Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Utah has a colony composed of natives
| Of the Hawaiian Islands.
Under the new Schefer law in Mime
apolis, which makes drunkenness crime,
woman was the first to be sentenced to JAIL
They are trying to acclimatize the Con-
necticut oysters at several places on the coast
OIL Swsuen. So far they have done very well.
-Susanyille, New, boasts q citizen who
has been sunstruck. struck by lightning. frozen
until he lost consciousness. and yet IS a.
hearty as ever.'
A gooseberry bush, growing out Of the
side of maple tree, q feet from the ground.
wasa big sight seen in Johnsbury, VT, when q
tree was relied in the Court House yard tbs
other day.
Captain Charles D. Grant, of the
schooner Lizzie May recently brought into
Portland the largest swordfsh taken on the
coast OF Maine this season. After being dressed
It tipped the scales at 500 pounds
"A trumpet producing its musical note
by the vibration of circular steel membrane
Dy means of electricity has been invented by
Captain Zipang, of the Thirtieth Infantry, in
garrison at Domfront, Orne, France.
Justice Lockwood, of Los Angeles, went
in swimming at Catalina Island last Sunday.
A colony of sharks came in sight and drovs
an old saber and managed to kill two man.
eaters.
"A Milton (Pa. paper says that on the
day Of the Sullivan Kilrain fight the wife of
william Follmer, of Shakespeare, presented
MIN with twin boys, of six and eight pounds,
wnlcn the father named Jacob Kilrain and
jonn sullivan respectively.
MIR. R. W. Smith, one of the substan-
tial citizens of Toledo. declares that he went
OUT on the lake In quest of sport, and in the
space or about 10 minutes drew from their na-
tive element no less than "a OF the finny tribe
that turned the scales at from to 25 pounds.
Smoke extends from California TO
Western Kansas, a distance of l,0O0 miles at
first the smoke partially shut off the rays of the
sun, making the air cooler, but now it adds to
the already high temperature. 1t is supposed
TO De caused by the mountain fires in Montana.
The first settlements in Arizona and
California were founded by Eusebio Francisco
Kino. Jesuit, who was an explorer in those
regions as early as 1850. He founded the first
settlement in Arizona on the GIla river in 1910
and in 1877 founded the first settlement in Cali
forEia-
Honey bees, that come from nobody
knows where. are making life miserable around
Reno. New. They invade dwellings. and have
forced several families to vacate portions OF
their homes. One man has killed II swarms
0oeoOh,
Gus as ever.
"A. M. Snow, farmer near Athens. AZ
years ago discovered land terrapin on his
farm which bore on its under surface the
carved legend "A. H, 177L" He has many
times since run across the same creature. and
recently again found it. being able to certainly
identity 1t by the initials and date given.
Two colored men named Young and
Garrett have induced OIL colored men to locate
upon Government land in Oklahoma, taking 100
acres EACH or 145, $50 acres in all They have
laid out town site near the center of the coll
ony. The name of the town is LincoinL located
ON the north bank of the Cinnamon river and ia
destined to be the county seat, as they have five
townships and are in the majority ten to one.
"A party Of campers at Moosic Lake,
near Carbordale. had heard of bear In their
vicinity, but didn't credit the story. But when
they saw the bear coming directly toward
them the other evening there was = commo-
tion- Lewis Compton, the crack marksman Of
the party seized his rifle, and when the animal
reared upon its launches, sent bullet into its
body that put an end to Bruins career in short
order.
An interesting innovation in the method
of catching cod has just been made by the
French fishermen, coasting off Newfoundland
They catch large periwinkles, remove their
shells, and use the creatures for bait The cod,
1t IS said, have bitten eagerly at the new bait,
and the owners of the French vessels have
caught fish so fast that they were able to sail
for France in the first week of July instead Of
in October az usual. In England the whelk has
long been used for the same purpose.
The schooner Fannie Chase, owned by
Lewis, Chase & Whitten, of Portland Me-,
sailed into port the other day with something
unusual in its cargo. Just outside the hffpur(
the lookout saw a peculiar suhc+-.-ee Mating
in the water, and bauled it on board % get q
better view of it. Then it was seen that the
Inn 49, Had fxuo-
thirds of a BARREL and is worth S250oa The
owners of the vessel will take half the prize
and the crew, numbering Is, will divide the
other half.
-Thibet is the only known country on
earth not open to missions. 1t has an area Of
$50 900 square miles. The greatest length from
east to west is 1,50O miles, and the population
is estimated at 100000. 1t is the stronghold Of
Buddhism. Lhassa, the capital. is the 'Rome''
of the Buddhists, and the Dalai Lama Is the
Buddhist Pope. He is supreme in both tenn
poral and spiritual things. One monastery has
about 5000 Buddhist priests. and there are
about &C. 0Oe in the country. Thibet is virgin
soil for missions. The country Is tributary to
China.
"A remarkable and very disastrous
plague to stock is now raging in Daviess coun-
y, INDIANA During the past few weeks a num-
Der o. farmers In various parts of that county
nave lost some of their finest horses An in
7estigatiOn as to the cause of the strange Oe-I
,urrences BROUGHT to light what seems an in1
;redulous state Of affairs, but has proved an alb
olute fact. 1t was found that ticks are actually
Killing horses, which the pests attack in great .
warns, and suck the blood from the animal ,
Until 1t is helpless and is relieved of its suffer-
ngs by death. Examinations show that the
,est eat their way through the hide into the
iesh. 1t is thought the ticks were brought by
he Texas ponies. which have been sold here in
arge numbers in the past few months. The
fcks attack cows. but do not seem to have the
anne effect as on horses.