Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


japan will build two electric roads.
-Hindoostan is about 25 times as large q
the State of New York.
There are 10, 900 miles OF overhead tels-
graph wires in London.
The greatest days run OF an ocean
steamship was 5l6 miles.
The London Geological Garden contains
now no less than g. 100 animals.
-Epping Forest, England, is the largest
public recreation ground in the world
Among Queen Victoria choice china ID
a seyres dessert service valued at 100000.
The cholera germ propagates so rapidly
that in 4s hours one will produce z'oOOO,O0o
others.
The first book imported from Europe
was brought over by John LaDin' Oh Fhila-
delphia.
in proportion to their numbers sailing
vessels are lost nearly half as frequently as
steamers.
The English 'Primrose League" has
"a 600 members. Of whom 14oo compose the
Grand Council.
The largest sized railroad engines each
require from 80 to 100 gallons OF Oil yearly
for fabrication.
Eleven million eight hundred and three
thousand bales OF cotton were used by tho
world last year.
Somewhat more than 10000 Cana
dians have crossed over into the United
States since 1881
"A woman's chance to be married is cal
culated to be only IN per cent when she
reaches her 4Oth year.
The South Carolina Railroad was ths
first one in this country to use the steam
locomotive regularly in 1881.
"A broken wooden horse, with which
Napoleon Bonaparte played when chile,
was recently sold for 1000 francs.
The nautilus is a navigator; he rises
and lowers his sail. casts and weighs ancho
and performs other nautical acts.
An eminent scientist asserts that IL
shape and general appearance the head Of.
Turk is like the head of an American.
The Greek Government has voted 30O,-
900 drachms to be expended on the repro
duction of antique works OF art for the
Worlds Fair.
The Lord Chancellor of England, on re.
firing from office, has pension of $4,000
year for life whether his term of office ha.
been long or short
"A rhinoceros has been in the London
Zoo for % years. This is stated to be the
longest time an animal of this kind ha:
lived in captivity in London.
in the first three months of 1891 the e1
port of Indian corn to Germany was 1,0s3, ,sG
bushels. This year during the correspond
ing period it was 5,755, ,4S5 bushels.
Three new crematories were built in
Germany last year, and in Italy there are %
now in operation. In Franco 3,T4I bodies
were disposed of in 1891 by burning.
IF you wish to increase your chances Of
life, marry, for, as q rule, married men live
longer than bachelors; yet we are told that
out of every 1000 persons in England more
than 600 are unmarried.
-Gutta percha was first introduced int
Europe from Malaga in 1912. The annua,
consumption now amounts to 4,00O,0O
pounds, and the East Indian trees which
supply the demand are diminishing at an
alarming rate.
Among the many remarkable inven-
tions at the late paper exhibit at Berlin was
q set OF paper teeth, which were made in 1S7s
by Lubbock dentist. They have been in
constant use for over IA years and ere in
first-class condition.
1t is not inspiring to hear that only "a
per cent of the poor rates are spent in re
heving the poor, and to reflect that over
quarter of each generation die before at
CdlnlnS the age Oh IL; DuG IMAM OF 5z YEAR
of age may expect to live for another 80.
AT the Food Exposition in Madison
Square Garden, New York City, a lot of large
vegetables are being shown. Among the
collection are cornstalks II feet high, pep
pers two feet and half long growing on
the vine. and white plumed celery two feel
and a half long.
We are told that children's hair grow
mora npic Iv fI1ap that of odu Gonna
that light-haired people are longer live
than their brethren with dark locks, whic
is not so consoliny to the latter, since NOR
than half of the inhabitants Of this country
have dark-brown hair.
In addition to the ordinary coins W ell
known in the United Kingdom, the Mint
produces silver and bronze pieces in cents
for Canada, piastres and half-piastres fol-
Cyprus, cent pieces for Hongkong, nickel
pence and farthinyS for Jamaica, and cent
pieces for the Straits settlements.
ALI those beautiful German beer mugs
of blue earthenware have q little hol'
drilled near the top OF the handle. This IL
designed to make it easy to have lids fitted
to the mugs. No German regards his mug q
complete without lid. but many OF th'
muss 8 are imported in that condition.
In the villages the taverns used to be
dark by IL O'Clock, and early risers coult
have breakfast before 8. Now there are pee
pe in the bar until after midnight, and th'
first meal is seldom served until O'Clock
Formerly the transient rates were % cent
each for meals and lodging; now they are5
cents.
"A cure of Les Aubiers established
sort of clerical table d'hote for those wish
ing to take communion. Whoever desired
to communicate had to dine and pay. Thre'
young women resisted the charge, and upoI
being refused communion their fathers ap
pealed to the court, which decided in thei
favor.
One of the first effects Of introducing
parliaments into Japan has been to stimr
late inventors to discover some means o
doing away with lobby divisions. Prof
Zamakawa, of the University OF Toxic, ha
devised an electrical machine by which eac'
member can record his vote without leayln
his seat.
The Eskimo who has no harpoon Dor
rows of him who has an extra one. If th'
lender had more than two there would be NJ
probability OF the borrowed weapon beini
returned. There is nothing surprising abou
this, however, for no man can use three mar
poons, and a second is ample for reserve
In case of the loss of one.
prp0UETTES FROM PICK.