Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A company Of Cinnamon styled the
| Imperial Chinese Dramatic Company Of San
Francisco Is playing At Chicago theatsr The
play produced Is said to be OOO years old.
III. I. Huff, while cutting down bee
tree on his farm, five miles from Atlanta, dis
covered in the hollow trunk eight army mus
kets and two bayonets. Soldiers stored them
there 5 years ago.
I'm trying to eat ten pounds of roast beef
on wager the other day. George Lane. a resi-
dent Of Rutland, overestimated his capacity
and fell over in ft and died. He thought he
was hog, but he wasn't.
"A Lspeer mich man froze one Of his
hands one day recently while the Thermometer
stood at 90 in the shade, He was running an
ice cream freezer, and his hand was 50 badly
frosted that he had to wear it in . bandage for
several days.
Ben Davis, of Elk Rapids, Mich, says
Mike Gay buried some maple syrup In the
spring Of rs, and has Just dug it up to ind ii ~
1resn and sweet as ever. Ben didn't know
where the stuh was buried, which is one rea-
son 1t kept so well.
"A couple who had been divorced 40
years before in California, met on a railroad
train out in Arkansas the other day. They
con cluded to remarry. and the ceremony was
performed on their reaching Eureka Springs,
Ark, that evening.
Hugh Foster, an intelligent Michigan
Scotchman, who lives on Sugar Island in the
st. Mary's river, has never seen a locomotive,
and has so little curiosity on the subject that
he has never taken the trouble to walk miIa
TO see one, although he is frequently at the
500, where the miles walk would bring him
the sight.
AN estate Of SIC, ,OOO, 900 has reverted to
nd hoo Of Los,-
The rightful heirs are said to be two little girls
in Toecoa, Ga.who are related on their fathers
side to Ex-Governor Fenton, Of New York ex-
President Grover Cleveland, Governor Hill,
Mr.. Fargo, Of Wells. Fargo & Co, Chicago,
and on their mothers side to JEFF Davis.
The 12-year-old son of Thomas With
row. of Allegan, Mich, Is a fisherman Of the
first water. Last week he captured 90-pouud
sturgeon with 25-cent frog spear. The fish
pulled the doughty fisherman into the water
and took turns in being ON top, but the boy
proved the better man of the two and finally
reached shore with his prize which he took
home in wheelbarrow.
Dakota people are queer lot A mem-
Der Of the Legislature in that Territory was
told by number of his political opponents that
he was crazy, and he concluded that maybe he
had better look the matter up. He wanted to
be reasonable about it and find out authorita-
lively, SO he went down To New York and sub
mibted his case to an expert. The doctor put
MIN through his mental PAGES, talked with him
the Dakota man certificate Of sanity.
"A few days ago youth entered the
store Of F. P. Kelly, Ruffsdale, Pa, to attend
to some business. He had with him a turkey,
tied by the legs. Pending his business trans.
actions. the youth deposited the fowl on the
floor. Shortly atterward dog rushed into the
store. This frightened the turkey; mmedi-
ately the bird was all commotion. It auttered
among the queensware until it had broken IS
worth, and then smashed plate glass window.
The store keeper wants damages, but he hastn't
decided whether he ought to sue the boy, the
turkey or the dog.
-Assemblyman McAdam, of Oneida
county, received monkey at the Capital at
Albany by express one night recently. The
monkey was put in the lobby outside the As
sembly chamber, but it squeaked 50 that It
could pc heard inside. Mr.. Mase went out and
kicked the box. which made the monkey howl
more. A COMMITTEES Of the Assemblymen took
charge Of 1t and escorted it into the library
where it was fed on crackers. The Assembly,
men tried to catch it and put it back in its box
but 1t climbed around over the bookcases and
IL was SO much more interesting than the pro-
ceedings Of the Assembly that for a while there
were hardly enough men in the House to pass-D
bills. Mr.. McAdam finally put it back in it
box after another Assemblyman had knocke
1t of the bookcase with broom.
Gathering fruit can scarcely be ca
trapping, and yet there is a stratag
tributed to that walking bunch of too
called the hedgehog which may pro
, place in that category. It seems tn y
found In the hedgehog's
apartment, and its presence there is e. ii
n this remarkable way: Il is known that hedge
hogs often climb walls and run OF upon low y
boughs. and, instead Of scrambling down in the
same manner, they boldly make the leap from
The top to the ground, sometimes 10 or IL feet.
They coil into ball in the air, strike upon
their armor Of spines, and bound away un-
In taking this jump they have been
impaled upon their spines, was carried away
by them, and this has gwen rise to the opinion
that In some such way they may have stored
their winter homes.
About four miles south of Interlaehen,
Putnam county, Fla some of the citizens were
startled by a frightful noise. like the rushing
of mighty cannon ball through the air. On
looking up they discovered something that
ooked like q solid column of fire passing with
velocity through the air, with q
Thirring, Kissing sound. something like that Of
J shell, but many times louder. 1t appeared to
be from to 10 feet in length and from to 8
Ieet in diameter. but it was passing with such
'wiftness that it may have been many times
arger than IL appeared. When first discovered
{ seemed to be several hundred feet above the
Earth, and was inclining in its course toward
he ground. profusely emitting great sparks Of
Ire. About a minute or two after it passed
)nL Oh 5lgnL an aWIul explosion was heard thae
hook the earth for miles around, and was
ieard for distance of IS niles
-LogEood, the sap or juice of which is
extracted very largely for purposes Of dyeing
n different colors, grows in swampy places on
ow lands in the West Indies. The trees are
omewhat shaped like elm trees. with large
ranches, but these are more tortuous and
.inky, much more eclumsy-looking, in fact The
caves of the foliage do not grow with any
uxurance, but are dwarfed and grow close TO
he limb; they are simmer and longer. The
atives, In securing the wood, cut down the
rees with huge. heaVy-headed axes like
eetles and cut OF the bark and sap wood with
hese and with machetes, long scimetar or cut
ass-like knives. The heavy heads Of the axes
ssist them in breaking on the limbs when
early severed, and they proceed to cut these
nto convenient lengths. The heart wood,
7hich Is red (the sap wood Is Yellow, il used
or dyeing, and Is filed up and carteG down to
he shore or quay, where it is piled up BY the
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