Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| NONxVO0 S@tSs
Spiders have eight eyes.
-silkworms are sold by the pound In
China.
in battle only one ball out of IS takes
effect.
The wearing of green wells is said to be
| injurious.
The mean height of land above sea level
is 9.s5e feet.
The savings bank was invented by .
clergyman.
The largest pyramid in Old Egyptir
43s feet high.
don workhouses yearly.
| History fails to record that any Indian
has ever been killed by lightning.
The cocoon of a healthy silkworm will
often yield q thread 1000 yards in length.
| "A cubic inch of gold is worth in round
numbers s21O; cubic foot 1885,, $50 aud cubic
yard, So. 1872.
The longest animaI>known to exist at
| the present time is the rorqual, which aver
| ages 100 feet in length.
| Unless an Austrian gets the consent Of
his wife he cannot get passport to journey
| beyond the frontier of his own country.
The first exhibit for the Worlds Fair
| is in the Chicago Custom House. It consists
OF l3 enormous logs of Canadian timber.
The number of fires in London has in.
creased by 80 per cent since 1882; 25 per cent
OF the fires occur in uninsured premises.
| AT public entertainment in Paris a
| young man was hypnotised. Two days
elapsed before he was restored to conscious.
| ness.
The shade trees planted along the uuay,
| avenues and ooulevards, and in the squares
parks and gardens Of Paris number mora
| than 40O, 900.
The first wheat raised in the New
| World was sown on the island of Isabella
! in January. 1494, and on March 80 the crop
was gathered.
The exact physical center of the United
States is the stone at Fort Riley. Kan, which
marks the grave OF Major Ogden, who died
of cholera in 1856.
The region about the Dead Sea is one
of the hottest places on the globe, and the
sea is said to lose a million tons of water a
day by evaporation.
The Speaker of the House of Commons
receives salary of $4,000 year, and when.
he retires he is raised to the peerage with an
annual pension of $4,000.
The Rajah of Indore, who likes snowy
things has had made furniture set all OF
glass, glass bedsteads and chairs huge glass
sideboards and other articles of domestic
use.
Miss Tsuda, Japanese student at Bryn
Mawr College, Pa, is endeavoring to raise
5000 to found scholarships for Japanese
women who will return to Japan as teach
erS.
I'm accordance with the recent law Presi-
dent Carnot has officially designated the I'd
of September. the centenary of the decara-
tion Of the French Republic, as national
festival
The French Government has decided to
ask an addition of 100000 francs to the
amount already gran ted for defraying the
expenses of Frances representation at the
Chicago Fair.
The seasons nominally and according 10
the calendar begin as follows: Spring, March
20, at 8 A. NJ: summer, June 20. II P. M; au-
.tumn. September %, P. M; winter, Decem-
Der 21, SAM
The Bridge of the Holy Trinity, Flor
ence, was built in 1859. 1t is 322 feet long, Of
white marble. and is even now reckoned as
being without a rival as q specimen of the
bridge-building art.
The Government telegraph service Of
Great Britain operates about 10000 miles Of
line. and handles nearly 80. 100000 kilograms
year. Last year 100000 kilograms were
handled in London alone.
An old man 70 years old, living In
Nodaway county, Mo-, plowed his own land
this spring with a horse % years old, which
was born on the same farm, and has worked
on it with the old man ever since.
In India huge funnel of wickerwoFk
is planted in a stream below a WATERFALL, and
every fish coming down drops into 1t, the
water straining out and leaving the hapDing
prev in the receptacle all ready to be gath
cred in.
Princess Youssoupoff has an Oriental
pearl which is unique for the beauty of its
color. In 1920 this pearl was sold by Georgi-
bus of Calais, to Philip " of Spafn at the
price of 80, 600 ducats. To-day it is valued at
E450O0.
An Indiana paper found it necessary to
publish the following correction: "For
Burglar Meeting in the heading of the
article in our last issue relating to the pro-
ceedings of the Town Council, read Regular
Meeting"
One canning company IN Salem, Ore,
has canned so, 900 pounds of Strawberries this
season. The value of the fruit is about 81, 000
Half dozen other canneries at different
points have been preserving nearly the same
amount each
AN African, with the additional nerve
force impaired by the kola NUT can endure
which would kill the laborer foolhardy
enough to attempt it without using the in
vigoratfng little nut.
The oldest hotel in Switzerland, and
probably the oldest in the world, is the
Hotel of the Three Kings at Basle. Among
its guests in 1926 were the Emperor Conrad
II and his son Henry III, and Rudolph, the
last King of Burgundy.
England, with "a universities, has 2,723
more professors and 51,s4 more students
than the 800 universities in the United
States. The revenues of Oxford and Cam
bridge represent capital of about 81, co.,
900. The University of Leipsic is worth
nearly s20000,OO0.
The photographic Bureau at Washing
ton for two years has been trying to learn
something of the characteristics of the
Atlantic Ocean as great moving body OF
water by bottles. As result the whole
Atlantic is shown TO be slowly circulating
round and round, like an enormous pool.
JOTTINGS OF JOKERS.