Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Germany has q rubber street.

Germany has rubber street.
Paper flower pots are in demand.
"A machine makes 10000 corkscrews
daily.
-Belgium's telephones are run by the
Government.
Chicago has 40 married women public
school teachers.
An express engine consumes ten gallons
of water per mile.
Every square mile of the sea contains
120 000, 900 fish of various kinds.
The tall hat worn by men first appeared
in France nearly 800 years ago.
Twenty words per minute is the aver.
age at which long hand is written
Gold mines about Nevada City are the
the deepest and richest in the world
The only kind of fruit which does not
appear to thrive in California is the apple.
Nickel steel does not corrode in salt
water, which fact is of great virtue to ship
plates.
"A Russian can plead infancy for long
time. as he does not come of age until %
years old.
Two little islands, Zanzibar and Pemba,
furnish four-ffths of the cloves consumed
by the world.
1t is estimated that fully two-thirds Of
the whole amount of public money held by
the London banks does not bear interest.
The largest and longest stone bridge in
the world is over an arm of the China Sea,
miles long, 900 arches. each 20 feet high.
One million three hundred thousand
pounds worth of pickles and sauces are
exported from England to other countries
yearly.
There are 81, 400, 600, 900 in gold in cir
culation throughout the world, and good
authority asserts that s., ,000,000 of it is lost
annually by wear.
More than fourth of the gold and more
than third of the silver produced through
out the wo rid in the year 1891 was mined in
the United States.
The highest viaduct in the world has
just been erected in Bolivia over the river
Lea. 9.ss3 feet above the sea level and 4,OOs
feet above the river.
"A pneumatic tube connects Paris with
Berlin. 1t is used for postal purposes. and
makes it possible for a letter mailed in Paris
to be delivered in Berlin in So minutes.
AT Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, alone
!, 200 men and women are employed in the
lobster industry. Five million is the annual
catch, which represents slS00O0 IN value.
San Francisco has an earthquake proof
hotel. 1t is constructed of iron and in the
form of two hollow squares. one within the
other, arranged so as TO brace each other.
Denmark has a system of benevolence
by which the honest poor of 80 years of age
are insured against want. 1t is on the pre-
that they have always paid taxes.
Recent improvements in Photographic
plates have been so great as to make 1t possi-
Bile to take accurate photographs of a rife
ball travelling at the rate of 5000 feet
second,
"A substitute for honey has been intro
duced in Germany under the name of sugar
honey, and consists of inverted sugar, water,
minute amounts of IMMORAL substances nd
free acid.
The crops on Prince Edward Island are
being devastated by plague of potato bugs
md turnip flies. In several districts tho
damage is so great that the farmersare SOW
Ing turnips again.
A Spanish lady has succeeded in crossing
,he Andes in a carriage, a distance of 300
miles. The journey was completed in IL
laws, though nearly O mile OF the road had
10 be built for her use.
The Welsh prefix "Aber" signifies
"the mouth of ariver"-Aberdovey. for in
stance; and "Llan." "a church''-Llandudno,
The church of st. Tudno; Llanbedr, the
Church of st. Peter, etc.
The Brazil nut contains from Is TO "a
leeds. which all germinate at one time. The
most vigorous one gets first through small
lole at the top to the open air, and there
lpon it strangles and feeds upon the rest.
The Earl of Airlie has sold his estate of
,1unie inPerthshire, for sl7O, 600 to Mr.. Cox,
shago1 The pGpdss the Loeb
aid to have been the birthplace of Ad-
nirable Crichton.
With the opening up of the world by
ailway and steamship communication the
emand for diamonds has increased mar
The world now purchases about
rs 000, ,00o worth per annum. Twenty years
go the amount was about zoo, COO sterling.
The Austrian Emperor, in order to ac-
singular display of loyalty,
!, which had been bequeathed TO His Majes-
y by poor peasant recently deceased in
he Austrian province of Carniola-
"A plug of tobacco, by Its moisture and
oftness, will indicate the approach of
torm a loose window cord will tighten up
ust before rain, and pair of gloves, Or
inarily tight on the hands, will become
lmOst baggy on the approach OF bad
eather.
The growth of the United States Patent
flee has been very remarkable. In 1870
lree patents were issued: 100 years later the
umber was 26, ,292. The total number of
atents granted during the 100 years was
io, 944 or an average of nearly l3 patents for
very day.
The Escurial Palace contains cathe-
raj, monastery with 200 cells two col,
ges, three chapter houses, three libraries
nd nearly 900 other rooms. 1t is lighted
Y 1,1O0 outer and LOO inner windows, and
as been fifty termed the eighth wonder OF
lie world.
Currents of water serve to vast extent
le purpose of distributing seeds. Walnut,
utternut and pecan trees are found close
streams, where they drop their nuts into
le passing flood, to be carried far away and
art other groves perhaps hundreds of
lies distant. Tree seeds of many sorts are