Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The silver dollar of 1904 is worth $500
-Thirty-four pounds of raw sugar make
81 pounds refined.
The Gulf of Mexico has risen over one
foot since the year 1851.
The Turks always eat their oyium
while the men of China smoke it.
kangaroo farming is to become an e.
tablished institution in Australia.
The bronze cents, such as are in cir
culation now. were first coined in 1854.
Apples were worth from 25 cents to
20 cents each in the reign Of Henry VII
1t takes 25 seconds for the blood to
make the entire circulation Of the system
"A farmer living near Furlong, Pa, dug
up ITO stone knives in his garden the other
I'm China there are no telegraph poles,
because the people have fixed superstition
against them.
-Seven-eighths Of, the forest growth of
the State of Washington consists Of the
Douglas fr.
-Fiume is the harbor in the Mediter-
ranean, which is the fastest in loading and
unloading vessels.
1t is estimated that 40 per cent of those
who start in business fail, March being the
slackest month for business.
The first volume of the waverly series
appeared when Scott was 4s. He published
his first book, Ballads" at 25.
-Nebraska takes its name from the
Nebraska river. The name Is Of Indian ori.
gin, meaning shallow river"
The History of Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain" came out when Prescott was Al.
his Conquest of Mexico at AZ.
February is the month in which the
greatest number Of births occur; June the
month In which occur the fewest.
"A famous Vienna actress who recently
went bankrupt. had a bill for dressmaking
alone amounting to 700, 900 forms.
Within the last 30 years there have
been on the British coasts 66,s7 wrecks,
with the fearful loss of q, ,312 lives.
-Irving's "Knickerbocker's History of
New York" was written VIII en- the author
was 26, his "Life of Washingt on" at y.
AS rule, married men live longer than
bachelors; yet out Of every 1000 persons in
England more than 600 are unmarried.
-Leibniz, who never forgot anything he
read. could recite Virgil and other classical
poets, even when he was quite an old man.
Alaska has yielded $33, 900, 900 in seal
skins already, and the price which the
United States paid to Russia or 1t was s15,-
Coo.ooo.
Twenty thousand words have been
added to the English language in the depart
ment of biology alone since Darwin's dis
coveries.
twenty-five per cent of the women of
England earn their own living. There are
nearly $50 female blacksmiths in that
country.
I'm the churchyard at barley Dale in
England is yew tree, said to be the oldest
in the world. Local tradition makes it 5000
years old.
The name of Maine was given to that
State descriptively, since in the original
charter it was considered "the Mayne La nd
OF New England"
AN Australian pearl diver says that dne
of the strange effects of diving is the invtri-
able bad temper felt while working at Che
bottom of the sea-
One of the New York theaters is d n
ploying the incandescent lamp in a nod e1
manner, namely, to give the eject of sd a.
rise on the stage.
1t is curious to note that it is the bad l.
themselves most persistently in the womaH 5
suffrage questions.
The State of Nevada is named from Il 9
Sierra Nevada Mountains, which in turn al =
said to have been named from the Siern
Nevadas of Grenada.
The gastronomic law that oysters should
not be eaten in the months without an "R"
in them, was laid down bya person named
Butler, nearly 3O0 years ago
The private apartments Of Queen Vic
toria are hung with q series Of paintings
representing Incidents in her domestic life
since the time of her marriage.
NJ:
been asleep for the last II years, with the
exception of 10 months in 1ssI1ss2 two
months in 1889 and two weeks in July, 1892.
Among the most interesting things
shown at the recent successful naval exhi-
bition in London was the very beautiful
model of Nelson's celebrated flagship the
Victory.
There is country superstition that q
baby must not be allowed to see its face in
a mirror, as, if it does, It will be certain to
have "tusk" teeth. and may possibly get its
eyes turned.
They manage their criminal business
very carefully in Rome. 1t has taken the
authorities three years to complete the ar
rangements of the trial of seven persons for
forgery. Meanwhile the suspects have been
in Jail
I'm q graveyard at White Pine, Cal,
there have been found recently petrifed
human bodies In many kinds OF dress,
miners, desperadoes with their pistols and
knives buckled round their waists and per-
sons of all degrees.
DIR. Colin, French army surgeon, ha.
been studying the effect of regular march,
ing upon soldiers, and he asserts that the
regularity of the step causes a shock to the
brain and the bones, which will often break
down the strongest men.
-Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland or
Ireland, by birth, marriage or creation, are
free from arrest or imprisonment in civil
process; and in the event of a peeress being
charged with a criminal offence she would
be tried by the House of Lords.
"A curious utilization of carrier pigeons
was recently attempted in Belgium. This
was making them carry contraband goods
into France. For a short time "a pigeons
were let of regularly from the Belgian dove
cote, each burdened with a small coil OF to
bacco
-Boarders in q Newburyport, Mass,
house contemplate blackboard every time
they enter the dining room. It is behind q
glass door, and on It are chalked the names
of boarders who have failed to pay their
board for two weeks. When they pay up,
the names are rubbed out.
MIXED AND MERRY
"Why, inquired Slug liza, "is the letter