Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are said to be about 80 bufaloes
left in Wyoming.
| Over Madison avenue, New York City,
pass monthly about 81, 900 horses.
There are more ducks in the Chinese
Empire than in all the world outs:deo OF IL
"A Topeka schoolboy, II years old. has
composed play, which is to be presented
by his classmates.
Harvard College is 225 years old and
has graduated IL, 900 students A little more
than half of them are living.
/ -Cheapside street, London, is traversed
by Il 900. and Mansion House street, by
ABOUT 1900 vehicles daily.
| Rains have been so ineessant in Switzer-
land that tourists have abaEd Edoned the eoun-
| try Tor other parts of Europe.
"A mahogany tree lately cut in Hon
duras made three logs, which, it is reported,
were sold in Europe and brought sll6Oo.
-WyOming's wealth, as determined by
the State Board of Equalization, is S32 532
ofz-an increase of 81, ,56s rs over last year.
Quite a number of fragments have been
recovered of the large meteor which fell,
Cal
When the National Constitution was
adopted Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. was
$500 90.
The lowest temperature ever recorded
anywhere was noted by Goroehow, De en-
Der 30 1911, at Werchojansk, siberia-slo F.,
or ll30 below freezing.
There are an even dozen States in the
Union that have million acres or more in
corn this year. Missouri stands third in the
list with an acreage of 6,723,OC0.
The Pixies Peak railroad is now in sue
ST.
the line is $40 feet above sea level and the
upper 4,4R. The distance is nine miles
In eastern New Mexico nearly 900, 600
acres of fruit and farm lands have been re-
claimed by the construction Of storage
reservoirs and irrigating canals during the
past two years.
M. Tisserand has said that there are in
France 6,9l3 500 cultiyators, who are divided
into 3,463, 800 proprietors, farmers and metay-
ers, and 3,452-9O0 ordinary laborers, bailif5
and farm servants.
"A pathological statistician calculates
that the year 2OOJ there will be 1,7oO,O0O,OO
people who speak English, and that the
Otner European languages will be spoken
by only 100000 900 people.
The Portland Oregonidn says: A school
of whales have been making themselves at
home close along the beach between Rogue
River and Hunters Cove during the week,
performing their frisky and amusing antics.
From Oregon comes the queer story
that 5year-old child at Eugene grows
faster on one side than on the other, with
out any apparent cause Physicians there
are reported to be highly interested in the
case.
An Indian woman of 300 pounds
weight visited Bath, Me-, and broke through
the sidewalk. The Street Commissioners
thereupon gave her notice that in her fut-
ure visits she must keep in the middle of the
road
Parties who are drilling a we'll at Foun-
tain Park, Geneva, struck solid log of oak
at depth of 60 feet Another, even larger,
was encountered at depth of 80 feet. Both
are well preserved, although much darker in
color than the freshly cut wood.
Discovering vessels of Commodore
Perry's fiotilla is f1ourishing industry on
the lakes. The latest announcement ia that
the hull of the Porcupine, one of the nine
small gunboats built by him on Lake Erie ia
sunk OF Ferrysburg, and will be raised.
Belgian railway officials, after three
years of Investigation, report that under or
binary circumstances the average railway
train in passing over one mile of track wears
from it 2 10 pounds. This natural destruc-
tion of track amounts for the whole world to
about l,330, 900 pounds daily.
The United States Consul at Antigua
West Indies. calls attention to the total alb
sence in that colony of many articles of
American hardware, such as kitchen uten-
sils, which would be very acceptable to the
people, and he suggests that American man
ufacturers send samples of such articles to
the merchants of that place.
If it is true, as recently reported, that
the great railway line, soon to be built
across Siberia by the Russian Governments
is to be operated by electricity, it will be the
work of the greatest magnitude yet under
taken in connection with electric power
ana, II successful, it will firmly establish
electricity as the motor of the immediate
future.
The demand for fruit cans this wear
will be unusually great. owing to the large
fruit crop In Michigan alone it is believed
that 100000 bushels of peaches will be
gathered. The crops of pears and plums
promise also to be bountiful in various parts
Of the country. Economical housewives
would better buy their fruit cans. therefore,
Is soon as possible, because in all probabil-
ty they will be dearer than usual.
1t is reported from Panama that q mon
ter shark was captured in the harbor there
1t measured nearly "a feet in
ength and was four feet in diameter at the
,reatest width. The skin was about a half
nch thick. 1t was captured by q naruoon
brown by fireman on the steamer Bolivar
While in the vicinity of Toboga Island, and
he steamer was completely turned round
" the powerful fish when it was first made
asst.
Joseph Stevens, an Oxford farmer, has
sow and four well-grown pigs, which run
n an orchard where the limbs of the trees
re quite low and laden with apples The
Id SOW springs up and catches a limb and
hakes it, thus bringing down the apples,
rhich she and her family quickly devour.
-fter getting in this way all she can reach
ne pig climbs on the mothers back and
caches a higher limb, which she shakes
igorously, bringing down q fresh supply of
'uit.
In Siam the milling and export of rice
ives larger return of profit for the capital
vested than any other industry At
resent there are in Bangkok % steam rice
ills, OF which Is are in the hands of Chi
ese. Many of the mills are lighted by cleo
icity, and employ two sets of men, being
lus enabled to run day and night The
ost modern machinery is in use, and, al
lough the majority of the owners are Chi
ese, and very close in business matters
st they hire the very best European engi-
sers.