Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Iceland has only two lawyers.
-Fifty-one metals are now known to
exist.
Baby does not commence to cry until II
| is three months old.
The order of communion was substituted
for the mass just 344 years ago.
Our foreign exports have increased over
$50, ,0e0 900 during the past two years.
The best honey in Persia is collected
from the orange groves at Kauzeroon.
The total production of maple sugar in
this country last year was 80, $50 927 pounds.
"A whole table d'hote dinner was lately
cooked by electricity at an Ottawa, Canada,
hotel.
1870 Il 100000 victims were slain on the two
| sides. :.
| "A process for making artificial mica
sbcets for electrical insulation is a late in.
| vention.
| .-Arizona has produced 50, 900, 900 in gold,
ZOO 600 in silver and a. SOD 900 in copper dur
ing the year.
| Yale University had its beginning in
Saybrook, Conn, in 100 and removed to New
Haven in IT'S.
| Gainesville, Fla, lays claim to the
largest and finest Japan persimmon grove
| in this counry.
| "A monster balloon for scientific pur-
poses is to be made for the Aeronautic So
! ciety in Berlin.
| One of Pennsylvania con tributions to
the the exhibit at the Worlds Fair will be 150-
| OOO mounted butterflies.
Sugar Is times sweeter than that pro-
duced from the cane is being made from
cottonseed grown at With.
| The astronomers say there are at least
5000 600 suns, each as large and many larger
than ours in the Milky Way.
| I'm thunder storm it is unsafe to take
refuge under white poplar tree, as that
| tree seems to attract lightning
The famous Bank of Venice began busi-
| ness in 1872, lasted 800 years and might have
| existed to this day but for the invasion of
| Napoleon.
AT 200 feet only the best Spanish arnior
| could resist the English arrow. Many mu-
seums have steel corselets pierced through
by an arrow.
In 1910 the per capita product oemanu-
iacturing M Ia operatives was s26, in 1850 it was
! IA, in 1870 it was S60 in 1890 it was $40 Der
| head in the United States.
| The amount on deposit with savings
| banks in the United States in 1891 eaualed
| sl,654, ,ss6l42. of their loans, investments and
| cash on hand, 81 S24, 1856 594.
of the 1850 silver dollars coined at
United States mints in 1904 but eight are
now known to he in existence They RANGE
| In value from $500 to So 600.
The greatest stamp collectors in the
world are Philippe Ferrari, son OF the late
Duchesse de Galliera, and the Car, whose
| collection is said to be worth $500 0Oo'
Lawrence, Kan, is stated to contain
several sss girls who imagine they are so pretty
that thoy are afraid to appear on the streets
in o crowd, for lear OF being kidnapped.
1t is estimated that 300 600 people were
carried into Chicago by the various rail-
roads on Tuesday, W ednesday and Thursday
for the dedicatory exercises for the Worlds
Fair
"A woman has patented machine for
making watch screws that is provided with
q thread cutter 40 delicate as to be almost
invisible. 1t will cut perfect threads on the
finest human hair.
One secret of the Chicago packers great
fortunes is that they don't waste anything
The meat. the ensrails, everything is made
use OF but the squeal. They can't catch
that. 80 1t is wasted. The blood is stamped
into buttons.
The first elevated railroad in England is
now fast approaching completion in Liver.
pool. The line traverses the entire length
OF the docks Of that city, distance OF six
miles, and will be ultimately extended to
the heart of the town.
"A statue Is to be erected at Bar-le-Duc,
in France. to Ernest Michaux, who is sup
posed to have invented the veicctpede, and
thereby paved the way for the bicycle.
MichauX was u blacksmith and constructed
his first "wheer' in 1872, just half century ,
ago.
France wants to alter her coinage SOY
as to avoid being inundated with foreign \
copper money. often inferior in value to
her own The Government would like to
introduce some new material for the baser
coin-possibly a mixture of bronze and
aluminium.
MIR. H. Devaux has been making inter-
esting experiments on the sense of taste in
ants. Among other results he has found
that Lasius favus. while fond of sugar, dis
likes saccharine. The eants swarmed around
sugar laid out for them, but turned away
from saccharine as soon as they tasted it.
The Red Sar steamship Rhynland,
which arrived in New York last Saturday,
had curious run of "elevens" She made
the voyage from Antwerp in II days, II
hours and II minutes. Her average speed
was ii miles an hour. On October IL she
steamed 3ll miles and vas IL hours under
sail.
After several years Of struggle cotton
spinning OI Culnese COTTON ny CnlneSe n3nCS
is established in Shanghai. Five hundred
and fifty looms and 1000 spindles turn out
weekly 10000 yards, 81 inches wide, of a SUI
perior quality of imitation American drill
sheettng. Half the looms are of English
make and halt of American.
In the famous cellars of the Hotel de
Vile, at Bremen, there are a dozen cases OF
holy wine which have been preserved for
$50 years. If the cost of maintaining the
cellar, payment of rent, interest upon the
original value or the wine, and other inci-
dental charges are all considered, bottle OF
this choice wine has cost 1000, 600, each
glass ul $40 4I6, and single drop could not
be sold without loss under $500.
"A curious yet profitable business in the
expectation and reimportation of quick
silver has sprung up in California. Quick
silver for export is sold at s. less per flask of
7618 pounds than that for home consump-
tfon, and shrewd dealers have not been slow
to take advantage of this rebaIe of over
cents per pound. They have cheerfully paid
the freight to Australia and back again, and
have cleared nearly cents per pound on
the transaction.