Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
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London houses burn 4O,OOo tons of coal
daily.
Greece is about as large as the State of
Vermont
ireland has now 1000, 900 more sheen
than ir 1883.
Mr.. Gladstone's rate of speech averages
$50 words per minute. y
Washington State is to furnish all the
flag stats for the Worlds Fair.
During one month recently Japan e1,
ported s14, 800 gross of matches.
In DANISH cities it is against law to ride
bicycle faster than the speed OF cab.
For the first time in years in North
Carolina there are no convicts at work on
railroads.
-Fiftv-one metals are now known to eI-
ist. Four hundred years ago only seven
were known.
In snowy weather in Sweden and Nor.
way trusses of straw and hay are tied TO the
lamp posts for the birds.
ALI of the 81, 200, 900 royalty on Moody
and Sankey's gospel hymns has been de-
voted to charitable purposes.
The largest barometer yet made has
been put in working order at the st. jacques
tower IN Paris. 1t is Al feet 5 inches high.
The extremes of temperature in the
Sahara are such that while the day may be
oppressively hot, ut night it is freezing cold.
The Sultan of Morocco owns the mos.
expensive bicycle, the whole of the frame
work of which is nickel plated, ana cost
1000
One million three hundred thousand
pounds worth of pickles and sauces are e1-
ported from England to other countries
yearly.
In one of the great Paris hospitals, ont
of SO patients who suffered from epilepsy &C
were Iound to be the children OF drunken
parents.
The priests tell the people in Persia
that the cholera plague is the result of alco
holic stimulants, . tale that is helping the
temperance cause wonderfully.
"A Photographic developer made wit
water which has been freshly boiled will
keep much longer than that made OF dis
titled water, and Photographic prints soIkeG
in such water before tontng are free from
blisters.
In the United States there were printet
in 1880, 80 German papers, 2S French, l
Scandinavian, Is Spanish, 2 Italian, 2 Polisl
and l each in POrtug uese. Cninese ant
Cherokee.
Recent experiment has proved that if
delicate pioce of lace be placed between a
iron plate and disk of gunpowder and tn
| latter be detonated, the lace will be clearl,
| stamped ON the iron.
The honor of the invention of print
| ing has been claimed by Mentz. strasbure
| Haarlem, Venice, Rome, Florence, Basil
and Augsburg. The first three only are Ell
| titled to consideration.
"A magnet ut Willet's Point, Lon;
| Island, is considered the largest and strons
| est in the world. 1t is made of two 15-inc
| Dahlgren guns, wound around with eigl
miles OF cable charged with electricity.
Swedish women often work as farl
laborers. Those that have babies carr
! them on their backs in q leather bag,
| squaws carry their young. This plan pc.
| nlits the mother to use both hands at he
farm work.
The first double-deck twin screw ferry
boat in use in the United States is the Gil
cinnati, which runs over the Pennsylvani
railroad terry from Jersey City to New Yorl
She is 2O6 feet long, 46 feet wide, and make
II miles an hour.
1t is said that Mime. Patti and 9th,
women of high standing on the stage pr
serve most carefully the boots they worei
their debut, which they consider lucky
have about on the first nights of engag
ments forever after.
"A Sioux squaw, living near s,
! Diego, Cal, will exhibit in the woman
building at the Worlds Fair n dress of de,
| skins, richly embroidered with Is pount
OF beads. She worked for two years
making the garment.
From July to December the bazaars
the towns in Cyprus are crammed wi!
grapes, which nre sold for less than a penn
n pound They are OF various kindI-blac
red, green, palt, MuScat and stoneiess, e.
a
Burial at sea is to be abolished for tho
who have money to pay for the transport
tion of their remains in case of death
board ship. Alright steel caskets for t,
transportation OF bodies are now part
| tile equipment of all the best steamers.
Rather more than GO persons in eve
100 in London are living in comfort, VIII
rather more than 80 in every 100 are livi
i'll poverty. Or THESE p are poor. and sew
very poor, white not quite one person
every ITO belongs to the Lowest classes"
The 'tangry tree" attains height
from 10 to IS feet. 1t is found in Nevat
California and Arizona. II disturbed
contact or moved by the wind it NANTES
signs of vegation, ruffling its leaves liket
hairs of An angry Cat and emitting sickt
ing odor.
-ChiIdren's hair grows more q1ick
Llan lndG OI auulIS. SO1ue say I0at llp
haired people are longer lived than the
brethren with dark locks which is nO5
consoling to the latter, since more than h,
OF the inhabitants OF this country have dl
brown hair.
A Chinese official, high in author
states that it is customary TO preserve de
bodies by inclosing them in boxes of [
This tea is afterwards collected and shipI
to and sold in foreign countries. Tney
sells containingit are disting guished byal
vate mark known only to the natives.
France has the cheapest rate of DO
age, but possesses a capital in which it
said more murders take place in six mont
than occur in London, Berlin and Vienna
gerher in twice that length of time; but
together more murders take place in {
United States than any other country.
of the four forest cantons of Suitz
land, Lucerne is the wealthiess and me-
populous. With a population OF, 10000
has 50, $40, 600 invested in savings bsnks
compared with Schwyz with 1900 aad 81
600; with Unterwalden with 26Oe0 ant s.
200; and with Uri with 16, 0O0 and $50, ,6OO.\
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDOM.