Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
women are farm hands. [

Swedish women are farm hands.
There are 1853 submarine cable sec
| tfons.
Maine has wild land worth $40, ,o00, 900
| at q low estimate
The marriages of minors are per cent
OF the whole number.
| Italy produces more wine than any
| other country in Europe.
MIR. Gladstone earns on an average S15,-
600 year by his pen alone.
| 1t is said that $4,000 varieties of goods
are manufactured from wood.
There are more than 1000 varieties Of
| apples raised in the United States.
The State of Washington il one of the
| heaviest consumers of condensed milk in
| the country.
ALI sorts of lace became fashionsbl,
under Louis Ill andiwas worn in extrava-
CANT Quantities.
-Four-fifths of the engines now working
in the world have been constructed during
the last % years.
The curtain of the Greek theater was
raised through the floor instead of being
lowered from the ceiling.
The accuracy of surveying in ancient
engineering is marvellous, consid ering the
rudeness OF the instruments.
-Pole-axes were first used in the ninth
century; the short, heavy-headed battle ak
was employed in very early times.
"A famous Roman glutton always W ore
gloves at a feast so he could handle the hot
meat sooner than the other guests.
The modern Italian wine jars, holding
about 20 quarts, are almost identical in shape
and size with the amphoras found in Pom
peii.
"A New York paper solemnly an
nounces that one OF the hotels OF that city is
to "be enlarged by reducing the size Of its
immense rooms"
"A fast perman will write at the rate Of
80 words minute, which means that in an
hours steady writing he has drawn his pen
along space of 300 yards.
The BARRIERS OF Trenton, Mo-, attempted
to charge Republicans 25 cents for shave
on account of the long faces they wore for
several days after the election.
The well-known high electric light
mast at Minneapolis, which is PSI feet in
height, has proved ineffective for lighting
purposes, and has been abolished
The healthiest spot in the world seems
to be a little hamlet in France named Au-
none. There are only 40 inhabitants, % of
whom are so years of age and one is over 1OO
"A fine specimen of high grade copper
ore weighing nearly 1000 pounds, it is re-
ported, was recentlv hoistad from 40 feet be-
meath the surface on the Copper Duke lead,
in Montana.
1T is estimated that it costs the vell-to-
do people in this country sl25, 900, 600 annually
to support charitable institutions, while at
least $500 ,000, ono are invested in permanent
buildings where the needy are cared for.
Scientists have discovered, it is said,
that the memory is stronger in summer
than in winter. Too much food too much
physical exercise and too much education
are among the worst foes of the memory.
Eighteen teams of British infantry,
each composed of eight men and a leader,
have had a race of 81 miles. Seven of the
teams came in without losing a man. the
first doing the distance in about III hours.
The largest steam derrick in the world
is at the Hamburg shipping docks. Those
who have seen it work say that it picks up
an s0-ton gun or a 10-wheel locomotive as
easily as q large man would lift 10-pound
weight
During the winter of 1886-87 a petri6ed
frog was found in a quarry near Elmira, n.
Y, which was 2 feet inches in length and
weighed over 100 pounds. This is the lar
gest specimen of fossilized frog yet brought
to light.
The smallest coin ever struck in this
country was half cent, which was issued
between 1898 and 1857 China is the only
country that has a coin so small As our mill;
the Chinese "cash" is worth about one-tentn
of cent.
The Bartlett pear is a European i'm
portation, it having originated in England.
The Seckel pear is q native product, and it
is said that the first tree that bore ii Is still
standing near Philadelphia on the Schuyl.
kill river.
The compass plant of the United States
is the common "rosin weed" of our Western
prairies. which has the long leaves near the
ground set in vertical position in such
way As to always present the edges to the
north and south.
The oldest hotel in Switzerland, and
probably the oldest in the world. is the hotel
OF the Three Kings at Basle. Among its
guests in 1925 were the Emperor Conrad IL.
his son Henry I'LL, and Rudolph, the last
King of Burgundy.
The first steamer to carry petroleum to
was recently chartered to carry
100, COO cases OF oil at 10 cents a case. There
have been large exports of this oil from this
to India, but heretofore the busi-
ness has been done with sailing vessels.
Maria immaculate Caroline Margareths
LeoDoldine BeatriX Anna Josoine
Rafaela Michaela stanisla US Ignatz Hierony.
nus Camiro Catherine Pc ira CBciia is the
name which has been conferred upon the
small daughter of the Archduke Stephen.
The group of individuals known in
London as Souls" are to issue a magazine
,verv six weeks entitled probably the Sours
Oracle. Miss Margo Tennant will be the
,ditor. aided by a board of commissioners.
to the magazine will be by
women only.
"A French electro-metallurgical COM
,any, which employs the HeraultKiliani
aluminium process, asserts that it will be
bile to sell the aluminium at price equiv
.lent to less than Is cents a pound, provided
hat it is in a position to dispose of yearly
,utput of 1000 tons of the metal.
Switzerland is not drinking more liquor
his year than last. and has not increased in
Ter consump ton of alcoholics for three
ears past. There the Governments controls
he sale of liquor, and the profits are d1-
'ided among the cantons. a tenth goes
oward remedying the effects of alcohol.
AN eminent authority has it that the
eath rate of the world is calculated to be
per minute, 1850 per hour. 96.720 per day,
While the rate of births. slightly exceeding
9 death rate, is calculated to be % per
minute, 4. 100 per hour. 100 800 per day, 3o,I42'
90 year. The estimated increase per an
um Is therefore a little over !, 100000.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.