Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Nav York has 30. Ooo cash girl..

in every minute 81 people die in the
world, and 20 are born.
Berlin has 40, 900 unoccupied dwellings
that cannot be rented.
The hourly rate of water falling ovsr
Niagara is 100. 100000 tons.
1t will take 70 tons of paper to make
the ballots for New York City.
The fur seal and fur otter trade Of
Alaska is worth 100000 year.
New and valuable halibut banks
ha We been found to the west Of Cape Flat.
terry, Washingt on.
Bees never store honey In the light,
because honey so exposed granulates and 10
useless TO the bees.
The trolley car is literally astonishing
the natives of Singapore, Asia. They call 10
the wind carriage.
-Nineveh, the ancient city, was IA miles
long and miles wide, surrounded by . wall
100 feet high and % feet wide.
"A woman in Georgia who is not 20
years Of age has made, up to date, All quilts,
~ Of which were made during this year.
1t is very probable that the Govern.
ment will set aside the summit of the Cas-
cade range, in Oregon, as q national park.
Testing the big Krupp guns is said to
be responsible for the cracking OF every
brick and stone ouse at Essen, the seat Of
the great armory.
Among the relics In the rooms of the
New York Historical Society is the tail of
George Ills horse, which was taken at
Bowling Green.
AT Dundenong, Australia, there is Q
blue gum tree which has an estimated heighs
of 45O feet. II is believed to be the talless
tree in the world.
The highest lakes in the world are in
the Himalayas in ThiDet, whore there are
some bodies OF water as high as 20, 900 feet
above the level of the sea-
In Great Britain it is illegal now to
employ girls In shops under IS for more than
IA hours a week, and shopkeepers who diso-
bey the law are liable to be fined.
Leaves attract dew; boards, sticks, and
stones do not, because leaves have a chemi.
cal use for dew and detain it, while boards,
and stones have none and do not.
The average expenses of the students
at Yale were: Freshmen, s7s6 96; sophomores,
SS3l "a; juniors 1888 II; Seniors 1913 70. The
largest expense reported was s., sos
"A chain made for the United States
Government at Troy, N. Y, in 1888 was six
miles and q fraction in length. 1t was made
Of bars of iron each 21 inches in diameter.
Six brothers of the Frost family at
Kansas City own the following odd lot OF
names: Jack Frost, Winter Frost White
Frost, Cod Frost, EARLY Frost and Snow
Frost.
The Democrats have not had full con-
troll of the Government, that is, the Presi-
dency and the House of Congress, at the
same time since the Thirty-ffth Congress,
which met in 1851.
Banana juice makes frst-class indeli.
BILE ink A spot on q white shirt from dead
ripe banana is marked forever, and the
juice from bananas thoroughly decayed is a
bright clear carmine.
When healthy horse is enjoying per-
feet rest his pulse beats at the rate OF 10
times per minute, that of an OK 50 times,
while in sheep and hogs the average cardiac
pulsations are IS per minute.
"A Berlin chemist claims to have dis
covered the art of reproducing colors true TO
nature with the cameras If true, the discoy.
cry is one of the most important that has
been made in the line Of photography.
The Supreme Court of the United States
is fast becoming Yale tribunal. The last
three justices appointed to the court have
been Yale men-Judges Brewer and Brown
of the class of '56 and Judge Shiras OF %.
, -Asahel Thornburg, who died at Muncis,
Ind. recently, within so days of being GEN.
tenarian, left Ill great-grandchildren and II
great-gfeat-grandchild mourn his loss.
He had used tobacco since he was Ii years
old.
1t has long been known that diamonds
Especially the class known as "rose dia-
monds'') are likely to explode If subjected
only to what would seem very ordfnnry
degree of heat, such as strong rays from the
sun.
Experiments have been carried out at
St. Petersburg on the illumination of the
ground surface by means of electric projec.
tors on ballons 1900 feetin the air. More ex-
haustive tests will be made at the FORTH
coming siege operations at Ivangord.
A Welshman has devised new process
of giving a uniform coating to tin plates.
Instead Of employing rollers the plates are
put in racks above the pot OF coating metal,
in which they are inserted and from Wn1cn
they are withdrawn at uniform rate.
Photographs of growing plants show
some marvellous results. especially among
the climbers. The young stems are said to
move in O succession of irregular circular
or elliptioal curves, which vary in every
direction. These movements are due to the
irregular growth in various parts OF the
stem.
The first pastor of the church at East
hampton, N. Y, directed that he be buried
with his head to the east so that at the
resurrection he might face his congregation,
but 80 general is the custom OF buryfng with
the head to the west that this direction Is
noted as an instance of the minister's eccen-
tricity.
Granite is the lowest rock in the earth's
crust. 1t is the bed rock OF the world 1t
shows no evidence of animal or vegetable
life. 1t is from two to ten inches as thick as
the united thickness of all the other rocks.
1t is the parent rock from which all otner
rocks have been either directly or indirectly
derived
Although there are large exports Of
petroleum from this country to India, the
first cargo, it is reported to go by steamer
was ordered on Saturday, when steamer
was chartered for Calcutta to carry lV,OV
cases OF oil at 10 cents per case. business
with sailing vessels.
There are to-day more than 2OO,OOO
women in the United States earning living
by professional and personal service OUT
side that of mechanical labor or work in
the shops in the practice of law and medl-
cine, the teaching of music and art. htera-
ture and science, and in clerical work OF
different kinds in government ana otner
official places.
Great numbers of vultures hover over
Para, on the Amazon river, blackening
every housetop and church spire. A heavy
fine is imposed for killing one of these inn
mense carrfon birds, fact which is less
strange than it appears when it Is known
that they do more toward keeping that Un-
drained city in q state OF comparative clean
liness than is accomplished in any other
way.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.