at 60, ourselves.
Nearly every page in the history of the
human race illustrates the fercer instincts that
! belong to the keeper of focks compared with
| those of the tiller of fields.
| ga man being prosecuted by one of his
| of assault with deadly weapon is the latest
/ legal novelty FROM the West.
| Want Of wholesome and adequate food
| docks one-quarter, one-third, OF one-half from
| the natural term of the industrial force for all
| those who come to mans estate.
| The horrible infant mortality of many
| districts is not accounted for solely by neglect
| of sanitary precautions. but is largely due to
| the low diet OF mothers and children
/ . o-+;-,o4-y
| TIA per cent OF the gross earnings of mankind,
now aggregates s5OcO. 900. 900 per annum and IS
| increasing, relatively as well as absolutely, from
| year 10 year.
| Hamburg drives what may be called q
roaring trade IN wild beasts. Lions and tigers
can be ordered at 1900 francs apiece. A good
| rhinoCeTos. however, will fetcn from o,OOJ
francs to 23OO0 francs.
The highest church spira in the world
has just been completed. 1t IS thai of the
| Cathedral at Olm. Wurtemburg and is $50 feet
| high. The top of the cross on the dome of st.
| Peters, Rome, is AIS feet above the pavement.
There are probably 100. 900, 900 of peo-
pie in Europe to-day who do not ca meat more
thar once week; and the number is not in
| cOnsidernble-it must be reckOned in millions
who have that privilege not oftener than once
! or twice year.
in the most fourishing period of Rome,
under Vespssian. about 20 \. D.. 1t had popu-
laton OF 800 900: in So A. D. it had 300 900: in
| 1877 only 1000; under Leo X, 4no00; In l537
/ about % 600: in ISL it to 244 UJ9; ISL,
| 100000, and in 1889 more than 10000
Africa has now at work within her b0r-
dprs ten American, Il British and L Continental
missionary societies. There are more than 700
ordained missionaries and more than 1000 na-
tive preachers. 1t is estimated tNat there are.
both white and native, about I7J,C00 commune.
cants and 100000 adherents.
II -
| ThibeJ copy of the "Jangvm." monster en-
cyclorsedia of Thibetau Buddhism. It COM
prses 225 volumes each of which is two feet
| org by six inches thick. Three thousand ru-
| pees formed he price for the work, which was
| formerly in the possession of Buddhist mo-
| mastery in ThlDet.
Sugar was unknown TO the ancient
| Greeks and Romans. even 4 medicines and
| not until tea and coffee and alcoholic beverages
| created popular demand for its use early in
| the eighteenth century, did 1t become an im-
| portant article of diet in Europe. The annual
| consumption in England was then Only three
| pounds per capita; it Is now at the rate of "
| pounds
There is really but one place in the
world where violins are made extensively. That
| place is Markneukirchen, with IT'S surrounding
| villages. There altogether about 1900
| people living there who do nothing else bus
| make viOlins The inhabitants, from the little
| urchln to the old gray-headed man, the small
| girl and the old grandmother all are engaged
| In making some part Of fiddle.
| In the early days OF the present genera
alton of business men, there were, in popular
estimation, but five millionaires in this country,
| They were William Gray, of Boston; John
Jacob Astor and Stephen Whitney. Of New
| York; Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia, and
| Nicholas LonCwOrth, of Cincinnati There are
| now at least 800 in the city of New York alone,
| more than one of whom has an annual income
| equal to the combined fortunes of all the mill
| ionaires of half century ago.