Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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There are 17O,OO Mormons and 4O, 900
non-Mormons in Utah.
A snake 10 feet long and as big around
as a mans body has been seen BY several people
in Frink's Hollow. East Blut, Ill.
"A Mexican robber who was shot by
order Of Government received six bullets in
his breast and got up and ran 30 yards before
railing down to die.
1t is significant that the winner of the
mathematical pr1zs of $500 at Bowdoin is the
best general athlete in the Maine colleges and
one OF the best baseball players.
"A Yankee has set mp school in Paris
and advertises that he Twill teach any French
man to speak the only sensible language in the
world In six weeks and at cost OF only 20.
In some sections of Missouri 1t has
rained every day for 90 successive days. The
corn. wheat and potatoes may suffer in conse-
| quenee, put what crop Of grass and weeds
and thistlesl
"A Frenchman tried his flying machine
in the suburbs Of Paris the other day. He flew
| of a barn and 1t will be several months before
MS broken legs viii allow him to canter around
as blithely as before.
Agriculture carried on by means Of
irrigation is usually much more profitable than
i II ~ dependent on ordinary rainfall, and il
ing by Government aid, it will outrank agri-
cultural States.
Mosquitoes are so plentiful in Chicago
that couple Of lovers sitting on the back steps
of q residence on Wabash avenue we're bitten
$50 times in 80 minutes. They didn't mind it,
however-in fact, they didn't know they had
received bite until an hour after.
The Indian has been said to be incapa-
BILE of joking; but the Maine Indian has appa-
rently degenerated; for here Is Joe Susep. Of
the Penobscot tribe, telling about log that
became wedged under the Ripogenus Falls 50
that while one end was in the water the other
was striking against the ledge with such force
and rapidfty as to catch IRE.
Before the war the high water mark in
cotton was $4,000 bales. The crop of last
year is not yet entirely out of the hands of the
planters. but those whose business attention is
an increase of 100000 over the year preceding.
This season, with average weather, it will be
5.OOOOO0 bales, worth nearly 800, 600 600 OF five
times the value Of all the gold and silver pro-
duced in the United States In one year.
Jonathan Montgomery. of watkins
vile, Ga, has horse now plowing In the same
field on his farm as when he returned from the
war. He is now making his twenty-ffth crop
with him. Mr.. Montgomery says the horses
teeth have worn so smooth that he can't grind
his food and his wife cooks bread for him. He
is doing well and is very fond of bread that has
no crust on 1t. Mr. Montgomery says he would
not take any amount of money for him, and
intends, if he is the longest liver, to bury him
II he is able to dig the grave when he dies
"A postal tube" to connect Dover with
CALAIS. over the English Channel, is being dis
cussed in England. The plan is to suspend
two tubes of about yard each in diameter by
means Of steel cables across the channel 40
yards above the level of the sea. The steel
cables will be fixed to pillars at distances Of
way will run with cars capable of carrying $50
pounds in weight. No parcel Of greater weight
than this will be taken, and the cost Is esti-
mated at the modest figure Of s50OO,0O0.
Tuck Tie, Mott street Chinaman, who
had come over from New York to help prove
an alibi for another Chinaman in Philadelphia
the other day, said he was Christian. but
professed ignorance of the Bible, and the oath
was therefore administered after the Chinese
fashion. A saucer was placed before Tuck
Tie and an iron bar was placed in his hands,
Then Tie repeated after the interpreter: "lfI
should tell a lie in my evidence in this case
may die as the plate is broken" and with q
A lighted match was then blown out by Tuck
Tie, and he was considered sworn.
The Oldest organ in the United States is
odAu " DO Ia Obs JOuu NuuAOus OIboluOubug
N. H. It was imported by Thomas Brattle in
1713 and presented to the society worshiping at
Kings Chapel by him. There was such
prejudice existing against setting it up, that
the cases containing its parts remained un-
opened for seven months. after which time the
organ was in use until l756 when 1t was sold to
ST. PauPs Church, Newburyport. In 1895 st.
Johns Churcb, Portsmouth, N. H, became the
owner. paying $50 for the instrument. A new
case was provided the old pipes and wind chest
being found In perfect order There the organ
is to-day, doing service in the vestry, where the
veteran is regarded with the tenderest solici-
tude.
There is a dog in Hartford not quite so
bright as the sunshine in fair weather that be-
comes an utter imbecile as soon as thunder or
even fire cracker is heard. On recent after
noon, amid the distant rumble of a far-away
storm, he laid aside his intelligence and ran
wildly off from home without it. A long search
for him proved futile, but in couple Of hours
he turned up, all wet and muddy, at his owners
office ready to be escorted home. On the peni-
tential journey homeward they met another dog,
not quite so big as this one, and at sight of the
large and ruffled collie the strange dog dropped
fiat upon its belly and lay cr1Dging and tren-
bling, the victim Of abiect fear. until the dog
scared by a clap of thunder, had walked
proudly off. There are all sorts of towards.
MIR. Pheylan, wealthy farmer who
lives dDOub ~ LulloS lEOu OoIIOlk, udS D6Ruu
proceedings for divorce. Two years ago he
married Nettie Rockford, whose beautiful head
of golden hair excited his profoundest admira-
tion. He was extremely fond of his wife, very
proud of her beautiful locks and seemed happy.
Pheylan left her and became mute as
an oyster as to the cause of their sudden
separation. His lips were first opened when
his wife filed bill for divorce because of his
and he fled a cross bill. Mr.. Pheylan
alleges that he discovered soon after his mar.
riage that II. .angered his wife for him to touch
her hair, and that, as she refused to let him be
present when she made her toilet, he gres sus-
picious, watched his chance, peeped over the
transom and discovered tnat his wife was as
bald as bald could be, and that her golden locks
were hanging on bracket as she combed them
out. He fell to the floor with yell, and when
his wife had mustered up courage to open the
door and see what was the matter he had gone,
never to return. He alleges that she has grossly
deceived him. and that he, not she, should get
a