Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

line New York Fire Department owns
and uses a53 horses.
The Friends meeting house at Woods
town, N. J., which mas been built 104 years, has
Just received its irst coat Of paint.
Mr.. Montambeau, Of Bay City, had
six white mice. six kittens ana like number
Of puppies born into his household on one
"A nying squirrel was seen in Punxsu-
tawney the other evening. making descent
center Of the town.
The youngest Deputy Sheriff in the
United States was appointed last week bv the
Sherin OF Queens county, ". Y. His name n
sedden Weller and he Is 13 years old.
Men working In an old cellar on
Larned street. Detroit, dug out several cannon
balls. The place whers they were found VAS
near the site Of fort magazine during the
War Of 1e12
That was good days work which
Maine minister performed last Sunday. he
having preached nve sermons two Of them
neid prayer meeting
"A dog which was swimming In the bay
near the Brunswick and Western dock At
brunswick, Ca, Wednesday Suddenly gave ;
yep and disappeared. Spectators supposed
rnar shark had made meal Of him
Two pairs of twins, aged respectively IS
ana 81 years. met at the Hall mansion in
M1osneryille, n. Y, few days ago. Mrs. Lucy
Han "a Alien OF saltwater. and Mrs Louisa Hail
sfs, ancn, o1 Mayneld, are the older pair, and the
Misses Williamson, Of Washington, ID. O.. the
''1lgs,.
men steve Houston, who lives II
miles irom Monticello, Fla. went to town =
few days ago. he threw his saddle bags across
his horse and when he dismountsd and felt IN
ms m Dag LOT something, ne pulled out dead
- ~; @ In.on was ProDaoiy aiiVe Wnen ne started
Mrs. Frank Ososki. of Raw Citv ba.
h.a e. -. ,.a -. ..---3..- - nls
nau 70 pay soo 1or assuring MIS-. barthones
FreeooWskl Sne banged the latter individual
because she thought she had bewitched the
6esn told fbas n ss I,cEad III IL mo ,, s1e , haa
would get well.
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u'iess tne u1e - useo.
One of the remarkable featurps about
architecture in New York at present Is the
rapidity with which buildings are completsd,
particularly the great ofice buildings in Wall
street and elsewhere down town. Formerly
tne construction OF such buildings was mat
pied in few months aftsr the fanndsz,ons sr
1aId. Nine and 1O-story buildings which were
only begun in June are now ready for their
occupants.
Mr. Wi1Iian, n n;Ilinchau whita
a.p.-- 1--.-->1' - - --sss-s, -, -.
nsnins ~ aoluon creek. Ofe-, ie" o1ys since,
length, m huge bowider. Every nm and
scale or the dsh was as plainly marked In the
rock as il cut by q skilled artist. Many people
wonder how trout get in streams aboys high
falls were made as from this fossil II is evil
dent that there were trout in the streams Of
Oregon in prehistoric ages. Mr.. Dillingham;
intends to 20 out some day and catch that
FOSSIL trout with hammer and cnlsel.
a f.-,o- =, prI1.k;n p-.;-s. L,d
sine W nsU
drove OF * nali-grown geese killed ana swal-
md. a few days aro The reese @ were Observed .si
early in the day by gang Of telephone men at
work. and their strange actions were com
mented on. but the cause was not discovered
evening. ,e nnea she Tns rsans
and several Of the reptiles were killed, their
bellies dlstended with the geese tney mad swai-'
lowed. Vne oi tne rsttleIs was An enormous
ieho", ABOUT . 1851 IN length.
-Germana are anrioualv ava;tin1 fbe
-,.y,- -,-ss -,s ~
una. velelcs IN .ery Pecular P c-se wn'ca 70
centiy came oeiore tne dermAn courts Two
ladies' OF I" esei, II seems. made . complaint De-
fore magistrate some time ago that one OF
their uei0hbors was the oWner of a rooster
vboaa 1c,,d croufre dIstnrha1 th.,s sfn,,he-.
every nirht The. maristrste decided rhar tbs
noise was disorderly and fined the owner Of the
rooster, because he did not prevent the ami
NAL rom growing A. night An appeal nom
this decision was taken 10 the higher court. but
without Success Now, 1t appears, the owner
Of the Objectionable rooster has appealed to the