Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
London has IS, 900 Germans.

London has $1,000 Germans.
Uncle Sam has 73, 3,o45 paupers.
Japan has /, 100 miles of railroad.
"A PhiIadeIphian owns 33 fnger-rings
and "a suits OF clothes.
Wars during the last 33 years have cost
$4,000 men and sS.OO0,OOO,O 600.
Out of the 80 ducal and prineely ee-H-
lies established by Napoleon 1. Il are ex-
tinct.
1t takes an expenditure of nearly $40 900
to carry q vessel like the Majestic across the
Atlantic.
"A Biddeford, Me-, fisherman caught q
lobster that weighed % pounds. He sent it
to New York.
The Penobscot log cut this year is 15O,-
O9o OGo feet About l1O, 600 900 feet come down
"A hite woman named Brown was mar
r1ed few days ago to negro named Green
at lronton, Ohio.
1t is matter of record that 19, $40
dollars zero coined in 1904, vet only eight
sam pies are known to exist, and those that
are In good condition are valued at 1000
each.
1t is computed by well-informed per-
sons that Maine has wood enough to make
for all the pulp mills now running in the
country.
The wreck, % years ago. on the coast of
Maine, Of the steamship Royal Tar, which
carried a menagerie, has been recalled re-
Gently by the finding of several hippopota-
mus teeth near Rockland.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of 50, 900 square miles.
1t is all meadow land and is filed with lakes,
ponds and canals. Altogether it is as large
as the States OF New York and Pennsylvania
combined.
The bell that will ring the hours from
the steeple of the college church at Notre
Dame, Ind, is the largest on the continent.
Eight men can easily stand erect within it,
and its tones can be distinctly heard a dis
tance of II miles.
The clock in the House of Commons
suddenly stopped last Monday, and, as the
same thing happened in 1886, when the party
in power suffered a big defeat, the incident,
London accounts stated, is generally re-
garded as an omen"
Work has been started on pulp and
paper mill at Winslow, on the Kennebec
river, Me-, which is to have capacity larger
than that of any other mill in the world. It
Will turn out IS to so tons of MANILA paper
daily, and employ $50 men.
The seven wonders of America are
classed as follows: Niagara Falls Yellow
stone Park, Mammoth Cave, the Canyons
and Garden of the Gods Colorado: the giant
trees, CALIFORNIA;; the natural bridge, Vir-
ginia, and the Yosemite Valley.
The daily water supply of London is
Ia, 149, lSS gallons, of which about 10000 600
gallons are drawn from the river Thames,
and little over 81, ,OCO, 900 from the river Lea
and from various artesian wells, The aver
age supply per capita is 1898 gallons.
The irregularity of Names coast line is
indicated by the fact that Lubbock man
who bought horse in Eastport was obliged
to drive the animal more than 40 miles 70
reach his home. although the two towns are
only three miles apart in a straight line.
"A Japanese gentleman named Gompeif
has patented little instrument which en-
ables the possessor to send "a cloud of blind
ing dust'' into the eyes of foe at distance
of II feet. 1t is said that the poor s'foe" Is
thereby absolutely deprived Of sight, and, is
therefore, Of course, at the mercy of his as
saflant.
Hundreds of imported song birds were
turned loose few days ago, near Beaverton,
oregon. They seemed delighted TO regain
their freedom and at once rose high in the
air, singing gaily, and then made a wide cir
Gle and settled along a creek which runs
through the meadow.
Large families are very common among
the factory population of Lewisrown. Me.
Henry McCraw has raised 10 children, of
whom l3 are now living. The mother is a
healthy woman of 49, Noel Gaudette has
raised 10 children, of whom "a are living
the youngest II years of age and the eldest
The snake season has opened up promis-
nqly in Georgia A few days ago colored
man there was chased three miles by
coach whip snake, and only escaped finally,
so it is reported. by doubling in his tracks
so suddenly that the snake, 'in turning
around to follow. did 1t so violently as to
snap itself in two"
A great deal of misinformation is being
circulated as to which is the largest
schooner afioat. Everybody on the Atlantic
coast thinks that the five maSted schooner
Governor Ames is the largest of all fore and
alters, but this is mistake. The largest
schooner in the last published Government
list is the Golden Age, l.763 tons; built at
Abbott's Bridge, o., in 1888 and hailing from
Sandusky.
No fewer than 1900, 900 acres of bar
rem land have been made fruitful in the Sa-
hara Desert, an enterprise representing per-
haps the most remarkable example OF irri-
gation by means of artesian wells which can
anywhere be found. Algeria owes to this
method of cultivation that it is becoming
most important wine-producing country, as
may be gagged from the fact that it sent to
France in 1856 10, 500 900 gallons.
DR. Billroth estimates that of the cas-
ualties at Weissenburg and Worth during
the Franco-German war. 80 per cent of all
the wounds were caused by rifles, about l5
per cent by the large guns, and not quite
per cent by the lance and sword. Mr-ForbeS,
however, says that the statistics for tha
whole of the war on the German side prove
that over 80 per cent were due to rifle fire,
about per cent to artillery, and about per
cent to cold steel
The California pioneer now having the
best claim to long residence on the Pacific
,oa st and old age is believed to be Alfred, or
Don Alfredo. Robinson, who went out from
Boston in July, 1S2S. He was one of the pro-
factors of Richard Henry Dana while serv-
ng his "two years before the mast" In
PAS he entered the service of the Pacific
Mail Company, and the following year
,rected in San Francisco a wooden house,
which cost $500 in New York, and sold for
10000.
BRIEF HUMORESQUEs.