Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
America has 400, 900 Bohemians


Agriculture employs 100000 Italian
women.
-Shoemaking machines were invented
by Gallahue in 1858.
The first American paper money was
made in the year l74O
Shields were not used in England after
the reign of Henry VII.
-Two-thirds OF the chiefs of police OF
American cities are Irishmen by birth Oh
extraction.
The Western people are so accustomed
to adulterated maple sugar that they reject
the genuine.
The side-wheel steamer, Goliah, which
made trip to California in lS49 is still in
use in Puget Sound.
The Shah and the Sultan each possess .
mat made of pearls and diamonds and
valued at over s2,5O0,O0O
The finest railway station in the world
is at Bombay, India. 1t cost sl,5OO,OOO and
was ten years in building.
In sixteenth century fencing the sword
was held in the rig hit hand and dagger In
the lett to ward Off blows
An English clergyman hires military
band and gives free concerts every Sunday
afternoon, smoking not prohibited
There are reported to be more Hebrews
in three of the Il wards of New York City
than in the whole of Great Britain and
Ireland.
The first wheat raised in the New
World was sown on the Island of Isabella in
January. l49l, and on March 80 the crop was
gathered.
The regular army of Brazil consists OF
only 1900 soldiers, but the Government can
| raise military force of 100000 men by con-
| scription.
| "A Chinese highbinder arrested at Sacra-
| mento recently was encased in q boiler-plate
coat of mail. He carried two revolver5 and
| three knives
| Perhaps the largest well in the United
States is the Sampson, at Waco, Texas. 1t
| is claimed TO throw up 1,5O0,OOO gallons Of
hot water daily.
| "A dish-washing machine has been for
| some time in in a New York hotel.
With two persons to attend it, it washes
| l,OOO dishes an hour.
The committee of the Center Church,
| Manchester, Conn.,, have inclosed portion
! OF the church horseshed as a safe place for
the bicycles of members of the congrega-
ton.
The remains of the Roman watergate at
Mines have just been discovered. There
are two openings. each about IS feet wide,
and the blocks OF stone are half yard
| thick.
The salt mines of Nevada throw into
| the shade all others known in the United
| States. One bed alone covers 15,93O acres,
and no bottom to this salt has ever been
discovered.
1t is stated that German firm has per-
| 1ected a means of utilizing sIwdust by treat
! ing it with an acid and pressing It into
| blocks. which are said to be excellent build
| ing material.
| Duplicates of Raphael's famous Hamp-
ton Court cartoons are said to have been
| discovered at st. Petersburg How they
got there is a mystery but the owners ask
| 1900 COO francs for them
There are only SO magnetic observa-
tories in all the world OF these, eight are in
| France and three in England. About one
| half of the total number are provided with
Mascart recording apparatus, the others
| have appliances OF the Kew type.
| Fat men are in demand in London as
advertising mediums. They wear clothing
| on which spaces are arranged for various
| parade the streets. On their caps they bear
| this inscription: spaces to be let on %
| men,"
| "A cannon ball fired from a piece of
modern ordnance would reach the moon
C2I0,OOO miles distant) in twelve days; Mars il
| OI2 years. Jupiter IN a years. saturn IN lOS
| years; Neptune in $50 years and Alpha Cen
tauri, the nearest fixed star, i'll 3,OOS,pJ
| years.
Time suspen Is his ravaees in Egypt
| where the smallest marks OF n knife
| piece of wood remain at the close OF 2O0
| years as distinct The day they wer
| cut, and you can see after twice thai intel
val where q chisel slipped upon block OF
stone.
The Chinese like to sleep we'll but not
| high. John makes good account of his bed,
| which is very low indeed-scarcely rising
| from the floor-and is often carved exquis-
| itey OF wood, but it never occurs to him to
make it any softer than the rush n;its Will
| render it,
Although it may not be generally
known, the woods of Northern British
| America are still infested by hundreds of q
| queer species of bison known as the "wood
| buffalo" He is much larger than the bison
| of the plains, which formerly abounded in
| such numbers.
The engines of the North British Com
pany ran 3,927, 934 passenger train miles and
3,s59,532 goods train miles during the past
half year ending January 81 The total cost
oflOcomotive power was iOr the same period
E233, $50 l25, and the total cost OF mainte-
nance or way and works was E47.S7G p.
Mail carriers in Morocco are said to
avoid the risk OF losing their Dla ces by over
sleeping by tying string TO one foot and
setting the end of it on fire before going TO
sleep. The string, they know from expert
ence, viii burn so long, and when the fire
reaches their foot it is time Tor them to aes
up.
-Woman's paradise is in the interior of
Sumatra. A law exists under which q mans
property cannot be inherited by his chill
dren, but must go to his parents. while that
belonging to his wife de5cendS to the of
spring OF course, the men evade that law
by putting all the wealth into the hands of
the women.
Aluminium, or an alloy of that metal
has been used for the construction of a liie-
boat at Stralsund. As is well known, the
metal is rema rkabIy light for its strength.
but it remains to be seen how the boat will
stand sea water, the air o! the sea seems
to exercise corrOding effect upon alumni
um and alum inum alloys.
Art has been as inaccurate in its repre-
sentation of the snake in motion of the
horse. The snake does not literally ego
upon his belly" Scripture to the contrary
Notwithstanding but upon his side. and his
motion results from the OF his intercos-
tai muscles in such a way as to contract the
ribs on one side at y time.
JOLLYISMS From JUDGE.