Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Dancing is taught in many of the public
| schools in Scotland.
About q quarter of the people in Paris
live in apartments.
There is a.baby at Heppner, Ore, which
weighs less than pound.
| There are said to be 1000 so-called
haunted houses in London.
London has paupers enough to NIL all
! the houses in Brighton, England
| Gainesville, Fla, has hen which
cackled incessantly for four days
-Desertions from the army in Great
Britain cost the country about s6oo.oOc.
1t cost over 5000 recently in legal fees
in South Carolina to settle q claim ofs5
Six thousand men are now working
upon the Chicago Exposition structures.
1t is estimated that about $50, ,000, 900
| bricks are used monthly in the United King
| doms.
"A dealer in artificial limbs estimates
that 100000 Englishmen have lost one or
both legs.
"A boy near Grand Rapids, Mich, is
raising crickets by thousands and sells them
to anglers for bait
Asparagus is reported so numerous in
London that it is fed to the cows and sheep
by the basketful.
1t is calculated that within go years at
the present rate of increase Australia will
contain about 40, 0,OO0,0 600
Lady Jenne estimates that there are
1.So3, ,4O6 domestic servants in England, Of
whom J, ,3590 600 are women.
Three of the four prizes offered to grad
yates OF Boston high schools for historical
essays were won by women.
The number of Juvenile criminals con-
victed in England in 1891 was less than half
the number convicted in 1871
Arizona claims to have more news
papers in proportion to its population than
any other section of the Union.
The managers of the Columbian Ex-
hibition are now in debt more than S. 600 0Oo
and the debt is increasing daily.
The mines of the world produce 25 tons
Of gold every week, and vet the precious
metal remains as scarce as ever.
In the Bank of England at least so
folio volumes or ledgers are filed daily with
writing III keeping the accounts.
-Guineas were so named from the fact
that they were first coined with gold
brought from the coast of Guinea.
There is Lighthouse to every IA miles
of coast in England. to every "a miles in Ire
land, and to every 80 miles in Scotland.
Few lovers of Walter Scott recall the
fact that he wrote five plays, none of which,
however, has ever been put on the stage.
The heart of the poet Shelley is pre-
served in the house of his son, Sir Percy
Shelley. at Boscombe Manor, Bournemouth,
England.
Harvest hands are so scarce in Barton
county, Kan, that the farmers gather at the
iNrAa and kkaN
seeking laborers.
AT Messina, Siena, and three other
italian university towns the number OF stu
dents is so small that there is professor to
every four pupils.
I'm the Pasteur Institute of Milan, 233
cases of hvdrophobia have been treated
within the last two years, and only four of
the patients lave died
Bees are said to have such an antipathy
to dark colored objects that black chickens
have been stung to death, while white ones
or the same brood were untouched.
According to the official returns, 6,346
pipes of wine were last year exported from
the Island of Madeira valued at 6 ia 493 as
compared with 5,5s2 pipes during 1880.
"A greyhound mother at Nevada, Mo-,
having had two pups carried of, hunted
hunted them up, carried them home, dug a
hole under the house and hid them.
The students sent abroad by the Japan
ese Government number six each in Ger
many and England. and one each in the
United States, Austria, Belgium and Switzer-
land.
AT the Worlds Fair an oyster exhibit
will be made by the Shell Fish Commission
of fConnecticut. An oyster bed. models o.
oyster boats, the system of dredging, etc.
will be shown.
According to the rules of the New York
Mercantile Exchange, eggs to pass as new
laid cannot lose under the test more than
10 eggs 20 O case of 80 dozen, or II eggs to
case of 50 dozen.
The organist at a Cardiff church found
several of the notes soundless. An e1annina-
tion revealed the fact that no fewer than
six birds. including robin, had built their
nests in the pipes.
A bill-posting machine, which sticks
bills on walls even rs high as so feet, with
ont the use of ladder or paste pot is doing
successful work in Paris. Theatrical people
are delighted with it,
The German Government has expended
fso,O in building factory at Spandau for
the preserving of all kinds of provisions for
the army, and about $50 operators are to be
regularly employed there.
The largest pyramid in Egypt Is 145
yards high-that is, about 90 times the aver
termite are 900 times the height of the in
sects which construct them
The workers alone in the London hos
pitfalls amount to 5000 persons, of whom
some 13O0 are honorary medical officers who
devote their time to the treatment Of dis
ease without fee of any kind.
"A Presbyterian Church in Lancaster,
Pa, decided to give a medal to each person
who attended all the services throughout
the year. Last year the sexton was the
only person who won a medal.
The greatest days run of an ocean
steamship was SIS miles. The steamer in
question was 562 feet long and had pre-
viously been known to make 500 miles per
day for three days in succession.
I'm the Oriental department of the
British Museum, a tablet has been de-
ciphered as containing an offer Of marriage
made by Pharaoh to daughter of tho
King of Babylon about 1880 B. C.