Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

New York makes one-fourtn OF our bee
The first horse railroad yas built
1926.
Churches built in America in 1891 nur
Der s,50s.
Arizona is the only State that has hsI
of camels.
MILAN is to have an electrical exhib
tion in 1894.
Dickens wrote "a books, comprisin
1,123 characters.
"A st. Clair, Mo. hen has lately hatche
eight young quails.
-Rubber-tired omnibuses are shortly
be tried in London.
There are nearly 5000 stitches in pa
OF hand-sewn boots.
San Francisco has an animal that
part goat and part deer.
Chicago has legal bureau which Civ,
gratuitous advice to the poor on law matter
Gas was first made from coal by Cla,
ton in 1888 and first used for illumination
1892
IA man was arrested in Asbury Parkth
other uay for going in bathing in his wife
bathing suit.
Chain shot were the invention of q
Witt, the great Dutch Admiral. They wei
first used in 1865.
Paper from rags was made in 1000 4
D., the first linen paper in 13l9 and pape
from straw In 1900.
The ptomaines appear to be becomin
as deadly foes of mankind as the microbe
and more intangible.
The Dismal Swamp in Virginia, one
the largest swampy tracts in America, COZ
tafns about 500 square miles.
There is an onyx deposit which form
the floor of cave in Morgan county, Mo
for distance of about 100 yards.
The gavel used by the Peoples party
homestead entry in the United States.
Verify, this is the paper age. Tn
world consumes 5000, 100000 pounds
paper year, and is supplied by $500 pape
mills.
The first wheat raised in the Ne,
World was sown on the island of Isabella /
January, 1894, and on March 80 the crop wa
gathered
The United States has more than 5000
bearing banana plants. 200, COO bearing lemon
trees, 1000 COO orange trees and 81 00O, 900 pine
apple trees.
The women's Christian Temperate
Union has established free milk booth Of
Franklin square, Philadelphia It Is wei
patroniZed.
The number of cigars, cigarettes AM
cheroots smoked in this country last yearf
placed at about Z, Az 600 by a recent Govern
ment report.
"A subscription of s32 81 from each in
habitant of the United States would wip,
out every national, State and municipa
debt in the country.
"A mountain ash, Is years old, is grow
ing on the top of a church tower at Utica, n
Y. 1t has rooted in the cracks and crevice
of the mason work.
The organist at Cardiff church foun
several OF the keys soundless, and upon e1
animation found that six birds had bull
their nests in the pipes.
Six successful hospitals have bee
founded for women bv women physicians i
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago
San Francisco and Minneapolis.
There is surface of 1000 acres in Sile
sia. Prussia, which is usually dry, but W bic
every 80 years fills with water in some ur
known way and be comes lake.
Charles Wood, a druggist of Harleston
England. has a brood of white blackbirds,
fact which is vouched for by several promi
nent ornithologists and naturalists.
"A couple of wild pigeons were recentl,,
shot in Sault aux Recollets bush, Canada. !
sportsman says it is over 25 years sinc'
specimens of these birds were seen there.
In the sandy lands they would ratl
have a good-sized camel than a ship. T.
entire empire of Persia has but one vessel
a small steamer that was built some years
ago.
The eggs of the alligator are eaten in
the West India islands and on the west coast
of Africa. They resemble in shape hens
egg, but are lal ger, and have much the same
taste.
The Government telegraph service of
Great Britain operates about 10000 miles oi
line, and handles nearly 80, ,0O0 900 kilograms q
year. Last year 100000 kilograms were
handled in London alone.
During a storm at Fishkill, N. Y. on
Friday evening lightning ran through q
pantry where plates were standing on edge,
and the coloring matter OF sOme plates was
partly transferred to others.
From 5000, 900, 900 to $3.50, 100000 are
lost yearly in the world on the turf, of
which from $35 900 900 to $50 900 900 are squan-
dered in the United Kingdom. Australia ID
responsible for $40 700, 900 of the amount.
The word Arkansas is of Indian stock.
tribe of Indians, who rebelled and sepa-
rated from the Kansas Nation, were cele-
brated ior the fine quality of their bows.
From this they were called Arc or Bow
Indians, and afterward Arkansas"
In the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky
are pools containing fish which are quite
blind This is a curious example of the way
in which nature eliminates useless organs
for eyes would of course be quite useless in
this region of perpetual darkness.
One of the greatest novelties in weav.
inc machinery recently invented Is that de-
signed by an Englishman, in which the pile
in plush fabrics is gained in an expeditions
manner during weaving. The picks or weftl
are actually cut before being driven In.