Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
,ermanv makes paper stockings.

Germany makes paper stockings.
Both the Gear and King of Siam ride
| bicycles. .,..s
America mines 10000, 900 barrels Of
salt year. -
There are supposed to be about 420,-
| 100000 Christians in the world.
The total number of families in the
United States in 1890 was l2,69O,152.
About 20 letters go astray out of every
1000, 900 sent through the postoffice.
-Opossums are the only animals that
make more elaborate toilet than cats.
1t is a popular belief that bees die al
most Immediately after using their stings.
Madam Patti has fan on which are the
autographs of all the sovereigns of Europe.
-One-fourth of the land surface of the
globe is occupied by English speaking peo-
pie.
There are about 100 duly qualified
female medical practitioners in the United
Kingdom.
Men with gray and blue ewes are
usually better marksmen than those with
dark eyes.
In olden times deformed people were
frequently thrown into prison to be kept
out of sight.
The worlds production of the golden
metal in 1891 was 100000 ounces, OF silver
140, ,S65, 900 ounces.
The meteorological editor of Missis-
sippi paper, in describing the weather one
day recently, said the "soughing rain soz-
zled and sizzled."
"A first edition of Walton's "Compleat
Angler" Q653), in the original binding, and
n irst edition of Cotton's complete Angler
tl676) recently sold for $3.50.
In Portugal the wine treading is done
by a gang OF men dancing to the music of
bagpipe. The work is, hard. the weather
warm, the results indescribable.
The death of the Countess Ruspoli throws
MANY unique relics of the Bonapartes into
the market. among them the plate used by
the great Napoleon at st. Helena.
The Chinese have kitchen god, which
is supposed to go to the Chinese heaven ut
the beginning of each year to report upon
the private life of the families under his
care.
AT the table of the Regent Duke of
Orleans 1t was the custom for a guest to
drop piece of gold in the plate from which
he had just eaton a dish whose taste he
fancied.
AS the oyster grows older Its propor-
tion OF flesh and juices increase more rapid
ly than it's SHE'LL as well as the relative
amount of the natural nutrients in its edible
portions.
in the Austrian army suicides average
10000 year. This does not in clude foiled
attempts and it represents 90 per cent of
tho general mortality among the Austrian
soldiers.
There is at present on exhibition in the
window of a well-known New York ieweler
the tusk of a sacred elephant from the East.
The tusk is said to ne one of the finest ever
seen in the United States.
Sufferers should read aloud from book,
and pronounce each word very distinctly,
repea ting it as often as necessary: and it
will be found that in time the habit of slut
tering will have entirely disappeared.
Everything in nature indulges in
amusement. The tightening plays, the
wind whistles, the thunder rolls the snow
flies, the waves leap and the fields smile.
Even the buds shoot and the rivers run.
Some people are absent-minded. A day
or two ago q lady applied for lost umbrella
at the Lost Property Office, Scotland Yard.
When it was restored to her she went away
leaving behind her another umbrella and a
brown paper parcel.
The communications between the two
shores of the st. Lawrence riverat Montreal
arc made. Us is known, by means of Victoria
tubular bridge, constructed some 30 years
ago which is the longest in the world, the
metallic span being $500 feet long.
The petrifed body of man has been
found, it is said, in cave in the foothills of
the Guadaloupe Mountains, n. NJ. Ac-
.cording to the report it is difficult to de-
termine whether it is the body of e white
man or aiir Indian, or whether it is ancient
or modern. -. -,... -
Both the Kurls and the Cossacks be-
neve that Ararat is guarded by an unearthly
being and that no man can ascend the peak
and live. They have a somewhat contrary
opinion, however, as to what kind OF spirits
are on. guard, the former claiming that the
devil is guard supreme, the latter that angels
are on watch.
The general manager of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad says that they can move
from the interior of the country to the sea-
board (talSing the mean distance at 1000
miles) $50 O0o troopsin 80 hours. together with
their necessary equipment. This could be
done without serious interruption to regu-
lar commercial traffic.
Emperor Alexander has freed the Kali
mucks, of Astrakhan. from scrfdom. These
rowing people are Buddhists, and they num-
Der 15O, 900 souls. When the other Russian
seris were freed in 1861 the haImucks we're
not permitted to enjoy the results Of that
reformation, for it was thought that so wild
q people would abuse their privileges.
There used to be clause in the consti-
tuition of Massachusetts declaring that no
man should be elected for Governor "unless
he shall declare himself to be OF the Christian
religion" But the people voted that out
years ago. and now there is nothing i'll the
to prevent Mohammedan or a
confucian or an infldel from being elected
Governor.
-One-ffth of the married women of
are chiIdIess. 1t is said that
in no country save France can similar con-
dition of affairs be found. On the other
hand, instead OF over 20 per cent. only 1877
per cent of the foreign-born women OF
are childless. What is true
of this State is undoubtedly in greater or
less degree true throughout the country.
The highest average speed attained by
railway trains in England is 81 miles an hour.
The Board Of Trade has officially ascerta1ned
the Averages attained on the various prIncI-
nal roads and tabulateS them thus: Mid"
and. 81 miles an hour; G. reat Northern, 81;
London and Northwestern, AZ; Great W. est
srn 45; London, Brighton and south coast
-; Great Eastern IS, and London and South
western, 81.
-Calculations based on the observation
of the refraction Of light, have caused it to
be supposed that the air becomes so rare ae
The height of about GO miles that the distance
nav be regarded rs the limit to its sensible
.xtent. brt other calculations, made during
he nresent century of the distance from
he enrth at which meteors lgnlte' lhuicats
hat the atmosphere extends to upwards Oh
hundred miles.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.