Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The editor Of Fort Ogden Ola. paper
asserts that bamboo sprout near his well grew
five inches IN one night
Mr.. Beauchamp, living near smithfeId.
Ga, complained Of pain tn his feet, about ten
DAYS ago. and now they are both dead. up to
the middle Of the caIf Of each leg. He is about
so years old and his physicians say that in q
few days ali the flesh VIII drop on, II he does
not die himself.
Joshua Mullen, an inmate Of the
CharlestoTn, Ind poorhouse, built wagon and
ran away with Lucinda True. another inmate,
taking her baby and trunk along: When last
seen Mullen was in the wagon with the baby
and trunk smoking . pipe, and Luclnda was
pulling it along.
lin the clubhouse Of Mr.. N. W. Sweet
man, near Cuthbert, Ga, last week. rattle
snake frightened cat, that scared hen. that
knocked jar from shelf which hit the fau-
Get OF barrel Of molasses, which turned the
faucet. causing the loss of a barrel OF syrup.
The snake was killed.
"A popular clerk in Cuthbert, Ga,
drygoods house, who is unmarried and who Is
noted for politeness, especially to young ladies
was waiting upon a young lady few evenings
ago and sold her quite a nice little bill He
was al smiles and bows, and as the bill was
completed the young lady said: II haven't the
money with me, but l will pay you IN q few
weeks" That's all right" was the elerk'sre.
ply, with bow and a smile, II hope you will"
"A California philosopher evolves the
theory that the manY divorces In that State are
due to the coldness Of the climate and the high
price Of coal In the evening, he says, it is 50
chilly that the husband and wife can't sit down
comfortably as they do in the East, and with
coal at SIS ton they can't afford to use It.
So the husband gets into the habit of going
out for walk in order to keep warm, and the
wife often gets into the same habit. Divorces
soon follow.
-Messrs Charles harrington and ]. P.
Wesley, Of Macon, Ga, while out fishing the
other day killed three-legged alligator. The
reptile was about three feet long, and a close
examination could show no trace that it had
ever possessed more than three limbs. The
dead alligator was brought to town, and at
tracted much attention. There is no sign what
ever that IL ever had more than three legs; there
Is no shoulder blade or other gone to which the
missing limb could have been attached.
"A lady near Willis Point, Texas. re-
Gently. was busy about the house when she
heard her infant, whom she had left on
pallet on the porch, make peculiar noise. She
fastened to her babe and was horrified to see
long, poisonous snake loosely coiled about the
child with its head in the baby's lap, looking
straight into the child's face. The mother
with one frantic movement 1erked the infant
out Of the snakes coil. The reptile fell and
ran under the floor where it was dispatched by
pouring kettle of hot water through the open
cracks Of the floor.
r. s. Williams, who lives near Mucka-
lee creek Ga, within the past week caught
four large aIligators in the creek aforesaid.
These gators have usually been feasting on
the fouE-legged animal known as the hog in
that settlement, and the people out there have
determined to put an end to these depredatiOns
on their hogs by catching the pests. The way
they catch them is this: They bait a large hook
with piece Jf fresh meat, then tie the line Sc
curely to limb or small tree near the water.
In a short time his 'gatorship comes up and
swallows it. and thus he isfastened.
DIR. William A. Hammond writes that
water for drinking purposes should never be
below 500. We can almost always get it, even
in the hottest weather. as cool as this by letting
it run for minute or two from any household
faucet OF drawing it from any country well. If
not, there is no objection to cooling it to the
point mentioned. The East India monkey"
which can now be had almost anywhere in this
country, and by means of which the contained
water Is cooled by its own evaporation, anSwers
the purpose admirably. am quite sure that
if ice water should be generally discarded as
drink the average duration Of life would be
heightened and existence rendered more toler1
able.
From Putnam county. Fla, comes news
the field heard a tremendous rushing sound
over their heads, and looking up saw something
that looked like solid column of fire passing
with tremendous velocity through the air with
a whirring, Kissing sound 1t appeared to be
from eight to ten feet in length and from four
to five feet in diameter. When first discovered
earth and was incltning in its course toward
the ground, profuseIy emitting great sparkf OF
fire. In an Instant if passed out OF sight
fr.l o-xloo Noolr r,la hat znr1
earth for miles around and was heard foi S>dls-
tance OF Is miles.
The story is going the rounds of retail
dealer who obtained rare bargain in ladies'
hemstitched linen handkerchiefs which be de-
signed to sell at fair profit, at 25 cents each.
On examination of the goods he determined
not to give such value for so small sum. TAX
ing one-haf this lot, he marked each handler
chief IN the corner with lead pencil Is cents,
and the other half of the lot, precisely the
same style and quality, he marked in the same
way 30 cents, and displayed the goods on his
when he found that two out of every three OF
his lady customers selected the bargains at 30
cents, leaving him with the larger part Of those
marked Is cents on his counter. As 1t was i'm
possible to alter the marks from % to 30 with
out soiling the goods, he was actually COM
PEELED TO purchase another invoice of the
same lot to obliged the fair buyers who pre-
ferred to pay 30 cents for the article rather
than Is cents.
"A Georgian relates the following story
of queer delusion under which one of his
uncles labored: my uncle was a farmer and
wealthy man. When the war broke out he en-
listed and fought bravely to the end. He had
not been home six months when the strange
fancy seized him that there was a small drum
in the top of his head, and that ne would never
more have peace. He was sent to the private
insane asylum. Except for this peculiar idea
he was apparently as sane as you or /, and his
conversation on any topic but this was rational.
Finally the physicians hit upon happy idea
They told my uncle they would perform
surgical operation, and take the drum out. So
they had miniature drum made, and one OF
them kept it in the palm Of his hand, where the
Scalp on the top Of his head until blood came,
and the physicians pretended TO draw out the
drum through the top of his head, stitching the
wound after doing SO. My uncle was cured the
minute he saw the drum"