Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| Chinese maldenS pluck out their eye
brows.
Cats continue growing until they are a
! year old.
! There are more Germans than Irish in
| the United States.
/ The revenue of bankrupt Egypt was
s1O,25O, COO last year.
The human brain weighs one thirty.
| fifth of the whole body.
The President of the Swiss Republic
receives but 5000 per year.
"A million kilograms a week pass
| through the English postoff1ce.
The barrel ofthe Krupp gun is IA feet
long, and each charge costs 5000.
Twelve hundred and eighteen species Of
mushrooms grow in Great Britain.
No one is allowed on the streets of De-
Land, Fla, after 10 o'clock at night.
More than a million people are treated
in the hospitals of London each year.
Within 40 minutes the other day at
Hamilton, Mo-, one cat killed and stacked up
2S rats.
From 25, 900 to 80, 900 letters are posted
every year in England without any ad-
dresses.
"A chunk of hail which fell last week in
Munson, Mass, was 4 feet long. feet wide
and feet thick.
The population of Greece is increasing
faster than that of any other country in Eu-
rope at present.
-Constan 5inople is claimed to be as much
of an educational center as any of the uni
yer. ity cities of Europe.
Mortality from consumption is higher
in England than in Ireland and higher in
Scotland than in England.
AT the Westchester fair last week there
were 80 men on the grounds whose aggregate
fortunes would be 81, 900 0O0,00O
Fifteen thousand Scotchmen left their
homes during the past eight months OF the
present year, against Il, ,OGO last year.
Cows at Clsrksville recently became
intoxicated by eating apple pomace, which
IS nothing but the crushed pulp of apples.
The first thing japanese does in the
morning is to take down the entire front OF
his building, leaving the whole OF the in
terror open to view.
Nine hundred and fifty-fve religious
periodicals are published in this country,
which are estimated to have O total circula-
ton OF 3,973,G $50 for each issue.
In one day recently good wife in Muir
ray county, Ca, pulled 2o9 bundles of fodder
and tied up 10 bundles. The report doesn't
state what the old man was doing.
The most holy object to millions of
men, drawing hundreds of thousands of pill
grims from Asia and Africa to the Kaaba at
Mecca, is nothing bnt meteoric stone.
"A clever English smuggler recently
avoided the payment of duty on some costly
diamonds by imbedding them into meat and
in that form feeding them to skye terrier.
"A trained bat, belonging to William
Hester, of Spring Hill, Pa, conveys messages
like a carrier pigeon. Its speed is very great
more than two miles minute. 1t recently
flew mile in :27s4.
The number of emigrants from the
United Kingdom to America during the last
eight months was 1O9,051, an increase of 5000
over the same period Of 1890. OF these, A,575
were from ireland, an increase of :, ,4S.
There are nearly 1000 men in the Brit
ish army over six feet high. OF every 100
men in the army are under feet inches,
35 between feet in ches and 5 feet inches
4S between feet inches and feet 10 inches,
and II over feet 10 inches.
"A large proportion of the soldiers of
the Austro-Hungarian regiments who have
received medals and decorations for brnv-
cry ON the field are Hebrews. The only gold
medal for bravery possessed in l6 regiments
adorns the breast of Hebrew who has been
elevated to the peerage.
Queen Victoria now rules, subject to
the limitations of the British Constitution,
over population scattered in the four quar-
ters OF the globe and the islands of the sea
aggregating 367, ,0O0, 600. a greater number
than has ever acknowledged the sovereignty
of one person in ancient or modern times.
One section of the historical collection
at Dresden, Germany, is literally museum
of boots and shoes, being, it is believed, I'M
equaled in the world as repository of the
OOf 0f Ra1 oh Ann fI,o l,Ir
of interest shown are pair of shoes worn
by Martin Luther at the diet of Worms, and
the toilet slippers of the great Maria Their
esa.
In pencil factories pencils are counted
by an ingenious apparatus which takes the
form of a number of parallel grooves. An
operative takes handful of pencils, and
rolls them along the board in which these
grooves are, with the result that each groove
is filed and the board is set aside As the
number of grooves in the boards are known,
this prevents any further trouble in count
ing.
Among peculiar legacies NAV be chron-
icled that of the strangely constituted widow
who left sum of money to provide real
champagne ut theatrical performances in
Paris, where the drinking of wine was q
feature of the play. More recently a sum OF
money, amounting to $4,000, was given in
trust to Mr.. Irving to supply the same prop
erIleS uIluer SliHlIdI CllCuHlSOlLCOSj JUG
donor being the daughter of wellknown
London physician.
"A rich man of Boston has one son who
became of age this summer. The father has
no other occupation save that of nursing his
income, and as he is a man of sense and lib
eral views, he told his son that he must not
stand idle, yet left to him the choice of bust
ness or profession. At the same time he
wrote privately to "a friends and acquaint-
ances, asking their advice in the matter. The
24 were prominent, each in his own calling.
And each replied in turn, complaining of his
own business, and advising the father to
seek elsewhere for the future prosperity Of
the young man.