Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Cleveland has %, 900 Bohemians.
Great Britain has So, 900 women trade
unionists.
"A Marshall county, No., man has a
mule that is "a hands high.
1t has been discovered that almanacs
date back to the year 100 A. d.
1t Is estimated that every seal consumes
about ten pounds of fish daily.
AT depth of $50 feet at Eddy, N. NJ,
a stratum OF salt mas been struck which Is 10
feet thick.
Each of the four cables upon which the
Brooklyn bridge rests has a capacity Of Il, :
600 tons.
AN inventor has applied for a patent on
a child spanker 1t is automatic and said to
do its work well.
AN electric swing suggested for the
Worlds Fair will carry "A people and swing
a distance of 300 feet.
The Usage tribe of Indians now num-
bers /, 500 and is very rich, owning over l,o0o
acres of good land apiece.
An electrical expert says that no light
has been found that will penetrate q fog
better than the old oil lamp.
The African fever has again broken out
in Atlanta, and hundreds of negroes are
KING OF emlgratlng 20 LlDera-
The product of gold in the United
States the last l6 years has aggregated the
enormous amount of s572 100000.
The gross revenue from tobacco in Great
Britain last year was fs.7l7,7s4- There is no
free trade in tobacco in England.
The smallest church in the world is at
st. Lawrence, near Ventnor, Isle OF Wight.
1t has seating capacity of IL persons
Daily photographs of the sun taken
since 1851 show conclusively that that lu-
minary makes complete revolution in IL
years.
The French still fight an average of
1900 duels year, but as they are mostly
Dloodless affairs the subject is not a painful
one to dwell on.
"A Georgia groom of IS who welded
bride Of 40 paid the officiating clergyman a
fee of four silver dimes. He couldn't rake
together a larger sum-
I'm the 5000, 900 letters that reached the
dead-letter office last year, there was money
amounting to s2s 642, and checks and notes
of the value of $l,471dL
The attorney of the Great Northern
Railroad stated recently in court that 1900
persons were actually detected in attempts
to defraud his company last year.
I'm the reign of Edward 1 it was de-
clared that the dealers in fish should not be
permitted to make larger profit than
penny on each shilling's worth sold,
When the body of e. NJ. Haskell was
disinterred after 20 years burial at North
field, Mimi, it was found that he had a
beard % inches long. He was smooth-shaved
when buried.
"A farmer living near Independence has
patch of grapes covering one tenth OF an
acre from which he has gathered over 900
pounds Of grapes. That is at the rate of five
tons to the acre.
Humboldt calculated the mean level of
North America to be 74s feet above the sea,
whole of North America might be worn
down to the sea level.
White tar is one of the latest inven-
tions or discoveries. 1t Will not become soft
under the suns rays in any climate, and is
expected to be used largely in calking the
deck seams of fine yachts.
An East Indian prince has lately had a
bed made for him in Paris at a cost of SIS
900. Its mattress Is huge musical box and
its canopy is supported by automatic figures
that wave fans to cool the air.
Vermont is the only State in the Ameri-
can Union which was never province Of
foreign government OF part of another
State or Territory of the United States. It
was also the first State to join the original
thirteen.
Some specimens of mangle wurzel beets
grown at Santa Ana, Cal, have been sent to
the permanent exhibit at Chicago. The
largest beet weighed 66 pounds One meas
ured feet inches in length, and of them
323 pounds.
of crew of 215 men on the United
States cruiser Omaha, which recently ar
leans. The rest are principally English,
Irish, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch,
Japanese and Chinese.
The stingiest man in Georgia lives in
Wilcox county. He has been married IL
years, and during that time has only bought
1ne sack of flour and one 25-cent calico dress.
He lives at home, and the spinning wheel is
still at work in his home.
kansas has generous share of sectarian
Methodists are educated at Bald
win City, EpiscopaIians at Topeka, Presby-
,erians at Emporia, United Brethren at
Campbellites and Dunkards at
Wichita and Catholics at st. Mary's.
Southern California growers are making
yreat preparations to furnish the Eastern
markets with winter vegetables. There will
)e several months in the year when the
southern California producer will have COM
,aratively no competition in the East.
"A cottonwood tree planted in Blue
Rapids in lS72 was recently measured and
vas found TO be ) feet inches in circumfer-
nee at a point two feet from the ground 1t
lad been cast aside as runt and was stuck
n the ground 'Just to get it out of the way
1t is asserted that the idea of the slot
Machine is very old. In an inn in one of the
ural districts of England the tobacco for
he guests was kept in a box which was
opened by English penny; this box was
so the landlord averred, l50 years
I'D.
Probably not many of the thousands
yho daily glance over bill of fare know its
'rigin. A German publication devoted to
ubjects astronomical gives this explana-
ion: "At the meeting of electors in Regens-
'urg in the year 1889 Elector Henry, Of
attracted general notice at
tate dinner. He had long paper before
i'm, to which he referred every time before
e ordered dish. The Earl Of Montfort,
Yho sat near him, asked him what he was
eading. The elector silently handed the
aper to his interrogation. 1t contained
st of the viands prepared for the occasion,
,hieh the elector had ordered the cook to
rite out for him. The idea of having such
list so pleased the illustrious assembly that
hey introduced it each in his own household
nd since that time the fashion of having a
lenu has spread all over the civilized
Torld."
,JOKELETS FROM JUDGE