Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
Shelley wrote "Queen Nab" at 1a


There are Z, 500. 900 young men in tho
United States.
-Forty-nine per cent of the days in Lon
don are said to be wet
1t is said that the "snake stones" Of
Ceylon will invariably cure snake bites.
Life is shorter in the valleys and low
lands than among the hills and mountains.
The are 800 mountains in the United
States, each exceeding 10000 feet in height.
-Over 1000, 900 postal cards are neces-
sary to meet the daily demands In this coun-
try.
A giants skeleton has been unearthed
at Brunswick, Ga, which is nearly nine feet
long.
Virgins was called in honor of Queen
Elizabeth, who was known as the Virgin
Queen.
Statistics prove that the negro in the
South lives longer than the negro in the
North.
According to ancient tradition Moses
wrote the Book of Job at 70, and finished the
Law at 120.
Connecticut, spelled in an Indian dia-
lect. Quinn eh- -tuk-gut, signifed Gland on q
long tidal river"
precisely the same heads as the most popu-
lar patterns of to-day.
There are said to be apple trees in
Japan only four inches high which bear
apples the size of currants.
Eight nationalities are said to be repre-
sented in a choir of 16 little girls at st.
James Mission, New York City.
The shortest street in the world is Man.
sion House ST. eet in the city of London. 1t Is
not more than few yards in length.
The carriage in which Napoleon L
made his famous retreat from Moscow is
still well preserved. 1t belongs to the Well
ington estate.
"A pair of gloves passes through about
200 hands from the moment the skin leaves
the dres~ers until the gloves are purchased
by the intending wearer.
"A novel feature of the Springfield,
Mass, street car system is the letting Of
electric carsto parties who wish to hire.
The price is 50 an hour.
I'm the time of Henry VII Parliament
passed a law which declared that on and
after that date pins should not be sold for
more than IS Sd per 1000.
OF IA frst-class racers now on the At
lantic, four are German built, one halls from
France six from the Clyde, two from Bel
fast and one from the Mersey.
According to Miss Frances E. Willard
the only industries in which women are not
now engaged are those relating to railroads,
paving stones and numbering.
Squirrels are bothering the farmers in
Oregon and destroying their crops. Many
acres Of grain have been completely de-
stroyed in various parts OF the State.
AT Ai1-la-Chapelle there is a newspa-
paper museum founded by Oscar Won Forcb-
enbecx which contains files of specimens Of
more than II 900 different newspapers
Russia has recently celebrated the
nine hundredrh anniversary of the foun-
dation of the first Christian bishopric in
Volbynia, under the reign of Vladimir.
More than $4,000 letters are put in thu
postoffices of the United States every day
that, through the misdirection or miscar-
riage of some kind, bring up In the Dead
Letter Office.
Mrs. Anna Jack, of Pennington, Ill,
was taken with a severe coughing spell
which is reported to have been mass Of
common pins.
Maine orchardists, whose crnps will be
fairly large, expect to reap a golden harvest
this year on account of the rractical failure
of the apple crop in New York and Michi-
gan. the two great apple producing States.
Rhode Island will present its Worlds
Fair building to Chicago after the Expo-
sition closes The structure will be very
duction in part of the famous "Old Stone
Mill" at Newport.
Mis- Joseph W. Delano, of San Fran
CISCO. possesses the dress worn by Laura
Keene on the night Of LincoIn's assassina-
ton LIncoln's head rested.for a moment
on Miss KPene's lap, and the bloodstain thus
caused is still visible.
In the reealia room of the Scottish
kings in Edinburgh Castle one can still see,
among other valuable relics, the coronation
crown of the great Robert Bruce. 1t is a
plain circlet o. gol1, heightened with four
spikes having trefoil heads.
The territory of New Jersey was given
bv roval charter to Sir George Carteret and
Lord Berkelv. Carteret, in England's great
civil war, had bravelv defended the Isle Of
JERSEY. in the British Channel. and his new
possessions in America were named In COM
memoration of this fact
The largest artificial stone in the world
forms the base of the Bartholdi Statue of
Liberty on Bedloe's Island, New York har-
Dor. This immense some was made from
broken trap rock. sand and American GEM
ment Five hundred carloads of sand and
over q, 900 barrels of cement were used in
manu- featuring the monster.
"A singular freak of nature NAV be OBJ
served east of Ashburnham. Mass. Persons
have dug down under a tree and found but
one root underneath. but It has two kinds of
foliage, that of a pine and that OF an oak,
which may be distinctly seen from dis
tance In the fall of the year burrs fall ON
one side and acorns on the other.
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
d summer Of 1874 between the resignation
OF Secretary Richardson and the appoint-
ment of Postmaster General Jewell by GEN.
era1 Grant.
Among marine architects it is beginning
to be serious question IT iron is not better
than steel for ship building purposes, and
the ca ses Of the old Sarah Sands. Great Brit
ain and Great Eastern are quoted as proving
that iron-plated ships, with their increased
thickness and better riveting, are much
stronger and more lasting than any steel
vessel yet put to breaking-up
test.
ASTEROIDS IN AUGUST.