Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

yy,srs in Boston, with scarcely business for
Berlin University is the third largest
in the world. Paris, with 9,2l5 students, and
Vienna, with SEQ, are larger.
"A writer in the Boston Transcript has
figured up that heaven contains ], 300. OO0. 900
100000.
The aboriginal population of Japan,
who call themselves Amos, numbered, in
1883. 1902, including s,475 men and s5s1
women.
There are between 40, 900 and 90, 900
ragpickers in Paris, divided into three
classes, besides the maitre chinonier, who In
wellto-do.
of the 1913, ,31S recruits of the German
army and navy in 1891 the percentage Of
illiteracy was 81 against 2.37 in 1875, 1.ss in
1882 and II in 1887.
Our National Library now contains
nearly 100000 bound volumes and eoo, 900
pamphlets. and the yearly increase of books
is from IL, 900 to 10000
Surgical operations are yery successful
in Japan, and the healing process Is rapid,
owing probably to the abstinence of the peo-
pie from alcohol and their not being flesh
eaters.
1t is said that Canada is the only coun-
try in the world in which the military force
is armed with the old Snider rifles. Military
men of the Dominion are urging the adoption
of more modern arm.
"A Denver man wanted to get rid of his
wife and accomplished his end. He INDUCED
ceedings he instituted that the Judge gave
him "A years in the penitentiary.
"A project for the settlement of 500
Russo-Hebrew families in Winnipeg has
been brought before the London Russian
Hebrew Committee. 1t provides for a COM
bination of railroad work with farming.
DR. Theodor Wolf, lately the State
Geologist of Ecuador, has made special
study of the Andes of that country, which
he says are between 10 and 20 miles further
away from the Pacific. coast than most OF
the recent maps show.
The Scientific american thinks that tho
devices for sending torpedoes to destroy
any vessel three miles from shore in safety,
through any kind of sea, may also be used in
sending lifeboats an equal distance to rescue
passengers from a wreck.
"A travellers pipe is an English inven-
tfon. The bowl has a hook attached to 10
which can be inserted in the button hole OF
the coat, while a tube communicates with
the mouthpiece. The smoker thus has both
hands FREQ to be occupied as he finds neces-
Sary.
In some of the Gipsy tribes living
about Central Europe the mountains are
called bar, "rags." or muchlyis, which last
term usually means "clouds," "mist," the
same name being applied to the clouds as
the mountains, the latter being regarded as
kind of pathway to heaven.
"A diamond expert in London thus dis
courses the product and distribution
of diamonds: "The Americans are the finest
ir1drr RI flu In
upon having the finest stones and the most
perfect cutting. 1t is estimated that they
will take f3.Oo0,O 900 worth this year,
-England's new fast cruiser Grafton Is
expected to develop speed of % knots and
to be able to steam 1G,00o miles at a ten-knot
rate. She will have triple expansion en-
92inch, 10 6inch and 16 smaller rapid-fire
guns. She will have also four Whitehead
torpedo tubes.
The pressure that can be produced by
electrolytic generation of gas in a closed
space has recently been tested by a French
scientist. The highest pressure heretofore
realized was $50 pounds to the square inch.
In this instance the pressure obtained was
between 1e, 900 and IS 900 to the square inch,
when the manometer cracked without any
explosion.
The ginger Jars of hawthorn and other
decorations which are so highly priced by
collectors of Chinese porcelain, are so-called
because they are made at the Imperial Por-
celain Works under special orders from the
palace and sent to Canton, where they are
filled with preserved ginger and similar
bv the Viceroy, and returned to
the Emperor at Peking. 70
Blindness reaches the highest point in
civilized lands GIG persons to 100, 600 of popu-
lation) among the Spaniards, who are, pro-
verbally and conspicuously, brunettes,
while it is much smaller in Sweden (9l per
100, ,OOO or less than half), the land OF stall
wart and rosy-cheeked blondes. The United
States by the way, has the lowest ratio of
blind population In the world. Egypt has
the highest.
The number of students entered this
winter at the 20 universities of Germany
shows a marked decline. The total is only
q, ,s36 as compared with nearly $4,000 last
summer This decrease is general except
at Berlin, where the number have risen from
4 427 to 5,371 and at Halle. where they have
risen from ,493 to l,522. Leipsic still holds
the second place with 8, ,431, followed by Mu-
mich with :, 292.
Three things are seen rarely nowadays
on the streets of New York. They are a
horse, q runaway steer, and the hue
and cry of "Stop thief" Years ago in New
York these things were very frequent, and
every old New Yorker can recall to mind
the excited, startled, and shouting crowds
which seemed TO overflow all barriers in
pursuit OF frightened runaway horse or
steer, or a fieet-footed pickpocket, highway
man, or housebreaker.
According to the new military laws Of
the Turkish Empire the Turkish armyson q
war footing will be increased shortly from
700, 900 to I,0OO, 600 men. With this prospect
i've increase has come the necessity for
new arming of the Sultans soldiers Can
non for the new artillery will not be ordered
for some time, probably, as the army has
!, 900 large guns only ABOUT 4o9 OF LII snese are
ment of the other 900 will be begun at once.
Prof Robertson made a statement at
the New York Dairy Convention, as an illus
ration of the value of good feeding, that he
xnew of a man in the Province of Quebec
Who had four cows. In 1888 they gave 7S
,ounds of butter each. He commenced feed
ng a little corn and bran, and in 1883 they
rave l31 pounds OF butter each. He kept in
;reasing the ratio and good care, and in 1880
t was e04% and this year it will be go
pounds. This shows what men can do with
he common COW.
The average number of fire alarms in
rear in New York City is q little more than
.OOO which is at the rate of more than ten
Iarms day. Less than one-quarter Of the
Tres start between IL r. n. and p n, while
bout three-quarters start between A. NJ.
nd IL P. NJ. oddly the alarms are rarest be-
Ween and A. NJ, when fires for household
nd business purposes are kindled gener-
Ily The busiest time for fremen is be-
ween and P. NJ, about the time that fires
Or household purposes go out.
TO remember peoples names is great
hing. man in a great Wholesale estab-
shment in Chicago is paid $1,000 a year
Ist for remembering names. His business
to speak to everyone who comes in by
nd 70 i'm IA