Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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f "A writer in the Boston Transcript b
,, figured up that heaven contains l,soo.0oo,1 Q
souls against population in hell Of 1000
000,000.
There are ten places of the earth, ,distal
from each other 800 miles and upwards, ar
yet none of the ten has either latitude
longitude
, There is large and famous country {
the continent Of Africa, many OF whose i
D habitants are born perfectly deaf and othel
: stone blind.
The "Moving Stone" at Lexington
one of the most remarkable freaks {
! nature in the State of Kentucky, the gres
caVernS alone excepted.
1t Is said that the undersize ofthe Frenc
and their physical shortcomings as a natio
! are due for the most part to the heavy drai
made upon the race " Napoleon.
The snake tribe. Re Punjab say tbs
that the bites of sn.e -ot hurt then
and IL they find d. 70. do " dress
in clothes and give .SeS uo
The ancient II ta Serpene enrS tnsr me
1sDDsra TI OF ~s'nnual cerem ony Of ''Ta-
eoid' has come r1dghing the Maharajah of
,ast an equivalent weighs Of
III appears jund again in Hindoostan.
Ere nrenonlnen ~ IL from the Kew Bulletin that
this exnensiyve been drinking orchid tea
of late. and that the consumption Of
AT Ba U'ii'A0' nA' niuon in'r0a'eu
Sarauom1 re Eswick, near Ware, England,
!remises of the Smokeless Powder
the only works of the kind In the
kIngdom. These works cover no fewer than
126 acres Of ground.
The quantity of heat accumulated in
Lake Leman during the summer is,
according to NJ. Forel, equivalent to thai
which would be given out by the burning Of
s., ,000, 900 tons of coal.
Comparison of the results of the sunshins
recorder of Greenwich, England, for four.
teen years shows that throughout the year
the average daily amount OF sunshine 10 lit
tie more than three hours.
Hitherto perished rubber has rep
resented a waste material for which no use
could be found, but by process recently
invented the perished rubber can be made,
1t Is said, once more serviceable.
The Irish language is dying out Ten
years ago g., 900 people spoke Irish only. In
1881 these were $1,000 In 1881 there were
$4,000 who could speak Irish and English,
and last year there were only $4,000.
There is certain city in the southern
part of China whose Inhabitants observe
the same gait in walking that we do, and yes
they frequently appear to strangers as II
they were walking upon their heads.
Almost third of the total population of
the globe-a round 400, ,OOO, 600 human beings
speak nothing but the Chinese and allied
languages. One hundred million more speak
Hindoo only, and s5, 600 speak English.
Forty thousand pounds was the cost of
the armchair presented by the city of Augs-
burg to the Emperor Rudolphus IL of Ger
many, about the year 1915. The chair which
is of steel, took the artist about 30 years to
make.
"A writer in Nature states that the lin
pet, deprived of its shell, pulls In the air
1884 times its own weight, and about double
when immersed in water. FASTING fieas on
an average, pull ,493 times their own dead
weight.
The rivers of Russia grow shallower year
by year, and the Yorskla, once an abundant
tributary of the Dnieper, and comparable
to the Hudson or Delaware, 25O miles in
length, has completely and permanently
dried up.
"A pastile, which is said to take the
place Of food and drink, was lately tested
on company OF Roumanian soldiers who
completed march of IS miles in 27 hours
and whose sole food during that time was
In the form OF these pastile5.
"A French novelty in the way of time
piece Is floral clock. the long hands of
which sweep above twelve flower beds, each
bed being different from all the others in
the color and a variety OF flower. The hands
are moved by subterranean mechanism.
The Russians and consumptives in
America and Europe use mares and asses
milk. because of all milk it is freest from
butter fats. As is well-kDown, the Russian
1rink, koumiss, is made from mares milk,
IS Is also an other drink, which is intoxicat-
ng.
Odd as it may seem, the fret pair Of
arctics brought into the United States we're
imported from Rio de Janeiro in 1880. They
were a rough pair of India rubber 'fgun-
pagoda,and were sent as curiosities to New
York gentl eman.
Natives of Africa once a year kill
cobra de capelio and hang its skin to the
branch OF q tree, tail downward. Then all
he children born during the last year are
brought out and made to touch the skin.
This their parents think, puts them under
he serpents protection.
The alleged connection between gypsies
md the nails used in the cruoifixion has
been referred to. 1t Is said that
he tinkers are descendants Of tho one who
made the nails for the cross and are con-
lemned to wander continually without rest.
This tradition is very common in the High
ands Of Scotland.
line Oldest herOarlum In the world Is in
he Egyptologist museum at Cairo, and con-
lists Of an inconspicuous collection of dried
ortions of plants. These portions of plants
nd flowers were taken from wreaths and
arlands in the collins with mummies
here they were placed by the ancient Egyp.
ANS as death offerings.
"A mosquitoes bill is an elaborate con-
and consists of two sharp saws
nd a lance inclosed in sheath, which is
lso employed as a pump. The saws ara
ony. but flexible, and the teeth are near
lie end, which is pointed. The lance is per.
APPS the most perfect instrument known in
1e world of minute things.
M, Adam Paulson, of the Royal Danish
has been conducting a series Of
experiments to measure the heights Of the
1rora borealis. At Godthaab the approx
ate height was from to 4 miles, at Cape
arewell from l to 10 miles, at Spitzenburg
ON One-third of mile to IS miles. The
easurements were made with theodolites.
-Corals of some kinds are found in all
as. Those stony formations popularity
lied corals are mostly produced within
e tropics. Probably the variety best
nown is the red or pink coral, long
teemed for ornaments. This was found in
le Mediterranean from very early period.
ow, however, it has become so rare as "a
practically extinct.