Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-Cbicapo has over 500 letter carriers.

AN average locomotive costs 900.
Carriages are run by erectricity in Ber-
| lin.
New York talks of an Office building
| $50 feet high.
The Vatican contains 2O8 staircases and
| 1000 different rooms.
London omnibus drivers gained $50, 600
year by winning their strike.
The average salaries of the mistresses in
| the London Board schools is $3.50.
Not less than /, ,OOO, 900 pounds of rubber
are annually used for bicycle tires.
AT recent Cawker City, Kan, cleo
| tfon 13 more women than men voted
The first land Office erected in Kansas
is still standing at Kickapoo, between Atchi-
son and Leavenworth.
-Caterpillars from 10 to IL inches long
are said to be not uncommon in Australia,
while species which vary in length from
to inches are stated to be numerous.
Telescope steel masts of rods are to be
used in lighting the public squares in Brus-
sells. The object of this system Is to pre-
serve the beauties Of the parks in the day
time.
The movement in favor of Roman in
stead of Gothic type is rapidly gaining
scientific periodicals are printed in Roman
characters.
Two gum trees which tower over 100
feet above q little church in Guatemala are
60 feet in circumference, and their strong
roots have pushed the foundations of the
church out OF place.
"A. NJ Hobbs, of Shepherd, Mich, some
seasons ago planted West India coffee ber-
ries, and has used the same each year in his
harvested seven bushels and is furnishing
seed to his neighbors.
Scotland contains 30 towns of more
than 10000 inhabitants. Seven Of these num-
Der more than $1,000 Inhabitants, nine have
between 10000 and 80 900. and the remaining
IA have from 10000 to 10000.
The education of Russian children is
said to be conducted in four languages-the
native, German, English and French-which
they learn to speak huentlY. The Car
speaks English remarkably well.
Decatur, Mich, has four peppermint
oil factories and they are all kept busy dis
tilling oil from the plant raised on the large
tract of swamp land near there that q few
years ago was considered worthless.
"A New York hotelkeeper is exhibiting
box of 25 cigars which have been sent to
him by Havana maker as a sample of what
the Prince of Wales smokes. They are
seven inches long and cost 5, 800 thousand-
The tea trade of Japan is constantly in
creasing, while that of China is diminishing.
The increase is at the rate of more than
$500 900 pounds yearly. Most of the Japanese
tea is consumed in the Unite d States and
Canada.
George Holmes, of Cincinnati, is the
owner OF q peculiar diamond. In the morn
ing It is beautiful sky blue, at noon is per-
fectly white, and at 6 O'Clock in the evening
ho0fna n black after
is like piece of GOAL.
"A rare reptile, white rattlesnske, was
exhibited the other day at a fair in Georgia,
together with a photograph Of its eye, in
which can be distinctly seen, it is said, the
likeness of farmer who narrowly escaped
death from the reptile.
Belgium has a population of 5000, ,043;
Kansas has population of ,427,0 ,096, yet she
is so large that seven countries the size of
Belgium could be laid down within her bor-
der, and yet she would have 100000 square
miles of unoccupied territory left.
An old lady of Clinton, Mo-, brought
suit against the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company for s5 900 for killing her husband
and $50 for killing an old SOW. When the
matter came up she dismissed as to her
husband but refused to fall cent on the
SOW.
1t is said to be whole days task for
two men to fell a mahogany tree. On ac-
count of the spurs which project from the
base Of the trunk, a scaffo1d has to be erected
and the tree cut of above the spurs, leaving
thus stump of the very best wood from 10
to l5 feet high.
"A stranger entered dwelling at Hutch
inson, and, finding no one at home, pro-
ceeded to go to bed. When the mistress Of
the house returned she promptly called a
policeman. The people of Hutchinson are
hospitab1e enough, but the line must be
drawn somewhere.
The fair wages for skilled female tailors
in Berlin are 81 AZ a week, though they run
down to 81 TO- and the working season is a
short one. Good cloaxmakers get 81 66 per
week. Young girl workers get from 50cents
to 81 week. The price paid for making q
dozen buttonholes by hand is ~ cents.
I'm the woods near Plantsville, Conn, a
day or two ago Mrs. Elisha Newell found
nest OF four gray squirrels that were only a
few days old. She took the little fellows
home and gave them to her house at,which
had recently been deprived of her kittens.
The old cat welcomed tine strangers affec-
tionately, and is bringing them up in the
right way.
An extraordinary event recently 90
Cured in the Idaho state prison. Boxing
had been permitted by the'Warden for some
months, and it eliminated in finish fight
between Convicts Dunlap and McCreary.
PreliminarleS were arranged by Warden
Mack and his guards. Prisoners were al
lowed to bet money and articles which they
manufactured on the result, and on the day
of the fight were present en- masse. Guard
Alexander Roberts, son of Prison Commits
sioner Roberts, was bottleholder for one of
the combatants. All officials of the prison
were present, except Deputy Warden Koh-
ney, who was away.
Munich has been invaded by an enor-
nous army of butterflies (moths). Millions
of the species known as 'nonhenschmetter-
lingen" attacked the city few nights ago,
attracted, as is supposed, by the brilliancy
of the electric lights. The walls of the
houses before which electric lamps were
fixed we're Utterly covered with the butter
flies. In several places they forced their
way through the doors and windows and
futtered around the lights. In the Cafe
Kaisherhof and the Lowenbrau-Keller, the
itensity of the light fascinated such swarms
of the butterfly nuns that the devotees of
King Gambrinus found their hats and clothes
so thickly covered with the intruders that
they hurried out and left the invaders in
possession. In some places the lamps were
darkened by the mass of butterflies clinging
around them.