Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-21
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Italy has % crematories.

Italy has % crematories.
There are in all 135, 900 miles of cable.
New York city can boast ola one-arme
bartender.
-Laplanders often skate distance of Il
miles day.
The nightjar has a cry like one lamen1
ing in distress.
-Twenty-eight thousand patents wer
granted last year.
One pound of Indian tea will make II
cups Of strong tea.
The average sunshine of London is onl
"a hours per week.
-Two-fifths of the companies starte,
yearly in England fail.
There are four English soverelgns i,
circulation to one-half sovereign.
England has not been engaged in wa
during Lord Salisbury's administration.
Six million dollars are invested in tn,
manufacture of dynamite in the Unite,
States.
The Krupp Works at Essen contaj
2,5i2 furnaces These consume l. 656 tons
coal and coke daily.
The largest whale ever captured wa
the prize OF a New London whaler in 1854
1t yielded 1853 barrels of oil.
One of the Partisan newspapers is re
ported to be experimenting with type O.
glass with gratifying results.
Photographers claim that the facial re
semblance of husband and wife is cIosei
than that of brother and sister.
"A buff leghorn pullet showed at the
Chicken Fair in Madison Square Garden or
January, 1892, was valued at slOO
"A newspaper foreman has invented
device by which compositors are enabled tc
set type with both hands at once.
The quantity of blood in the human
body varies, but is generally about one.
tenth the total weight of the body.
1t is claimed that the drug clerks in
Iowa can tell the difference between Old
Ian and Holland gin in an instant.
When an Alpena, Mich, man is ar
rested for being drunk he is sentenced for
6o days to gold cure establishment
1t is said that only five passengers were
killed on all the railways of Great Britain
and Ireland during the whole OF last year.
"A "camep' and 'beauty" are synony-
nous in Arabic. An Arab widow generally
mourns her husband with q cry of 80, my
camelr'
The most widely spread language in
the world is said to be the Mandarin OF
China, which is used in Is of the ls
provinces.
The Salvation Army publishes 81
weekly newspapers and five monthly maya
zines. with a total annual circulation OF 49,
O0O0 copies.
Three factories in the United States
consume over 800, ,OOO, 900 eggs per year in
making albumen paper, extensively used in
photography.
"A woman residing in Jasper county.
Missouri, is reported to have been made
deaf dumb by lightning stroke during
recent storm.
"A minister in Albany, N Y, insist,
that his salary shall not exceed that of hi,
choirmaster, whatever that may be. Each
gets $4,000 now.
"A French boy has broken two black
cats to harness. He drives his pets in single
as well as double harness up and down the
street every day.
Six of the 80 stores in Machias, Ne
are owned and conducted by women, and
are said to be the most successful business
establishments in the town.
Bishop Corrillo, of Yucatan, Mexico.
has published a letter in which he insists
that yellow fever existed in Central Amer.
lea before the discovery of this continent.
Six survivors of the Harvard class of
1884, all of them over IS years of age, met at
the Parker House. Boston, last week, and
celebrated the fifty-eignth year of rheil
graduation.
In the Oriental Department of the
British Museum a tablet has been deciphered
as containing an offer of marriage made by
a Pharaoh to daughter of the King OF
Babylon about 1880 B. C.
Inspectors in the Adirondacks report
that more deer die from starvation than
from any other cause They have been so
well protected of late years that they have
multiplied beyond the capacity of the woods
to sustain them.
"A journal published at Constantinople
gives some particulars of the mercury mines
of AImaden, where about 1000 workmen
are employed in this unhealthy industry.
The production reaches s., 900 to $4,000 fres-
cos (lOO pounds each) per annum.
w. j. Florence, the comedian, once
offered s., 900 for a catch phrase about which
an American comedy could be written.
Nobody supplied the demand and this the
costliest phrase or recent record has yet to
be made-unless 1t was "Rum, Romanism
and Rebellion"
Among birds that have the power of
imitation the parrot is the best but, as
matter of fact, Its voice is decidedly in
ferior to that of the mynah. a species OF
startling. Curiously enough, the male bird
speaks in a high, clear tone, like that OF q
child, while the female has gruf voice.
An enormous school of barracuda was
sporting in Monterey Bay. Cal, the other
day, when, with the sudden turn, they
headed straight for the beach without
i'll their speed, and were soon
landed high and dry upon the shore. The
belief is that the barracuda were driven
ashore by a school of whales.
The most valuable gold ore ever mined
in the United States, and probably in tho
world, was lot containing 200 pounds of
quartz. carrying gold at the rate OF s5O,OOOa
ton. This quartz was taken from the main
shaft of the Michigan gold mine at Ish-
peming. Assays from the same lot showed
that other portions OF it were worth $11O,9 ,955
q ton.
The most expensive municipal hall in
the world and the largest in the United
States is the city building of Philadelphia,
upon whose yet unfinished tower the largest
clock in the world is to be displayed. No
body knows exactly how much money it has
cost, but it cannots be far in the aggregate
from the amount invested in the State House
of New York