Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS


"A stone mansion built in 1850 on 9 farm
near Greenbush, n. z, still stands.
Among the marYeIs Of Norway, Ne.
farm Is sunaower stock on which are over 90
sunfowers.
"A Warren county, KY, couple ars
in suit for divorce.
There is an entire township in Stanton
county Kan. in which there Is not . single
family left. outside Of the prairie dog holes.
The Russian Minister of War has or
dered that military races shah be indulged In
from time to time as means Of improving the
cavalry.
"A Wayerly, Mich, man saw his wife,s
foot sticking up above the lower end Of the
bed. and thinking it was burglar he shot at Il,
HIS wife now limps-
IA lawyer, while arguing case In .
Louisville court, was attacked with rheuma-
tism Of the heart, and calling out, sWhat am
deadF' fell lifeless to the hoor.
John Cardwi1ler, an Iowa welldiQeer.
claims to have found at the bottom Of one Of
his digEings piece Of rock on which the
stars and Stripes are distinctly formed
Ferry HanshaH, of Portland, Ore, has
gone into the business Of raising Mongoliau
Pneasants. He has . score or two that were
do;u1 dursu s..1y py an old black hen They are al
Miss Cora E. Stone. Of PALMYRA. N. T.,
VINO mas Just graduated from Mt Holyoke. has
accepted aposltion as teacher in = Young ladies,
home October g .'-'s ~ -'-
-frooaoiY the longest word in the Ger
man language Is in the last edition Of the
omciaa Journal OF Commissions. Here IL
dot msss.smaomethlath =, athglmerhyl hylbsnzvld
"A resident Of Eaton county, Mich, So
years old, asked the clerk of Jackson county
for alicense to wed a Toledo maid n wears Of
age. The clerk found some reasonable exeuss
for refusing the license
The oldest Morse telegrapher in the
world Is ]. D. Reid the statistician of the est
ern Union Company at New YORK Mr.. Reid ia
~ years OF age. Scotehman by birth and Il as
cheerful aud vigorous as . man Of %
-E. O. Brufy, reporter on the staff Of
the Atlanta Constftntion, has been sent to iail
for 10 days by Judge Clarke for declining to tell
the grand Jury whether OF not ne saw certain
some colorsd men at East Point one night last
week.
Matthew Walton, Of Wyandot county.
o., recently dug up the remains Of q sword,
supposed to be the same that George wash
ington presented to Colonel Crawford one Of
the heroes Of the Indian war. Il was found
the stake lE years ago.
-0n last Tuesday Mr.. J. s. Hudson, of
Camilla, arrived at Bronwood, Ca, on a visit
to his sister. Mrs. r. r. Evans. On Thursday
Miss Rosa Sharpe, of Albany arrived on :
visit to the same family, and ON Friday night
the two visitors were quietly united IA mar
rage at the parsonage, Rev. 4. =. Evans of
heiating.
The youths of Belfast, Me-, are having
great sport in dipping the small herring that
swarm the cove. A long combustibIe torch Is
extended some six or eight feet over the bow OF
lighted and the word Is given to ''puii hard,
with the hsh.
While some laborers were engaged in
chopping timber in 3 big woods near Decatur,
Ind, they accidentally discovered what Ii sup
posed 70 have been counterfeiterg rsndez-
Yous- Beneath the earth surface was found
brick furnace, several half dollars dated 1876
and some OF the metal from which the spurious
coins were made.
Among the smart old people in Dexter,
Me-, are Mrs Phoebe Moore Campbell, who
will celebrate Der l01st birthday October Is
next and Mr.. Charles Roncoe 100 years cid last
Campbell had handsome quilt, finished since
ner Tooth birthday, ON exhibition at the Easton,
Me-, fair this year.
The first hearse owned in Brunswick.
Me-, has been stored for many years in the barn
at the town almshouse. Il is q sort of = two
;sx ssofisd f asr and last week L vas Purcbased
vas. put into Is small cooking stove and their
BLANKETS, harnsssed up their old horse and
Monday started ON tour 70 Canada
Colonel Dyer, Of st. Louis, while on
bis way to Washington left his shoes in the
sleeper. and when the transfer was made at Bal
timore the Colonel forgot he was wearing only
York and Colonel Dyer to Washington He at
tracted considerable attention as be came walk
ing down Pennsylvania avenue in . pair Of
blazing red slippers.
-On one Of the highest mountains in
North Georgia, about ten miles northeast Of
Jasper, lives Mr.. Lit Haynes. Nineteen years
sgo he bought $50 acres Of land on this mountain
Tor tribe. He cleared and put in cultivation
100 acres. It was rough. rocky and q very unin-
viting spot, and one would have thought Mr..
Haynes was liking to starye to death, but such
las not been the case. He is now prosperous
'armer, raising 800 to 1000 bushels of grain
rear, and great quantity Of other crops.
by series of strange condolences eight
Toung people living in Hatfield township, near
.ansdale, Pa, became engaged to each other at
he same time. fixed upon the same date for
heir marriage, and were married by the same
minister az the same place and hour-on Satur-
lay last. Up to the hour of the ceremony each
II the four couples had been totally unaware
4 the Intention Of the others as to when.
vhere and Dy whom they should be married,