Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Gun caps were first used In loz2 IN the
English army.
The Prussian army contains flVe women
who are regimental chiefs.
Belgium is declared to be the most
Incorporate country in Europe.
-Washboards were invented by an
American named Rice in the year 1s4s.
Many helmets of the fourteenth century
were provided with door visors opening
Iaterally on hinges.
Carriages fitted with electric lamps
were used by speakers during the recent
campaign in England.
Among the relics to be exhibited at the
longed to Pocahontas.
An oil painting being constantly in the
dark loses some of it's vividness and there
fore depreciates in value
In 1889 Kansas had wheat acreage Of
less than 100000 acres. This year she is
said to have 1000 900 acres.
Out of 133 entries for the long distance
ride from Vienna to Berlin, 1l9 have con-
irmed their intention to compete
John Sobieski, King of Poland and one
OF the greatest warriors of the seventeenth
century, never slept more than four hours.
Probably the heaviest rudder on record
is that made for the torpedo boat Vulcan. 1t
was forged in single piece, and weighs q
tons.
The Socialistic Congress at Tours passed.
among others, q resolution forbidding mar
ried women to work outside of their own
houses.
Though the next total solar eclipse does
not take place until April IT, 1893 astrono-
mers are already astir making plans for OBJ
serving it.
"A black pearl necklace worn by Lady
Leicester at recent entertainments said to
be worth sl25,OO0. There is only a single row
of the gems.
The Danish Government has issued a
decree forbidding the importation of dogs
from any foreign country except Sweden
and Norway.
One Of the natural curiosities of Asia
is the great salt desert of Persia. It is many
miles in extent and IS solid incrustation
of salt several feet thick
The 47O-carat diamond from the South
African mines, of which 80 carats are being
taken off by the diamond cutters of Ant
werp, is almost ready for sale.
The highest priced piano in the United
States belongs to the Marquand family in
New York CITY 1t was designed and painted
by Alma Tadema and cost $500
-Four million five hundred thousand
pounds sterling are said TO be annually
spent in hunting in the British Indies. ex-
elusive of carriage horses and travelling
expenses.
Washington Irving, Longfellow. Emer-
son, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Whittier,
Whitman, Dickens and Victor Hugo have
each demonstrated by their lives and works
the beneficial results of early rising.
"A portable sun dial is not an uncommon
object in Spanish shops. and it is still in cur
rent use in Spain. vt Burgos no less than
three different kinds are offered for sale at
prices varying from nine to II cents.
-Anaxagoras, of Ionia, born 500 B. c.,
taught the true cause of solar and lunar
eclipses and how to discriminate between
planets and stars. He was also published as
an atheist for saying that the sun was not q
god.
AT the sale OF Mr.. Brophy's stud in
Dublin a single brood mare with four OF her
sons and daughters brought 1O,55O guineas-
The mare brought 1900, her foal 75O. her
vearling SEQ her 2-year-old $500, and he9
3-year-old 200.
In Minnesota 81 per cent of the males
of voting age are foreign born, in Wisconsin
50 per cent. in Indiana II per cent. In those
States, with Ohio. Illinois and Michigan as q
e,
are foreign born.
-Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland or
Ireland, by birth, marriage creation, ARD
free from arrest or imprisonment in civil
process: and in the event of r peeress being
charged with q criminal offenSe she would |
be tried by the House of Lords. 4
in the Sub-Treasury in New York therel
is on deposit to-day more than SO. 000 600 repf
resenting outstanding money orders, and'
of this amount more than s2,O00,Go9 repre-
sents money orders which are overdue, ana
which may never be presented for payment.
In 1913 battle was fought near Milan,
in Italy, and so perfect the armor of
both armies that. though the conflict ragged
from 9 A. NJ. to- P. NJ, no one on either side
was either killed or wounded, though one
man broke his colar-bone by falling of his
horse.
The most costly book in the world is
declared to be Hebrew Bible now in the
Vatican. In the year 15l2 it is said that Pope
Jules II. refused to sell this Hebrew Bible
for IFS weight in gold, which would amount
to Sl03 900. This is the greatest price ever
offered for a book.
The ruins of Saint Cloud were recently
sold at public auction co a contractor, by
the name of kassel, for 3 325 francs. There
is now very little left of the once famous
palace. Some fragments of the ornamental
work are the only parts of the structure
which have any present value.
There are nearly 26, 600 colored voters
in Ohio, 1900 in Indiana. 900 in Illinois
and 5000 in Michigan, but comparatively
few in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Over AZ
per cent of the aliens in Wisconsin, over IS
per cent of those in Ohio and over "a per
cent of those in Minnesota are returned as
not speaking the English language.
His Royal Highness Prince Damrong,
of Siam, during his recent tour in India,
made n collection of old India Buddhist
sculptures, among which was cast of Budd-
has footprint. The King ordered the phra-
bat as it is called, to be placed on one of the
peaks at Koh-si-Chang where the general
public can conveniently visit it, and it was
accordingly taken down with much cere-
mony.