Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Germany has 4,0OO-ton forging press
The first armor used was of skins and
padded hides.
Weaving was practiced In China ~
early as B. G. 5000.
Half of 400 street railroads In the
United States are now operated by means OF
electricity
The armor of the fourteenth century
was 30 heavy that fallen knight could not
rise without assistance.
The railway companies Of the United
Kingdom pay $500 day as q compensation
Tor injuries done to passengers.
"A Paris physician is authority for the
pared for burial in France while still alive.
Neatly worked dsrns and patches have
been discovered in the clothes used In
swathing some of the Egyptian mummies.
According to French divorce statistics
the most unhappy period OF matrimony Is
that extending from the fifth to the tenth
year.
The bees 90 to distances of from two to
four miles in search of honey in good wealth
or and fly at the rate OF seven miles an
hour.
Somebody has said that if Pasteur were
paid royalty on all the money he has saved
to the commercial world, he would be the
richest man on earth.
Women drummers have appeared in
Europe, and, while not very numerous,
those that are known are conspicuous for
their ability and success.
The Roman swords. before Gamma, B.Q
2ie. were pointless and s1Tp on only one
side; after Gamma, the shoS Spanish sword,
for cutting and thrusting, was adopted.
Seats will be provided at the Worlds
Fair dedicatory ceremonies in October for
1900 newspaper correspondents, it having
been estimated that about that number will
be present.
In Burmah women choose their hus-
bands ana divorce them at their own pleas
ure. They retain their own property and
are given rights not accorded to their SIS
ters elsewhere.
The Russians have become so alive to
the value of women pnysians that the I'm
perial Government has granted $780, 600 for q
medical school for women. to be established
at st. Petersburg. The site has been given
by the city.
I'm the last year the American Bible So
ciety printed and issued from the Bible
house 9l367s copies of the Bible, which is
more than two books for every minute Of
the BIB working days of the year.
During one week this month 313 car
loads containing 3.sl6 tons of green fruit
were shipped East from California So far
this season 100000 more pounds of fruit
have been shipped than last year.
The Government is getting a search
light built at Middletown, Conn, to be
placed in the statue OF Liberty in New York.
which will be the largest in the world. I1
will be $1,000 candle power and be visible for
100 miles.
The large, richly furnished salon in
Do,
kept close like a tomb by his widow. 1t was
in this salon that the musicians of the Mein-
ingen Orchestra used to play Wagner's COM
position, himself directing.
up to 1880 the shad was unknown in
California waters. Young shad were sent
there that year and planted in the saera-
mento river. Shad is now so plentiful in
California that it sells in San Francisco by
wholesale at cents pound.
I'm the late English county elections
there were 156l flliterates out of 81, 500 votes
polled; in English boroughs, 435 out of A.
l29: in Scottish county elections, II out OF
2342; in Scottish burghs, So out of II, 122 and
in Irish elections, 2, l32 out OF q, 942.
The balance sheet of the French tele-
phones for 1891 shows gross receipts amount
ing to s223, 900. the length of line at the end
of that year Deing nearly l 200 miles and the
number of subscribers IS 191, to which total
Paris contributes no less than 1866.
One of the most significant curios in
New York is q copper globe in the Lenox
Library. 1t is only ~ inches in diameter,
but it is believed to be the earliest globe to
lay down the new discoveries by Columbus.
It dates back to the first decade Of the six
teenth century.
Glass, as far as research has been able
to determine, was in use 1000 years before
the birth of Christ and was even then not il
fits infancy. In the collection at the British
Museum there is the head of lion nodded
in glass, bearing the Lame OF an ancient
Egyptian King.
Queen Elizabeth's breakfast usually
consisted of fine wheaton loaves and cakes,
ale, beer and wine, pottage made with NUT
ton or beef chimes of beef (probably cold),
rabbits and butter In one of her progresses
through the country, three oxen and 40
geese were furnished FOR the Sunday morn
fng's breakfast tor the maiden monarch and
her brilliant retinue.
When Abraham Lincoln was elected
President OF the United States, in 1850, he
received 1855, ,913 votes in the 80 States which
then constituted the Union In the Presi-
York State was 1,s2O, l09 New York's total
this year will not be very far from the entire
vote cast for Mr.. Lincoln In the whole
United States 50 years ago.
According to recent census, Chris
tfanity is the third creed in India in point
OF numDerS. Dr george +. fentecOSt, VINO
has been engaged in missionary work in
that country, gives hopeful account of the
steady growth of Christianity in India. He
reports Brahmin as saying that Christian
fly Is not so much converting individual
as Chrfstianizing Hinduism.
Interesting photographic oddities now
and then meet the eye upon the outskirts Of
New York. "Fryed" chicken is advertised
in staring black letters at Basket" picnic
grounds on the heights above Fort Lee.
resort near Fort George announces genuine
Rhode Island clambake for parties made
here to order" On tight closed shanty
hard by some one has painted in letters that
betray an unsktlled hand, Danger powder
dinameit."
The methods of numbering have so
greatly changed in Maine in recent years
that there is scarcely an idle interval now
between the driving time when logs are
doated down to the sawmills, at the end OF
the season, and the chopping time, at the
Of the next season Men now go
into the woods in August, and this year
crews of choppers had left Bangor for the
camps before the last log drives arrived at
the old town.
SPICY SEPTEMBER SPRINKLE.