Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-23
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There are 25O, 900 words in the En-
language.
Greenwich mean time is to be it
duced into Belgium.
About So per cent of the propertI
this country is insured.
The Australian colonies have expend
about fs, 600, 900 in promoting immigration
Between $4,000 and 10000 immigra
arrive at New York weekly. As many
5000 have landed in a single day.
I'm England there are $4,000 miles
telegraph lines. The number of messaa
received in London last year was 6OOO,OOo.
Owing to the prohibition of the expo
of all grains, except wheat, from Russia,
price of bread in Greece rose penny 10
About $50 bears were killed in Mai
during the year ending in May, and some
the hunters have made a good living fro
the sale of the skins and the bounty of
paid by the State for each bear.
They are fond of old things down
Delaware. A Sussex county farmer p
serves with pious care and exhibits wi
pride an ear of corn grown upon his fatbe
farm in 1885 and another produced from
ancestral acres IN l735.
England with 94 universities, has 81
more professors and ,Sl4 more studer
than the $50 universities in the Unit
States. The revenues of Oxford and Ca
bridge represent capital of about $500
000 The University of Leipsic is wor
nearly $40, 100000.
"A practical joker lost his life viii
swimming near Highspire, Pa. last wee
He called to his companions for help, but
had fooled them that way before, and, thin
ing that he was Joking, thoy allowed him
drown. It is modern tragedy that illI
trates very old fable.
The national election this wear wi
take place on November g. Members Of tl
House of Representatives from all the Stat
but three, Governors or other State office
in most of the States, and Legislatures
over half of the States will be elected on th
day, in addition to the President and VII
President.
in some parts of Arabia the shieks
certain tribes always have their own pc
traits tattooed upon their backs Aft
death the cuticIe bearing the portrait
carefully cut away and reverently carrie
from place to place by the bereaved trib
These pictures will bring from s75 to Sl00
Paris and London.
james Miller, postmaster at Gault
Bridge, W. Va, was appointed by Villa
Henry Harrison over so years ago, and
probably the oldest postmaster in the cou
try. He has retained his office through q
the political changes of the past half ce
tury, and at the age OF s6 years is as prom
and efficient as any postmaster IN the Stat
The Chinese superstition about luck
and unlucky colors is one that foreign me-
chants must observe when they attempt
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paper as a wrapping for needles as mi
rated against their sale in China Blue mu!
be especially avoided on wra ppers OF goot
intended for the Chinese market, while re
Is auSpicious-
A resident of st. Louis was great
shocked the other day on finding n ''wate
puppy" in q bucket of water he had ju
drawn from the hydrant. 1t was about foI
inches long and thin enough to slip throug
the spout of hydrant with the utmost eas
The water puppy isa species of hzzard, spo
ted yellow and black, which aboundS
Stagnant water.
The rising generation in the India
Territory have reached the front rank
the march of civilization, and are keepin
right up with the procession The youn
ladies or the female seminary at Taleoual
the Chero kee capital, have arranged to Civ
a leap year ball this week, and the youn
AuCh VI GuAblhy AL VIC OLCCA &NoohOhy sAO "
ganizing cornet band.
An Egyptian scythe, dug up on tt
banks of the Nile in 1890, and said to be 6
old as Moses. is exhibited among the anita,
ties in the private museum of Finder
Petrie, London. The shaft of theN instrt
ment is of wood set with a row of fine fin
saws, which are securely cemented In
groove. This discovery answers the OF
asked question: How did the stone age ma
harvest his crops? :.
Some remarkable things are happeI
ing in Presbyterian Scotland, the land c
Covenanters. at the latest monthly NEE
ing of the School Board at Leith a motto
''that in future prayers at statutory meei
ings of this board be dispensed WITH wa
carried. The only dissenting votes wer
those of the mover and the seconder of q.
amendments. Several clergvmen are men
bers of the board. One lay member said th
prayers OF the ministers were mere plec
Of form and mere fraud.
Recently very large concern, which ha!
been manufacturing gold watch cases i
Bond street for many years, decided to z
out of business. After all the other arrange
ments had been concluded the building wa
sold, the sellers reserving the right, how
ever, to remove everything except the e1
terror walls. The inner walls aud floor
were taken out and burned, and the ashe
were carefully searched for gold dust AM
filings. Fifteen thousand dollars worth o
gold is said to have been recovered In this
manner.
"A Sumatra newspaper tells Of expert
ments made there last month to test th'
value of local petroleum as compared witt
American and Russian oils, and says the e1
periments proved conclusively that it il
superior fn brilIiancy, in permanence ant
in absence of smoke. color and smell u
either American or Russian oil" With sh'
cost of freight deducted it Is said chat thi
Sumatra oil promises to be q formidabl,
with the American product il
Japan. China and the far Eastern market
generally.
AN under sized, meek-Iooking man wa
brought up before the United States Com
missioner at Atoka, l. T., Last week, charged
with horse stealing. He had several horses,
but no money and two of the brightest o.
Atoka's lawye rs offered to help him out OF
his trouble. The case against him looked
strong but he was acquitted. He gave tS
each of the lawyers one of his ponies as pay
for their services. The lawyers put them
out to pasture. The same night the little
man stole back the horses and skipped from
the vicinity. The lawyers who proved ne
couldn't steal horse are now after MIN
with q warrant.
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