Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The population OF the rIJI 1sIanos Is
$4,000.
of the A, 900 lady teachers in France,
IL, 900 are Sisters.
Only IL per cent of the population Of
India can read and write.
The Imperial University of Toxic,
Japan, has 1000 scholars enrolled.
There are over Il, 500, 900 pupils in the
public schools of the United States.
Hypnotic patients obey the phonograph
as readily as they do the living speaker.
Over S1O0, 900 worth of pearls was found
in mussels on the Sugar river, Wisconsin,
last summer.
"A new colonial coin issued by Great
Britain has on it's diverse the Arabic word
"Ad1l, meaning justice.
Eleven thousand applications for ad-
mission as students to the Stanford uni
versity in California have already been
made.
In an English coal mine plants have
grown at depth of 1000 feet. They were
perfectly erect and their foliage was
blanohed.
"A number of Boston workmen struck the
other day because their superintendent"
was referred to In some printed statement
as foreman"
"A vein of gray copper ore four feet wide
and assaytng 5000 per ton silver has been
struck at Mullan Idaho. 1t is said to be the
biggest strike Of the season.
In one day recently good wife in AFur-
ray County, Ga, pulled 2O9 bundles OF fodder
and tied up 10 bundles. The report doesn't
state what the old man was doing.
The earliest traces of algebraic knowI-
edge are found in Egypt. Ahmes who lived
In 400, B. C., dealt with geometric and alge-
braic problems in papyrus manuscript.
More white children are color blind
than Indians. An examination of $50 white7
children disclosed five who were color blind.
while among the same number Of Indian
boys none were found.
"A Southern exchange is the authority
for the statement that in a Georgia settle
ment Is a school with 21 scholars, all carry
Ing the same surname-Dreogors Aunt Ia
lot"
AN initial velocity of seven miles a sec
ond would be needed to send projectiIe
beyond the earth's attraction. This mqy
soon be made possible If the rate of progress
,he science OF explosives is making be
kept up.
The inspectors at Whatcom, Wash,
are so keen in their search for smuggled
In with 100 salmon and rockcod, the customs
Inspector cut them all wide open in search
OF DOPE" without finding any.
The Carson Appeal says that Nevada
has never had such an apple crop as this
year. The trees are breaking under the
loads of fruit, and there are no pests. cinch
bugs or cottony scale to interfere with the
biggest crop ever raised in that State.
"A Leeds, England, inventor, claims
hot hn has
clocks which are driven by natural electric
ity from the earth itself 81 find" he saws,
'by the galvanometer that the earth's cur-
rents vary verv much, but by an automatic
arrangement fixed by the pendulum, 1 can
keep time to within one minute in 13
months"
Even in hats there is poison. Alcoholics
beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, milk, water,
air, the money we interchange. all are dan
gerous, toxic; any of them enough, in fact,
TO give nervous man nightmare. But the
"top" hat, this is the last blow. Man has
clung to it so long and so Loyalty. Lead
poisoning Is the danger in hats, particularly
in new ones.
In boring artesian wells on the Pacific
Coast great depths are reached before strik-
ing water. At Jaral and Monelara the wells
are 1885 and $50 feet in depth The supply
1s inexhaustible. but the water has TO be
pumped- In Texas water has been struck
at 2,0S1 feet at Haskell, 1870 at Longfelder,
anu L6OS at spofford. The water is good,
but 1t did not flow in August.
There is a woman hermit in Massachu-
setts whose 1ife's story, according to the
Boston Journal, sounds like tale in the
fiction. She is 81 years old and is said to
nave Sl25OOO concealed in her house. She be-
longs to wealthy Louisiana family but ran
away from Ooard1nS school when young
girl and married a young man with moderate
means
"A carpenter named Porsley from Bards-
town, KY, while hunting with a party on
the plains in 1904, was driven by hostile
Sioux to the high ground in the rear Of
Pixies Peak. Near the headwaters of the La
Platte river he found little gold and car
ried 1t in his shot pouch for months. Some
time later, while in Santa Fe, he told the
Spaniards there OF his discovery and thew
tried to induce him to lead them to the
place, but he refused on the ground that it
was on United States TERRITORY. Being
afraid that the Spaniards would carry him
away he appealed to Lieutenant T. NJ Pike,
who was in Santa Fe in 1907, for protection
The facts were published bv the lieutenant
after his return from Mexico, but no Amerf-
cans took the hint
AT the recent International Congress Of
Hygiene the mortality of persons in various
professions between the ages of 25 and s. was
rated as follows: Ecclesiastics, 100: gardeners.
100; farmers. III; grocers, 139; fishermen, I43;
cabinet makers, 14s: LAWYERS, I52: workers in
silk, 152; mechanics, l55: merchants, I5S:
159: miners, l60; shoemakers 1f6:
commercial travellers. III; bakers. I72: mill
ers, 172: upholsterers, I73; masons, IVA: black
smiths, 175; clerks, 179; road laborers, ls5:
workers in wool, ls6; gunsmItlIs, ls6: tailors
ls9; matters, 1872; printers, 1893; workers in
cotton, 1876: physicians, 202: stone quarry
men, 202; binders, 2l0; butchers, 2Il: glass-
makers, 2l4; plumbers. painters, etc, PIG:
cutters 229; brewers, 245: cab drivers PSF:
wine merchants, 274; notters 304; Cornwall
miners, SSl; weavers, SSs: hotel boys, S97.