Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Dublin has the biggest brewery.
| There are now II electric lighting c,
panies in Japan.
The marriages of minors are per Q
| Of the whole number.
The Australians are the greatest
drinkers in the world.
/ AN Egytian scythe has recently b.
dug up in the Nile valley.
Glass beads were the only media
exchange in the earliest ages.
I'm ordinary English writing ~" on
occurs % times while "e'' occu rs 1000.
"A cows hide produces nearly twice
amount of leather that horses does
Ancient Greeks nourished the bel
that all living creatures except cats ht
souls.
Among the Digger and Ute India
there is no edible so highly esteemed as
common Srasshopper.
There are 10 general hospitals in Lo
don, II of whioh have medical schools (.
tached, and three are endowed
"A through telegraph wire from Calcut
to Madras is about to be erected. The leng
OF the new line will be !, 900 miles.
"A surgeon in ST. Paul made, recentl
cred the false teeth she had swallowed.
Laura c. Fleming was divorced fro
her husband last week in Kansas City. tt
process took one minute and Al seconds.
There are said to be over %, 600 Indian
in the United States who can read Englis
and over 100000 who can read Indian Ia
guages.
The prohibition of cigarette smokin
among employees is among the cholera pr,
cautions adopted by the New York Stoc
Exchange.
"A protective club of mothers-in-law h;
been organized in Londsn. The mothers
wives only. not OF husbands, are eligible fC
membership.
In order to promote silk production i
Turkey, the Minister of Finance has decide
to recognize as a public service the plantin
Of mulberry trees.
"A train mile and quarter in lengti
was lately hauled over the Reading Rail
road by a single engine. 1t consisted of 25
empty freight cars
About year ago Miss Tolleson, o
Memphis, Tenn, had an attack of tonsiliti
that ran her temperature up to the unheart
OF point OF 158 degrees.
About four miles west of Westfeld,
Mass, at the foot of Mt. Tekoa. is an ole
uOuSe IN WHICH the great granQ1dtler a0C
great grandmother of ex-PreSident Cleve
land lived and died.
-Llanfairfechan is one of those seaside
resorts where, according to the decree D
the Local Board, ladies and gentlemen musf
under no circumstances bathe within -6
yards of one another
The largest man in Kentucky is Ross
skaggs, of Lawrence county, who weighs 81
pounds and is leet inches tall. His arms
measure 2 feet in circumference and his
thighs feet. He is 81 years of age.
The only man in the world who lives in
house of copper is an iron manufacturer
named N. Paulson. whose unique residence
stands at the corner of Eighty-ninth street
and the Shore road in South Brooklyn.
Colonel Powell, of the United States
army, is authority for the statement that
among the Cheyennes a man is never per-
mitted to speak to his mother-in-Iaw except
through the intermediat1on of a third per.
son.
Scientists have estimated that every
year layer equal to IA feet of the entire
surface of ri oceans and other waters is
taken up into the atmosphere in the shape
OF vapor, to iall as rain and again fow back
into the seas.
The highest place in the world regu-
larly inhabited is the Buddhist town OF
Halne, IN 1niDeC, Wn1cn IS lO,UOO 1eeC aDCVe
sea,level. The highest inhabited place in
the Americas is at Galera, Peru, l5,635 feet
above sea level.
"A new method of quickly rendering
glass transparent during the process of
manufacture consists in forcing into the
melted materials a stream, Of oxygen gas
the enormous heat generated oxidizinS all
deleterlous materials
Two contradictory names are those OF
the President and the Secretary of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers, which
recently held a convention in Indiana polls.
The name of the President is Dennis, and
the name of the Secretary is Victory.
In the German artillery they have tried
three-legged ladder of steel tubing for en-.
abling the captain of battery to survey the
enemy and direct the fire. The ladder is
erected in wagon a9d the officer climbs
to the top with his f1eid glasses to recon
noiter.
The world has been using the Ak since
prehistoric times, but it remained for the
American pioneer to fashion the ideal ak
The AK such as is familiar to all Americans
is rare in Europe, and it sells in all British
colonies as the AmerIcan Ak
Seven acres of apricot orchard in Tulara
county, bringing their owner a return OF
81, IG0. and eight acres of prune orchard in
San Bernardino county, yielding 25 tons OF
fruit, which broug ht $50 a ton, or more than
$50 per acre, are mentioned in this years
early reports upon the California Iruit crop.
One of the most curious stones in the
world is found in Finland, where it occurs
in many places. 1t is a natural barometer
and actually foretells probable changes in
the weather. IL is called Semakuir, and
turns black shortly before an approaching
rain, while in fine weather it is notified with
spots of white.
"A shower of flies fell at Mt. Joy, Pa,
Monday evening. The flies appeared on the
horizon like a black thunder storm and rap
ernlly black with flies and about nalf the
size of the common hOu-e fly. They alighted
by millions, and everything was alive with
the pests tor several hours.
Attention is called to the fact that the
present is the first time for half a century
that New England has not had a representa-
tive in the Cabinet. excepting only about
five weeks under President Polk, and during
the summer of 1874, between the resignation
of Secretary Richardson and the appoins
ment of Postmaster General Jewell by GEN.
eral Grant.
-Flammarion, the astronomer, makes
some curious calculations which serve to
illustrate the horrors of war. The blood of
the victims would amount to Is. .O00.000 cubic
9Oc 900 600 kilogrammeS. 1t Is an unfall1ng
stream, which every hour since history
began has increasingly poured $50 htres OF
blood to dye the royal purple worn by the
occupants OF imperial thrones.