Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
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Since 1870 433, ,436 patents have been
granted in America
There are 465, 900 school children In
England's metropolis.
The daily newspapers began the use OF
Illustrations about 1854
In 1890 eighty families in Connections
were engaged in silk-growing.
Our output of manufactured articles In
1888 was nearly double that of Great Britain
Curious slabs of stone have been un-,
earthed from a mound in the Guiana VAL
ley. Cal.
-Twenty-one thousand six hundred per-
sons were murdered in Italy between 1883
and 1886.
The professional Roman actor was dis
franchised, his calling being deemed dis
graceful.
Five Cherryfeld, Me-, canning estao-
lishments have put up $4,000 WOE tn Of blue
berries this year.
During the Norman period in England
ladies' sleeves were worn long enough TO
reach the ground.
Deer are reported so plentiful in Q
Michigan town that they have to be stoned
out Of the turnip fields.
On the Royal Sovereign, the new En-
glish battle ship. there are 500 electric lights.
connected by 80 miles of wire.
"A submarine electrical lamp has been
tested in Toulon at a depth of 80 feet. II
illuminated a radius OF 100 feet.
AT recent sale in Paris two autograph
scores of Ofenbach were sold at $50 and
that Of 'the Prophet of Meyerpeer for $50.
Robinson Crusoe's Island, Juan Fer
nandez. is inhabited by about so persons,
w h0 q IN h.. he rda of % not
there.
Curling irons dry the hair by removing
the natural Oil. and crimping the hair over
hot iron sooner or later causes 1t to crack
and break.
The annual increase in the production
OF grain in the United States since 1850 has
been double that noted during the preeed-
ing 20 years.
"A San Francisco firm is about to COM
mence the revival of whaling in the Antarc-
tic Ocean, which has not been carried on for
many years.
The region about the Dead Sea is one Of
the hottest places on the globe, and the sea
is said to lose 1000 900 tons OF water q day
by evaporation.
In certain parts of India cocoanut trees,
once almost lifeIess in appearance, have
been made to yield abundantly by placing
salt at the roots.
The cultivation of the pineapple in the
Bahamas is a very profitable undertaking.
At twopence each an acre of pineapples re-
turns $500 to s225.
If we could penetrate the earth's sur
face to distance of two miles. we would
find the place where water could not exist
except in the state of steam.
"A stained glass window has been put in
the parish church of Hythe, England, in
memory of Lionel Lukin, who conceived and
designed tine first lifeboat in 17s5.
Several observant ladies have discov-
cred that vegetarians have clear complex
ions, and have either renounced the use OF
meat entirely or partake of it spartngly.
I'm the basement of the Bank of Eng
land is The barracks wherein half hundred
soldiers are quartered from o'clock every
evening until O'Clock the next morning for
the protection of the bank.
I'm India and South America there is
said to be small tree, known as the "sor.
rowful tree" which bears sweetscented
flowers, that "bloom only in the night time
and1fall OF at the break of day."
The most indestructible wood is the
Jarrah wood. Of Western Australia, which
defies all forms of decay and is untouched
by all destructive insects, so that ships built
of it do not need to be coppered.
The Paris Jardin des Plantes owes its
origin to a florist, who. in the time of Henry
w., grew all sorts of native and imported
plants, to sell flowers as models TO the man
ufacturers of embrotderies and laces-
The Cotton Marble Works have Just
quarrfed what is claimed to be the largest
block of marble ever taken out in Califor-
MIA. 1t is reported to be Is feet in length,
8 feet inches in width and feet inches
thick.
I'm England cheap tobacco is now often
wrapped in packages containi ng graphic
illustrations of the glories Of soldiers life.
the authorities hoping in this way to induce
many ambitious rustics and cockneys join
the army.
According to statistics compiled BY the
In ternational Telegraph Bureau of Berne
there were dispatched in Europe during the
year 1891, 207 595, 900 telegrans: in the remain
ing portion of the world, sS,422,0Oo, total OF
296 OIL, 900.
The cost Of shouting ''Viye la Francer'
one time in Alsace- Lorraine has been fixed
at 20 marks. Joseph Eugene Lemoine,
who lives in France, but gave ut
terance to his patriotic feeling in Metz, has
found this out.
There are chicken factories in New
England, with never an old hen in them,
that are turning out thousands Of mother
less chickens every week more successfully
than oy the old method. In the incubator
art leaves nature in the rear.
The College of the Propaganda at Rome
announces the conversion of 10000 persons
to Christianity in the first six months of
1892 The greater portion of the converts
were in Asia, West Africa, and q considera-
BILE number in the British provinces.
But one species of venomous bird Is
known to the student Of orn1thological odd
Rpir N'Doob, or bird of DEATH"
4 feathered paradox OF New Guinea. Per.
sons bitten by the creature are seized by
pains, which rapidly extend to
avery part of the body. Loss of sight, con-
vuisions and lockjaw are the other symp-
toms which follow in rapid succession.
The Austrians consume more tobacco
than any other nationality or race on the
,lobe civilized or savage. Recent fnyesti-
cation By eminent statisticians gives the
number of pounds consumed annually by
zach 100 inhabitants OF the different Euro
pean countries as follows: Spain, ITO
pounds; Italy, 19s; Great Britain. lbs; Russia,
ls2: Denmark, 224; Norway, 229, and Austria,
,73 pounds.