Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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"A 25O-pound sturgeon was caught at
Port Penn, Del
"A Belfast (Me.) woman has entered a
machine shop to learn the trade.
valuable copper ore has been diseoV-
cred in Wayne county, in this State.
The Monastery of Melk, in Austria, has
just celebrated its eight hundredth anniver-
An enterprizing citizen o; Johnstown,
n. j., is applying for pension, divorce and
postofice.
-Waldron, Mich, has been settled more
than half century, yet the people have just
Degun 70 clear the stumps out OF bne main
street.
The London Ldpcet recently contained
the following advertisements: Home wanted
tor hoUicidal lady in house Of medical man,
Address, stating TERMS" etc.
DIR. Calvin Parker of Willacooehee
Ga. has mule 45 years old This old mule
has served the doctor faithfully He has worked
MN in harness and has plowed with him for 40
| years.
"A natural curiosity is to be seen on
street in Columbus, Ga. small oak tree is
| growing from the limb of chinaberry tree and
the strange freak attracts the attention of all
! passers-by.
"A French scientist says that allowing
| five acres for each inhabitant Europe has
room for u5000,0O0 more people Africa for
1886 OO0 900, Asia for 4G2 900 600 Oceanica for
5l5,OO0OO0 and America for 1000, 100000.
The largest mail ever received at the
postofice in Colfax, W. T., came in one day
last week for G.. s. Voorhees,. 1t consisted Of
"a mail sacks packed full with Government
publications, weighing in the aggregate more
The interesting discovery of a number
of oysters growing on piece of bark has been
| made at Fort Wrangel, Alaska. They are sup
posed to have been propagated from oysters
thrown overheard from the California and
Oregon steamers.
Probably the most expensive carpet ever
manufactured is that owned by the Maharaiah
of Baroda. 1t took three years to make, and
cost 100000. 1t is made entirely of strings Of
pure eolored pearls, with the center and cor.
ners of diamonds.
One of the most accomplished young
ladies of Selma, Ala, was hailed on the street
by bystander, who very politely knocked
rat of her bustIe, where it was enjoying de-
lightful ride. As the varment struck the
ground, and the lady saw that it was actually
live rat. she had lively foot race for some
distance
Several tipsy young men got into q
house at Castanea, near Lock Haven lately,
while the family were out and fell asleep, when
wandering horse that had been nosing in a
basin of -four shifted at the faces of the
strangers so closely as to imprint on eacn
CHASTITY whiteness. When the family got back
at twilight their outeries could be heard three
blocks away.
The chartering of the iron steamship
Shawmut to load $4,000 bags of sugar at Ma
tanzas, and to tow the barge Atlas with full
from 60 DoIo
ware Breakwateri marks big innovation in
the shipping trade. The voyage will be an ex-
Derimental one, and the first instance of a
barge being towed from foreign port. Ship
ping people are taking great interest in the
venture.
AT Titusville, Fla, a trout measuring
over q inches In length was captured at the
railroad wharf very easily Sunday morning,
having gotten himself in the peculiar predica-
ment of trying to swallow a fish called the
sailors choice, which actually measured over
eight inches in length. The trout had parti-
ally swallowed the fish, and being unable
either to engult him. or reject him from his
YoraciOus grasp, he was drowned so to speak,
and lay almost helpless on the surface of the
water. In this state the trout was picked up.
"A Chicago gambler whose first name
was George, used to frequent Chinaman's es-
tablishment and smoke opium almost daily.
One day he rushed into the place and said ex-
citedly: Hip, loan me $40. Thanks Pn come
IN and pay you to morrow noon if Pm alive"
and out he went with the money. About 8
O'Clock the next afternoon a friend of the
gambler dropped in on the Chinaman and said:
Hip, where is George tO-day?' and the con-
fding Celestial wiped his eye with the corner
Of his blouse, and replied: George, him dead.''
"A contractor in Birmingham, Ala, was
obliged to put of paying his men for three
days on account of the failure of some of his
creditors to meet their obligations. Finally he
got his checks and came to the city for the
cash. 1t was too late for him to get in bank,
and be took it quite philosophically and went
to get shaved. The barber persuaded him to
have his whiskers cut off That shave cost him
s., 900. People met Sim and failed to recognize
him and the rumor got abroad that he had
taken his money and skipped the town. Men
began pushing their claims, some even goingtO
the courts. The compromises he was obliged
to make cost him large amount of money.
Nathaniel Rogers and a negro were
pIowing in pasture at Paris, KY, where some
sheep and lambs were grazing. when they dis
covered two large black snakes coiled around
6-weeks' old lamb. trying to crush the life out
of it. The men went to the lambs assistance
with clubs, whereupon the snakes uncoiled and
gave chase to the men. The latter were hOtlY
pursued for over 100 yards, when they grabbed
fence rail, and turned on the snakes. They
succeeded in killing one, which measured over
8 feet, and the other ran into hollow stump.
Later in the day it came out and coiled itself
around the legs OF one OF the plow mules, and
the negro abandoned the team. The snake
soon returned to the stump. An endeavor will
be made to catch it alive.
The arrival of the Wilkommen at Bal.
timore aroused much interest and curiosity, as
she was the first oil tank steamer ever seen in
that port. She is a barkentine-rigged vessel,
built of steel, and is S26 feet long by Al feet
beam, with 80 feet depth OF hold. Her capacity
is 5000 barrels of oil in bulk. The Wilkom-
c-s--
w. A. Reidemann, of Bremen, and she is the
largest afoat. She is consigned to the Balti-
more United Oil Company. which will load her
with 1,27QOO0 gallons, or 25 400 barrels. of re-
fined oil, all of which is purchased on the ac.
count of the vessels owner. Other steam tank
vessels are expected to follow the Wilkommen,
The oil for the Wilkommen is pumped through
the pipe line to Baltimore from the Pennsyl-
vania oil fields in crude state, and refined at
Baltimore.