Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Scotland has 404-foot cuImnoy'
China has 20 times as much coal as all
Europe.
The circulation OF the blood was dis
covered by Harvey in 1917.
The market price of a wife in equatorial
Africa is 10 bundles of hairpins.
The oldest building in the United
Kingdom is the tower OF London.
Holland claims the distinction Of first
having made 5ombshells in the year 1895.
Burns wrote songs when he was a child
and had some published when l6 years old
The first telephone exchange was es-
tablished in London in 1879, when ten ofices
were connected.
The cemeteries in London cover 1000
acres and the land they occupy represents
capital OF 100000.
The first recorded cricket match in
England took place in 1874, the year pre-.
vfous TO the battle of Waterloo.
One million dollars IN gold coin would
weigh 3,6S5S pounds. The same amount OF
silver coin would weigh s., 929.9 pounds.
The heart CT the poet Shelley is pre-
served in the house of his son, Sir Percy
Shelley, at Boscombe Manor, England.
There is lighthouse to every IA miles
land, and to every 80 miles in Scotland.
1T is stated that the entire South does
not contain an industrial home Of any
considerable size for poor colored children.
Within three years the United States
has bought from the Indians about 80, 000. 900
acres, yet there remains five times that area.
"A bottomless bog exists in Malta
wamkeag, Me. Several bridges have been
built upon 1t, but each in turn has sunk from
sight.
Jane Cakebread Is said to have recently
made here three hundredth appearance In
the London police courts. She holds the
London record.
"A search is being made in the court
yard of former convent in the City of Mex
leo for 81, 900 OcO in coin believed to have been
buried BY nuns.
The Italian mile is only a few feet
longer than ours. The Roman mile is
shorter, while the Tuscan and Turkish miles
are $50 yards longer.
There are hermits in China who tear
out their eyes in order, they say, that by
closing the two gates OF love they may open
the thousand gates of wisdom
The Dutch, the Danes and the Prus-
slams enjoy a mile that is lS.44O feet long, 3H
times the length of ours; and the Swiss mile
is 9. .153 yards long, while ours is only l,760
yards.
Bees are said to have such an antlp-
athy to dark-colored objects that black
chickens have been stun. to death, while
white ones of the same brood were left un-
touched.
"A Western editor met well educated
farmer recently and said to him that he
would like to have something from his pen.
The farmer sent him pig and charged him
50 IS for it.
BY order of the German Emperor there
has Just been placed in one OF the cabins of
his yacht a plate recording the fact that
marshal Won Moltke lived here from the 3D.
to the 10th of September, 1S9l"
The largest tuning-fork ever manufac-
tured was one recently made at Hanau for
the Physiological Institute at Leipzig, and
weighs 27 kilogrammes, or little over n
pounds, and gives IA double oscillations a
second.
The issues of1S31, 1886, 1910, 1913, 1849
and 1852 fetch So each, while those of 179},
1875 and 1902 are worth 81 apiece. None of
the nickel cents Is worth q premium except
that Of 1856, with flying eagle. which can
be sold for 50,
John Clifford, instructor of botany at
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, has
been studying the archaeology OF Southern
New Jersey for some time past. He found
many Indian relics while exploring near
Mays Landing.
"A party of hunters, desiring to rest,
laid their guns on a fiat rock near Ironton,
Mo; Instantly the guns moved from the
rock and leaped toward huge boulder
some few feet distant. The boulder proved
to be magnetic iron ore.
A bus in London costs e140 to build;
Is 10 weeks in building: has u coats of paint;
has roofs; weighs 80 cwt. when empty and
over tons when full: lives 20 years; earns
Sd (averagel every mile it Ems for hire, and
runs 60 to so miles day.
The word Arkansas is of Indian stock.
A tribe OF Indians who rebelled and sep
arated from the Kansas nation were cele-
brated for the fine quality OF their bows.
From this they were called Arc or Bow In
dians, and afterward "Arkansas."
"A locust tree at Rockville, Nd, was
struck by lightning some weeks ago. The
leaves of the tree died and left the tree with
the appearance OF being dead also. Much to
the astonishment OF people in that vicinity
the tree is now covered with the most ITt-
grant blossoms"
-s'Bridal outfits on hire" is the legend
over a bright-looking bijou of shop in one
of the fashionable Parisian streets. A little
French woman is the proprietor, and, al
though the business is new as well as novel,
she says that she is doing nicely. Outfits,
from the satin shoes to the wreath and veil,
may be obtained there at q nominal cost.
I'm the report of Her Majesty's Inspec-
tors of Explosives for the past year, two
samples of gun-cotton were referred TO, one
of which had been under water for is years,
while the other had been buried under
ground for 90 years. Both these samples
were in fine condition, and as ready for their
work as on the da y of their manufacture.
The Emperor of China is the supreme
head of his subjects, and is supposed to re-
ceiye his instructions as to the management
OF the vast territory committed to his charge
by DEGREES from heaven. He is considered
by his subjects as being second only to the
Almighty God, and to be the connecting link
between themselves and the Almighty.
The manufacture of an artificial indis-
rubber has lately been protected by patent.
The component parts of this composition
are manila gum, benzine, bitumen and resin
Oil. 1t is said that the product obtained
from careful admixture and special treat
ment of these materials gives substance
which possesses all the elasticity, solidity
and suppleness of the finest 1ndia-rubber.
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