Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Paris has 6, 100 policemen.

Paris has 6, 100 policemen.
Wooden sleepers on railways last about
Is years.
-Omnibuses were first introduced in New
York in 1890
The first saw-maker's anvil was taken to
America in 1919.
Percussion caps were first used in the
United States Army in 1890
"A nailless horseshoe that is fastened
to the hoof with q clasp is coming into use in
Pupils in the schools of Japan are
taken out rabbit hunting one day in every
autumn.
-Four-ffths of the engines now working
in the world have been constructed during
the last 25 years.
The first type-setting machine was pat
ented in England by DIR. William Church. of
Connecticut, in 1922.
The fire brigade of London is called out
more frequently on Saturday than on any
other day of the week.
1t is seriously proposed to purify the
Thames by importing a school of crocodiles
to act as river scavengers.
"A number of prehistoric skeletons were
recently unearthed in Rome They were Of
males and females, and averaged seven feet
in length.
The Danish Government has issued
decree forbidding the importation of dogs
from any foreign country except Sweden
and Norway.
Italy, and some 1000, 900 are engaged in in
dustrial occupations, while more than 3OOO-
600 labor in the fields
Rubber heels, to facilitate marching.
are to be attached to the shoes worn BY
French soldiers Experiments with them
have given decided satisfaction
"A Partisan meteorologist has written q
book Of 800 pages to prove that the cleo
tricity of thunderstorms is caused by the
friction of rain-drops on hailstones.
Out of $4,000 guesses on abig cake of
soap on exhibition in Berlin only two were
correct The cake was a soapmaker's ad-
vertisement, and it weighed ], l22 pounds.
Suspension bridges which were built In
the time of the Han dynasty (9O2 B. c. to 30
A. d. are still standing in China, striking
examples Of early Oriental engineering
skill.
If the dead of London were each al
lowed a grave 2 by feet, with a very thin
wall of earth between, each year her $1,000
corpses would fill a cemetery OF about 3
acres.
The total number of gold pieces struck
at the English Mint last year was 81, ,6S6, ,317,
as against 7O.s94. 445 in 1890. This was by far
the largest ever executed in one year. Their
value was sS, 1926 3O3 9s 415d.
The swell of frozen air. is near Day-
ton, Ga. The drill passed through five
foot stratum of frozen gravel into series
of cavities from which gusts OF freezing air
come with perfect regularity.
AT one time ladies were allowed to
wander all over the House of Commons, ex-
cept in the actual chamber ITSELF but nova
days the libraries and tearOoms are closed
to them while the Speaker is in the chair.
Rubbish boxes are distributed about the
lawns and paths of London's parks and
open spaces to induce the visitors to place
therein paper and refuse, which otherwise
might be thrown reekIessly on the ground.
The heaviest salmon which has been
taken from q Scotch river this year was
from the Tay, near Newburgh. 1t weighed
81 pounds. A few days previously salmon
of 40 pounds was caught at the same
place.
When Jumbo was dissected q pint and
half of gold, silver. copper and bronze
coins were found in his stomach. In the lot
there were coins of three Kingdoms, two re-
publics, five dukedoms, two principalities
and one dependency.
The earliest known lens is one of rock
crystal unearthed by Layard at Nineveh.
This lens, the age of which is measured by
Museum. as bright and as clear as it was tie
day it left the makers hands.
Princess Louise two years ago had q
papier mache model of her figure executed
by q welIknown firm of bust modelers. She
has just had movable arms added to exactly
initiate nature, and thus avoids all trouble
OF fitting and trying on dresses.
MIR. Gladstone is the owner of the
largest lead pencil in the world. 1t is the
inches in length. In place of the customary
rub ber cap it has gold cap. Its distin-
guished owner uses it for a walking stick.
"A wealthy Scotch gentleman who had
intended to give each OF his daughters q
legacy of her weight in Ell bank notes had
an official of the Bank of Scotland to figure
on the matter for him. 1t found that
the larger would get as her share 55,344 the
simmer 81, 200.
Several observant ladies have discov-
cred that vegetarians have clear complex
ions and have either renounced the use of
meat entirely, or partake of 1t sparingly.
Lady Paget, wife of the British Ambassador
to the Austrian Court, is one of the recent
converts to vesetarianism.
There has been recently unique ladies'
strike in Germany in one of the garrison
towns The conduct of the men, who neglect
ed the unmarried ladies in order to dance
with the wives of their friends and
quaintances, ,displeased the sighted maidens
and their mothers, and at the last regi-
mental ball not an unmarried girl was
present.
The United States, Great Britain and
Germany send the greatest number of let
ters through the mails. The Universal
Postal Union Bureaus report of the annual
receipt is: German Empire, 3H, ,436, ,566
francs; United States. BIS, "a francs, and
Great Britain, DAG, 276 $50 francs. The United
States sells more postage stamps and makes
more profit on them than any other nation
AT Hirniskretchen, in Bohemia, from
the unequal working in nature in the de-
struction of rocks. has resulted a most Co
lossaI and ruggedly beautiful arch, tie sum-
NIT of which is upward of 400 feet above
the sea level. The sides and top together
appear at a distance like the frame of an
immense picture. the latter being repre-
sented by the wildly romantic scenery
which is visible through the opening Of the
arch.