Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
CURIOUS CONDENSATION

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Red toilets abound at the SUNNI
| sorts.
Sherry wine is losing its hold or
public.
There are $50 common lodging hou,
London.
"A street in Germany is paved with
rubber.
About 55 per cent of property in A
| ica is insured.
Nearly 10000 horses are imported
England yearly.
Three and a half millions of people
always on the sea.
Germany sells 100000 900 worth Of
in England annually.
Gold was mined in Egypt and the E
ern Empire 1900 B. C.
! In Ashantee grows a tree which
| nishes excellent butter.
"A cubic inch of soil contains from 900
to 9, ,25O, 900 minute organisms.
Bank holidays were first established l.
a statute passed in the year 1911
The people of Bengal lately shot {
leopard that had killed l54 persons.
The elephant can smell, in wild stats
an enemy at a distance of !, 900 yards.
I'm the United States there are 673, ts
Free Masons and 647.47l Odd Fellows
1t is believed that nickel carbon is son
to play an important part in metallurgy.
The Metropolitan Museum OF Art in
New York has treasures to the value OF
/ 100000.
Sweden Is the most Protestant county,
for out of q population of 4,774409 only no
are Roman Catholics.
AN ancient copper mine, which
first discovered 1.1sS years ago, is abou
be reopened in Japan.
-Hyphenated names are increas
among New York fashionable people
rate that suggests fad
The prefix so" before so many mar
of Irishmen is an abbreviation OF the VIC
ogha. meaning grandchild-
The public libraries of all Europsp
together contain about 2I,0OO,O00 volum
those of America 50, 900 600.
The testing of big guns at the Krul
works makes cracked walls and broke
windows the fashion at Essen,
The Guadaloupe bees lay their hon
in bladders of wax about as large a.
pigeons egg, and not in combs.
"A cactus plant in a house at Newpo
vile, Pa, last winter grew so fast thatit
too tall to be taken out of doors.
Judge Wellhouse, of fremont, Ka
thinks he has the lar-est orchard in
world. 1t comprises LOIS acres.
The serpents have their hearts situs
in the head. hence they are always
careful in protecting that region.
Many siender-faced women, matrons
cluded have this sea 1on dared to elect
the sailor hat, who never wore It before.
The use of the long range Martini ri
has had tendency to discourage the
rushing tactics of the native tribes Of In
Mexican bricklayers, it is said, cam
lay 500 bricks in day of IL hours, whtl
American can lay $500 in a day ofk
hours.
Goats in Kalahari frequently
months without water, as there are also
tain antelopes which never visit drin
places.
There's an American girl in Lol
who can lick on postage stamps faster
Maud S. can trot She has a record of
an hour.
A spiders web is so light that
of it will reach around the world. ant
leave enough to reach from New
the inhabitants Of Cochin dfA..l
otnrs Of f5ssh DON Gneg mssF They also are for
Over 20, OOO, 900 sewing needlAui are m
weekly in the town of Redditch, + Wore
tershire, where the most extensi' g nee6
manufactures in the world are sts1ated.
The three tallest trees in the world are
believed to be a sequola near Stockton, CAL,
which is 325 feet high, and two eucalypti in
Victoria, Australia, estimated to be 4s5 and
450 respectively.
A "printer's devil'' is sometimes q
tough character. Recently one in Georgia
fell distance of 16 feet. alighting on his
head, and a few hours afterward was busy
playing baseball
-Salvini, the tragedian, is said to be the
only man on the stage who was born in =
palace. 1t was the Palace Caprainca. in
Milan, now called the Grille Palace. in honor
Of Ristori, who is Countess of Grille.
One of the most eloquent preachers in
Canada is Dr. George Douglass, whose arms
are paralyzed and who is totally blind. b
arms hang helplessly by his side. and
voice seems to come from dead body.
"A ray of light which would tr
around the earth in about one-eighth.
second takes more than our hours to CT
from Neptune. For Alpha Centaurf,
nearest fixed star, light makes the jour
in 81 years.
Few relics of antiquity are so curior
interesting as the chart employed by
cient mariners. which have portrayed n
them ever so many extraordinary monstt
horrible dragons and terrific giants
tered here and there.
What is now North Berwick, Me-, "
known as Doughty's Falls 80 years ago.
postal clerk says that occasionally lette
are even now addressed to Doughty's Fall
and that he has had one such in his ham
within the last mouth.
1t is curious coincidence that t
present Mayor of Huelva, Spain. wht
Columbus first met Queen Isabella, is of G
same name as and lineal descendant
the man who was Mayor of the place VIII
Columbus sailed to discover the Ne
World.
Pear growers are complaining Of
depredations of a small suctorial in
somewhat resembling in size and +
transparent, steep-sloping wings the ty
plant louse, but it Is readily distfngu
from that in its being q jumping
whence it has received the name /
meaning in Greek a flea
AT Cahoes, France, the workmeI
foundations for a convent unearthed
house OF the Gallo-Roman period,
sale floors OF which are in place and -
of the walls to reveal frescoes in q "a etate
OF preservation. 1t is supposed tP nave
been destroyed in the sixth century, Wnen
Theodebert sacked the town. Pottery fras-
ments, bronzes and coins are round on tuf
site.