Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
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-Chinamen dislike water az drink.
London has over zoo, 900 houses inside
its city limits.
"A Cincinnatian is the possessor Of Z
pink diamond.
-Thimbles made.of lava are extensively
used in Naples.
There are about $4,000 muscles in an
elephants trunk.
The donkey is the 1ongest,lived of our
| domestic animals.
"A Lauerville man has steel pen that
he has used for 27 years.
The London mint has an electric ma
! chine which counts the coins.
In ten years the descendants of two
rabbits will number 100000.
"A mare in Alabama has given birth to
three mule colts within a year.
1t is said that the skin of an elephant
usually takes about five years to tan.
| In the dreary deserts of Arabia the
rosemary and lavender flourish to perfec-
| ton.
| "A Chicago merchant has on exhibition
| in his show window q pair Of live Japanese
babies.
An alloy of 7S per cent of gold and "a
per cent'of aluminium is the most brilliant
| known.
| Seven widows of Rev olutionary SOL
| diers are on the roll OF the Knoxville PEN
sion Office.
| India has one missionary to 1880
people. Persia one to 800 600 and Thibet one
| to 1000 ,000
One child in every five In the northern
half Of the United States dies before it has
lived year.
| The Government weather bureau has
just attained its majority-that is. its tvsn-
| ty-irst year.
| "A New Jerseyman gives as a new cure
| for hay fever the smoking of pine needles
| with tobacco.
"A Moscow dentist has successfully
made false teeth assume fixed place In
| toothless gums.
-Pythons are abundant in the Philip
pines, the species being identical with that
| found in Borneo.
There are II obelisks in Rome, one in
Paris, five in London and one in Central
| Park, New York.
The United States manufactures So, 600
| hats every dav. while England manutaot-
ures about 10000.
I'm China they believe that women by
clinging to vegetarianism Will become men
on judgment day.
"A corncob in Georgia is shaped like q
human hand, having Jour we'll defined I'm
gers and thumb.
The lawyers get s65s, 900 of the 1928, ,7ss
paid by the city of New Orleans,to the Nyra
Clark Gaines estate.
There have been twenty-sewen cases Of
insanity in the Bavarian royal family dur.
| ing the last 100 years.
If cork Is sunk 200 feet deep in the
| ocean it will not rise again on account of the
pressure of the water.
| Europe consumes about $50, 900, 900
| worth of gold and silver yearly for plate,
| jewelry and ornaments
Three hundred lawyers were candidates
on one side or the other for seats in the
present British Parliament
The first suspension bridges ever built
were made in China 1000 years ago, being
| constructed of iron chains.
The biggest of fresh water fish, the
'tarapaima" Of the Amazon in South Amer
| lea, grows to six feet in length.
| -'fRailroad Jack" the much travelled
railroad dog, which left Buffalo on July .
| arrived in San Francisco on July 1a.
| "A Belfast, Me-, man lends young men
money to go into business gratuitously. He
| says he rarely fails to get his money back.
| Lace making was first done BY Barbars
| Uttman about 1850, though the invention Is
| claimed for an earlier date by France and
Italy.
The magnifying lens is believed to have
been known to the ancients. but in modern
times was brought into use by Roger Bacon.
in 1862
"A blood beet measuring Is inches in
length, "A inches in circumference and
weighing pounds is a curiosity of St. Tam
many, La
Statistics recently compiled show that
about 200 miles of new railroad were built
in this country during the first six months
of this year.
Tine highest viaduct in the world has
just been erected in Bolivia, over the River
Lea, 81 ,s33 feet above the sea level, and 400s
above the river.
"A man in Maine lost nearly 5000 lob
sters lately. that he had confined in pond,
by o quantity of fresh water flowing into il
and killing them.
1t is estimated that on a fine Derby
Day from 5000 to /. .OOO, 900 people gather ON
the Downs. and it has been computed that
about $50. 900 race cards are sold.
Nearly all the small silver coins of
Cuba have holes in them The holes serve
to keep the coins in that country, as they do
not affect their changeabie value there.
For the first time the Canadians have
begun shipping ice to Philadelphia, several
cargOeS having already arrived there and
been found equal to the best Maine product.
There are now over $50, 900 words in the
English language acknowledged by the best
authorities, or about 76 900 more than in the
German, French, Spanish and italian Ian
guages combined.
Mrs. Salome Anderson. of Oakland,
CAL. is the only woman Free Mason in the
world. She secretly entered a lodge-room
in Paris, witnessed some of the initiation
ceremonies, was discovered, and received
into the order.
1t is only little over 40 years ago that
Russian farmer began the Guilt vatlon of
the sunfower in order to extract oil from
the seeds. Now 100 900 acres in Russia are
In sunflowers. and the original founder Of
the industry is millionaire.
Hunters near Caledonia, Pa, are ex-
cited over a snow-white deer seen several
times recently in the mountains It Is said
to be a large buck with spreading antlers,
and as fleet as the wind Aparty Of hunters
who saw the animal last fired at 1t, but failed
TO hit it.
FLIRTING WITH FUN.