Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

About OOOO gross of pens are produc
from ton OF steel.
The Republic of Brazil has 60 DALI
and about 200 weeklies.
The Congressional library building "
contain a5, ,OOO, 900 bricks.
There are no fewer than II, 900 curat
in the Church OF England.
Thirty million wooden spoons are mar
| factured in Russia every year.
Soldiers in the italian army are allow
cigars as part Of their daily rations.
Moses forbade the Hebrews to we
garments of mixed linen and wool.
Every President of the United stat
so far has either been lawyer, a soldier
both.
The first regular modern drama
Lophonisba, played at Rome, 1915, befc
Leo X.
Napoleon lost the results of Borodin
Leipzig and Dresden through attacks of !
digestion.
The British Government has practical
decided to adopt the penny postage throus
out the empire.
From $1,000 to Il, 900 time-expired m
ucll 1CdN0 bu6 DElG1SO hIuly dl
return to civil life.
Lieutenant Peary expects to have
refuse nearly 400 persons places on his ST
ond polar expedition.
BY improper methods in the Penns,
vania mines 30 to 40 per cent of the anthracl
coal was formerly lost.
h Greek women wore the chitan, a sIeev
less garment; over 1t shawl formed @
square piece of woolen goods.
Some of the English pumping engiy
perform work equaling the raising of L
100000 one foot high by the consumption
100 weight of coal.
One of the most extensive concerns
Maine has been experimenting on an
genious process of burning lime with oil i
stead of with wood.
The favorite drink in Nubia is ma
from fermented dhurra bread. 1t is cali
ombulbul, because it makes the drinker 81
like the nightingale.
George G. D4versu1, of CharIott,
North Carolina, has a turnip which J
claims is the exact shape of an elepha1
with ears, trunk, legs and tail
"A young theosophist came all the ";
from New Zealand last week for q ten-mi
ute consultation with Mrs. Annie Besar
He sailed for home next day.
The Speaker of the British House 4,
Commons receives a salary of 5000 r We
and when he retires he is raised to
peerage with an annual pension OF S20,G 600.
Miss Annie Shepard, New Hampshi
girl of sweet Is, does all the writing, sets /,
the type and attends to all the business of
monthly publication with 1900 subscribe
gives a man O right to sue the preach
when he makes the mans wife go to chur'
instead Of staying as home and cooking II
dinner.
"A patent has been granted in Aueklan
for net to catch whales. The mesh is b
enough for calf to pass through. and
said 10 have been used already with gro:
success.
The medals of Columbus sold in Spa
ut the time of the Columbian ceIebratfo
like many of the other objects sold in Spa
ish shops, were nearly all imported fro
Germany.
1t is estimated that no fewer that Il
C00,00O Europeans wear wooden shoes. Ba
wood is ordinarily used for the sabots,
willow is the best material. Poplar, Deecl
walnut and bircn are also used
In the records of Westminster A bbe
one of the first interments of the prese
century is registered as that of "WiIlia
Dakin, aged years. believed to have be'
a son OF one or the Abbey servants.
In proportion as the earth cools dov
ice accumulates near the poles and on
tops of mountains: water is taken mo
deeply into the surface OF the terresti
crust, the formation OF hydrated miners
being manifested everywhere.
When a COW is two years old, a wrink
begins to form at the base of her horns.
three years, this wrinkle is fully develope
When she is five years old. another "
form; and, after that, one will come eaC
year. Thus her age can be di scovered.
Among the wilder tribes of the Ca
casus every child is taughs to use the dagg
almost as soon as he can walk. The childro
first learn to stab water without making
splash, and by incessant practice acquire
extraordinary command over the weapon
The great high bridge of the Southe.
Paciflc Railroad, over Pecos canyon, is
markable for three things. 1t is the highe
bridge in tire country, being S33 feet aboy
the river bed; it was constructed in 81
months, and only one man was killed in tn
course of its erection.
AS continents are formed one part
the waters of the seas is transported
them In the form OF lakes, rivers, etern
SHOWS, glaciers and organized substance
Owing to these actions the waters Of Il
oceans have been diminishing and the
levels lowered correspondingly.
The tobacco pipe is never seen in Spa
in use among the natives nor are tobact
pipes to be purchased In any OF the shop
Cigars and cigarettes manufactured in I'll
Government factories in Spain or 1nporte
from Cuba or the Philippines can alone
procured. and are universally smoked
the people.
An average of FIVE feet of water
estimated to fall annually over the Who'll
earth, and, assuming that condensatiC
takes place at an average height of 80
feet, scientists conclude that the force
evaporation to supply such rainfall mu'
equal the lifting of 322,0O0O0O pounds {
water 8, 900 feet in every minute, or aboI
800, 000 1000 horsepower constantly e.
erted.
Taking a census in India always arouse
the popular superstitions and dread of VI
known evils After the last census of tl
Bhils their chiefs insisted on new imperii
obligation that 'in future no Bill woms
should ever be weighed" they fearing thi
the plumpest and heaviest women, ii
national beauties, were being checked
for appropriation by the census takers