Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
There are II, 900 styles of silk.

There are IL ,OOO styles OF SILK
Coal was first used in England as fne
in 1850.
The currant grows wild in Europ. an,
| America
Processes for printing colored calicoe
were invented in l764.
The Norman armor had breeches aut
jacket in the same piece.
I'm 1760, Il, 900 pounds Of cocoons ver
grown in South Georgia.
There are now in this country 3S5 else
trio roads with $3.50 miles Of line.
| Rum is made from the refuse of sugar.
/ The best comes from the West Indies
The first daily morning newspaper wa
the Daily Cotrant, published in London.
| New York has the greatest number of
newspapers, namely. 1858; Nevada, the least,
| namely, Is
The Greek tEeaters had no scenery, the
stage walls being painted to resemble the
locality intended.
The last soldiers in France to wear de-
fensive armor were the pikemen, whose or.
| ganization was abolished III 1875.
| The Turkish turban came in during the
reign of John OF France. 1t was sometimes
feet high and as big "a barrel.
AN Indian on the Grand Ronde reserva.
| tion, in Oregon, is claimed to be the only In
| dian in that State that draws pension.
| Rather more than 50 persons in every
| 1G0 in London are living in comfort, while
rather more than 80 in every 100 are living in
poverty.
In 1860 we produced $4,000 tons Of
paper; in $500 100000 tons, or 10000 tons
more than the total product of European
paper mills.
O.,-lr a-.rr Ctata ir tt,is oorrtrv r-.
represented in the 100 old army nurses that
were present at the late Grand Army En-
campment at Washington.
The highest lakes in the world are in
the Himalayas. in Thibet. where there arc
some bodies of woter as high as 10000 feet
above the level of the sea.
The Gauls to make handles for their
AXIS cleft the branches ofa tree.placed theax
| in ir and left is till the wound in the wood
had be en- completely healed.
1t is said that Massachusetts is the only
state in the Union which provides, by act OF
Legislature. that banks may pay checks
Tor certain time after the death of the
| drawer.
"A curious circumstance In connection
with the recent epidemic of cholera at Ham
burg was the departure OF all the birds from
the city only few days prior to the out
| break.
The honor of the invention of printing
has been claimed by Mentz, strasburg,
| Haarlem Venice, Rome, Florence Basic and
Augsburg. The ii st three only are entitled
to consideration.
Recent experiment has proved that if a
delicate piece Of lace be placed between an
iron plate and disk of gunpowder, and the
latter be detonated. the lace will be clearly
stamped on the iron.
"A Boston inventor has invented q
strainer for mixed drinks, consisting of q
circular plato, around the circumference of
which In spiral spring. The coil forms the
strainer, which is removable at will.
According to study of the climate Of
Egypt, made by DR.. j. Ham, it appears that
for three or four days in March or April
Cairo is visited by hot, dusty wind that
destroys the foliage OF many OF the trees
The origin of the symbol 'cwt." for /
hundred W eight is as follows: C is the initial
letter of the Latin word "centum," meaning
q hundred, and VT are the first and last let
ters of the word weight and are used as q
contraction Tor IT.
When the schoolhouse Of the Gallagher
district. in Mason Valley. New. was opened
after the summer vacation it vas found that
bees were IN possession of the desks, and it
is claimed that about $50 pounds Oh honey
were taken from them.
The first double-deck twin screw ferry-A
boat in use in the United States is the Gin
cinnati, which rms over the Pennsylvania
Railroad terry from Jersev City TO New
York. She is 206 feet long. IS feet wide and
makes l2 miles an hour.
Without opening single additional
seam, there Is probably enough coal in/view
in New South Wales to enable 10 600. 900 tons
come 90 ne rnts amoant IS more mo- than doub'e
the present production. s.
Five Presidents of the United States
were elected without the assistance of the
State OF New York. These we're George
Washington, (first time) in 17s9: James Mad
ison, i 1916: james Buchanan, in 1856; U. s.
Grant, in 1858; X. Il. Hayes, in 1916. \
of railway stations open to ordinary
traffic there are fewer tickets issued to
CoIeshill a station on n branch OF the Mid
land Rail wav, between Whitacre and Hamp-
Ton on the London and Northwestern Rail
way. than 10 any other railway station in
the United Kingdom
A comparative examination of the skulls
of savage and civilized races shows that the
increased brain developments of the latter is
ALWAYS accompanied by n marked modifca-
tion in the form and size of the jaws and
teeth. This modification Is usually spoken
of as q degenerate condition
The originator of the theory that the :
earth is round was probably Thales, Of
Miletus about $40 B. C. He not only taught
that the earth was globular in form, but of
the five zones, some of the principal circles
of the sphere, the capacity Of the moon and
the true course of the lunar eclipses-
in Para people of Indian blood pre-
dominate, and are found in all classes of So
ciety from street peddlers and servants to
wealthy capitalists and high Government
officials There are very lew Portuguese or
Africans and the descendants of both these
rnccs show large admixture OF lndian
blood.
Except himself, but two members of
Oliver Wendell Holmes class at college still
survive. The famous class dinners ct q
public hotel have been discontinued, but
those who remain are still annually enter
tanned by DIR. Holmes in his own house. I5
has been 63 years since the graduation eIer-
cises of these three octogenarians.
To decide a bet two young men at Laba-
non, Pa, put a wasp and black hornet I'M
der glass tumbIer to determine which
would whip the other. No sooner had the
vicious little beasts been imprisoned than
the was attacked the hornet. They fought
quietly buC yaliantly, each using its stinger
to the fullest extent. In less than ton min
utes the wasp was n corpse, and two minutes
later the hornet expired. The bodies OF
both were swollen to three times their nor'
NAL size.