Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
,.ro. invented in 1900

Music type was invented in 1902
The cost of making 81 bill is about
2-lo mills.
The ashes of burnt corks make ins
black paint.
The State Capitol at Albany has cost up
| to date nearly 10000, 900.
The American people spend s42, 100000
| a year for letter postage.
Chinese control almost the entire shoe
making business in California
Twenty words per minute is the average
at which long-hand is written
I'm Chicago the prices of beer and pure
water are now nearly the same.
Brooklyn has six large Libraries, con-
| tanning in all about 80. 600 volumes.
No fewer than 629, ,S97 people named
Mueller are now living in Germany.
"A Roman scientist has demonstrated
, that tobacco smoke kills nearly all kinds Of
germs.
There are at ColfaI, Wash, five straw.
berries whose combined weight is three
| quarters of q pound.
Every pound of coal contains dynamic
force equal to the amount of work man
would do in one day.
The Jacksonville Gll) Institute fori
| Deaf Mutes has the only deaf mute military
| company in the world.
An American is doing time in Mexi.
| can jail for violating an old law, which for. !
bade nine consecutive marriages.
"A cow of Suyallup Valley, in the Stats
| of Washington, gives beer instead of milk
She was fed on hops, says the story teller.
Madras curtains seem to be meeting
with new lease of life for the furnishing Of
summer country houses and city bedrooms.
"A bridge at Bradford, Pa, 1000 feet
long and sol feet above the stream 1t crosses,
is said to be the highest bridge in Pennsyl.
vania-
The extreme western boundary of the
United States, the island of Altoo, is as far,
west of San Francisco as that city Is west of
Bangor.
The mortality among cattle at sea, re-
sulting from cruelty, want of water, etc,
was formerly stated at I6 per cent, while at
the present time it is per cent.
The largest child in Connecticut for her
years is reported to be the 6-year-old daugh-
ter of J. L. Humphrey, of Torrington. sne
weighs 125 pounds and is gaining fast.
There is tree in Jamaica known as the
life tree on account of its leaves growing
even after being severed from the plant,
only by fire can it be entirely destroyed.
In China the cobbIer still goes from
house TO house, announcing his approach
with a rattle. anG taking up his abode with
the family while he accomplisheS the neces-
sary making and mending.
There are three places known where
green snow is found. One of these places is
near Mount Hccla. Iceland, another IA miles
east of the mouth of the Obi, and the third
near Quito, South America
In winding up the Lane county, Kan,
Farmer, the editor says: with malics
toward none and charity for all, 1 retire
from the publ cation of this paper, and am
ready for soft job in the harvest Held"
For three decades the value per head
of imports of woolens has been regularly de-
clining, and is now only three-fourths of a
dollar per annum for each individual, when
in 1s50-lS60 it was considerably more than a
dollar.
"A set of United States coins, United
States Treasury notes and notable medals
issued by the Government at various times,
will be sent to Madrid as q part of the United
States exhibit at the exposition, W hich opens
in September.
The hose used in sprinkling the plazas
of Paris is queer contrivance. 1t consists
of lengths of iron pipe, each length mounted
at the end on short axles having two small
wheels, and the lengths Joined together by
ohoib piOSOo VI hCAlDAO hOoO.
"A Sussex, England, correspondent sr-/
nounces, on the authority of his vicar, that
nine out of ten among the humber brides
swear to Glove and honor cherries and
berry" instead of the regular cherish and
obey" OF the marriage service.
Frank Murphy went to sleep in a New
York saloon on Wednesday night and when
he awoke he discovered that his watch was
gone, On Friday man stopped him on the
<ffa Had Nr call hi fl,
watch. Murphy had the man arrested.
The longest canal in the world is the
one which extends from the frontier of
China to st. Petersburg. 1t measures in all
4,472 miles. Another canal running from
Astrachan to st. Petersburg is l434 miles
long. Both OF these we're begun by Peter tho
Great.
One of the largest camellia trees in Eu-
rope is that which is just now in full bloom
at Pillnitz, near Dresden, and forms one Of
the sights of the district 1t was imported
from Japan about $50 years ago, is about II
yards high, and has an annual average of lO.-
600 blossoms
The highest viaducts and bridges in
the world, are: st. Giustina, Tyrol, $50 feet
high, 1877 feet long, without piers; Garabit,
France, 4O6 feet high: 1,s52 feet long, stone
and iron; Du Viaur (proposed), France, 3S3
feet high, 1,50S feet long, iron arch; Forth,
375 feet, steel
Put a buzzard in pen about six feet
square and open at the top and il is as much
a prisoner as though it were shut up in
box Thisis because buZzards always begin
their flight by taking short run, and they
either cannot or will not attempt to fly un-
less they can do so.
A travellers pipe is among the latest
inventions. Attached to the bowl Is hook,
which may be fastened in the button-hole Of
the vest or coat, while a flexible tube COM
municates with the mouthpiece. The smoker
can use this pipe while both hands are free
to be otherwise occupied.
The crown of st. Stephen, King Of
Hungary, 9s0-l0l5, is still preserved with the
ancient regalia in the fortress palace of
Buda-Pesth. The crown, or rather its orig.
inaI part, was sent to st. Stephen by Pope
Sylvester IL in the year 1000, the time of the
establishment of Christianity in Hungary,
and is called the "Holy and Apostolical
Crown"