Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-01
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Visitors at the Pixies Peak Observa-
tory have for years been RECALLED with the
statement that "this is tho highest point
on the globe which is inhabited the year
round" 1t now appears that regular
meteorological observations are made on
the Andes, in Peru, at a height of II, 800
feet, which is about 200 feet higher than
the Pixies Peak station. In Europe there
are but two stations of any considerable
height, these being about 10000 and
ii, 900 feet respectively
Elmira has a peculiar case OF love and
marriage between a school principal and
one of her former pupils. Miss Hannah
Rhodes was forty-fivc years old when
she approached the matrimonial altar.
She had been a teacher in the public
schools of this city before her husband,
Thomas f. Connolly, was born. lie IS
about twenty-five years old, and when n
yOungster lie not unfrcquentiy Ielt the
effects of vigorous punishment at the
hands of his present spouse.
The little village OF Parkersburg, But
Ter county. la, is greatly excited over
ghostlv manifestation that has recently
appeared in the town. About a year
ago a colored barber. who was leader Of
the village band and well known for his
excellent playing on tho guitar, was
taken sick and died. Pecenty people
living in the vicinity of the house where
he passed away have heard a guitar
played precisely as he was III the habit
of playing it, with the same tunes which
were his fayorites.
A man who has been working country
towns in East New jersey with the old
swindle of selling alleged gold rings and
making presents of gold watches began
business from his buggy in Bollevile on
Wednesday night. After he had gotten
well under way some person in the crowd
cut the traces of his harness, and when
the fellow attempted the trick of driving
suddenly away his horse started but left
the buggy behind. The man was com
PEELED to refund the money 10 his vic
Tins. and finally skunk out OF town drag
ging his buggy after him.
For some weeks past q most curious
game OF ball has been in progress in the
shop window of Brooklyn tobaccoIist.
Tho players are little papler-mAche skel-
etons about half foot high, such as you
SEQ in the japanese stores everywhere.
The diminutiye diamond is mapped out
with little foul flags and chalk lines and
o skeleton mans every position of the
In and out-feld. The astonishing part
Of the whole is the wonderiully-exact
mimicry OF attitude Of the players. The
grotesque exactness of every detail is
startling, and evidences the master hand
OF some close student of the ball-field.
There seems 10 be an extraordinary
large "crop" of snakes this season.
Along the mountain on the east side of
the Hudson Valley, near Greenwood
Lake, persons who are looking for them
can ind pilots, adders, rattlesnakes, and
other poisonous reptiles In great album
dance. John Hallock, u farmer who
lives Ut Greenwood Lake, one day last
week killed large adder and pilot
snake. He said afterwards that he con-
sidered II poor year for snakes when he
did not kill dozen rattlers and as many
pilot snakes. One day recently two
fattloSnak6S were hllleu DetWtcu Dtun-
hope and Waterloo. One had seventeen
rattles and the other twenty-one.
There is a gold-digger at Atlantic
City. His name is Amos, and he can
be seen every fair day on the beach with
sieve aud spade. Close to the edge OF
the boardwalk, where the peanut-shelis
lie thickest and the chance Of lucre is
greatest, Amos vigorously prosecutes his
work. Every three or four feet he hnlts,
deposits half dozen shoyelfuls
Of sand in bis tub-ike sieve, rocks it
back and forth to get rid OF the dross,
then, when the last grain OF sand has
through. no proceeds to exam
inc the result. Shoe-strings, hsir-pins,
and rusty nails. together with the inevi- |
table peanut-shells, cigar-stumps, and |
tolu wrappers generally form the bulk
Of his catch, but often penny or a nick !
81 or coin OF greater value peeps forth |
from the congiomerate heap and speedi-
y finds it way to Amos's pocket. He
gets considerable money for recovering
lost jewels and returning them 10 their