Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Chicago handles ], $50 trains daily.
-America produced 10000 900 barrels Of
salt last year.
The magic lantern was the invention Of
Roger Bacon in 1860
English books were first prin ted By
Caxton in the year 1474.
But IN per cent of Bulgaria's populs-
tion can write or read.
The fathers of New Guinea sell their
daughters for an ak apiece.
The United States is reported to have
1904 paupers in almshouses.
-Brooklyn's three public baths were
patronized last week by l5,ll6 people.
The "Army of Heaven" is coming to
New York. 1t is rival Of the salvationists.
The London Geographical Society and
the Geological Society both admit women a.
| Fellows.
of the 20, 900, 900 workers in the United
States less than 100000 belong to labor or.
ganizattons.
The men employed in q Michigan
basket factory make grape basket apiece
| each minute.
In a hospital for cats in Philadelphis
over II, 900 felines were painlessly put to
| death last year.
1t is now the style with the best class
of Hindoo women to discard the nose ring
| and wear a flower there instead.
The most northern newspaper in the
world is the NordkGp, meaning "North Cape"
in English, published at Hammersten In
Norway.
I'm Berlin the fire companies must be
drawn up in military fashion to salute their
commander before they can start to the
| scene of q fire.
An Atchison, Kan, woman has brought
| up her chickens on the bugs collected from
the machinery at the electric light station
| every morning.
| "A Rochester physician who has been
experimenting on the subject AYERS that the
musquito can readily be exterminated by
| the use of petroleum.
| -"Saints of the Most High God" new
| religious sect who indulge in feet washing
| as O part OF their ceremonies, are in session
near Union City, Mich.
"A new Norwegian version of the Script
ures has just been published, the work OF so
years bestowed by the most competens
| scholars in Norway in our day.
The lands included in the territory
known as the Cherokee land strip were
given to that tribe of Indians in 1871 in ex-
| change for their lands in Georgia and Ala
| bama.
The colored people of Georgia have
| formed society called the Upper Ten. The
members agree that after q certain date
| they will do no more work for the white
people.
Abilene, Kan, is the possessor of man
who keeps himself supplied with news
papers by writing postal card every week
| to some large paper ONCE asking Tor q
| sample copy.
The popular subscription of $4,000
I raised in New York City to provide for sick
| babies did a great work. Over $4,000 fami-
| lies were visited and over 10000 sick were
| prescribed for.
"A San Francisco schooner last week
| encountered thousands of dead fish, extend
| ing miles, not far from the California coast
A submarine earthquake Is the explanation
given of the phenomenon.
-"Well, I'll be gosh darned if I ever seen
q car showed along with q fishing pole be-
FORE" said an old farmer at Wichita the
other day as he witnessed for the first time
the operation of the trolley.
The copper threepence of Connecticut,
issued in 1727, is appraised at $50. One variety
has the inscription 81 am a good "copper""
| and another has the device of an ak, with
| the words, 81 cut my way through"
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools Of Belgium and
| 100000 OF the 6OO,UOO primary pQpll9 nave Q6-
posted over 500 900 francs. Great Britain
has also established the penny banks.
advertisements have appeared in q
Chicago newspaper requesting Mr.. Koch
Ter to come around and participate in the
division of $40 000, 900 estate which has been
lying in the Bank of England for 80 years.
The average duration of lives in the
United States is Alb years for storekeepers;
S36 years for teamsters; A.6 years for sea-
-, aol,o TO-
merchants; 526 years for lawyers, and A2
years for farmers.
The following notice was found posted
at the gate of rural cemetery-not in Ire
land, but near Dieppe, in France: "Owing
to the crowded condition OF this cemetery,
only those living in the commune will here
after be buried In it"
The first woman admitted to the bar in
America was Arabella Mansf cid, of Iowa,
practicing before the United States Supreme
Court, and large number have been admit
ted to general practice.
The question, "Who shall decide when
doctors disagree, and soundest casuists
doubt like you and me7" was written by
Alexander Pope. ''Moral Essays" Epistle
8, line L The original did not apply to doc
tors OF medicine, but to doctors Of philoso-
ply.
The California Academy of Sciences has
become the possessor OF an unusually
sound skeleton of rhachianeetes glaucus,
or California gray whale It Is 45 feet In
length and has 26 RIBS, seven on the curve
and two great scapulae, resembling broad
axes The jaws are nine feet in length.
Park Benjamin, the scientific expert Of
New York, has a library Of over 1000 vol
umes on the subject Of electricity. These
books are all treatises, and every one OF
them bears upon electricity and magnetism.
The science has only been in existence
about 300 years, and for $50 years of that time
it was merely experimental
The last giraffe in the London Zoolog-
ical Gardens has recently died, and the in
stitution is, for the first time since 1885,
without a living specimen of this animal. IL
has had, in all, 30 specimens, of which IL
were born on the place. The giraffe market
is very poorly supplied, and there Is but one
specimen now for sale in Europe.