Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
1t took a NOrwaIk. Conn, man ju.

CURIUUS CUhDEA6ATlUN6.
1t took a Norwalk, Conn, man just
three years to squander $4,000.
"A Cleveland lady recently recovered
a pair of diamond earrings. worth 81 900. which
had been missing several months. A laborer
found the jewels in a gutter, and not thinking
them of much value gave them to his children
to play with.
"A New York pswnbroker ordered half
a dozen shirts. A week later a boy came into
his shop. laid box containing six new shirts on
the counter and said he wanted SIS. The
broker refused to advance more than s., and 1t
required five minutes effort 70 get 1t through
his head that they were his own shirts sent
G. o. D. @
AN English paper recently published
the following advertisement: ''Notice-To
ladies of position: Will any lady of good social
position receive another in her house for a
week during next May, and present her at the
last of the May drawing rooms? Satisfactory
terms to be arranged, and good references
given. Strict confidence viii be observed"
Two wild camels, which run away like
deer from mankind, are seen occasionally on
the Gila river, near Cottonwood, Ariz They
are the last remnant of the band imported by
the Government and used on the desert for
pack animals some years ago. The scheme did
not prove successful, and four of them were
turned loose. Two have either died or been
killed.
Japan is to adopt baseball as her national
GONE. Recently an order was received in New
York from Toxic requesting that several gross
Of balls and bats be sent Immediately TO Japan.
The writer says that the Japanese have been
for some years trying to adopt some sport as
their national game. and that they have tried
baseball and that it fills the bill in every par
ticular.
-"Pigottry" and ITO Pigott'' have been
added to Parliamentary English. Tim Healy,
the Irish member, fired them off first in the
House Of Commons, and, in spite Of mild
protest from the Speaker, they have passed
into common use. Mr.. Healy also is responsible
for the assertion that a grossly exaggerated
statement was not excessive; it was Bal
fouresque."
"A Brooklyn crank has scheme for
facilitating rapid transit upon the big bridge:
It provides for the construction Of a sort Of
toboggan slide arrangement between the piers
of the bridge over which trains start with a
slight boost from locomotives at the termini
would run with great speed Then there would
be pocket contrivances where the cars would
find lOdgment when they reached their desti-
nation.
On the high road in $quaint village Of
Langbanshyttan. in Central Sweden, stands an
iron shaft on pedestal of coarse granite. It
a translation: "In a miners hut at Langbans-
hyttan were born the two brothers Niles
Ericsson (January 81, 1902, and John Ericsson
lJuly 81, 1902. Both honored their native land.
Their way through the world to knowledge and
lasting fame is open to every Swedish youth"
There was shipped recently from the
Savannah river to Baltimore dealer fish
weighing 400 pounds The eye of the monster
was nearly three inches in diameter, and the
head was % inches long, From head to tail the
distance was s feet and 20 inches. The meat
was white and had promising look, but the
dealer intends sending him to the Smithsonian
Institution. He was captured with lot of
shad, and is known in his region as feuh fish.
The President Of the fair grounds at st.
Louis has evolved scheme which, for origin
ality, certainly beats anything Of the kind yet
projected. He recently purchased a machine
to plow up the track at the fair grounds. 1t is
very heavy affair and requires the united
efforts of four horses to drag it over the ground.
Mr.. Green conceived the novel idea OF making
the elephant at the grounds earn its feed by
dragging the plow. He has ordered harness
and will soon set the elephant to work.
An unusual case of combined longevity
is reported from WATERFORD. Me. Four genera
tions are unbroken by death. David scribner
of that town is now in his Goth year and his
wife is nearly of the same age The couple
have been married for IS years and have three
children living the Oldest Of which is upwards
of go years of age. These children have chill
dren and grandchildren and the remarkable
fact is that no death has ever yet occurred in
the line OF the descendants, from Mr.. and Mrs.
Scribner to their great grandchildren.
Something of interest to ornithologists
occurred over in Canoe township, near Punxsu-
tawney, Pa, recently. On the 10th day of Feb
ruary last, while a young son of Uriah Peace
was returning from Sunday school. he noticed
bluebird going into hole in an old stub Of
tree. Thinking he could catch the bird, he
climbed up to the hole and ran his hand in.
The old bird flew away, but the boy was sur
prised to ind the nest still inhabited. It con-
tanned three young bluebirds, about half
hedged, and evidently only few weeks old. 1t
would appear from this that bluebirds do not
confine their work of incubation to the mild
and genial spring or the sweet summer time
L. J. Reese, Of Carroll county, Georgia,
is exhibiting snake which he killed last Mon
day afternoon, and which he says Is the out
growth of red-headed scorpion. Mr.. Reese
says he has seen these scorpion snakes before
they had shed their fore legs-seen them when
they were snake and lizard combined. The
species of lizards which make these snakes are
usually found about rotten logs or stumps, and
have red heads and green and reddish stripes
lengthwise their bodies, and usually larger and
more clumsy than other lizards. When they
have turned into snakes they are very hard
and sleek, and are of reddish-brown color on
the back with black and white specks, and
black stripe along the center, the sides hav-
ing white stripes along them. About two
inches of the tail is brown, and very hard and
sharp, and the belly is perfectly white. These
snakes taper gradually from the head back
ward. They do not grow very large. The one
spoken of above was two feet and four inches
long, and from the size Of a mans thumb At
the head to pit at the tail.
"A remarkable coincidence occurred at
the home of Dave Kenney, at Athens. Ga. He
has for long time taken care Of old Mr.. Og.
lesby, who is nearing his Tooth year. Mr.. Ogles
Dy is now very i'll with pneumonia, and at times
deIirious. About midnight Wednesday he
called Mr.. Kenney, whose room adjoins his,
and when Mr.. Kenney went in he found him
very excited, and, pointing around the room,
he asked: What are all those people doing
here? Where did they come fromT Mr.. Ken
ney assured him there was no one in the room.
"What?n says he: 'Iook there; there stands a
man with cancer on his nose and a piece of
paper covering it. Look, he is taking it off p
Mr.. Kenney tried to quiet him, but he remained
awake and restless the whole night The
strange part Of the matter is, that Just about
this time Mr.. Oglesby was most excited, Bob
Booth, q brother-in-law, died in Barberville, Of
cancer on the nose. Mr.. Oglesby has not
seen Mr.. Booth since he has been afflicted with
cancer, 50 what he said must be considered az
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