Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


gascar is dead. She was nearly 100 years old
I'm 1880 the Maine Legislature fixed q
bounty of cents head on crows. This bounty
cost the State 81, in lSS2 Two years later,
the law was repealed.
AN International exhibition of postage
stamps is to be opened at Amsterdam To give
additiona! interest to the show there VIII be
sketches of the various costumes worn Dy post.
men in different countries
There is a haunted mill at Marshall,
Ill. The machinery is heard running at night,
exactly as if water were turned on. The Peo-
pie are unable TO explain the mystery: ana lew
are bold enough to 90 near the MIL aIter oark-
John bennett, of Santa Cruz, Cal, re-
Gently found two headed snake, about a loot
long. The heads were distinctly separate and
both were perfect. The heads were nttle over
an men IN length. When aroused the snake
would throwa forked tongue out OF each mead
simultaneously, as if they were one.
"A man in Davenport, Iowa, recently
slipped down in the street, and q handful Of
loose silver which he carried was scattered.
First picking himself up. he then proceeded to
pick up the silver, and found that he had not
only recovered it all, but had an extra dollar,
which doubtless some one else had previously
dropped.
"A farmer in East Corinth, Me. ,wouldn%
give a copper for a bounty on crows He is
able to take care of his own property. When
he gets his corn planted he carr1es out two
coops. each holding rooster. and sets them
on the two ends of his field. As soon as it be-
gins to grow light the roosters begin to chal-
lenge each other and their music scares all the
crows away.
AN old volume of the williamsburg
Va, Gazette now in the possession of H d.
Cole, of that city, contains the following we'd
ding notice: Fairfield, Aug. %, 775-Last
evening was married at the feat of Thaddeus
Burr, efq., by the reverend Mr.. Elliott, the hon.
John Hancock, efq. president of the Cont
mental Congress to mifs Dorothy Quincy,
daughter of Edmund Quincy, efq., of Boston.
The Rev. W. E. johnson, the rector of
the Episcopal Church in Plainville, Conn.,, is
initiating Dr. Parker. of London. Arrayed in
his surpliee he gives informal talks on religion
every Sunday evening TO number OF men as
sembled in drygoods store In pleasant,
chatty STYLE he lectures on such subjects as
Biblical inspiration. while the men listen and
smoke. Mr.. johnson believes that he can do
much good in this way.
"A queer. but true, story comes from
Neshannock, east of Sharon, Pa, where lived
an old lady 81, who wanted to go to Iowa, but
was afraid to because she had never travelled
by railroad She remarked to a friend at the
station that it would be her first and perhaps
last ride on the cars. Several days ago friends
in Iowa received word thar she had actually
had been too much for her,
DIR. Young, of Gainesville, Ga, has
Just received letter that he is bothered about
and would like to read. 1t is an Incompetent
slble mass of hieroglyphics covering four
pages and though intended to be written in
the English language would pass for Chinese
manuscript or foreign war map. All he can
deciPher is the card on the envelope that shows
that the document emanated from the Kansas
lunatic asylum at Topeka.
To the inquiring minds of the citizens
of Freehold. N. J., is due the discovery that n
pig has no brains A discussion upon this sub
jeet arose, and to settle the question it was de-
cided to sacrifice the most intelligent pig in
the community, and have his brain scientifically
analyzed. After the pig was killed the head
was examined and found to be brainless- The
cavity in which the brain should have been was
extraordinarily small and empty.
There is a maiden lady in city not far
from Elberton, Ga, who is so constituted hat
she cannot live out of water but short while
at time. After remaining away from bath
tub for couple of hours she commences to
faint and almost suffOcates, and to procure
relief must at once cover her entire body in
cold water. She has in her room pool of
fresh water. and in this she spends greater
part of her time, both winter and summer.
lii Hen Poi, the Jay Gould of China, is
not worth quite so much as first reported. His
New York the other day at S50,0000O0 This
mistake may have arisen from the difference
in the monetary unit of the two countries It
takes 1. 200 Chinese coins to make one Ameri-s
can dollar, hence a Chinaman becomes mill
lionaire when he acquires SSSS and he may be
so times millionaire. as Ii II en- Poi is reported
to be, and only be worth ST, so.
"A Japanese, after 20 years of labor, re-
search and experiment. has patented an in
vention for walking on the water, a sort of
shoe made of wood, of paper. of iron and of
gum elastic. Its shape is elllptical, and it is
tubes. 1t is not stated what makes the locomo-
tion, but it claims to go nearly league an
hour. The whole thing does not weigh more
than % pounds, and it allows the Yoyager %
carry with him about 25 pounds of baggage.
Prof Poe, of Bridgeport, Conn, has in
vented an artificial pair of lungs which he uses
in restoring life in cases of drowning and
phyxiation. He is experimenting on pet rab-
bit, and has already drowned it and restored it
to life IL times. The rabbit has also been suf-
located by the fumes of burning charcoal until
then attached his patent bellows to the ami
mails mouth and forced oxygen into the lungs
The returning suction drew out the deadly
gases, and the artificial respiration produced
contraction and expansion of the
lungs until life was restored. Prof Poe claims
that his invention will save human beings as
we'll as rabbits.
Samuel Snowden, who lives on the out
skirts of East Orange, N. J., tells remarkable
make story. He went TO a barn to get some
wood, and in the woodpile saw what he thought
vas dark and mottled stick of wood about
wo feet long. He drew it from the pile, but
suddenly dropped it as if it was hot. The sup
,osed stick, he found, was torpid black snake
bout four feet long. 1t had crawled into the
voodpile and was frozen stiff. Mr.. Snowden
picked up the snake by the tail and playfully
IL irafh his1 Ia N aTIrn rnriea fho
rozen snake broke in two, and the head end
ell to the ground. For a few seconds the tail
nd quiVered and then was apparently dead.
The head however, suddenly thawed, and ex-
libited remarkable activity gliding back to-
ward the woodpile. Then Mr.. Snowden re-
overed from his astonishment and battered
he life out of the head with the snakes tail.
,nowden has the two pieces of snake, and will
ave them stuffed and mounted.