Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

-One-seventh OF the land owners in Great
Britain are women.
Paris can now be reached from London
an hour sooner than Edinburgh.
Over 5000. .OOO, 600, 900 envelopes are
manufactured in England annually.
AN Anarchist congress is to be held at
Alicante, Spain, during the present year.
Paris is accounted the most beautiful
city in the world. 1t contains 81, 426 SHADE
trees.
London affords for the use of its 4,000,-
900 inhabitants only 10 free public and 25 COM
mercial bathing establishments.
The number of immigrants reported to
have settled in Manitoba and the northwest
during 1880 is something over ll,OOO.
The Sutlej. a large river in British
India, with descent Of II 900 feet in $50 miles,
Is the fastest flowing river in the world.
Owing to the lack of snow, cattle are
still able to Craze throughout the Province Of
Manitoba. which is great saving to farmers.
The French are reading and writing
people. Parfsians send each year 10000 900
letters. 100000 postal cards and S5,OOO,OO0
newspapers.
The dividends paid by the nine leading
copper companies during the past year aggre-
gated 81 05O.O00. Of which Calumet and Hecla
disbursed 100000.
I'm the 26 years, 1861 to 1886, the total
actual number of female suicides in Denmark
difference of six only.
Venice has 14O, 900 inhabitants. OF
these no less than 10000 are enrolled as recipi-
ents Of relief; that Is to say, nearly one-fourth
OF the population are paupers.
"A pair of moose are to be broken to
harness In South Sioux Falls, s. Oak. 1t is ex-
pected to drive them in Sioux Falls, until the
opening of the Worlds Fair, when they will be
taken to Chicago
"A Wichita man found colony of wild
honey bees in a tree, actively working about
four miles south Of that town. one day this
week. This is most unusal occurrence in
Kansas for this time of year.
In the general elections that have just
been held in Italy nine Jewish members of the
Chamber Of Deputies have been returned.
This is said to be the largest number thas
have ever sat in any Parliament
/. In Fall River, Mass, Anna Allen has
sued James d. Grinnell for damages. She
alleges that he had a wooden snake which she
thought was real He hourished the snake at
her and in endeavoring to run away she fell
and broke her ankle.
One of the great Buddhist temples at
ment. Some priests forged the seal of the
temple in 1887 and secured $4,000 from a
national bank, which the temples of the Jodo
sect afterwards refunded.
The securities listed at the New York
Stock Exchange in 1890 amounted to 1889, 1885,
$40 par value bonds. sS58 So, ,797 in stocks. On
the New York Stock Exchange u, All, ,7yS shares
OF stock were dealt in, and on the Consolidated
Exchange 6,074, 400 shares.
Sir John Thompson has authorized the
purchase of a photomIc-ographic apparatus
for the public service of Canada. This new in
yention reproduces the image on the retina OF
the eye. and it is hoped will prove useful in the
detection of the crime of murder.
The present Austrian stamps will not
be used after June go 1891 when the new ones,
which are already in use, will replace them
altogether. The new stamps bear the head Of
the Emperor, and the value they represent Is
printed in black figures in the corners.
Great care is taken OF the morals of the
youthful Helgolandsrs. No young person un-
der Is is permitted to enter a public house,
dancing room or theater. The law has been
in force about quarter Of century. and the
Germans, while making various new regn-
Iations, have not altered it.
The porpoises in the Halifax river in
Florida. when thoroughly frightened, are 4
sight not soon forgotten by any who have been
so fortunate. At times there are thousands of,
them. Their hides make a most excellent
leather, and the oil is highly valuable. With
proper means a valuable industry might be
made out of their capture.
The annual statement of the pie in
dustry in New York city shows that there are
20establish 1ents that bake pies exclusively.
OF these one company turns out $500 pies a
day, or 1850 500 pies q year. not counting Sun
days and another averages 1000 day, or
2.l9l 600 year. The total annual consumption
n
woman and child.
LEADING against the mantelpiece of
the offices of the Secretary of State in Column
bia, )" says the Charleston NetOs and Courier,
sis an original document which. next to the
Declaration of Independence and the Con-
stitution of the United States would attract
more attention than any relic that could be
sent to the Columbian Exposition. It is the
ordinance of secession OF the State Of South
Carolina"
George Lucas brought into the Herald
office at Pslatka, Fla, one day last week. fine
lot of large, luscious strawberries fresh from
sne a Mrs Ed gsn9Des n fs ov IN anS ns
are the first in the market They are quite a
curiosity and give evidence that the last frost
will not cut us out OF this fruit so soon in the
season. The berries are unusually large and
highly colored.
One Maine woman tells how, while
washing dishes. she stepped to the door to look
at the thermometer, with the dish cloth in her
hand, and that useful article improved the
minutes exposure to the weather by freezing
SO solid that it took half an hour 20 tEawit
out; and a farmer in kennebec county re-
ported as having given away his mouse-traps
because he found all the mice that lived on the
place frozen mp on the barn floor where they
had congregated in the hope Of getting a bite
of grain.
-Enoch Sexton, a Mason county, KY,
farmer who disappeared last April, returned to
his family Christmas night, but refused to say
why he went away. His family had given him
up for dead. The horse he was riding when
last seen had returned home, and some days
after his disap pearance his saddle was found
on the roadside near Mt. Carmel. The most
dilgent search failed to bring to light anyclue
to the Whereabouts of the missing man. His
wife advertised in the papers for Information,
but no reply came, and the people OF the neigh
borhood settled down to the BELIEF that he was
no longer in the land of the living.