Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-03

AT Kansas City the other day 7o1r8
couple we're married 10 drugstore.
The family Of Richard Rockwell. Of
CLARK county, No. cons'srs Of seven children.
three Of them triplsts and tHo Of tnsn tNint
The frIpIets are % year. old.
-An eagle weighing ni1s tons has A.
rived in Brooklyn from It's home 10 ne noun
tains Of Maine. It Is Of granite. and WI b
placed over The main entrance . <ne new post
The japanese are learning how 10 eat
meat In 1855 only 5000 head Of cattle Fero
iaerssssd 70 ils00O; d isss % iso5o1' u lss .
"A very considerats thief who entered J.
p. Beckley's house At 0lassboro, n J.. night
or two ago, stole ele from Mr. BecklsYs rous-
err, but left q DDi ON chair Hith zAis no1ei
when John Orr got homo in Camden
fiom trip % Wilmington, Del. bis wife asked
what had become Of his son Charles. Ihsn
Orr remembered that he had forgotten the boz.
Philadelphia poiice.
-Grznd Haven. Mich, picked up itsears
Thursday night and distinctly heard the boom
ing Of the guns IN the sham sea fght at Nil
ably level between Grand Haven and MI
wankee, but very damp
Benjamin franklin. Of Blue Earth
City, Mimi, Is the only member Of the G. A
4 who lost both his arms and legs In the
service. He served IN the Minnesota Cavalry
from 1851 70 ls66 Last week he attended the
national reunion at Milwaukee.
The cigarette has advanced 10 the dig
nifty OF being an element Of debate in the Brit
ish Parliament. Mr.. Goschen said in his last
pagees tnat IN his opinion the increased toying
accountable for the decreased Consumption of
"lne' Men smoked more and drank less.
DIR. Henry Glutz, Of Louisville, aged n
years, last Monday married Mrs. MARY I'm
hausen, aged 80 years. The doctor has already
buried four wives He has three married
children, all BY his first wife. nine grand
children, and so many step-children and stem
grandchildren that he can scarcely enumerate
them.
in Dubli., small town in Laureus
county, Ga. there lives blue man. Hepa
Caucasian. but instead Of being white Is a
geenish blue. and Is known a. -Blue Billy"
his whole skin is blue. his tongue and the roof
OF his mouth are blue, and where his eyes
should be white IS seen the same ghastly
greenish-blue color.
- sonAc1uE4 Gllmllal IN 4ULl1uQ
must be allowed to see three SUNDAYS between
his sentence and his execution. OF course, he
can thus be hung In little over two weeks. but
the three Sundays must pass over bis head be-
fore the gall0ws claims him The custom is =
relic OF mediRval times, when criminal was
allowed that much Of respite to prepare for
death.
"A wonderfully ambitious bantam hen
Is owned by the Register Of Deeds Of Ionia
county at his home in sebewa, Mich. The hen
has adopted litter Of kittens and cares for
them with the most unremitting solicitude.
Let proving dog approach and try to worry
her brood and he is most thoroughly hen
pecked: grown cat is handled with the same
devoted courage, while in times of peace the
little hen covers the kittens with her wings and
Keeps Them as warm and comfortable as ever
she could brood of her own Matching.
The Drexel cottage at Mount McGregor,
in which General Grant passed his last hours,
is kept just as it was when he died. with the
exception of the removal of few personal be-
longings Of the family. The two big leather
covered easy chairs In which he passed so many
painful days are draped in black and left in the
same position they were in when he occupied
them. The clock on the mantel has been silent
since the moment Of his death, when the doctor
stopped 1t, and the writing tablets he used
when speech was prohibited are in q case on
the wall, together with his pencil and q couple
OF messages in writing to Mr.. Drexel.
The blackbirds have organized camp,
roost, or conclave of some kind in the eastern
part of the town of Washington, Ill, which is
something remarkable. They have assembled
in countless numbers, and the noise and racket
which they keep up and the vhirrino of their
wings have become very troublesome. The
Mayor has given permission to shoot the birds.
and thousands are slaughtered every evening,
the time when they concentrate Strange 10
n loo ff fwnf -
disturb them in the least, nor do their numbers
seem to diminish. These blackbird camps are
quite common in Illinois, but one of such mag
nitude as this Is very rarely seen.
The greatest known depth of the ocean
Is midway between the Island of Tristan d..
Acunha and the mouth of the Rio de Ia Plata.
The bottom was then reached at depth of
40 236 feet, or 81 miles, exceeding by n ore than
1900 feet the height of Mount Everest, the
loftiest mountain In the world. In the north
Atlantic ocean, south Of Newfoundland, sound
ings have been made to depth Of 4,5S0 faith
oms, or N.480 feet, while depths equaling 1900
or 81 miles, are reported south of the Bermuda
Islands The average depth of the Pacific
over 2OOO fathoms, between Chill and the Sand.
wich Islands, 500 fathoms, and between Chilli
and New Zealand, 1,50O fathoms. The average
depth of all the ocean is from 1000 to 25O0
fathoms.
"A singular instance of snake-charming
is reported by Major Schuler de Buol, Of Gal
ena, Ill. A few days ago the Major started out
in search Of hen which had nest in some
weeds a short distance from the barn. After
protracted hunt he suddenly came upon the
hen in bunch of brush, and was surprised to
observe that she made no attempt to get away
but stood perfectly still and was trembling and
shaking as If with the ague. The next instant
he espied huge rattlesnake few feet away,
which evidently had charmed the her. The
Major was not long in dispatching the reptile,
and then endeavored to drive the hen away,
but could not induce her to move. At last De
Buol took her in bis arms and carried her to
the barn. The strangest part Of the case de-
veloped next day. when the charmed hen laid
an egg, coiled about the shell of which was the
exact representation of a snake. The phe-
nomenon was repeated the second and again
the third day, the marx Ut fold on each OF the
shells being plainly discernibe.