Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Illinois leads in railroad mileage
| The folding envelope was first used In
the year 1889
Diamond cutting by machinery was first
done in Holland in 1889.
Chinese control almost the entire shoe
making business in California.
The early Christian writers say Paul
wrote his first epistle when 4s years old.
People in London write on an average
81. Oil letters day, requiring 30 gallons OF
ink.
I'm Turkey they call the bicycle iths
DEVILS chariot" and the Sultan forbids It's
use.
Last year 1900, 900 books were issued
TO the people Of London from the free libra
was begun in 1857 and $500 miles com
pleted.
The American combination Of print
in 1859
| Within the last 30 years there have been
on the British coasts 66,s77 wrecks, with the
loss Of 29,3l2 lives.
On August 20 a meteor fell at Brunean
Falls in Idaho which local assayer says
shows traces of gold.
"A man in Missouri named GaIladay
| claims TO be the lineal descendant OF the
original Mother Goose.
Lady -Jeune estimates that there are
| 1,s03,406 domestic servants in England, of
| whom l35OOOO are women.
Forty dogs are said to have been
smuggled into this country in the last five
years by fireman on the steamer Ari-
| zcna.
AT Bombay all the Hindoo sentries sa-
lutte any passing black cat, thinking It may
| possibly be the soul OF an English Of
| 1cer.
TWENTY-FIVE sharp qu;lls were extracted
| from the nose of Franklin county dog the
other day. He had been interviewing q
| porcupine.
| "A toy dealer in Philadelphia ma de the
shocking discovery the other day that near.
| 1y 100 of his best dolls had melted during the
| recent hot waves.
| Chicago is to have belt line railroad
OF eight tracks and covering a route Of
nearly 90 miles. 1t is to connect with very
road running into the CITY,.
in the boulevard St Germain, In Paris,
you can drop small sou in slot in cir
| cular column publicly situated press a but
Ton and catch eight quarts of hot water in q
pail.
Place 500 earths like ours side by side
| yet saturn's outermost ring could easily in
| close them. Three hundred thousand earth
globes could be stored inside the sun, II
| hollow. -
There is large carriage mandatory in
| New York in which the chief art decorator
| is woman, Caroline Kilby who has 20
women employed in the department which
| she controls.
I'm one of the Canary Islands there is q
tree of the laurel family that rains down 90
casfonally in the early morning quite q copi-
ous shower OF tears or water drops from Its
tufted foliage.
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools of Belgium, and TO-.
600 of the 100000 primary pupils have de.
posted over 100000. Great Britain has also
established penny banks in schools.
The discussion of the tallest sunAower
is still going on in the country papers,
Reading has one 4 feet IL inches high; Land.
1ngville, Schuylktll county, one II feet high,
and Lancaster one IA feet inches high.
"A magnet at Willett's Point Long ISL
and, is considered the largest and strongest
in the world. 1t is made of two 15fnch
Dahlgren guns, wound around with eight
miles of cable and charged with electricity.
"A gold coin passes from one to another
a.000 000, 600 times before the stamp or impress
sion upon 1t becomes obliterated bv friction
while silver coin changes between ae5o.
100000 times before 1t becomes entirely
effaced.
The passion flower derives It's name
from an idea that all the instruments Of
Christ's passion are represented, viz, tho
five wounds, the column OF pillar of scourrs
ing. besides the three nails, the crown Of
thorns, etc.
"A London lady is in search Of an owner
for a silver thimble which she declares she
found imbedded in the center of a ham
which she was slicing. She would also Ike
to have some explanation as to how the
thimble got there.
of the ZOO counties in the States and
Territories the Methodist Episcopal Church
is represented in all save SIS. It has 26sal
organizations, with 92.s44 churches, with =
seating capacity of 6,302.706 and an aggre.
gate valuation of 500, ,92S, ,409.
The largest lunatic asylum in England
is at Prestwich, where the lancashire
County Asylum has over 800 patienss< Col
ney Hatch. in the parish of Friern Barnet,
in Middlesex, six miles north from London
will accommodate 2 25O patients.
To form some idea of the lsrgeness Of
the earth one may look upon the landscape
from the top of an ordinary church steepie
and then bear in mind that one must Wow
900, 900 similar landscapes to get an approxi-
mately correct idea of the size of the earth.
"A lady of Detroit originally had black
eyes and hair, but in the course of time,
when she had attained the age Of about 70
years, her hair turned pure white. This was
expected, but about a year ago her hnfr
began darkening, and is now as black as jot,
Newark, n. j., has q woman manu-.
faoturer of umbrellas and parasols. sho
learned the trade because it was her fathor'a
business and she liked it better than teach
ing or sewing. She Is q shrewd business
woman, and Notwithstanding the compoti,
tfon with big stores and the misfortune or
having been twice burned out has fairly
prosperous business.
"A new process, 1t is stated, has been
discovered for making tin plate. An tn
ventor at Braddocl1, Pa, has been making
tests for some time, and finally succoeded IN
getting perfect sheet from one dip in the
terne. The process also saves one man on
the rolls local company, With q capital
of sl00,O has been organized 20 carry on
the work by the new process.
AT Cahoes, France, the workmen on the
foundations for a convent unearthed large
house of the GaI1oRoman period, the mosaic
floors Of which are in place and enough of
the walls to reveal frescoes in a fair state OF
preservation. 1t is supposed to have boon
destroyed in the sixth century, whom rhoo-
debert sacked the town. Pottery frnq.
ments, bronzes and coins were found on the
site.
POETICAL EN- PAsSANT,