Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
CURIOUS CONpENSATIOES

"A wife in VinalhsEen, Me-, left her
husband because be wouldn't buy onions.
AT Pomona, CAL, four dogs that had
been poisoned ers"led to an undertaker's shop
/ and expired on the steps,
| Wildcats and wolves are numerous near
Montieeiio, III. Elijah Hariine and his dogs
killed the largest wildcat ever seen in that re-
| gion, the other day.
"A tramp feet and 10 inches in height
was locked up in the Auburn, y. Y, Jail for
I ten days recently He gave his name as John
| Winar, but would tell nothing of his past his
| tory.
A Selma (Cal.) man went into q store
last week and put lighted cigarette on the
edge OF an aquarium. A goldfish seized it and
took a put. For several days the poor thing
lay at the bottom Of the tank and painted like
tired dog. Its color changed to a let black. and
the owner OF that cigarette has sworn OF for
keeps
"A South Carolina man who was curious
to know Just how much stuff an alligator could
get away with when he felt well. fed out a hind
quarter of . COW, seven chickens a sheen four
geese and . hogs head before the reptile
backed water. The COW and sheen and poultry
bad died Of poison, but this didn't trouble the
gator any.
Two chairs that have been handed down
four generations go to help out on the furnf-
ture used in the late Abram Sampson's house
in Coleman, Mich. The oldest one was boueft
in Boston Mass, in 1749, and has now reached
6he ripe old age OF 40 years They also have q
-four barrel in the house that was bought in
New York in 1889. has been in II different
States, and is good for u more.
Among the treasures of the Kansas His
terleal Society is a rebel" geography which
was compiled in 1862 by General John H. Rice.
then a prominent Georgian. but now equally
prominent as the editor of the Republican
Fort Scott Monitor. Twenty-three pages Of it
America" which are cited as ''the best ex-
ample Of Republican form OF Government"
"A friend of the lazy, in Bangor, Me-,
has invented device by means of which man
can catch fish without fishing. He attaehesa
small sleigh bell to piece of barrel hoop one
end of which he inserts into crack in the
dock; After batting his line and throwing it
hands in his pockets and awaits Developments.
As soon as the bell is jingled by jerk on the
line, he hauls it in and lands the fish,
Captain A. o. Paine, of Cocoa, Fla,
has shells and pottery taken from the mound
on the east bank OF Indian river az the foot of
Merritt Island. These shells and fragments
were taken from the mound about 30 feet be-
low the surface. the action Of the water having
washed away large portion of the mound, and
leaVlDR the SbraL6 exposed 20 view. From that
portion of the mound used as a burial ground
only eOneh shells were taken from among the
skeletons, and the curious feature of the case
Is that in every conch shell hole is broken in
the same relative position. 1t is supposed that
the conchs were buried with the dead to be
used as food in the happy hunting grounds.
and to facilitate the eating process each she'll
was broken SO the fish could be eaten without
trouble. The shells and pottery may be seen at
this Office.
"A German chemist in Chicago has been
experimenting for a number of years in the
hope Of discovering process for parifying and
refining milk and cream for the purpose of
shipment to points distant from the place of
supply, and he says he has found It at last By
this process much Of the water is taken out,
and the ingredients are left unbarmed in their
natural state. All disease germs, it is also
claimed, have been destroyed, and. if there has
been a taste of bitter herbs, it has been re-
moved. The milk, thus purified and refined.
will keep sweet for fully 80 days, and can be
shipped anywhere, and when the water has
been replaced, Is in as good if not better con-
dition as when it left the COW, and cannot be
distinguished from milk six hours old. The
inventor is now shipping refined milk to New
Orleans, where high prices rule and some has
been sent to Boston.
The Museum Of Antiquities at Dresden
has come into possession of an interesting
marble relief from Rome, which represents an
ancient butchers shop, OF Oblong shape, and
divided by pillar into two unequal parts. In
the greater stands the butcher, with a high
chopping block, resting on three substantial
legs before him. while behind him hangs the
steel yard and cleavsr he himself being occu-
pied in dividing RIB Of meat with another
eleaver On the wall above him, Just rs with
as, Is row OF hooks near TO each other, on
rib and leg of meat, pork joint and udders-a y
tit-bit of the Romans; also lungs and liver. and
last Of all, the favorite boar's head. On the
left in the smaller division Of the shop the
wife of the butcher sits in an easy char, with y
an account book on her knees. engaged in as
sisting the business of her husband by acting
as bOokkeeper. Her headdress points to the
time Of Antonine.
-Curtiss Hicks, an ossifed man, who re-
sides in Racine, Wis, has been attracting .
great deal of attention. He has been visited by
many doctors and others who pronounce him
living wonder. At one time he was one of the
most popular railroad engineers in the Western
and found a man not over five feet high living
upon bed in an apparently ifeless condition.
Hearing some one approach he reused up and
in clear voice and in an intelligent
manner for over an hour His feet, toes, ankles,
legs. knee joints and even the hip joints are in
! complete state of ossideatien. They were as
hard as bone, and the skin was Of a reddish
color. The arms, hands, fingers and all the
The man stated there was not single Joint in
his body that was not ossifed. His Jaws are
Iet, and only a cracker can be forced between
his teeth. His body is in perfectly healthy
condition, and his mind unelouded Still he Is
ike dead man. and has not been able to move
'r help himself for ten years.
Mr. B. W. Casou, agent for the Pacific
Express and United States Express Companies
i New Orleans, in an interview with a re-
'orter, said: II believe our companies have at
ast hit upon a plan which in the future will
make impossible the robbing of express mat
er. All the cars are being supplied with sta
ionary safes with combination locks the COM
ination of which the express messenger in the
ar will be kept in ignorance. Hereafter when
money Is shipped responsible representative
f the company here viii 90 down to the tram,
eposit the yaluables and money in the safe.
heck il with the messenger and then secure
be safe. When the train reaches Memphis,
chattanooga, or any other point. another
representative of the company. also acquainted
nth the combination. will visit the car and
sceTtain from the messenger If there are any
alHables or money in the safe for that point.
( answered in the affirmative he viii open the
afe and take out the property. By this sys-
EN- il an express car is attacked by train rob
ers they viii be compelled to blow open the
lfe, as no matter how much they might desire
the messenger will be unable to assist them.7
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