Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Trials in China are public.

| -If1alS In Cnlud are puuliC.
English people are generally dark.
| haired.
-Artesian borings have recently proven
successful in Sahara.
The great italian warships are 400 feet
long by IA feet beam.
Every fifth boy in India is at school,
| but only every f1ftieth girl.
Ten or twelve Esquimaux families are
coming to the Worlds Fair.
Forty thousand lottery tickets are sold
in Philadelphia each month.
Patients have lived exclusively on beef
and mutton for from three to four years.
The worlds annual consumption Of
vanilla is said to be about $4,000 pounds.
"A man obtains his maximum weight at
40 years of age, and woman at so years.
Indiana alone will turn out $1,000
bicycles from her manufactures this year.
Chewing gums main component, gum
chicle, is the sap of sapodilla, Mexican
tree.
ways lasts, with average wear, about Is
years.
Torture is always applied in China to
conpsl tne Accuseu W ueciaIo niinSoA
guilty.
1t has been estimated that for every 800
bullets fred during the Civil War man was
killed.
Six millions of dollars are invested in
the manufacture of dynamite in the United
States.
1t is estimated than one doctor to every
thousand of the population is fair pro
portion.
Since the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent s., 100000 on her army
and navy.
Statistical reports show that the value
of sheep focks is greater by s42, ,OOO 900 in 1892
than in 1870.
The Turkish Government has forbidden
the importation of all patent medicines into
that country.
From an old account book it appears
that in 1871 tobacco was sold by the yard at
Eastport Me.
Eighty millions of dollars is the annual
amount paid to school teachers in the
United States.
Hardwood in Wisconsin is being rap
idly cut up to be made into charcoal for the
iron furnaces in that State.
An absent-minded Philadelphia barber
tucked a newspaper under his patrons chin
duu gave ulul u IOWel 10 redu.
Photographers say that the facial
resemblance of husbands and wives is closer
than that of brothers and sisters.
The Episcopalians have IS of the 375
Sunday schools in New York City, and the
Presbyterians come next With r.
The longest bridge in America is
trestle work over portion OF Lake Pont-
chartrain. 1t is nearly % miles long.
The name "yokel," applied to an
awkward rustic. was originally applied to
one who yoked oxen or other animals
A paper in New Jersey the other day
printed an account of the discovery of "the
nfeless corpse of an unknown dead man."
The Royal Sovereign is the largest
warship in the world. Its displacement is
Il, $50 tons, and her speed is ISL knots per
hour.
Lisbon Falls, Me-, boasts of a 17-year-
old girl who weighs 275 pounds and IS grow
ing. When ID years old she tipped the beam
at $50 pounds.
1t is strange, though true, that in Asia
and Africa, where grass will not grow, the
most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish
to perfection.
of IA frst-class racers now on the At
lantic, four are German built, one halls
from France, six from the Clyde, two frorr
DcIldSb tbnu OHc lTOn Vile hcISCy
1t is stated that Dr. Znamensky, RUSSIA
dentist, of Moscow has discovered mean
of causing false teeth to grow to the gums a
firmly as those nature provides.
-One-third of tree in Simon Muchler'I
orchard near York, Pa, is pink with peach
blossoms, third is bearing apple blossoms
and the remainder grows good pears -
There are So telephone companies in the
United States, ali belonging virtually to the
Bell monopoly. They have 24I exchanges,
49, a56 telephones and s.465 employees.
Charles Francis Adams is reported to
have said that the safest place in which to
spend an hour or two is on an express train
on one of the main railways of London.
The most violent thunder storms in the
world occur in French Guiana. The thunder
there in an ordinary storm is almost deafen-
ing, while peal follows peal in quick suc-
cession.
-Statisticians say that an average man
of 154 pounds weight has enough iron in his
constitution to make ploughshare and
enough phosphorus to make half a million
matches.
The oldest English crown is the ancient
imperial diadem made for Charles II to re-
place the one worn by Edward the Con-
fessor, which was broken up and sold during
the Civil War.
In Chile, after making cider and wine
from their apples, they extract from the
refuse white and finely favored spirit, and
by another process they procure a sweet
treacle or honey.
1t is reported from Paris that NJ. B.
Blaedel has invented an apparatus by which
the driver of a vehicle can release a carriage
from runaway horses. The action takes
place in the traces.
Stockings made from human hair are
worn by Chinese fishermen as the best pre-
ventive of wet feet. They are drawn over
ordinary cotton stockings, being too rough
for putting near the skin.
In Africa native King tried to pre-
vent drunkenness by introducing hemp
smoking, but the habit proved so baleful
that the attempt had to be given up. Hemp
smoking is worse than opium.
An American paper says that church
in the town of Bergen, Norway, Is built
entirely of paper. 1t can seat LOCO people in
comfort, and has been rendered waterproof
by solution of quicklime, curdled milk and
white of eggs.
The statistics of the Custom House in
San Francisco show that the sum of S750OOO
was collected last year as the duty on inn
oortations of smoking opium at that port
llone, with the tariff ut S12 a pound. ThlS
means an Importation of 62 900 pounds
THE largest artificial stone in the world
-orms the base OF the Bartholdi Statue OF
Liber5y on Bedloe's Island, New York
larbor. This immense stone was mad
rom broken trap rock, sand and America
cement. Five hundred carloads of sal
md over 20 900 barrels of cement were use
n manufac turing the monster.
LsrErs LATEST LAUGHS.
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