Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Daniel Webster was arrested for burg
larry in East Liverpool, o., a few days ago.
"A Philadelphia connoisseur In eating
says that musk-rat meat tastes better than any
sirloin.
Two hundred bushels of onions have
been presented TO . charitable institution Of
Cleveland, to be distributed to the Door.
Conception Cortez, who died recently
at Matamoras, Mexico, was 1l3 years old. His
wife. Luz Lara, who survives him, is nearly 100
years old.
"A dead goose cost Postmaster Gerweg,
Of Dakota City Neb., his life. He had shot the
bird and was trying to get 1t, when his boat up
set and he was drowned.
"A Louisville man told reporter re-
Gently that after he took up the study Of that
science" last summer the mosquitoes. which
had greatly plagued his children. ceased to an
noy them New Jersey is just the held for
Christian science.
-Oskaloosa's female Mayor, who was re-
elected this spring, paid all the outstanding
claims of the city last year, met the current
expenses promptly. and left balance Of 500
In the city treasury. But she wore the same
bonnet AL year that she had bought the season
before.
"A fresco four feet square, in q wonder
ful state Of freshness has been uncovered in
Canterbury Cathedral on removing a wall, sup
posed to have been erected in l174 to strengthen
the wall OF the choir. Il shows st. Paul shak-
ing OF into the fire q serpent which had bitten
him on the hand.
Mrs. William Cross, Of Seymour, Ind,
was bitten on the foot by copperhead snake
over 80 years ago, but she partially recovered
after months Of intense suffering Every year
her foot has swollen TO enormous size, and sew
eral times it was thought she would die. For
no a uh ha1 haar IL
and her body Is now so badly swollen that it is
believed she cannot live many days.
Population is soscattered in New South
Wales that the failure Of so per cent Of the
voters to 90 to the polls at recent exciting
election, where the issue was between protec-
tion and free trade, is accounted for by the dis
tances many would have had to travel to cast
omission to open polls at a given locality, the
electors had to travel 200 miles or lose their
votes.
An Akron painter was at work on q
business block when he discovered . last
years birds meet in a niche In the ornamental
woodwork. There was nothing attractive or
particularly interesting in the makeup Of this
nest as the painter glanced at it. but he
apart. His eyes nearly bulged from their
sockets in his surprise as, among the bits of
string and hay and other ODDS and ends, he
beheld a $40 bill
w. b. Kent, farmer living near Win
terset, Iowa, has been arrested for using the
mails for lottery purposes. He was taken to
Des Moines and arraigned before q United
States Commissioner, and held under 500
bonds to appear before the grand jury. Kent
had big scheme under way. His plan was to
sell bushel Of corn for 81, and throw in one
aggregated, according to hls circulars, slOo 900.
1t was for sending these circulars through the
mails that he was arrested.
Here is an item that will interest Penn
sylvania sportsmen: In 1885 there were thou
sands of young trout deposited in the streams
of this part of the State. According to the
laws of this State, no fishing for this particular
fish was allowed for three years. The pre-
scribed time is now up, and having had three
abeunding with the beauties. There were
5000 distribut ed in Somerset county, chiefly AZ
Confluence. There were 10000 put in West
moreland county streams at Ligonier and New
Florence. At Brady, Indiana county, 1900
were distributed. In Cambria county 5000
were distributed at Ebensburg, Gallitzin ano
South Fork.
The ladies of Oakland, a village near
indianapolis, inaugurated crusade against
liquor selling, and established a surveillance
over an establishment run by Ammon and
Alexander Kepher, regular committees being
appointed, and the ladies, In squads of four
and i've, spending the entire time in the saloon,
making notes of sales and keeping tab on
every man purchasing drinks. Every effort
was made to force them away, save actual vio.
lence, loaferS even bringing in polecats and
putting the animals under the stove, hoping
the scent would drive out the women. One
lady tainted, bnt remained at her post. In
dictments against the Kepfers were secured.
-Lucien Marble Monroe, colored, of
Virginia, is attracting attention in New York,
where he has gone in search of relative. He
weighs but IS pounds, and one of his lower
limbs has the appearance of being solid bone.
He is helpless, being unable to either walk or
use his arms. A reporter learned from him
that the disease first manifested itself in 1857,
when he was years old, by a sharp pain near
his left knee, and, when an examination was
made, it was found that the joint was sOlidify-
ing. The following year the malady extended
into the foot, and later in the same year to the
other leg. His joints then lost all power Of
motion, and gradually solidified up to his neck.
For Is years he suffered greatly, but he has ex-
perienced no pain since 1872
AT meeting of the Numismatic and
Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia Henry
Phillips, Jr., exhibited a photograph of a
Roman coin with flint arrowhead, which was
found at Toledo, o., at depth Of six feet be-
low the surface. The coin was pronounced by
him to be Of the time of Antoninus Plus,
struck at Alexandria, and appeared from the
photograph to be in fine condition. No human
remains or traces of burial were discovered
with it. As bearing on tAis subject it is inter-
esting to note that similar numismatic finds
have been reported IN what was once the
Northwest Territory. Medals and coins of re-
mote countries and times are said to have been
discovered there frequently, sometimes in the
vicinity Of Indian remains and unlikely to
have been the property OF recent settlers.