Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

trees.
of the foreign merchants in China, only
q are Americans.
The most heavily taxed country in
Europe is France.
The worlds typewriter record is 1872
words a minute, held by lady.
There is more money spent for eggs
than Tor flour in the United States.
Edison has 200 women in his employ,
making the most delicate electrical instru-
ments.
The total import of palm oil into Eng
land is about $4,000 tons, valued at over
So, ,OOO,000
There is calculated to be about $50, ,0O0,.
900 worth OF property at the bottom OF the
Atlantic Ocean.
Many animals yield to the seduction Of
rum drinking, especially elephants, horses,
cows and swine.
Russia makes the best isinglass 1t is
obtained from the giant sturgeon which in
habit the Caspian Sea.
The total number of people in the
United Kingdom VINO always wear glasses,
except when in bed, is $500
There is no truth whatever in the belief
that anyone falling into the sea necessarily
rises and sinks three times before drown
ing.
kalamazoo, Mich, is called the Celery
City from the fnct that on the outskirts of
the city are the greatest celery gardens in
the world.
"A German doctor has started the theory
that most drum kards can be cured simply
by eating apples at every meal. The acid
gas does 1t.
The speed of the fastest railway train
Is not much more than half that OF the
golden eagles flight. The bird often makes
40 miles an hour.
-Cocoanut trees in certain parts of
India once almost lifeless in appearance
have been made to yield alb bundantly by
placing salt at elle roots.
"A Kansas farmer who had much trouble
in shipping eggs at last succeeded in getting
consignment delivered in good order by
marking the box dynamite"
The largest cricket field or ground set
apart entirely for the game is the we'll
known ground OF the Surrey Cricket Club at
the Oval, bennington, London, which covers
ten acres.
The glow-worm lays eggs which are
themselves luminous; however, the young
hatched from them are not possessed of
those peculiar properties until after the first
transformation.
Mdian, British Columbia. had two distinct
tails three perfect eyes and what appeared
to be the rudiment of ii n flipper hang
ing to the under jaw.
Mrs. Simon Manak, of Chicago, an
Eskimo. has presented her husband with
l+pound daughter. The child has the dis
tinction of being the first baby born on the
Worlds Fair Grounds.
In a late plucking at the Coronado os-
from one bird. which, when curled and
dressed, will be worth sos. Tie female
ostrich lays 20 eggs year.
The largest volcano in the world Is at
Mauna Loa in the Sandwich Islands. The
Crater is 20 miles in diameter. and the
stream o, lava flowing from it is 80 miles
long and In places four miles wide.
-Midgets have excellent appetites, as a
i rule. Tom Thum ate more than Chang. the
Chinese giant. Any OF the little folk will
eat rs much dinner as man six feet high.
Giants, as u rule, have small appetites-
AN advertisement appears in a West
ern paper which reads thus: "If Geor1e
William B~own, who dc serted his poor wife
and babe % years ago. will return. the afore-
said babe will knock the stuffing out OF
him."
The Cotton Marble Works have Just
quarried what is claimed to be the largest
fornia. 1t is reported to he Is feet in length,
feet inches in width and 8 feet inches
thick. ... .....-.
1t is said that the dramatic life of
Japan, like everything else in that land. is
fast being reformed after European models.
Until quite lately it as Illegal for male and
female actors tn appear upon the stage a5
the Same moment.
The Brazilian pottery tree contains
such q large percentage of silica as to make
its ashes q valuable ingredient in pottery
making. When green its wood cuts like
so sandstone. To the DotaniSt it is known
as moquiled utilis.
"A list of Alpine accidents for 1892
shows there we're 80 fatalities in all, 26 hav-
ing occurred in ascents without guides, and
six with guides. Twentv-six were tourists
and six were gui1es Ten were caused by
attempts to gather edelweiss.
Among recent novelties that of news
paper printed on the web o. the sacred
white spider Is chronicled. 1t is a sheet
about IL inches by II inches, contains two
columns of matter. including English
story, and is excellently printed.
"A recent English invention relates to
the recovery, by u new process, OF the
greater part of tin from tin scrap. The
scrap is melted with pig iron in furnace
and the tin thus vo!atized so that it Can he
recovered in a suitable condenser.
-OI If lOrpeuO DOaGS OruereQ DIV the
British Government four are to be 1850 feet
long, of a speed of q knots, or about 81
statute miles. The extreme speed obtained
by q torpedo boat is accredited to the Adler.
built at Elbing, Germany, 274 knots. she is
only 152 feet long.
"A Canadian electrician states that cleo
tricity causes the tides and demonstrates is
by electrifying rubber comb by rubbing it
through the hair and then drawing it over
the top of glass fille't with water. the re-
suit being that the tidal wave follows the
comb.
The most curious character on the ISL
and o. Borneo is the white Sultan or Rajah
of Sarawak. He is an Englishman, Sir
Charles Brooke and the United States is the
only nation that recognizes his sovereignty.
He rules over part of Borneo rs large as
Ireland, aud his subjects pay tribute to him
in rice.
"A two-years' study at Gizeh has convinced
Mr.. Flinders Petrie that the Egyptian stone-
workers of 1000 years ago had a surprising
acquaintance with what had been con-
sidered modern tools. Among the many
tools used by the pyramid bu ilders wero
both solid and tubular drills, aud straight
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