Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Uncle Sam has 300 silk mills.

Uncle Sam has 300 silk mills.
-Gatling guns are now fired byelectricit,
The unexplored area of Canada is 1000
900 square miles.
The population Of America increase
by 1000 persons day.
-A.machine for imbedding wire nettin
in glass is a late invention.
ALI ancient actors wore masks Wit
metal mouthpieces to act as speakn
trumpets.
I'm the early English plays boar
with a name on it indicated the localityt
the scene.
The Clothiers' Guild was establiShe
by Henry l., A. D. 1112, as one of the Londo
companies.
The Roman catapults and balistas wei
transported in the train of an army on car
like artillery.
For over 900 years., Nuremberg, B;
Yaria. has made most Of the toys use
throughout the world.
Chile is said to number among he
population more poets per capita than an
other nation in the world.
Stockings were first used in II
eleventh century; before that cloth band
ages were used on the feet.
Residents of Helensburgh, Scotland
killed n centenarian last month"; donke'
claimed to be l02 years Of age.
old Neptune, generally believed to b
the first horse purchased by the Governmer
for the Life Saving service, died Q sho'
time ago.
"A man st Mooresville, Mo-, had til
handspring OF his watch broken by has
of lightning few days ago, and was total
uninjured.
So remote is the planet Neptune frol
the sun, its mean distance being 9,745.G
miles. that its temperature is estimated
be 5000 below Zero.
I'm the last century the grave digger
Hamlet" excited immense enthusiasm
pulling off, one after another, q couple
dozen waistcoats.
In the fourteenth century armor be
came so heavy that many soldiers only
years old were deformed or permanent
disabled by It's weight.
Half of all the miles of railroad in ey
istence in this country has been constructe
since 1850. The total addition to our mileag
since that date has been s6,0:5
In 1870 we produced alittle more thal
one-fifth of the worlds supply OF lead;
1893 the product of the Uniten States wa
equal to third of the worlds supply.
No death has occurred in the family
Rev. Samuel Wakefield. of Latrobe, Pa, i
81 years. He is in his 94,h year: his wife
few yeas his junior: they were marie
in 1921, and have 10 children.
Henry IL of England is represented
wearing green boots, his spurs fastened wit
red leather straps, black leather glove.
with outside jew els on each finger, and a sta
Of gems on the back of each glove.
Paris gardeners buy toads, which the
use as insect destroyers. There is regula
weekly sale of these hideous little animal
in the French capital. A franc piece wi
buy from seven to a dozen of them.
During the reign of Louis XIV. th
bodices of French and Italian lalies wef
cut with so liberal a hand that the Pope il
terfered and threatened the wearers wit
accommodation. TIE menace had N
effect
The rivers of Russia grow shallowe
year after year, and the Vorskla. once a
abundant tributary OF the Duieper and con
pared to the Hudson or Delaware, go mile
in length, has completely and permanent
dried up.
In some of the rugs from the Orient tn
knots of the threads are so fine that the
cannot be seen by the eye No ,nachiner
has been introduced there vet for maxim
rugs or carpets, each tufS or knot being tie
by deft fingers.
The German army has a swimmiI
school for troops, where everyone must lea
to swim. The best swimmers are able
cross stream of several hundred yarf
width, even when carrying their clothin
rifle and ammunition.
AN enormous ball buffalo, which wa
shot in Montana about n year ago and is
on exhibition in n Buffalo, v. Y, store
dow, stands nearly IS hands high. measI
feet inches in length. and weighed, VIII
shot. about 5000 pounds.
The hill near Jerusalem where tn
crucifxion of Jesus occurred is formed
limestone. The shores of the Dead Sea ar
lined with pumicestone showered out
some volcano that DESTROYED Sodom an
Gomorrah, which cities finally sank beneat
the waters of the Dead Sea.
One of the latest applications OF elet
tricity to mining opera ions is seen in
lead mine in Belgium. Each bucket arriI
ing ut the top of the shaft makes an electr
contact. and n needle in the office indicate
by aIed line upon n revolving drum, tn
number OF buckets brought up.
BY placing two iron bars at seven
eight yards distance from each other an
putting them in communication on one sid
bv an insulated wire and on the osher s!
with q telephone it is said that storm CT
be predicted Il hours ahead through u ce
tain dead sound heard in the receiver.
The smallest wire is 1-500 of an inch
which is of couIs much fine
than the hair on ones head. Ordinary fin
wire is drawn through steel plates, but thes
smallest wires are drawn through damon
plates and are tnen run through lnachiner
which winds it spirally with layer OF sill
thread which is lIOOO of an inch in diametei
The red glow of the planet Mars he
puzzled everybody but French astront
mer, who gives it us his opinion that til
of that far-away world is erin
son instead of green. He also says that b
hasn't the least doubt but that there ar
single flowers on the war gods suriac
which are as large as the incorporate
limits OF Paris.
SO far from light being an attraction t.
worms it has been found that a strong ligh
for a considerable time, sa
five or six minutes, upon the head of til
worm will cause it to gradually retreat mt
its burrow, proving that though blind in til
sense, there still is sufficient sens
bility In the nerves of the head to enable th
animal slowly to distinguish the continr
ance of light.
IOUIyISJS FROM JUDGE