Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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There are 250, 900 words in the English
| language.
The largest pyramid in Egypt is 14s
yards high.
Europe at present is passing through
cold period.
The canal system of New York is now
| q century old.
I'm Japan for every 100 men there are
only 1872 women.
I'm the first three weeks In June Mon-
tana had five stages held up.
Since 1876 the two-thirds rule has gov.
erned Democratic conventions
Fully 800 persons were killed in the
Punjaub last year by snake bites.
There are nearly 100000 more men
than women in the United States.
There is only one sudden death among
women to every eight among men,
The railways of the world are worth
quite lot of money-E6, 600, 100000.
The only kind of fruit which appears
not to flourish in California is the apple.
The gambling tables at Monte Carlo last
year netted their proprietors over s5,oO0,OO0
"A Maine woman conducts a large
foundry and engine works at Dunkirk,
NY.
while there are now 600, 900 Hebrews
in the United States, there are over 100000
in Russia.
The maintenance of the Sultan's harem
$4,000, 600.
If the streets of London were put end to
end they would reach from that city to St.
Petersburg.
The tallest lighthouse tower is 189 feet
from its base to the center of the lantern, at
Cape Hatteras.
In Australia they recently erected
fence of wire netting 500 miles long to keep
the rabbits out.
"A Squire in Aberdeen, o., is dying
who is said to have united more than 1000
eIoping couples.
The total gifts to Yale during the past
year have been 5000 900, while Harvard re-
ceived but $5O0.OOO
"A man down in Georgia has built a
number of houses which are occupied by
widows free of rent.
The Presbyterians are about to estab-
lish college in Salt Lake City, and have
purchased site of 100 acres.
There are "a Methodist, so Congrega-
tionalist and about 25 Unitarian candidates
for the English Parliament.
New York City on June II consumed
76 $780, LAG gallons of water, the largest amount
ever used in a single day in the city.
"A Boston writer has figured up that
heaven contains 1,sOO, 600 900 souls, against a
population in hades of It's 000000,oO0
The British ship Berean, which recently
rounded Cape Horn, experienced the phe.
nomenon of heavy cloud of dust at sea.
in England there are 10000 miles of
telegraph lines. The number of messages
received in London last year was 100000.
There are said to be 5000 children in
Chicago who are debarred from attending
school on account of insufficient clothing.
"A thimble is really etvmologieally con-
sidered only thumb bon,'' the original
thinbles having been worn on the thumb.
The Indian exhibit at the Worlds Fair
will include representatives of every tribe
from the extreme North to Terra del Fuego.
The we'll that prompted Samuel Wood
worth to write ''The Old Oaken Bucket" is
still kept in good condition at scituate.
Mass.
One million three hundred thousand
pounds worth of pickles and sauces are ex-
ported from England to other countries
yearly.
The Chinese razor has the shape
isosce,es triangle. 1t is made of rude
and many of them are pounded up
worn out horseshoes
The State of New York has e ma
into the business of landlord. 1t
camp sites of five acres each in the
dacks for from SIS TO sl59 year.
"A list of musical compos'
women from 1875 to 1885 includes - ious
operas, So comic operas and two oratoriea, -
besides few cantatas, ballads, etc.
NJ Rechayett- -Mattzof, the, Russian
Cars chamberlain, who is one OF the
wealthiest men in his country, has ordered
piano from Paris which is to cost $500.
One of the fourishing industries in
Cairo, Egypt, is the manufacture of paint
from mummfes. The mummies are ground
to powder and the powder is mixed with oil.
Recent improvements in Photographic
3ible to take accurate photographs of a rifle
ball travelling at the rate OF 8, 600 feet Sec
ond.
The fine salmon that used to tempt the
angler in New England streams have about
disappeared, and there are but two
or three rivers in Maine where any may still
be found.
The annual salary of the President of
;he United States was 1000 up to 1873, when
t was doubled, taking effect on March of
hat year, at the beginning of Grants Sec
)nd term.
On July 21, 1882, Hiram Lukens en-
cred the Doylesborow Inteilgencer Office as
IN apprentice and he has set type in the
'ame office during the 66years that have
passed since then.
"A cynical observer of human nature
ays that q woman will give 25 cents for q
Ocent article that she doesn't want, and q
nan will give 80 cents for a 25-cent article
hat he does want.
in the ancient cathedral of Aix-la-Cha-
,elle (Aichen), Germany, there is a crownof
Fonderful historic interest which has been
there for more than 900 years.
Jear its place OF custody is tomb which Is
lso worthy visit. "Carlo Magno" reads
he inscription.
The postal telegraph system of Great
britain and Ireland is now the most gigantic
nd complete organization for the transmits
ion of messages in the world The STAN
umbers 3, 453; the annual amount expended
q salaries and wages is $322, $50, and the total
umber of telegrams passing through the
flee per annum, 80. 5S7,779
MISCELLANEOUS MERRIMENT.
Bumpkin-I tell you when Smythers is
ound up he can make frst-class political speech
q the Waterbury plan.-Chicn0o hnter-Oce1n. ~
Jonson-What ridiculouslv high prices
re given on this bill of fare.