Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Wormseed is unexpanded flower buds
There are but 100 colored voters in
North Dakota.
st. Louis claims to have 10000 1lcan-
descent lights.
One church in Chicago is furnished
with regular opera chairs.
Great Britain and ireland have shout
the same number OF square miles as Ari-
zona.
'-Caterpillars attain great size In Aus
tralia, some of them even reaching the one
foot mark.
1t is calculated that within 90 years, at
the present rate of increase, Australia VIII
contain about 40, ,000, ,Oc0 people.
The greater number of heads man cuts
of in Borneo the greater hero he is, Is .
popular superstition on that island
Street cars in Bombay are mostly OF
American manufacture. and the promoters
of the street car lines are Americans.
Two doctors are reputed to have OBJ
tanned 10, 900 germs from two banknotes that
had been long in circulation IN Cuba
Since football became popular in this
country there has been almarked increase in
the sale of arnica and sticking plaster.
The native newspapers of Japan are
lamenting loudly the decay of good manners
among Japanese girls educated under West
elm civilization.
Five copies a minute of the Bible, or
part of it, are sent out by the British and
Foreign Bible Society every weekday
throughout the year.
The records of the Census Bureau show
that there are now living 1,073,s57 soldiers
who acted with the Union Army during the
War of the Rebellion.
The only city in tie world on the line
of the equator is Quito and there the sun
| rises md sets at the same time all year
round, namely o'clock.
Musk in its natural state is said to be the
national perfume of many tribes, who annu-
| ally slaughter thousands or the rats for their
| musk pouches and their skins.
Among the uneducated whites in Ala
bama there is a popular superstition that
| If a coiored person kisses a baby twice in
the mouth the teething period will be easy.
| to the child
Every New York dealer in foreign
| books intended for the use OF immigrants
| finds it necessary to keep in stock always
the life of Washington and history OF the
| United States.
British newspapers are discussing earn
| estly the question of cloakrooms in churches,
| referring to absence of, and absolute neces-
hat5 and overcoats.
The cigars made in France last year
| realized a total of about $40, 900. Cigar
| cites made in France were sold to a total of
about 81 0a9 600 while tobacco for smoking
| in pipes fetched s34, ,430.G0o-
In 1901 cricket match for stake of 500
| guineas was played by the ladies of Hamp-
shire against the ladies of Surrey. After
close contest, which lasted three days, the
former team proved victorious.
The Germans are trying the expert
ment of introducing coolie labor into East
Africa. 1t may prove failure as the
| Chinese hardly can thrive under the un-
| favorable condition in equatorial Africa
Alcohol was invented 750 years ago by
| the son of a strange woman, Hagar, in
Arabia Ladies' used 10 with q powder to
| paint themselves that they might appear
| more beautiful, and this powder was called
| alcohol.
| -Mademoiselle Sarmisa Bileesco, the first
woman admitted to the bar in France, is said
| to have taken the highest rank in class of
| 500 men ut the Ecole du Droit, Paris,
| where she studied alter receiving the degree
| of Bachelor of Letters and Science in
| Bucharest.
In 1891 1,168 persons were killed on
railways in the British Isles, according to
| the report of the British Board of Trade. or
these only l0S were passengers, and moro
| than 400 we're persons neither passengers nor
| employees. the number including trespassers
| and suicides.
/ There are 40 women doctors in India,
calling in peace-halfa q dozen in SPAIN two
in Roumania, one only in Belgium, and one
in Portugal In Germany women may
qualify, pass examinations, and obtain
diplomas, but they cannot practise.
AT the present time the whole number
| of double stars known and recorded by as
| tronomeIs is something over 10000. far ex-
| ceeding the number of stars visible to the
| naked eye in the entire ornament (abous
| 6G00), and others are being frequently dis
covered by the great telescopes now In ex-
| istence.
The shopkeepers of Bangkok, the cap
| ftal of Siam, have been greatly disturbed by
a notice that their rents are to be LARGELY in
| creased. The big market in Bangkok be-
| longs to one of the favorites of the Sultan's
| harem, and she has increased the rents OF
| the small huts composing the market about
| so per cent.
The importation of olives 80 years ago
| was so small as to be scarcely worthy Of
| note in statistics of the period. Now, how
ever there is an enormous demand here for
the best French and Spanish olives, and the
United States are regarded by the olive
producing countries ahOrding the best
market for their products.
The geographical name Brazil has been
migratory in space and singularly change
able in form. An early geographer lays is
down not only on the Eastern coast of North
America, but also gives it as the name of an
island between "Irlanda" and the Isle of
Man. A map of 1866 calls by that name an
island southeast of the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
OF the entries for the long distance
ride between Berlin and Vienna. to begin in
October, very few are cavalrymen. Most OF
them are infantry and artillery officers,
About 200 Germans will start from Berlin.
and nearly as many Austrian5 from Vienna
Several Germans will have their horses
shod with aluminium on account OF its much
| greater lightness.
AT Cahoes, France, the workmen on
| the foundations for a convent unearthed a
| large house of the Gallo Roman period, the
mosaic floors OF which are in place and
| enough of the walls to reveal frescoes in a
| fair state OF preservation. 1t is supposed TO
| have been destroyed in the sixth century,
when Theodebert sacked the town. Pottery
| fragments, bronzes and CONS were found on
| the site.
| PTROUETTES FROM PUCK.