Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Chicago has 1000 peddlers.

Gun caps were first used in the English
army in 1922.
The annual sale of English postal cards
is about 23O, 900 900.
Damascus silks were imported and
worn by Roman ladies A. d. 81.
There are in the United States 3, 338
public or subscription libraries.
Ancient battering rams were manned
by 100 or 15O men, generally captives-
Singing and dancing were first brought
on the stage by Andronicus B. C. 24O.
The best honey in Persia is coll ec.ed
from the orange groves at Kanyeroon.
The peculiar flavor of Bavarian beer is
due to the use OF pine tops in its manufaet-
ure.
"A prominent geologist claims to have
found a fossil forest in Custer county,
IDAHO
The Empire of Japan comprises nearly
13 900 cities, towns and villages, in which 40
100000 people live.
The first attempt to lay the Atlantic
cable in 1851 proved failure, the cable con-
tinually swapping,
The oak in general way requires to
grow from 120 to 200 years before it is fit to
cut for large timber.
Our production of meat in 1888 was
nearly half as great as that of Europe, with
its population OF 350,0O0,0O0
The limit of the capacity of the earth is
500, 400 0c0 souls, and this number will be
reached in less than lS7 years.
The new whaleback steamer to be built
at Everett, Wash, will be $50 feet in length,
AZ feet beam and 2611 feet IN depth.
Greek dandies, like Alcibiades, allowed
their hair to fall on their shoulders, and at
night rolled the curls round stick
In 1910 we produced l, 10000 tons of
coal: in 1860 the quantity mined was l5,000,-
600 tons, but in 1888 it was IA, 900 tons.
-Jonesboro, Ga, has resident who, it is
reported, has only spent IS in the past six
years Tor clothes. He is said to be worth
over $4,000.
Gideon defeated the Midianites B. G.
1245 through fright at the sound of crashing
earthenware and the flash of lamps during
night attack.
The pyrometer measures heat in de-
grees and fractions, and will give accurate
figures even though the heat runs up to the
unth1nkable intensity of 70OOo.
AN automatic match ign1ter is a recent
novelty. You pull q lever, a match travels
along roughened surface and is then thrust
out OF an opening already iSnited.
The very finest specimen of engraved
gem now IN existence is head OF Nero,
carved on frst-water diamond by the
brothers CastanZi in the year 1870 A. ID.
1t would take three and one-fourth
thousands (3,25O) of the little vegetable
parasites which grow on the human hair to
cover the white confer OF nonpareil 90"
From 1910 to 100 there was great i'll
will between the pit and boxes, the occu-
pants Of the latter being accustomed to spit
into the pit at frequent intervals. In 100
roya. edict forbade the practice.
There is a certain city in the southern
part of China whose inhabitants observe the
same gait in walking that we do, and yet
they frequently apf ear to strangers as if
they we're walking on their heads.
The Harvard faculty has announced
that during the fall and winter practical
courses will be given to medicaI practition-
ers in bacteriologicaI diagnosis of Asiatio
cholera. Imported germs will be used.
Mr. and Mrs Charles P. Jacobs, at
Pendeltou, Ind, have celebrated their gol-
den Wedding anniversary. The dinner was
spread upon the same table cloth upon
which the wedding feast was served % years
ago.
-Noblemen in scores were created by
Christophe a negro, who ruled as Emperor
u
conferred were those of the Duke of Marina
lade, the Count of Lemonade and the Earl Of
Brandy.
The report of the Comptroller General
of Georgia shows an increase every year
since 1879 in the assessed value of property
in that State subject TO taxation. From
1924, ,959, ,548 in 1879 il has increased to S4S,-
1j3 534 in 1892.
-Desecbo, an island adjoining Porto
Rico Is infested with rats. There are millions
of them there and it is unsafe for man to
set foot on the island. They have DESTROYED
all the goats, which were formerly bred
there, and are now eating the shrubbery.
There Is point near the famous Stony
cave, in the Catsl1ill Mountains, where ice
may be found on any day in the year. This
locality is locally known as the Notch, and
is walled in on all sides by steep mountains,
some of which are more than 5000 feet
high.
Death Valley, Cal, notwithstanding
its suggestive name, is the abode of more
curious and wonderful specimens OF animal
creation than any place of its size within
the limits of the United States. The Oldest
Of the creatures, perhaps. Is species OF
rodent called the kangaroo rat"
Since the war of '70-71, % years, tbs
experd ditures of France have been
fifteen milliards three hundred and sixty
eight millions of francs, abo ut $3, SOC, ,0OO,-
100 This sum is exclusi i've Of the five
nilliards paid to Germany as an indemnity,
Of the sum expended on the navy, and of
The amount used in building strategic rail.
.oads and the payment of military PEN
,ions