Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are 81 lady doctors in the British
provinces.
-Four-ffths of the hailstorms occur in
the day time.
The thinnest tissue paper is 1-12O0 ofan
inch in thickness.
Nearly 50 per cent of the property Of
England is insured
-"Llan" is the prefix to the names OF
over 450 places in Wales.
About 700 lives are lost every year
upon the English coasts.
Only citizens who can read and write
are allowed to vote in Bolivia
There are 1904 languages in the world
and moro than 900 religions.
The fossil remains of tiger have been
found in the tertiary rocks in Kansas.
-Seaweed is common article of diet in
Ireland. Even the cattle and sheep are very
fond of it.
There were 1881 suicides in the United
States in 1891, and the favorite method was
shooting.
"A new kind of mole has been discov-
cred in South Australia 1t never comes to
the surface of the ground.
The United Kingdom has $50, 900 land
owners who possess between them the whole
OF the landed possessions.
Children born in the spring are said to
be more healthy than those born at any
other season of the year.
British horses were famous when Julius
Cs1s:.r invaded the country. He carried
some OF them to Rome with him.
-Caribons are used in Maine to haul
goods to market. They are said to surpass
the horse IN swiftness upon the road.
I'm the South on January l there were
2.1@6945 children in attendance upen the
schools, against 1891, 7i5 in January, 1850.
The wickedest place in the world, ac-
cordinS TO all reports, is Port Said, whers
outcasts from the four quarters of the earth
are gathered.
Between Madagascar and the Coast Of
Africa there are 5000 islands, only 600 OF
which are inhabited, and on all of them
vegetation is lu1uriant.
-Snails, OF the sea, known as wrinkles,
are used for food in England. They are sold
on the street corners and are regarded as
great luxuries by the poor.
More railway trains pass Chapman
Junction than any other station in the
world. Between I 4. NJ. and 10 p NJ fully
lOOO trains pasS-an average of one in every
81 seconds.
The custom of keeping birthdays is
many years old 1t is recorded in the for
tieth chapter of Genesis, twentieth verse:
"And it came to pass the third day, which
was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a
feast unto all his servants"
"A Leipsic scientist has demonstrated by
facts and t1gures, what most people have al
ways believed, that colds are oftener caught
by those who wrap themselves up and avoid
the severity of the weather than by those
who dare to brave the clements.
Among the aboriginal blacks of Aus
tralia courrship, as the precursor of mar
riaSe, is unknown. When young warrior
is desirous OF procuring q wife, he generally
obtains one by giving in exchange for her q
sister or some other female relation of his
own.
-Four hundred hairs of average thick
ness would cover an inch of surface The
blonde belle has about 10000 dlanents to
comb and brush. while the red-haired beauty
has to be satisfied with ss 0C0: the brown
haired damsel may have 10000; the black
haired but To-, COO
Visitors to the principal picture gallery
Mt Antwerp often see an artist, now about 30
years of age, who paints with his feet. He
has no hands, and hardly even a rudiment of
arm Having been born without hands, he
was accustomed from infancy to make use
OF his feet, and his professional attainments
with the brush certainly require no apology
An impecunious benedict in Scotland
gave sealed envelope to the clergyman who
had just married him. When the happy
couple had departed, the clergyman was
curious to ascertain the amount of his fee,
and he found in the envelope, instead of the
expected bank note, an apology from the
groom. regretting the writer's inability to
IN ann.
ber him when fortune smiled upon him.
A bottle filled with whisky by New
York Iiauor dealer and carried to sea by 4
New Yorker bound for Europe has reached
the liquor dealer again after many months
and through q STRANGE channel A friend OF
the traveller affirms that the bottle, emptied
ofits contents, was thrown overheard while
the shin Was still far from shore, but the
liquor dealer is equally positive that the bot
tie came back to HIM i'll Il case of rum inn
ported from the West Indies.
1t is we'll known that horses can hear
deep sounds which we cannot. For days
previous to the earthquake in the Riviera,
the horses there showed every symptom OF
abiect fear, which continued without any
chance Of character till the fury of the con-
yuIsfon broke forth. But not till few Sec
onds before the earth began to quake diG
human beings hear any sounds, while it is
extremely probable that the horses heard
the subterTanean noises IOr Two OF tnrees
days previously.
The Oldest rose bush in the world is at
Hildersreirn, in Hanover. 1t was planted
more than 1000 years ago by Charlemagne in
cornmermoration of visit made to him by
the ambassador of the CaHph Haroun al
Raschid. After it bad become q fiOnrishinS
vine A cathedral was built over ii. It is
knuyn however, that Z cOffiD-shGped vault
v.s built around its sacred roots in the year
SIS the vault and bush surviving fire
which DESTROYED the cathedral in 1ll6. Tho
bush is nov % feet high, and covers 81 feet
of the wall. The stem, after 1000 years
growth, is only two inches in diameter.
The Chinese can remain in one position
an indefinite time, have no consciousness of
monotony. can do without exercise, are i'm
parvious to noise, can go to sleep at any
tlme and in any attitude-all because they
have no nerves. 1t IS not to be supposed
that this neryelessness is a physiological
fact: but it cannot be doubted that the
Chinaman's patience, endurance, and insus-
ceDtibility to influences which would send q
European into an early grave are cnnstitu-
tiOnai He cannct heip taking things as
they come CuriOusly enough, this indiffer-
enoe is not associated with want of energy,
FOR the Chinaman is exceptionally industri-
ous. he is simply insensible to worry.