Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Paris has 6,1O0 policemen.

| New York City has 167 millionaires
There are over 5000 women printers In
the United States.
Envelopes, it is said, were first made in
| the fifteenth century.
Over ., 900 murderers are believed to be
at largo in Great Britain.
The Governmental Savings Bank in
Paris has 625,O depositors.
Thirty years ago Methodism in London
had only % chapels. Now there are Ill.
"A Chattanooga, Tenn, Judge recently
disposed of Ill divorce cases in $50 minutes
There have been 27 cases of insanity -
the Bavarian royal family during the last
100 years.
The total value of matches made annu-
ally throughout the world represents value
of sls5 900, ,OOO
There is to be model Malay village at
the Chicago Fair, arranged by order of the
sultan of Johore.
The people of the United States read
and support as many newspapers as Eng.
land, France and Germany mbined.
One of the novelties of the Chicago
Exhibition will be dentistry departments,
in which patients will be operated on IN
public.
More people were executed in England
during the reign of King Henry VIII than
ever before or sipce in the tight little island,
the numDer reaching 1.400.
The colossal statue of Mercury made for
the city of Avern1, in Gaul, by Zenodoms,
who was engaged ten years on this great
work, cost the city 81, ,775,O00.
Members of Parliament are paid in
every country except England, the United
vi ha of
nation in the world-s5,o0 annually.
In Rochester, n. Y, an electric circuit
to run sewing machines extends to the out
skirts of the city. Hundreds of people in
this way work for large clothing firms.
The latest whim for the owners of dogs
is to make them wear shoes in the house
for the purpose OF protecting the polished
noors. They are made of chamois, with
leather soles.
"A New Yorker has made a clock from
"a, 900 pieces of wood, comprising over 800
varieties. For 16 years he has had sailors
bringing him rare woods from every quarter
of the globe.
"A young lady of Uncasyille, Conn, was
accidentally struck by stray bullet on
Tuesday, near the heart. and had it not been
for a corset steel, which the bullet hit, she
would have been killed.
"A chimney $50 feet high is being built
for the Omaha and Grant Smelling Works,
in Denver, Col. 1t will be an octagon stack,
55 feet in diameter at the base, placed on q
concrete foundation Is feet deep, imbedding
20 feet of steel rails.
Nearly all the royal personages Of
Europe are cousins, and not very far re-
moved, as it has been laid down by Ger
man geneologist that every crowned head of
Europe, bar Turkey, is descended from ono
or two sisters, who lived about $50 years ago.
Eastern physicians have decided that
the small toe of the human foot is a him
drance to locomotion and that it should be
remoyed. In some cases reported all but
the great toe have been cut off for the rea-
son that the latter is the only one OF any use
in walking.
In Maine q physician made gestures
when giving a nurse directions for patient,
and his horse, noticing the m from the street.
made straight for the window, thin king
himself called to share in the consultation.
He broke several panes Of glass before he
could be controlled.
Nine of Uncle Sans mail carriers in
the East sent prospector, a friend of theirs,
to Creede, Col, and from time to time sup
piled him with money. The total amount
which they contributed was $500, and the
other day they sold a claim which their pros
pector located for So, ,OO0.
There has been recently unique ladies'
strike in Germany in one of the garrison
towns. The conduct OF the men, who neg
lected the unmarried ladies in order to
dance with the wives of their friends and
maidens and their mothers, and at the last
ball not an unmarried girl was
present.
"A remarkable fact can be discovered
with the aid of q pencil. In the twentieth
generation preceding the present, each per-
a I n00
exact figures are 1O4S, ,576. Every person had
two parents, four grandparents, eight great
etc. Keep on doubling until
the twentieth generation, and you will
verify the immense aggregate given above.
"A woman of South Norridgewock, Me-,
carries on a farm, keeps a horse and cow.
makes butter for market and sells eggs, be-
sides doing her housework and caring for
five little children. After her household
duties are completed in the morning, she
puts up the dinners for the children, har-
nesses her horse, taking two Of her children,
and drives to Martin Stream, where she has
a school Of II children.
Hosts of unemployed men and of others
seeking temporarily to better their condt-
tion are flocking to the Delaware peninsula
now to pick small fruits for the markets Of
Philadelphia and New York. The fruit
growers erect rude sheds in the open fields,
and here the berry pickers eat and sleep
while the season lasts The earnings Of
berry pickers are considerably above the
average pay OF farm hands.
About four years ago a workman at
Beaver Falls, noticing a toad about the size
Of a walnut placed it in little pile of sand,
and laying a large stone on it, never gave it
another thought. A year after this particu-
ar stone began to show signs OF decay, and
inally cracked clean across. The crack be-
gan to widen, until a few day ago an aper-
ure was made and out jumped live toad.
It was found to be of monster size.
The Falklands produce no trees, but
they do produce wood in a very remarkable
'hape. You will see, scattered here and
here, singular blocks of what look like
mossy, gray stones, of yari-
,us size. But II you attempt to roll over
)ne of these rounded bOulders, you will find
yourself unable to accomplish it. In TACT,
he stone Is tied down to the ground-tied
lown by the roots; or in other words. 1t is
lot a stone, but block OF living wood.
In q graveyard at White Pine, Cal,
here have been found recently petrified
human bodies in many kinds of dress, min
IFS, desperadoes with their pistols and
lnives buckled round their waists and per-
ons of all degrees. White Pine 25 years ago
vas one of the phenomenal cities of the
" est many hundred buildings being erected,
,ut to-day only few remain standing, most
,f them having fallen and decayed. 1t Is
,wing to the lime water In that section that
he bodies have turned to stone.