Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Rice paper il not made of rice.
The matches made yearly are VIC
sls5. 100000.
Almost every country on the earth
its own standard mile.
The average daily earning Of raib
| locomotive is about 800.
I'm 1859 Bonelli devised q meth
using electricity in weaving.
The Thermometer has been proven
| the invention OF Gslileo in 1896
Some of the African tribes pull
fingers till the joints crack as a form
/ utation.
"A special room in the Hahnemann
pitaI in New York is fitted up for sick 81
women.
"A medieval writer on demonolo
places the total number of devils at precis.
"A, ,3S5, ,556.
-Yawning is not ALWAYS q useless act, ft
it often cures catarrh and other a affiictiols OF
the throat.
For three vacant chaplain cies in the
United States army over 1000 applications
have been filed.
The Constitution of Louisiana permits
women to hold any office connected with
public education.
Dead Sea will lie one mass of solid salt with
in less than 500 years.
The railroad dining cars in this country
earn more money than the sleeping and
baggage cars together.
The French order of the Legion of
Honor now has 45, 600 members, Of whom L.
456 are persons in civil life.
"A town in Michigan has q firm of
grocers named Jake and Jack'' and grog-
gerry kept by Jack and jim"
The census of India, Just completed,
shows that country to have a population of
600, gain of II per cent over 1881.
According to calculation published in
a London paper, the entire population of
the world could stand on field ten miles
square.
About 250, 900 canary birds are raised in
Germany every year, and of these about
loo. 0Oo come to the United States and $1,000
go to England
"A Philadelphia publisher has issued .
little book containing 73l variations of the
mosquitoes bill joke to sell at the New Jersey
summer resorts.
The auction of the Borghese art treas
ures at Rome on April IA realized only 1s0O,-
QUO francs a mere fraction of the real value
OF the articles sold
Massachusetts has more cities with n
population of over $4,000 than any other
State in the Union. The number OF such
cities in Massachusetts is Is; in New York Ii.
Bricks made of plaster of paris and
cork are now used in the construction of
powder mills. In case of explosion they
offer slight resistance, and are broken to
atoms.
Queen Victoria's golden wedding pres
ents to the King and Queen of Denmark
were a marble vase, nearly five feet in
height, and a cask of Lochnager whisky 20
years old.
There is still burning in India a sacred
fire that was lighted by the Parsees II GEN.
turies ago. The fire is led with sandal and
other fragrant woods and is replenished five
times day.
The largest steam hammer in this coun-
try is the huge piece of machinery in Wool
wich Arsenal, by means Of which the mon
ster Woolich Infants are forged. Its strik-
ing force is 1000 tons.
The largest turret ship in the world
perhaps the largest battleship in existence
lis =. the British battleship Hood, which vas
launched at Chatham on July 30. 1891 The
Hood has a displacement of "a l50 tons.
"A trained terrier, with light cord at
rached to his neck, runs through under
ground conduit5, from ore manhole to an
other, in London streets. Thus electric wires
are safely and rapidly drawn from station
to station.
"A bicyclist has been sentenced to seven
months imprisonment at Glashutte, Ger
many, because everv night he would cross
the railroad track at some point just in front
OF the locomotive so that the engineer was
in great straits not to kill him.
There are now in the United States 81
law firms composcts OF. nusuautrs and wfves,-
and there are about2OO American ladies who
practice law in the courts or manage legal
publications. Several women make large
incomes by the law in America.
One of the fastest voyages from Chins
to New York was made in the summer OF
1870 by the steamship GIenogle, of the Glen
Line, OF Glas: ow, which arrived from Annoy
in 46 days. The fastest time was by the
Glenshiel Of the same lines days.
"A witty writer has observed with much
truth that every man is, in a sense, three
different men. In the first place he is the
man he thinks himself to he; in the second
place, he is the man other persons think
him to be; and, finally, he is the man that he
really is.
"A canvasser while in Washington, Me-,
was surprised to find six successive house
holds in which no newspapers ere taken,
and upon calling at the next house asked
the reason, and was in ormed that not q
member oil the six iamilies could either read
or write.
The Burmese women are important per-
and play great part in their
They choose their own hus-
bands, and divorce them when they like, re-
tanning their own property and all that they
have earned; they are at liberty to marry
again when widows or divorced.
Chilean money is of very little intrinsic
value just now. 1t is simply small tags of
pasteboard. The maker of each tag writes
OH it the sum for which he is willing to
redeem it, and uses it as cash. 1t passes
from hand to hand as money, and in time
comes back TO the original producer, whose
1uty it is TO promptly redeem it.
"A place for ''visiting babies at the
Chicago WORLDS Fair is under consideration,
md a sJace is likely to be reserved near the
women's building, on which house may be
,rected for this purpose. Nurses trained to
,are for children will be put In charge, the
mothers will get the children checked, and,
with calm consciences, enjoy the tour Of the
,rounuS unhindered.
FLIGH rs INTO FUNNYDOM.