Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are 30 species of electric fish.
England claims the first place in glass
making.
The immigration last year amounted to
6l7,s2o souls
When Victor Hugo was 20 he issued
his q rst Volumes collection ofpoems.
The working of the human heart Il
equal to the lifting of l2O tons in "a hours.
The United States of America sends 80
ministers and 1861 consuls abroad every
year.
The first volume of 'The History Of
England" appeared when David Hume was
43 years old.
Most of the rope that Is used for execu-
tions is furnished gratis by q cordage firm in
Philadelphfa.
A society has been organized in lows
whose object is to push the pansy as the
flower of America
The Weather Bureau has decided to
add another flag to its list This one will
indicate local rains.
The exclusion of all lottery matter from
the mails is said to have reduced the income
of the postof1ce by over 100000.
The first book in which the word
America appears was printed in the little
mountain monastic town, st. Die, in 1907.
-Macrocystis, a sesweed of the South
Pacific often grows to be 80 or 40 inches In
diameter and ], 500 to 1000 feet in length.
Several years ago there was law in
Poland which compelled every slanderer to
walk on all fours through the streets Of the
town.
The largest theater in the world is the
Opera House in Paris. 1t covers nearly
three acres Of ground, and cost about s2o,-
600 600.
The most recent Trustworthy inyestiga-
tion is that of NJ. De Chatelier, who fixes tho
effective temperature of the SUI at R600'
Fahrenheit.
While drilling gas well at Andersen,
Ind, on Friday. the drill went through .
vein or iron at 375 feet, tin at 450 feet and
lead Mt 500 feet.
The size of America can be fully real
lied when it has been proven that there is
land enough to give every person in it .
farm of 100 acres.
The lighthouse tower at Cape Hatteras
is ls9 feet high from It's base to the center OF
the lantern. 1t is the tallest lighthouse
tower in existence.
Scientists estimate that every year a
layer equal to IA feet deep OF the surface OF
all oceans and other bodies of water is taken
up into the atmosphere in vapor.
In the new Maine town of Rumford
Falls. where not even a log hut stood year
ago. q SIC. 900 residence is building. and 100
men are at work upon mills and other
structures.
New Hampshire was named from Hamp-
shire county, in England, by John Mason, Of
the Plymouth Company, TO whom the terri
tory was originally granted by the English
Government.
AN Atlanta newspaper recently referred
to lucky young woman as a "fair flower Of
the South, born of the marriage of Amaryrlis
and q magnolia"
There are four times as many words in
our language as there are in the French, yet
a philologist estimates that the coinage OF
new words in our tongue goes on at the rate
of 100 annually.
"A whale, recently captured in Arctic
waters, was found TO have imbedded in its
side a harpoon that belonged to a whaling
vessel that had been out of service nearly
half century.
-Cross-eyed men and women are the
special aversion of gamblers. Negro touts
at race tracks always spit in their hats when
they man whose eyes squint. They
say 1t kills the hoodoo.
In order to discover an enemy's move
ment at night, an Italian artillery officer
has invented a mechanical candle. which,
when sent from a cannon, will shed light
equal to 100 900 candles.
A chimney piece carved from wood
over 5000 years old has recently been erected
in a house in Edinburgh: The wood. an oak
tree, was found IN SAND pit at Musselpurg,
10 Ieet DeioW tne sur1ace.
The latest heat story comes from CON-
necticut, where q mans cotton jumper,
which hung on the fence while he was rak-
ing hay, Is SAID to have caught nre from the
sun al" isni'ou sns ion'o-
Mrs Hannah Harmon, of Brockton,
Mass. claims to have lived under the admin.
Ietr. tion ~ avarr Prasidant ~ +ba Irnitad
States, as she was born the dav preceding
Washington's retirement from office.
The amount of coloring matter in q
pound of coal is enormous 1t will Weld
enouob magenta to color 200 Yards Of fan
,aI ,1a-,,,i,I;,,, Co. o Ken rords orr;,a ,o- ion
uords amd oHz,r,na snficiant Sor TX v.rds
Of Turkey red CLOTH
-Tbick ,o ia an .lanbant,a skin M Iivino
c-eo tnr. srff.r. mora from aie. nosonito.s
1eeches and other vermfn than he Tbe
pores are very large, and gadfiies, mosquf-
toes, ETC., worm themselves into the hollows
and suck to repletion.
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tbonsand. ~ vssrs now lies in the Rri.fsb