Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


The solar system has 20 moons
MIR. GIadstone's rate of speech averages
$50 words per minute.
"A German scientist claims that all dia-
monds come from meteors.
New Mexico is enjoying the first rainy
season It has had for four years.
More than 10000 travellers visited
shakespeare's birthplace last year.
1t costs the saloons of New York $780,.
900 year to replace their broken glasses.
"A person traverses about three-quarters
|. of mile in the course Of an average waltz.
james Cope, of Martins Ferry, O.,
claims to have an almanac for the year
1863.
The long-handled parssol is defunct,
the short, clup-handled being in the ascend.
ant.
Out of 24O,0O0 domestic servants in
London 10000 are always out of employ.
ment.
-Petaluma, CAL, boasts of an artesian
well that flows 600 gallons of fresh water
every hour.
Once every eight years all the locks on
the United States Mail bags are changed to
insure safety.
Twelve members of the Senate have
been Governors OF States and five have been
Cabinet officers.
"A species of crow in India has a note
which exactly resembles the human voice
in loud laughing.
An average of 1000 immigrants a day
arrived in this country during the business
year just closing.
"A horse will eat in year nine timer
his own weight, a COW nine times, an OK six
times and sheep six times.
The first oil well was discovered In
Wayne county, KY. in 1929, 80 years before
the discovery Of oil in Pennsylvania.
"A London firm finds windmill the
most economic means of securing the mo-
tive power necessary to run a dynamo.
The smallest insect known, the etera-
tomas funainil, parasite of the ichneuman,
is about one-nineteenth of an inch in length.
Statistics recently compiled show that
about 200 miles of new railroad were built
in this country during the first six months Of
this year.
The first wheat raised in the New World
was sown on the Island OF Isabella in Janu-
airy, 1884, and on March 80 the crop was
gathered.
"A blood beet measuring Is inches in
length, IA inches in circumference and
weighing four pounds, is curiosity of st.
Tammany, La
The region about the Dead Sea is one of
the hottest places on the globe, and the sea
Is said to lose million tons of water day
by evaporation.
of the 30 stores in Machias, Me-, six
are owned and conducted by women, and
a sba hnSinRl9
ments in the town.
I'm speaking of the solidifcation of
body by cooling, Prof Dewar says that
water can be made to become solid by the
evaporation OF a quarter of its weight.
The Rajah of Indore, who likes snowy
things, has had made a furniture set all OF
glass, glass bedsteads and chairs, huge glass
sidebt ards and other articles of domestic
use.
"A curious relic of old Roman life found
recently at Lanurium porto Portese) and
now stored in the British Museum, is thin
slab of stone that was anciently q circus
poster.
During recent storm at Hopkinton,
N. H., an elm tree, under which Lafayette
and his party stood at a reception given
them in 1926, was struck by lightning and
demolished.
-Appropos of the alleged discovery Of
Noah's ark on the top of Mount Ararat, it is
related that Colonel Kalazko, a Russian
engineer who made the ascent in 1850 found
no ark there.
Investigations Of rain drops lead to the
conclusion that some of the large drops must
be more or less hollow. as they fail when
striking to wet the whole surface inciosed
within the drop. 6
The bridge of the Holy Trinity, Flor
{,,1 Tf 10 foot ~
white marble, and is even now reckoned as
being without a rival as a specimen OF the
bridge-building art.
Polo has been rapidly gaining in popu-
larity in France, and there has been a good
deal of play this season upon the ground be-
longing to the Cercle des Palineurs, in the
Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
Berlin pays salary to a professional
bird-catcher, who keeps scientific and edu-
birds nests and eggs, and Is the only man in
the empire permitted TO do so.
"A telegram received at THE DISPATCH
office last night read as follows: James Dun
lin. an 1s-year-old son of James Dunlin,a
prominent citizen, was killed in a shaft at
Newburg. His recovery is doubtful.
The Brazil nut contains from Is to "a
seeds, which all germinate at one time. The
most vigorous one gets first through a small
QOl6 AT CQe TOP TO tue open All, anu Lnero-
upon it strangles and feeds upon the rest.
AT the time of the Talmud pigeons
were used IN amusing games. The Talmud
tells us that betting was indulged in at the
pigeon play. The owner of the pigeon which
reached rst the point designated was the
winner.
"A young lady of Atlantic City took .
clergyman to the Jail at Mays Landing on
Monday and insisted upon being married to
Albert Davis, awaiting trial Tor highway
robbery. The Sheriff refused TO allow the
ceremony to be performed.
The costliest mats in the world are
owned by the Shah of Persia and the Sultan
of Turkey. The Shah and the Sultan each
possess a mat made of pearls and diamonds
valued at over 81, 100000 The largest mat
ever made is owned by the Carlton Club, Of
London, and is a work of art.
That the world was inhabited long be-
fore authentic history began is now one Of
the generally accepted facts. There are said
to be more than 8, 900 prehistoric buildings in
Sardinia. They are almost all in the fertile
districts and are built in groups, which are
separated from one another by wide and gem
orally barren places.
MISCELLANEOUS MIRTH.
Miss Footlights-I tell you when Miss
KIctIav nv iew she fairly looks green