Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

New York has 1916 millionaires
Wooden sleepers on railroads last about
Is years.
The average man has 2, ,3O4, 900 pores in
his skin.
"A twin watermelon Is fruit freak in
Ware county, Georgia
-Caucassia is said to be infested with
huge swarms of locusts.
Newfoundland is rejoicing over the
catching of 400 900 seals by her fleet this sea-
son.
Ten pairs of twins are said to have been
born to q woman in Tompkins, New York
State.
"A small vase of sevres ware, only eight
inches high. was recently sold in London for
81 ,2d5.
The postoffce in Chicago does larger
registered-letter business than any other in
the country.
California is about to order 20 carloads
of special glass jars to hold her Worlds Fair
fruit display.
Foreign physicians are now expert
menting with frog lymph as q preventive Of
hydrophobia.
Chicago claims to have the only band
in the United States composed entirely OF
letter carriers.
The new railroad In the Holy Land is
to be equipped with American lomotives
made in Philadelphia.
The little moons of Mars are only from
five to ten miles in diameter. The smaller
of the two is the brighter.
Chinese paper currency is in red, white
and yellow, with gilt lettering and gorgeous
little hand-drawn devices.
1t requires upward of 14S,000 acres Of
rich land to produce the sugar yearly con-
sumed in the British Islands
The land on which the Chicago Opera
House stands, and which is now worth 81, ,OOO-
600, was sold Tor SCI sixty years ago.
Bonds to the amount of 1920, 900, 900 are
held by the United States Government as
security for national bank circulation.
The most important Japanese holiday
is the Feast of the Lanterns from July lS to
l6. Il is the Japanese Decoration. Day.
Three factories in this country that
make the albumen paper used in pho
tography use over 100000 eggs every year.
While some choice fruit and other
products are canned in France, the bulk OF
the worlds supply come from this country.
The first volume of poems by Alfred
Tennyson came out when he was "a. He was
Al when I'm Memoriam'' came from the
press.
Louisiana was named in honor of Louis
XIV. of Fra91e, and was formerly applied
Valley.
"A recent novelty is composite metal
wheel made up of a skeleton of wire for the
spokes hub and rim, the whole being i'm
beded in cast iron.
"A dwarf residing at Shigaken, in Japan,
is 36 years old and but II inches high. He
is well educated, and earns q livelihood by
teaching penmanshlp.
There are Is national banks in New
York City which have deposits exceeding
sl5, COO. 900 each, the largest amount beifg
SSS, 900 600, in the National Park.
-Defoe was So when he began bis
Robinson Crusoe." His literary careker
began at 20. and his best political wor k:
| were written before the "Crusoe."
Glass type is now used for printin &
The glass is of the malleable kind and tl
| type is said to make clearer work and La
longer than that made from metal. II
1t is estimated by the leading railroad
! that they will need 40 per cent more train
| and equipment to carry the expected travel
| ers to and from the Columbian Exhibition.
An English butcher, fishing in the
| Grand Surrey Canal caught with his hook
| aud line q handbag containing 80 gold rings
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| John McDarby, of Salmon Falls, Mass,
| has double teeth all around and a stomach
| which doesn't rebel when he chews and
| swallows glass, stones and other fndigesti-
bles.
AT the foot of Mt. Tacomaathere arc
| trees that by actual measurements by one Of
the best surveyors on the coast, Prof Fred
G. Plummer, have been found to be $50 feet
high.
| -Alferi wrote Cleopatra" hisfrst trag-
edy, at e. 1t was undertaken to relieve the
| tedium of q self-imposed confinement to
| cure himself of passion for an unworthy
| woman.
| The French flag was adopted during the
revolution. The Republic first took green,
but gave it up, and blended the Bourbon
| white with the red and blue, the colors of
The city OF Paris.
| AS an indication of the thrift among
| the working classes of France, 1t is stated
that there are now 100000 depositors in the
| French savings banks, with an accumulated
| fund of not less than Ell2, 100000
| The Cahokia mound, near St. Louis, is
| probably the largest artificial mound in
| the country if not in the world 1t is over
500 feet long by 500 feet wide at the base, 90
| feet high and covers over eight acres of
| ground.
In IVA Maskelyne, the astronomer
| royal of Engla nd, first calculated the
| weight of the earth. The weight, as esti-
| mated in Encyclopedia Britannica (ninth
edition), vol II, page 7S3, is 6,O0O, ,OOO COO 0O0-
| 000 O00,UOO tons.
"A remarkable continuance of an in
| herited practice is that of migratory birds
I which are said to cross the Mediterranean
at a point proven to have been once the
@narrowest part OF the sea, but which is far
| from being so now.
AT the funeral feast of Ya-ten-e-ouitz,
| in Oregon the wife of the dead Umatilla
| chief distributed 50 ponies, so shirts, 100
articles among the Indians and others who
| attended. Fully 600 Indians were given =
| free dinner.
About seven miles from Ash Grove,
| No., is natural phenomenon known as
ssBoogy Mound" 1t is 80 leet in circumfer-
| ence and 10 or IL feet in the center. 1t seems
! to be saturated with water, and the whole
| mound may be shaken as If it were con-
| structed OF jelly or india rubber.
An enterprising English firm desires to
| put boardings along the banks of the Suez
| Canal and lease these accommodations for
| advertising purposes. They have an idea
that considerable revenue can be derived
| from this novel source. The Egyptian Gov
| ernment is now considering the proposition.