Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The Lick telescope shows 100000, 900
stars.
Spanish quicksilver miners get 20 cents
a day.
The Sultan of Bareda has mat worth
$3.50 OOO
old Persian carpets fetch big prices in
England.
There are in Sweden 143, ,669 more women
than men.
There are 200, 900 oil holes in the earth.
They cost s6OO, 100000.
There is only one sudden death among
women to every eight among men.
The late strike cost the coal miners in
the vicinity Of Oskaloosa, Ia, nearly 5000
Including the native troops, the English
establishment in India is about 10000 men.
The old town house in Scituate, Mass,
erected in 1854, was burned Monday even
ing
1t is said that one-eighth of the wine
produced in California last year came from
single vineyard.
"A thrifty woman in New York pawned
her husbands set of teeth in order to raise
money for the rent.
Roaring River, Barry county, Mich,
has Sunday school list of 81. There are
only To persons in the town,
The youngest of the cardinals at Rome
are each 81 years of age; the Oldest "a, who
mas worn the scarlet for 30 years.
Berlin is the only city in Germany that
has an excess of 100000 population. Only
20 towns have over 100, 900 inhabitants.
The total length of the Brooklyn
bridge is 5S7 feet. 1t is 1S5 feet above the
tlaa r1afd dIo Of %Eea
span.
The cannonading of the Battle of Water
loo was heard at the town of Crefl, in the
north of France, about HIS miles from the
field.
Carthage, Mo-, has a haunted depot
1t is supposed to be the soul of some departed
commercial traveller come back to kick on
baggage rates.
The Notre Dame Cathedral, Montreal,
has the largest bell in America. 1t weighs
"a $50 pounds, is eight feet seven inches in
diameter, and six feet high.
"A snake nine feet long was killed near
Castle Rock, No., the other day, which con-
tanned five young turkeys and seven turkey
eggs which hadn't Matched yet.
There are 300 places in Leavenworth
where liquors are sold openly: 167 of these
places are licensed through the agency Of
The biggest days receipts in the history
of the Brooklyn bridge were taken on April
30, 1889, the day of the centennial annivers-
ary celebration. They amounted to 5.Ols 90.
Cremation is more extensively prae-
ticed in Italy than in any other country.
The first crematory was established at Milan
in 1876; there are now 80 in operation in
italian territory.
1t is stated that at the present moment
there are in the market large quantities of
yellow Cape stones which have been
changed to brilliant white by a wellknown
chemical process.
Daniel Salisbury, aged 1o3 years, Of
Bellingham, Mimi, has used tobacco for
nearly century, and he SAYS that he be-
lieves it has saved his life. His wife died
this week, at the age of 102 years.
AT Strasbourg, and in most Of the great
towns in Flanders, houses OF industry are
with a view to extirpate idleness,
beggary and mendfcity. These workhouses
are in every respect masterpieces of politi-
cal economy.
One of the first acts of the japanese
Parliament was to rescind the regulation for
prohibiting the presence of ladies at de-
bates, and another was the resembling of the
which forbade the attendance Of
members in Japanese dress.
Blankets are loaned to the poor, during
the winter months, free of cost, by kind
hearted citizen in Brunswick, Germany.
They are stamped, to prevent them from be-
ing sold or pawned. and they are returned
at the close of the cold weather.
-Four different mountain peaks in idaho
are from II to % feet lower, by actual meas
urement, than they were Is years ago, and
Il is believed that this settling is going on
with many others. The idea is that quick
sands have undermined them.
The Japanese language is said to con-
tain G0,OOO words, everyone of which re-
1uires different symbol. 1t is quite i'm
possible for one man to learn the entire
anguage, and well-educated japanese is
amilar with only about 10000 words.
Puget Sound and Commencement Bay
Ire literally full of salmon. Nothing like
The run has ever been seen before. There
Ire so many fish that the wheels Of the
steamers actually kill them. Old Indians
,ay that not within their memory have
salmon appeared in such numbers as this
season.
During the 'tpea" season the Great
Eastern Railway delivered into London
markets 925 tons in one day. Large quanti-
lies arrived by road and other railways.
Prices started at As, but soon dropped.
Thousands of bags were sold at Cd. and Is.
yer bag Such state Of things was never
Inown before.
"A Nevada, MO-, street car mule fell
Iown on the track and one wheel of the car
an over his neck and another over his back.
The car stopped when 1t got squarely over
he unfortunate animal, holding him down.
he occupants got out ana pulled the car
acx when the mule got up, shook himself
nd started Off at the usual gait.
Dwarf trees, only two feet high, exact
eproductfons in miniature Of sycamore,
ak cedar, and apple trees, have for two or
hree hundred years been raised by the jap
nese. The mode of producing them is a
secret; but some French gar
eners have within the past years almost
qualled the japanese in the production Of
hese dwarf trees
The Mohave Jfiner says: The Wallapai
indians will probably send large number
f children to the school at Fort Mohave
uring the next term OF school. The Indians
re well pleased with the progress made by
ne children who attended the last term and
ould like TO send down quite q number OF
tile ones, but as they think they are con-
,rring lasting benefit on Uncle Sam some
1axing will have to be applied to the heads
families.