Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Churches built in America in 1921
numbered s,5Os.
There are $4,000 muscles in an sts-
! plants trunk.
! The only fresh-water fish in the Canary
I Islands is the eel.
About quarter of the people in Paris
| live in apartments.
During the Crimean war of 1854-55,
7s5,O00 men wer slain.
Perfectly white cats, if they have blue
! eyes, are nearly all deaf
The moon is on the average 23S, S18
miles distant from the earth.
I'm France there are now in existence
4,sae clubs, with 277, l55 members.
The total yield of wine in Spain IN
1891 is estimated at little over $4,000 600
gallons.
AT the Royal Mint at Stockholm a
woman has for years been the engraver Of
medals.
Some of the African tribes pull tn cir
fncers till their joints crack, as form OF
salutation.
-Deductiny their shells and Juices, ore
quart or two pounds of oysters yield "a to
% ounces of flesh.
For over 900 years Nuremberg, Bs-
varfa, has made most of the toys used
throughout the world.
During the present year nearly 23,-
900 OOO oysters have already been consumed
in England and Wales.
Neatly worked darns and patches have
been discovered in the cloths used in swath-
ing some of the Egyptian mummies.
A larger proportion of children sur
vive their first year of existence in Dublin
than in the 2S large towns of England and
Wales.
The total number destroyed by human
ity every century in it's incessant political,
religious or international wars is at least
0OOO.cOO
In 1S41 the density of the population
OF the United Kingdom was moderate-2S
persons per aere-but in 1891 there were 565
persons per acre.
"A Brunswick, Me-, man recently paid
for q suit of clothes with 900 coppers which
he had been Accomplishing for years. The
lot weighed 81 pounds
The French photographer, VI. Marcy,
has succeeded in photographing a dragon fly
on the wing. The time of exposure was
only l-?5O0 of q second.
"A Philadelphia preserving works will
exhibit at the Worlds Fair map of the
United States, lSz25 feet, made entirely of
pickles, fruits, vegetables, etc.
Three battalions of infantry recently
had days target practice at Bisley. In all
5,94 rounds were fired by the men and
machine guns, producing 5l7 hits.
AT Ventnor, Isle of Wight, many of
the houses are unprovided with cisterns. The
tenants have TO save the water in buckets
during the five or ten minutes it is turned
on.
There is q large carriage mandatory
in New York in which the chief art decora-
tor is Miss Caroline Kilby, who has 20 women
employed in the department. which she con-
trolls
The highest temperature on the globe
is at Death Valley, Inyo county, Cal. Its
surface is 159 ieet below sea level and in
summer the thermometer has occasionally
reached 1922.
Signals Lily Fag, Jersey COW, be-
longing to General Moore, of Huntsville,
Ala, has the greatest butter record of any
cow now living-l,O4O pounds in four days
less than q year.
I'm China the cobbler still goes fro m
house to house, announcing his approach
with rattle and taking up mis- abode with
the amily while lie accompliSheS the neceS-
sary making and mending.
The largest electric locomotive yet
built has just been finished at Baden, Zurich.
1t is believed that it will show extraordin-
~,
not less than 2GOO-horse power.
Baron Hirseh is said bv a London
newspaper to be the richest man the world
has ever known, the statement being that
he is worth six million pounds sterling
year. This implies capital OF about $780,
100000.
DR.. Julien Chisholm SAYS that there are
engraved stones and monuments in the
British Museum which prove that the
present fashion, both in dress and headgear,
is almost identical with that of the women
of Babylon at about the time of the flood.
The Cherokee tribe of Indians have
perhaps the most curious form of marriage.
The happy couple join hands over a run
ming stream. and they become at once man
and wife. 1t must be rather compromising
for Cherokee youth to assist n lady across
ditch.
If your nerves were steady enough to
admit handling the silkworm's threads. and
YOU were to take carpenters rule and lay
such threads side by side until thew covered
the space of an inch, You would find, after
completing the task. that you mad handled
exactly l,CO9 threads.
When an Egyptian dog wishes to
drink at the Nile he goes short distance
up the river, and howls for some time. The
crocodiles, being attracted by the sound,
Immediately crowd to the place. while the
dog hastily runs to the part which the
crocOdilcs have left, and drinks in safety.
-Koumiss, mares milk fermented, is
mentioned in the Thirteenth century by
Gulelmus de Rubruquis, a travelling monk:
"Aiter = man has taken draugnt thereof it
leaveth behind II taste like that OF almond
milk and maketh ones insides feel very
and it also intoxicateLh weak
heads"
The most northern newspaper in the
world is the Nordkap, published ut Hammer
stein. The editor and his assistants work in
a small wooden house rooted with turf.
News arrives to the NOrCikdD not by tele-
gram, but by the mailboat, and the world's
events reach the Hammersteiners very late,
alter eight days.
There have been received at Kew
a number Of bright red seeds from
Mexico, which are found to contain IN ex-
dangerous alkaloid. The Indians
in the neigh bOrhoOi of San Antonio use the
seeds as an intox:cant, half a seed producing
followed by sleep lastin2 two
or three days, and sometimes death enSues.
No sensible person will ever wear
single eyeglass unless he is blind OF one eye.
Its use means that one is neither employed
or unemployed, but is engaged in ceaseless,
though no doubt unconscious, efforts TO see
as much its mote favored fellow Ihls
straining is as harmful as anything cOuld
well be, and cnnnot 1ail to lead TO the gruV-
est results.