Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


The Chinese like to sleep we'll, but not
high.
Women shoplifters in Paris are on the
increase.
in Tennessee there is 15-year-old girl
preacher.
The decimalists say that the 24-hour
day is doomed.
Valparaiso, Ind, has horse thief who
but years old,
I'm Paris water proof umbrellas made Of
paper are en- rigeur.
Austria has only two works making cast
or rolled plate glass.
-Eighty-fve hundred churches were built
in America last year.
Ancient Greek women had larger feet
than men nowadays.
"A postage stamp worth 5000 has been
discovered in New York
"A lady 21 years of age has opened q
printing office in Boston.
There are 10000 parishes in England
with only church schools.
1t requires s., 600, 900 every "a hours to
run Uncle Sans Government.
don is made of American wheat.
The Chinese gardeners are the most
expert fruit growers in the world.
in 1926 there was but one representa-
tive of homeopathy in this country.
in Logan county, Kentucky, no court
has been held for twenty-five years.
Ten thousand lead toy soldiers are
turned out at Nuremberg every day.
The Manhattan elevated road, New
York, carries 100000 passengers daily.
In the Indian Territory the young
women recently gave leap year party.
A man was arrested at Lawrence, Kal,
the other day for stealing a street car ride.
On account of its monosyllabisticq quality,
Chinese is the easiest language for tee
phoning.
The railway dining cars in this county
earn more than the sleeping and baggage
cars together.
1t has been demonstrated that there ID
gold in the worlds of space as well as upon
our own globe.
I'm Denmark it is proposed to stamp
out tuberculosis in cattle by vaccination
with Koch's lymph. =
New York City has fewer alleys than
any other city in the world, Notwithstanding
it is one of the largest.
The lands in Germany devoted to the
growing of grain for beer production would
support 81, 0O0, 900 people.
I'm the French army there are four liv-
ing generals on the retired list who wers
born in the last century.
The total value of unclaimed mail mat
ter in the London postoffice amounts to
something over $4,000 year.
"A lady in Buckport has sold $50 worth
of braids made from her own hair. and yet
she has plenty of hirsute growth left.
I'm the Kalahau desert, in South AT.
RIGA, the Bushmen are able to discover
water by digging in the bottom of dried-up
river beds. y
In New South Wales twelve banks and
financial syndicates own about 45,OO1OO
acres of land, one institution alone owning
6, ,5o000O acres.
Five States are represented in Congress
by persons NOT born within their limits:
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, New Hampshire
and Minnesota.
The percentage of net dividends returned
to the stockholders of street railways in the
United States is three times as great as tina
of steam railways.
Free baths are advocated in st. Ln~
as a means of preventing the loss o.
40 boys who annually drown in tho
sippi at that point.
According to information from @,
stantinople the Turkish Government has de
cided to make vaccination compulsory
throughout the Ottoman Empire.
London society is somewhat startled
over the news that the portr&fr Of Pa
derewski in the Royal Academy is the
work of the Marchioness of Lorne.
I'm Australia some jewellers advertise
that they will gladly exchange duplicates OF
wedding presents of young married people,
and are willing to give articles of equal
value.
AN Arizona paper announces the find
ing of 14114-pound nugget In the Planche1
placers, Sonora, Mexico. This is said to be
the larRest nugget of gold on record The
percentage of pure gold was 81 fine.
-Anent the chance of death in war, a
carefully deduced calculation at the battle
of Solferino, a bloody engagement, shows
that 700 bullets were expended for every man
and 4, 200 for each man killed.
Belgium now has 133, 900 voters; q
household suffrage would raise the number
to 100000; giving the suffrage to all who
can read and write would raise it to !, 100000,
and universal suffrage would mean 15O0pOo
voters.
We as we'll as the Europeans, sit with
hats off in houses of worship, while the
Turks consider the uncovering of the head
IN indecent familiarity. and doubtless the
Hebrew custom of wearing hats in the
is an Oriental law.
The Marquis of Dufferin, Britain's new
Ambassador at Paris, has q collection OF
painted by himself on view
here, and the Marchioness lately charmed
verybody by her bright and spirited acting
n "a Happy Pair at the Austrian embassy
Il Rome.
There is now on exhibition in Philadel-
,hia gigantic tarpon and splendid spect
men of the silver king about six feet in
ength and weighing 125 pounds. The fish
umped clean out of the water six different
lines and took l hour and % minutes TO
ring him to gaf.
-Mince pie is emphatically a New Eng
and institution, but it is a Saxon invention.
,efore their conversion to Christianity
hey used to make a stew or porridge con-
isting of everything held sacred to their
ods, as the flesh of birds, animals grains
nd dried herbs which had been gathered as
he full of the moon.
The invention of making paper from
men rags has been brought home to Suabis,
nd it was first put into practice by the Hol-
Elm family of Ravensburg. The oldest
ocument of this kind OF paper is dated
|. d. 1901. Now, as the HoIbein arms bore
ulrs head, we find this symbol imprinted"
8 water-mark in all the paper from the old
.avensburg mill.
The healthiest children are those
those mother has not reached IS years.
hose born of mothers between IS and 40
ears of age are per cent weaker, and those
{ mothers of over 40 are 10 per cent weaker
he children of aged fathers and younger
,others have, as general thing, strong
but If the parents are of the
anne age the children are less robust.