Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Americans use 400, 900, 900 postal cards .
year.
The Indian population of Arizona IL
given out as being 1911
Cicero is thought to have written "Ds
Ohciis" after be had passed 40
-Electrotyping of wood cuts and plates
for printing was first employed in 1850.
in 1891 the Western Union had 715, ,591
miles OF wire and sent 50, s,si3 messages.
Machines for making tacks were first
made by Thomas Blanchard in the year 1909
1t is estimated that there is a daily dis
play OF 100000 worth OF diamonds at Sara
toga.
"A man in Paris has invented a new
kind OF snuff made of tan and pounded
baked apples.
All the employees of the elevated rail-
roads in New York City are said to receive
their pay in gold.
I'm many of the English country houses
there are now rooms set aside especially for
the ladies to smoke in.
According to Thessalian legend the first
horse was miraculously brought forth by
Neptune striking rock with his trident.
-Aumove, in the Department de PIndre,
in France, with only 40 families, is reputed
to have one centenarian and % octogen.
arians.
"A Mr.. Goodman, of London, bet that
he could smoke Sc cigars down to an inch in
less than IL hours. He did it with ~ minutes
to spare.
A herd of wild horses, consisting of
about 300 head, were run down and roped in
in Cheyenne county, Col, short time ago
by band of cowboys.
The officials of the Chinese Empire are
divided into nine different grades or classes,
distinguishable from ons another by the
button worn on the cap.
There are 40 distinct Christian demon.
nations in the United States. OF these there
are Is varieties OF Methodists, II OF Baptists
and IL of Presbyterians.
Out of 80, 1000 guesses on a big cake of
soap on exhibition at Berlin only two were
correct. The cake was a soapmaker's adyer.
tlsement. and weighed 142 pounds.
The highest priced piano in the United
States belongs to the Marquand family OF
New York City. 1t was designed and
painted bT Alma Tadema and cost $4,000
The rsilroad coach that carried Presi-
dent Lincoln's body from Washington to
Illinois is now stationed at North Platte,
Neb., and will be sent to the Worlds Fair
An index to the London Times is issued
periodically by person not connected with
the establishment. This work is praised or
condemned by that journal the same as
though it had to do with any other matter.
The English mathematician, Wallis,
could not only retain in his mind a number
composed of 53 figures, but could extract
therefrom the square root, containing ~
figures, without the aid of paper or pencil.
The 80 so, S. SO. $50 and s25 gold
pieces made from 1sl9 to 1851 by private
firms and assay offices in California, Color
ado and Oregon, because they do not come
up to the mint standard of purity aIe most
ly below par
1t has been just 100 years since gas Was
first used as an illuminant by William MUIR
dock, who lighted up his home at Redruth,
In Cornwall, by means Of coal gas made in
an iron kettle, into which rough iron tube
was inserted.
The value of the gold smelted in Eng
land amounts to nearly $4,000 while the
silver was valued at upwards of $4,000.
Iron stands first among the remaining
metals for its produce, after smelling,
amounts to nearly $50 OO0,OOO
There is decided difference of opinion
as to the number of men who fought on the
con federate side during the war of the rebel
lion. 1t is difficult to give a correct esti-
mate, but many authorities suppose the
total number was about 100000.
In one consignment recently feather
dealer in London received 5000 birds Of
paradise, $50. 600 birds of various kinds from
the East Indies. and 100000 humming birds
In three months another dealer imported
$50, 39S birds from the East Indies.
"A French novelty in the way of q
Is a floral clock, the long hands Of
which sweep above 12 flower beds. oaeh beu
being different from all the others in color
UfofNr af hor1 de
moved by subterranean mechanism.
1t is said that French electrician has
discovered method of applying relay bat
teries to cable currents, making practicable
the use OF laud-line instruments on cables of
considerable length. The device is reported
TO have worked successfully on an s00-mfle
cable.
Fleet street, in the heart of London,
has been visited by plague of tiny but per-
'istent and venomous mosquitoes. 1t is be-
ieved that they were of the Algerine vari-
sty and that they were imported with "es-
parto grass" OF which paper is made in the
London mills.
There are at present in the Gobelin's
two large state carpets valued
It $50 900 and $40 COO, respectively, at least
They were made during the empire, one be-
ng ordered by the Italian Government ana
,he other being intended for the Palace Of
Fontainebleau.
English speaking countries have four
lifferent miles-the ordinary mile of $3.50
eeTand the geogra phical nautical mile
u 6,CS5 feet, making a difference of about
between the two; then there Is
he Scotch mile of 1928 ieet, and the Irish
nile of $40 feet.
The United States census shows that
he five chief cities of the State of New York,
namely, New York, Brooklyn, Albany, Troy,
Buffalo, contained. in the month of June,
S90 only so 900 less than one-half the pOpu-
iltiOn OF the state, and only $4,000 less than
he male population of the State.
For 1, 300 years the iron crown has held
he foremost place among the ciadems of
Europe, for it wis formed by the skilful
lands Of Roman goldsmiths in the sixth
century, and sent bv Pope Gregory the
treat to the Lombard Queen, Thesdolinda,
yhen she had freed LOmbardy from the
Arian heresy.
If II persons were to agree to dine to-
ether every day, but never sit exactly in
he same order round the table, it would
ake them l3, coo, 900 years at the rate of one
inner a day, and they would have to eat
lore than A. .000,000 dinners before they
ould get through all the possible arrange
1ents in which they could place them
elves.
PoETICAL AND PIQUANT.
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