Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-23
Curious CONDENSATIONS.

of gas.
Sales by auction were formerly held b,
candle light
The Persians shave themselves as sigr
OF mourning.
The Niagara Falls tunnel has reachedt
length of 3.267 feet.
"A metearite weighing 500 pounds fell OF
June 27 near North Bend, Wis.
1t is said to have cost the present Er
peror of China $40, ,0OO, 900 to get married.
-Four English noblemen are said to b.
engaged to marry veriety stage women.
William Spooner, of Milan, Tenn, VIII,
had lived for years in hollow tree, die,
lately.
Weaving was practiced in China NOR
than 1000 years before 1t was known else
where.
in the State of New York there ar,
manufactured nearly 21GooOo0 cigarette
yearly.
California and Idaho are the only tv
States in the Union whose marriage laws ar
identical.
The tallest living man to-day, is strang.
to say. Chinese. His height is seven fee
three inches.
The summit of Pixies Peak has recent
been connected with the City of Denverb.
telegraph wires.
A man of science in Rome has demon
strated that tobacco smoke kills nearly al
kinds of germs.
The sun, with the aid OF a photographer
lens focused on piece of pine, started fir
in New York on Sunday.
About 2, 500, 900 is mir estimate of tn,
a - -. l.
to make a pound of honey.
I'm Philadelphia new milk is given fre
to all who ask for it, and is distributed froI
o tent between II and o'clock.
In all the Japanese Empire, with it
population or 227 900 900, it is estimateti tina
there are fewer than 10000 paupers.
I'm Brussels and Antwerp $50 a year i
the ordinary charge for telephones, and thi
is the highest rate current in Belgium.
1t seems that there have been 649,6 81
gallons of rum exported from this countr-
to Africa during the last eelven months.
"A petition signed by 227 opium drunk
ards has been sent from Bombay to Englant
asking that the sale of opium be stopped.
According to the Hebq'e,c Journal the.
are more Hebrews in three of the wards
New York than in the whole of Great Britai
The total sum contributed for charit
in England last year was s15,OO0OOO
which sum slo,OOO,OOO was contributed
Baron Hirsch.
1t is stated that wasps' nests often tax
fire, supposed to be caused by the chemica
action of the wax upon the paper materia
of the nest itself
The new science of experimental psy
nj air fber FOIL,
titles of men as the eanthropanetrist measure
their physical capacities.
Miles Darden, who was living in th,
man known to history. Clad in summe
clothes he weighed l. 037 pounds.
"A colored man who went to German
from Boston and became naturalized SOM
time ago is now on the roll of pensioners
the State insurance for the aged.
The largest child ever born, it is sale
was the son of Bates, the Kentucky gisn
and his wife, the Nova Scotian giantes'
The "baby" weighed 2SA pounds.
The casual putting on the left shoe
the right foot, putting it on uneven or eros
wise, bursting the lace or tie, lacing it wron
and losing button are all bad signs.
Athens, O., has an 8-year-old boy sh
arms and legs-which have the singular a
vantage of bending with equal facility eth,
way.
There Is an excellent rule at Harvar
University which prohibits any studen
from participating in athletic sports unles
he maintains a certain standing in Id
studies. !"
On August Mars will arrive at poin
directly opposite the earth, which it reache
but once in every Is years. when the dis
tance will be reduced from 4l 100000 TO IS
600 600 miles.
Since the general use of the electrica
cars the patent switches which were turne,
by the horses have become imperative, an,
the companies have gone back to q mai
with q switch hook.
The generators which are to furnish
electricity for the $1,000 incandescent lamp
at the Columbian Exhibition are to be anon.
the largest in the world. One of them vii
operate 1000 lamps
Each of the 20 lady guests at a Newark
N j., tin wedding celebration received a tir
jelly pan, on the reversed side of which th
host painted pretty picture The edges
the tin were punctured 10 hold in place
handsome silken cord.
"A calculation has been made of tn
force. developed by flash of hghtnin;
stated to have been Is, 900 horse powsr-tha
is in ordinary mechanical lparlance, equal T.
the raising of $4,000, 600 pounds one foo
high in minute.
I'm some of the brickyards at Spring
wells, Mich, scores OF women, it is said, diI
in the pits and carry the molds. The uppe
parts of their bodies are almost nude, ant
the lower parts are hardly covered by coarse
cloth. Several carry naked babies while
they work. They COME from Poland.
The Times reports of the debates in Par.
lament are dictated through the telephone
to the printing house, a mile and a hall
away, and Immediately put In type, so that
when the debates continue until A. NJ, al
they often do, the papers, with full reports
are ready for the A NJ newspaper trains
Among the objects recently acquired
for the collection of games in the University
Museum are some Chinese mother of pear
game counters that belonged to Robert Nor
ris, the financier of the Revolution. They
bear his initials, with those of his wife
Mary. and were given by his granddaughter
Mrs Charles Curtis Harrison.
Oscar Moore, a colored boy of s, living
in Boston, possesses a marvellous memory
He can repeat the names of the Presidents
of the United States from Washington &c
Harrison, giving dates and places of btrtf
as readily as a politician can read them
Poetry he commits to memory on the mrs
reading TO him, be the stanzas however
long and numerous.
JoLLYIsMs FROM JUDGE.
4Lok A.