Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

New York makes $1,000 watches q
week.
| American street railways employ nearly
| 7l.OOO men.
IL takes nearly five years to>tan an ele-
! plants skin.
An irrigation canal In Utah and Idaho
will irrigate 100000 acres of land.
AN ice yacht has been known to travel
a mile in one minute and ten seconds.
New York City is reputed to eat $4,000
bushels Of huckleberrles every season.
Decatur, Ala, has one negro Alderman,
one negro Justice and two negro policemen
The first postoffice opened its doors in
Paris in 1892; in England, 1851; in America,
ITO.
In May the New York police found
g. 1877 children who could not tell where they
lived.
Virginia, and among other trees the famous
pope's pine.
"A Chinese sect believes that women, by
on Judgment D"y.
An Atlantic City bath-house keeper has
a sign reading Hire suit and try my as
sortment of cool waves"
Chicago postal clerks are charged with
soaking Off rare stamps from foreign letters
passing through the mails.
-Telegraphic communication by land
and sea was first established betw cen Lon
don and Constantinople in 1858.
London has been experiencing a cold
summer, in which the thermometer ranged
between the 400 and the TO marks.
Queen Victoria's private cabins in the
royal yacht are said to be the only parts of
the boat not lighted with electricity.
When child dies in Greenland the na-
tive parents bury a living dog with it, the
dog to be used by the child as guide to the
other world.
"A Milford, Ind, woman was bitten on
the cheek by a mosquito a few days ago.
Blood poisoning resulted and her life was
saved with difficulty.
The pioneer vineyard of Northern Ohio,
now famous for its American wines, was
planted by Hiram T. Dewey, in 1857, one mile
from the city of Sandusky.
A blast set off in the Wenrich mines be-
tween Joplin and Webb City, Mo-, blew q
boulder weighing 1000 pounds clear out Of
the shaft, which is l35 feet deep.
The ornithorhychus of Australia lays
eggs like q bird, suckles its young like other
mammals, and in general appearance and
habits resembles the beaver of this country
and Europe.
Abilene, Kan, Is the possessor of
man who keeps himself supplied W ith news
papers by writing a postal card every week
10 some large paper Office asking for
sample copy.
During one week this month 313 car
loads containing 3sl6 tons of green fruit
we're shipped East from California So far
this season 100000 more pounds of fruit
have been shipped than last year.
AT Opelika, Ala, a large carrier pigeon,
killed'the other day by Henry B. Thompson,
had small gold band clasped around its
left leg with the mum Der $50 engraved on It.
This was the only message it bore.
The largest man in Kentucky Is Ross
Skaggs, of Lawrence county, who weighs SCI
pounds and is feet inches tall. His arms
measure feet in circumference and his
thighs 3 feet. He is 81 years Of age.
The total number of gold pieces struck
at the English mint last year was 81, ,686, ,3l7,
as against 70 S94, AS in 1890 This was by far
the largest number ever executed in
one year. The value was ss,325, ,303 9s 4ad.
Patsy Sears, the oldest woman in In
diana, is dead at the age of l0s She was born
in Virginia, and did not learn to read until
she was 80 years old. She smoked for ninety
years and never was sick q day in her
life.
Photography has determined the cause
of the recent glacial avalanche in the Alps.
1t was hydraulic pressure beneath and be-
hind the glacier, produced by masses of ice
falling into connecting water above and at
considerable distance. --'.r
The tramways in London consist of III
miles OF line; but these are shared by sever
oil companies, the North Metropolitan own
Ing Al miles, the London nearly %. the Lon
don street about 13, and five other compa-
MES Al miles between them.
The centennial anniversary of Frye
burg Academy, at Fryeburg, Me-. was cele-
brated few days ago. Daniel Webster is
reputed to have begun his study of law
while in this institution. and made his first
public grafton while principal of the acad-
envy.
"A factory at Lynn has asked for space
1T the Worlds Fair to show pneumatic dyn-
,mite guns and projectiles. one dynamite
field gun to be shown on wheeled carriage
iIteen by six feet over all: one coast defense
on carriage with turntabie track,
lube eight-inch bore, three feet long.
The present population of the globe is
supposed to be about 1467, 600 600, and It Is
estimated that the maximum OF inhabitants
that can be sustained on the entire land
surface of the earth is 9, ,994 000, ,000 and that
this figure VIII be reached A ID. WT3, or IN
about $50 years at the present ratio of in
,rease, which is per cent per decade.
"A valise was received at the United
'tates Express office at jackson. Miss, sew
ral days ago, showing from the hundreds
VI stamps and tags on it that it had been in
most of the express offices in this country.
t WAS stuffed full OF hundreds of odd and
lueer articles, including human skull and
he left foot OF a female graveyard rabbit,
The town of Canton, Mimi, isIexcited
yer picture which suddenly appeared ina
mall round window I'm the steeple of the
loman Catholic Church in that place. The
II cture is that of grotto in which Is seen
he figure oil q woman with n baby lying on
er left arm, and slightly above the woman
, another face looking down on the pair.
AT Pennington, Me-, the other day, q
at captured one of a flock of martins which
ad their nest in little house provided by
he owner of the feline, and was making or
nth the dainty morseL Attracted by the
fteous cries of the bird, It's mates came to
he rescue, alighted upon pussy's back and
ecked, scratched and screamed 80 furiously
hat she was soon glad TO drop her prey and
scape indoors.
ASTEROIDS IN AUGUST,