Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
.Janan has 13. 600 cities

An English ship has 800 electric ightG
The State Of Missouri has 2,7O0 post
offices.
Uncle Sam has 200 tons of silver
bullion.
The unexplored area of Canada is !, !, OO0,-
COO square miles.
There are now 15O, OOO, 900 copies of the
Bible in circulation.
The population of America increases
by 1000 persons a day.
-Krupp's great gun works at Essen con.
sumo 166s tons OF coal and coke a day.
"A cooperative laundry, to be run bv
women, is being considered in England.
During the short Italian War of 1859
5000 men fell on the field Of battle or died
in the hospitals.
The Romans were so benefited BY the
first barber that came to their city that they
erected statue to his memory.
Horses are so plentiful in Buenos Ayres
that everybody has at least one. It is said
that even the beggars beg on horseback.
The Greek Government has voted 3OO.-
900 drachmas to be expended on the re-
production of antique works of art for the
Worlds Fair.
There are 109, 900 locomotives in the
world; SO 900 of them run in Europe. 1000 in
America. $500 in Asia, 1000 in Australia and
100 in Africa.
-Mineralogists now exploring Northern
ThiDet claim to have discovered valuable
mines OF gold and many varieties of the
rtchesE precious stones
The Imperial Cholera Commission In
Germany announces its discovery that wine
-cIaret or hock-wfll kill the baciIIi of chol-
era in few minutes. Tea will kill them in
an hour.
The scientific commission, appointed for
the purpose OF selecting site for q new
capital for Brazil. includes five civil enzi-
neers. two astronomers, naturalist and an
expert in hygiene.
"A daughter of resident of Coos Bay,
Ore. is said to have been born on the day
Cleveland was elected in 1884, and she is re-
ported to have died on November 8, the day
Cleveland was elected this year.
An old land mark recently disappeared
at Neosho, Mo-, by the tearing down Of the
old Masonic building in which the ordt-
nance OF secession wns passed intended to
take Missouri out Of the Union.
"A portable sundial is not an uncommon
object in Spanish shops, and it is still in cur
rent use in Spain. At Burpos no less than
three QlH6f6nE k1nQS are offered for Sal6 at
prices varying from to II cents.
Zinc miners at Webb City, Wis, have
noticed lately that shaft they were dig
ging has been growing hotter. At deDth
of 1853 feet the other day they had to stop
work, as flames burst through into the shaft.
Two deaths during fencing bouts have
occurred in France through the foiIs pene-
trating masks that had been bent and re.
paired. A fencing master strongly urges
fencers never TO have masks repaired after
being once broken.
Burial at sea is to be abolished for
those who have money to pay for the trans
portation of their remains in case of death
on board ship. Air-tight steel caskets for
the transportation of bodies are now a part
OF the equipment of all the best steamers.
The basis of Dickens "Jarndyce versus
Jarndyce," the famous Jennens case, in
which claim is laid to one-half tia ground
Birmingham, has been reonenAh. The prop
erty was valued at nearly $40 900. .0O0 so years
ago, and is immensely more valuable now.
"A valuable collection of fossils, min
erals and shells. comprising several thOu.
sand specimens. and particularly rich in
snecimens from the carDoniferous forma-
tion. has Just been presented to tee Univer-
sitv College of North Wales by Mr.. Evan
Roberts, of Manchester
On the bank of the River Naha, be-
tween Bingen and Coblentz. there is an echo
capable of repeating q sentence II different
times "A peculiarity of this echo is that,
although tile original word or sentence he
uttered in whisper, yet the volume OF the
sound increases many folds in the echo.
One of the first effects of introducing
Parliamshts into Japan has been TO stimu-
late inventors to discover some means OF
doing away with lobby divisions. Pro-.
Zamaka wa. of the University of Toxic, has
devised an electrical machine by which each
member can record his yote without leaving
his seat.
Probably the smallest electric light in
stallation In the world is TO be found in the
little village of Bremen, near Dormbach, in
Thuringia- 1t comprises a single arc lamp
installed in the church, the lamp being
operated when required by a small dynamo
arranged in the village mill, and driven by
the mill wheel.
-Bartel Garetji, woman of Copenha-
gen, had a beard reaching to her waist.
Charles III. of Sweden had a female grena-
dier in his army who possessed the beard as
well as the COURAGE of q man. MarIaret,
Duchess of Austria and Governess of the
Netherlands, had a large. wiry, stiff beard,
OF which she was very proud
AS proof of the manner in which the
of the West is seizing hold on
that in private mission school in the town
of Kiota there are 400 Japanese women.
Ten years ago the fathers OF these girls
looked upon them as slaves. or at Dest up
per servants. Now they strain every nerve
to give them liberal education.
The inhabitants of the Marian Islands,
which were discovered as late as 1851 had
no idea of fire or its uses. Their astonish-
ment knew no bounds when they saw it ap-
piled to wood, most of them supposing it to
be some kind of an animal which the sailors
had brought with them, and which must be
fed on wood! To this day they designate te
by term which signifies "wood-eater."
The hair of the ordinary doll is made
rom the hair of the Angora CONT. This
product is controlled by an English syndt
cate, and is valued at $40 900, oo0a year. After
The hair is prepared It is sent to Munich
Ind made into wigs by girls Human hair Is
lsed only for what are known as the last
iolls" that is, dolls for big girls, who like TO
10 up their dolls hair in the latest style.
"A fossil elephant has been discovered
en kflometers from Brioude, in France. on
he slope of an old volcano, the Seneze,
which rises from the central plain Its the
keleton of an Elephas Merfdionalis, and IS
nearly entire. Active volcanoes, so destruc-
i've of life, are sometimes good preserverS
" animal remains, as, for example, at FoH-
1aii Uhara the fine Ash kept the ODJect