Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

DIT LOUIS county, 11lln., ID dOOul Ous
and quarter times as large as Connecticut
The fastest bird on the wing is the swift.
which has been known to attain speed OF 20
miles an hour.
AT Bath, Me-, was launched last week
the Glenwood. claimed to be the largest four
masted schooner ever built.
The Lord Mayor of London Is to visit
vienna this week. It is an unprecedented
event in London's civic annals.
The tendency among the men who have
made large fortunes out West to drift back to
the East is daily becoming more noticeable.
jean Charlet, boy aged II years, has
succeeded in ascending Mont Blanc. He is the
youngest climber to accomplish such feat.
The important discovery has been made
that the letter 'an occurs in the name of
Tyler.
The hottest day of the year in New Zeal
and usually comes at Christmas The day is an
woods.
&C. P. Huntington in his Journey 10 the
Pacific coast travelled only in the daytime.
Every night his private car was side-t tracked at
some station
Never was time in the history OF the
world when SO many short cuts cross lots-shas
Is to say. across continents-wers planned and
being executed.
-Four women have just been admitted to
the list Of doctors of the Paris faculty of medi-
cine. One of them is of Polish nationality, and
intends to practice at Warsaw.
Hanover, NH, has an apple tree 115
years old which is still bearing delicious red
has seldom stopped bearing In the ''of'' years.
That wonderful tree discovered by
marty Of haar f,
range, has grown from l26 to 139 feet 5 inches in
circumference, since the publication of the
story.
"A Kokomo dispatch says pipes connect
ing the Indiana gas fields and Chicago are be-
ing hauled away, indicating that the project of
piping natural gas TO Chicago has been aban-
DAY before yesterday q shipment of
200 tons Of Pocahontas coal was made from
Iamberts Point Va, to London. This is the
hrst shipment of steamer coal ever made from
the South to Europe
-Forty-seven years ago a man in Illinois
went out one evening to milk his COWS. He
got back home last week. That is a record
calculated to excite the jealousy even Of a teie-
graph messenger boy.
-In-Russia there are 494, 22S, $50 acres OF
forests; in Austria-Hungary, 46, 900 acres.n
Sweden, 100000 acres; in France, Z4.24l,00
q. 9.S34 34-l1
acres, and in England, 2, Al, 900 acres,
The great railway which is to carry
ships OF 1000 tons from the Gulf of St Law.
the tedious and dangerous trip around Nova
Scotia, Is almost ready for a trial trip.
According to reports which have re-
Gently been published, Germany employs $780,
600 of her women in industrial pursuits: En-
Gland, 1000 900; France $780, 900; Italy, $1,000
and Austro-Hungary about the same number.
The Holland Society of New York CITY
Is doing most excellent thing in designating
the historic places Of that city ana marking
be advantageously done for Pittsburg and vi
cinfty.
Recent successes in tunnel building en-
courages the belief that tunnel under Beh-
rings Strait will. before very long. make it
possible to enter railway car at the Grand
Central Station, in New York, and step out Of
1t in St Petersburg or Paris
"A horse belonging to W. Stewart, Bal
laghaeerreen, Ireland, it is claim ed jumped
through an open window feet inches by
feet inches and three feet from the ground
The horse is about 16 hands high. He came
through safe except little scratch on the hips
Last week 219 head of merino sheep
were shipped from Addison county, VT, to
Australia. and other shipments have preceded
this one The Vermonters, whose farming in
terests have suffered somewhat Of late, are to
be congratulated upon the promising outlook
for sheep raising.
With compressed air or electricity as
motive power superseding steam, and with
canals. tunnels, bridges and roads across lots
everywhere, We may before long realize in
good truth the epigrammatic remark of the dis
gusted votary of the old stage coach-"People
no longer travel, they arrive"
Mr.. G. B. Tillinghast has secured for
the Massachusetts State Library set of the
Portuguese code. It is comprised In go large
octave volumes and covers the entire period
from the formation OF Parliamentary Govern
ment in 1926 down to date. The books are
gift from the Portuguese Government
The bustling, hustling New World
greets the staid Old World IN most character
lstic manner by sending American locomotives
to the Holy Land TO convey carloads of pill
grims from Joppa to Jerusalem The first loco
motive engines ever seen In Palestine are Of
Philadelphia build, and are now on the spot.
Probably the oldest timber in the world
which has been subjected to the use Of man is
found in the ancient temple of Egypt, IN con-
nection with stonework. which is known to be
at least 1, 900 years old. This was the only wood
used in the construction of the temple, and Is
in the form Of ties, holding the end Of one stone
to another.
The death rate per 1 900 in the Spanish
Z94; in the Austrian, 694; in the French, SOC;
in the English, 513; in the Belgium, 4O7; in the
German, 897 In France the illnesses Of con-
number 26 the deaths LII to the
], 900; in Germany the illnesses 8I2 the deaths
.SS per 1000
in May, 1888, the National Museum Of
Brazil came into final possession Of one of the
largest aerolites that has ever been known to
fall upon either Of the American continents.
The noble specimen weights IL 800 pounds and
originally laid embedded in the ground near
Bendego creek, in one Of the most inaccessible
portions of Brazil.
The Indian cotton crop of 1S59-9o, the
Times of India says, has proved to be the
largest ever grown. The total receipts into
Bombay from July, 1889, to June. 1890 consisted
Of 23S COO bales of three and half hundred
weight Last years receipts are stated to have
been 3S7, 900 bales larger than the record for
any previous season.