Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Buckles were first made In 1880.
Paris has 791 periodicals, Of which L
are political.
Stage children have formed an ant
Gerry society.
David slew Goliath with ssling stone
the year B. C. 1868.
Beans and peas were well known anon
the ancient Chinese.
Over 800 patents are issued for the III
Of electricity in medicine and surgery.
of the public school teachers in tb
United States more than s65 per cent al
women.
ALI Greek girls are dressed in whit
colored goods being regarded a. immode
Tor maiden.
Cashmere shawls were sent to Greet
from Persia 8 early as the time Of Ale1al
ser the Great.
There is one Chinese, one Portugue,
and one Cherokee newspaper published
the United States.
-California roses are claimed to contai
20 per cent more perfume than those grow
anywhere else in this country.
The Roman army, under Augustu
B. G; 5. comprised 45 legions with %. 600 hor'
and 81 600 light-armed regulars.
"A dinner was recently served at I.
coma to % guests, in a dining room that ";
the hollow OF a giant redwood tree.
Probably the first electric tower cloe
in this country was placed on the new cou
house at Los Angeles, CAL, last year.
General r. Z. Lees signature is wort
SO in the autograph market, General NJ
Clellan's 50 and General Sherman's S3.
During the reign of William Ruff
shoes were made 2 feet long. and stuffe
with tow till they crrlei like u rams hori
Mrs Susan Neal, of San Antonio, Tel
who is reputed TO be 70 years of age,
Gently killed q full-grown panther with
ak.
There Is Hebrew Bible in the libra
O! the Vatican for which s1O3, 900 has been l
fused. 1t is probably the most valuab
book in the world.
At the coming of the Spaniards. 14s
the most effective weapon among the Carl
bean Indians was wooden lance, the poi
hardened in che fire.
Argentine Republic lays claim to Il
longest horse railroad in the world. whft
runs from Buenos Ayres to San Martin,
uiStdnce OF aoOut " miles.
"A society was organized in New Yor
1765, for the announcements of Americi
woolens. The society's rules forbade eatii
mutton or lamb or the slaughter OF sheep.
The advance in rates of wages is esi
mated at from 10 to 80 per cent. as compar,
to the rates of 1880 the proportionate q
vance in each class being in ratio to the rel
tive skill required in the work.
In 1860 our product of hardware ",
valued ut $50 0Oo. 900; in 1888 at 1910, 600, ,0G
The annual addition to the output W.
%, COO. 900 II year between 1910 and 1850 ar
SIS, ,OOO,O 900 year between 1850 and 1SsS.
Gainesville, Fla, boasts of fully d
veloped ear OF corn which contains Z
grains. This eas OF corn has, it is said, for
smaller ears attached, OF new growth, whit
contain 4C0 grains, making in all a total :
l. ls0 grains.
The term "tabby cat is derived fro
A tab, famous street in Bagdad inhabitt
by the manufacturers OF silken stuff calle
atikl o. taffeta, The stuff is woven wit
waved markings of watered silk resemblir
q 'tabby" cuts coat.
in 1885 the corps pique, corset, was
hard wooden mold, "into which the wear
was compressed and suffered from Il
splinterS OF wood that penetrated the mes
1t took the skin of the waist aud made q
ribs ride up. one over the other"
Maria Immaculata Caroline Margaret
Blanca Leopoldine Beatrix Anna JosefiI
Rafaela Michaela Stanislaus IEnaz Hier
nymus Camiro Catherine Petra Caceil'
These wero the IS names conferred upon
Archduke Stephens daughter the other
in Lemberg Cathedral.
Confirmation of the popular notion
disease can be propagated by paper n
is afforded by the observations Of Drs. A
ta and Rossi. of Cuba. From two bank nj
circulated in that island, the, collected0v
10 900 germs of different kinds, some OF whi'
poisoned rats and guinea pigs.
king Kalakaua's coffin was made
and kou wood of about 609 pieces;eve
handles were made of wood. No
of any kind was to be seen, except tt
pcription plate, upon which the crown
the Hawaiian coat OF arms were ensra
with other suitable Inscriptions.
"A new life-saving apparatus is beir
constructed ut Toulon. 1t consists of
small vessel fitted with q rudder and
clockwork movement. and is intended
carry. from the shore to ship In distress.
line, by which may be drawn on board
cable or other instrument for saving lie.
Insects generally breathe throus
special pores in various parts of their bodit
and IL these pores are closed by oil they
suffocated. Anyone may test this by dro
ping sweet oil on the thorax OF a wasp;
very soon dies. For this Ieason Oil has be.
found one of the best things to use tor t
destruction Of insects
An immense sunshade, which is il
tended as a present for the Sultan of NJ
rocco, has just been finished at Berlin. T.
stick, which is over three and quart
yards long, is gilded and richly ornamenie
The outside OF the parasol is OF bright gro
silk, with heavy go d fringe round it, Viii
the inside is lined with pale straw color.
The smallest sea island on record is nj
feet across, and is reported by Captain Jol
Richards, of the British ship Cambris
Monarch, to have been sighted by him
latitude 20 deg, 2 min.. north, longitude
deg. SO min, west. The sea was smoo
around it and it was clearly an island, tape
ing upward in q pyramidal shape from
low the surface of the water.
in Hamburg the ratio of deaf hs
cholera cases has been nearly one-hal
while in Northern Germany, in Belgium al
in Frinco It has been about oue-thir
About so per cent of the cases in Persia al
thought to have proved fatal. AQuarter
q million of Persians are supposed to haI
persisted by the Asiatic cholera this year.
"rCHTS INTO FTJNNYDOM