Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A Cigarette Trust has been formed BY
tobacco dealers in Salem. Ore.
One Mcdonald, of Beloit, Neb., gives
his age as 103, and says that his father Lived to
be III
"A Cincinnati couple named respectively
John Sweet and Millie Honey were married In
that city recently.
Charley Wheelock, when in the Coast
range. Ono, Cal, killed 7O0-pound grizzly at
800 yards, the first fire from his rite.
"A dozen drivers and conductors on the
Atlantic avenue horse car line in Brooklyn
were suspended recently for flirting
The Lee brothers, of French creek, B.
o., were building q road last week, when they
noticed their dog acting curiously near q large
stump. A second later he was seized by full
grown panther and carried into the woods.
The streets of Albuquerque, N. Mex,
are so deserted at night that the cottontail rab-
Bit has taken possession of them. A number
are so tame that they go into the Democrat
office every night to get fed by the printers.
"A miner of Hassayampa district, CAL,
found a bee tree sometime since. cut it down
one afternoon. went next day to get the honey.
and found that three bears-two old ones and
cub-had been there and taken every thimble-
full full of the sweet stuff.
"A large oak tree stands on the Ken
Robles, Cal. This tree measures SO feet in cir
cumference at the base, II feet in diameter.
and is about 66 feet high. Some of the limbs
are large trees in themselves.
George Williams, a noted hunter of
Virginia City, has discovered deposit of fossil
ivory in the Sierra Nevada range. His first
showing consists of two large tusks of an ele-
phant The iv ory is in perfect condition, and
he is going bac for wagon load.
"A Des Moines Ia, youth, under the in
spiration of sensational novels purchased an
outfit of small arms. q false beard. and then
held up several travellers in highwayman style.
His vaulting ambition o'erleaned itself, and he
is at present in the care of the police.
Sally Kennett, of Madison, N. H., and
Jacob Tuttle, of Alton. N. H, are twins and 81
Robert, late husband of Mrs. Kennett, who
George, survived him one year They were Of
family of 10 or II. Mrs. Kennett and Mr..
Tuttle were of family of Il, some still living.
Mrs. Phineas Clawson, of Hopwood,
Pa, was picking huckleberries In the noun
tains few days ago with a pet dog at her side
when a copperhead snake crawled up and bit
the dog The animal fed frightened into the
later the dog returned apparently none the
worse for the bite.
"A Meriden, Conn.,, authority declares
that street musicians are serious thing to q
manufacturing company in that town. A
gypsy girl who played the tambourine recently
passed their establishment, land 1t is estimated
that she cost the company about 500 Every
employe in the factory few to a windew. and
work was suspended for fully 15 minutes all
over the shop. Every circus parade costs every
one of the large manufacturing concerns hun
dreds Of dollars. 1t costs them from S25 TO $50
every time minstrel brass band marches by"
DIR. Just, of Coral, Mich, thinks that
he has one of the oldest horses in the United
States. Twenty-four years ago he bought him
of Dan Rice, the Snowman, and then the horse
was said to be p years old. The other day
State Veterinarian Grange made careful ex-
him perfectly sound Of body, wind and limb.
and apparently good for 20 years more. DR..
Just uses the old horse daily in his practice,
and he shows not the slightest signs CT his
great age.
AN old Indian trail has been discovered
at Shawangunk Mountain, leading from War
warsiug, Y, into the Waikiki Valley. Where
the trail runs down the mountain on the Gardi-
ner side, it passes a cleft in the rocks. Some
thing in the shape of a staircase had been
formed. so the Indians could slide down the
declivity from projection to projection. With
out this staircase it would be impossible to go
down the mountain at that point. On the oppO-
site side of the mountain there is another stair
case or ladder" as it is called.
Quite an amusing instance of somnam-
bulism occurred In Morgan, Ga, some nights
since. A 10year-old boy was discovered fast
asleep climbing into his room through a
window some distance from the ground. This
alarmed his father. and procuring some large
wire, he made a casing the outside, and
some nights SINCE q crash being heard, a rush
was made for the boys room, when, behold
the young man was half way through the
wire with the window sash resting gracefully
on his spinal column. He did not have to be
awakened.
One of the most picturesque and re-
markable bodies of water in the world is
Henrys Lake. in Idaho. 1t is situated on the
dome of the continent in a depression in the
Rocky Mountains called Targee's Pass. 1t has
an area of 40 square miles, and all around it
rise snow-capped peaks. some of them being
the highest of the continents backbone. In
the lake is floating island about 800 feet IN
diameter IL has for its basis a mass of roots
heavy growth of underbrush. These roots are
covered with several feet of rich soil. The
surface is solid enough to support the weight
where house could be built The wind blows
the island about the lake, and it seldom re-
mains "a hours in the same place.
Queer names certainly are found in the
London general registry of births, at Somerset
House. For example, young scions of the
families of Bath, Lamb. Jordan, Dew, Dear,
and Smith are christened respectively Foot.
Pascal, River, Morning. Onsprtng, and Smith
Follows. Mr.. Cox called his son Arthur Welles-
ley Wellington Waterloo. Mr.. Jewett, a noted
huntsman, named his Edward Byng Tally Ho
Forward. mortal that was evidently unwel-
come is recorded as Zone Too Many" An
other of the same sort is mot Wanted James"
Children with six to ten names are frequent,
but probably the longest name in the world.
longer than that of any pOtentate is attached
to the child of Arthur Pepper, laundryman.
The name Of his daughter, born 1888 is Ann
Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude
Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora
Ophelia Ounce Rebecca Starkey Tereza Ulysis
(sic) Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus