Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| An electrical machIne In inc HonU0A
| Mint counts the coins.
The smallest known guadruped ds the
| pigmy mouse of Siberia
| Chinese control almost the entire snoe-
making business in California
| In India there is q species OF crow tnss
laughs just like human being.
| There Is but one sudden death among
| women to every ten among men.
More births occur in February than in
any other month. July is the month Of few
| est births.
The tallest woman in Idaho Lives at
Bois city. She stands feet5 inches in her
| stockings.
-Tennyson is reported to be the ,173d
person whose body has been deposited in
| Westminster Abbey.
Glass in oven doors is new contriy-
| ance. 1t enables cooks to watch the food
without opening the doors.
The Dead Sea Is nothing more than Q
small but very old salt lake now in an ad-
vanced stage of evaporation
The Michigan lumbermen carry cedar
knots in their pockets as a cure and also as
preventive OF rheumatism
The longest word in the new Century
Dictionary is palatopharingeolaryn
1uo u64b lO0R6SI Is
There is tooth of Buddha, preserved
and worshtped in an Indian temple, which
probably all the gold in the world could not
buy.
-Herculile, the new French explosive,
is 80 powerful that half pound of it. in
recent test. displaced a stone weighing 30
tons.
1t hardly seems possible, yet figures are
said N that the tire D0OnlatiOn
could find standing room on field ten miles
square.
The Guadalupe bees lay their honey
IN bladder, of wax about as large as 8
pigeons egg and not in combs The honey
never hardens.
The largest orchard in the State of
Kansas is that belonging to Judge Well
house. 1t is located near fremont and COM
prises 1,07S acres.
The smallest inhabited island in the
world is that upon which the Eddystone
Lighthouse stands. At time of low water
1t is only 80 teet in diameter.
The Gar of Russia is the largest indi-
vidual landowner in the world. The area OF
his possessions is far greater than that Of
the entire Republic of France.
There is a tree in Jamaica known as the
life tree on account of its leaves growing
even after being severed from the plant.
Only by fire can it be entirely destroyed.
1t does not seem to be generally kno wn
that the turkey was domesticated by the
Indians long before the discovery of this
continent by white men, but such is the
case.
"A ten-pound cannon ball was recently
dug up at Lakeside, Ind. 1t has been
identified as a relic of the times when Mad
Anthony Wayne was in command there
abouts.
"A Passaic inventor has devised a novel
projcctile. which is rified to correspond to
the bore of the gun. The grooves are pro-
vided with bearing pieces to diminish
friction.
The effective size of the molecule is
never larger than the five hundred millionth
of an inch, and in some cases it may be
found to be no larger than the thousand
millionth of an inch.
The founders of Phoenix. Ariz 'builded
better than they knew" in naming their in
tant town. In some recent excava tions
there the ashes of prehistoric residents were
found inclosed in urnS.
Algeria is the greatest cork-producing
country in the world, having 2,5O0,0O0 acres
of cork forests, of which 800. 900 are made to
yield regular crons- The finest cork Is OBJ
tanned from that province.
The "school age" is a variable quantity
Territories. children are admitted to the
public shoots at the age OF years; in 19, a5
.; in 20, at 6; in g. at :; and in (Texas), at ta.
The Italian Ordnance Department 'is
considering the purchase of projectile
which, when it bursts, will produce q
luminous disc of 100 acknowledgement Ii
would light up an enemy's camp with great =
brilliancy.
California has formed an association for
the preservation of the old mission build
ings. Each member pays 81 year and OBJ
tains special rates on the railroad when the
club gives an excursion to any of the mis-
sion ruins.
The oldest arm chair in the world is the
throne once used by Queen Hatafu, who
flourished in Egypt 1900 B. C.. 1t is made Of
ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hard
ened with age as to appear TO be carved from
black marble
An English railway carriage company
is building for an Indian potentate three
superb railway carriages. which will consti-
tute a palace on wheels. In the framework
of each carriage is to be used s4O worth Of
teak, to resist the ravages of insects.
-Children's hair grows more quickly
than that of adults Some say that light
haired people are longer lived than their
brethren with dark locks, which is not so
consoling to the latter. since more than
half of the inhabitants of this country have
dark brown hair.
In cave in the Pantheon the guide,
by striking the flaps of his coat, makes a
noise equal to that produced by firing l2-
pound cannon. In the cave of Smellin, near
Viborg, Finland, stone thrown down a GER
tain abyss makes a reverberating echo
which sounds like the dying wall of some
wild animal.
"A Carterville, Ga, man is the owner
of a curiosity In the shape of a walking
stick. 1t is of buckeye wood and is literally
covered with incriptions incident to the
Harrison and Tyler campaign. 1t is said to
contain Il history of Harrison's life. q list
of the members of his Cabinet, with cuts
of log cabin and surrounding grounds
and names of numerous of Harrison5 Off
cials.
I'm the 20 universities of the Geman
Empire the medical students for last summer
numbered s,SSs. These were distributed
among the various universities as followsi
Berlin, ,ls5: Bonn, S25; Breslau, 292; Erlan-
gen, 424; Freiburg, 4sl GIessen, III; Coffin
gen, 200; Greifswald. 1893; Halle, 2S3; Heidel-
berg, 27S; Jena, 2l2; Kiel, 1885, Konigsberg 255;
Leipzig, S34; Marburg, 266; Munich, LAS;
Rostock, lbs; Strassburg, S33; Tubingen, 80;
Warzburg, 743.