Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

some OF tuc GEOuiDluOQl8LS Oh ErIA
county say they viii not plant any barley rye
this spring.
Near Jasper, Ind, Miss Ellen Cunning
ham, a miss in her teens, was recently married
to Jesse CreciIius, Of Eckley, who Is 20 years Of
age
Down in Texas they have super
stition that an egg laid on Good Friday viii
never spoil. The same belief is held in New
Orleans.
Charles Sampsel's pet bear at Williams
port swallowed silver box full of fnecut the
other day, and has been splitting tobacco Juice,
with saddened Visage, ever since.
Mysterious footballs and door-slams at
night have driven freshly welded pair from
a house at Cedar Hill, Berks county. and even
the dogs quit the premises at sundoWn.
"A thief entered the house Of Rev. Mr..
Coissart of Tilden. Neb., and stole $40. The
curious part of the transaction was that the
roll of money from which he took the bill con-
tanned 500.
Superintendent ireland says that while
some of the vicious dogs in the Philadelphia
Kennel Club show were ugly when men at
tempted to pat them, the touch of q woman's
hand was welcomed by the most savage brute.
William b. Harrison, Haddonfeld, N.
j., grocer, ,dreameda night or two ago that money
was concealed in an ancient house near his
store. He investigated and found 81 50 in Con-
tinental currency back of an old mantel piece.
i'm the town of Bessbrook, Ireland,
where John q. Richardson employs 5000 people
in the manufacture of Irish linen no liquor has
been sold for 40 years; and as a result there is
neither policeman, prison, pawnshop nor pauper
in the town.
"A 15-inch trout took two falls out of
DR.. E. H Baker, Williamsport angler, who
was standing on mossy and rather slippery
stone The first fall snapped his suspenders,
and the second laid him hat upon his back.
But he got the trout
Some $50 residents of the city of Somer-
vile, Mass, are petitioning the Railroad Com.
missioners to have the blowing of locomotive
whistles at various crossings stopped. The
railroad is willing, but under the law has no aus
thority to take the initiative.
1t is told of Boston man that he ad-
mired fine painting Of a house and grounds
skirted by a pretty river, but that he would not
buy it until the artist removed the house to a
hill to be especially painted for that purpose,
because he did not think it would be healthy to
live in house SO near river.
A Port Huron barber has found great
profit in the pigs in clover puzzle, as it helps
him hold customers who claim they can't
await their turn. "Just try that" he says,
soothingly, thrusting the puzzle into their
hands, and when he gets ready to shave 'em
they're in the shop yet you bet.
"A few days ago George Saxton, a mes
senger boy of one of the Western Union Tele-
graph offices in Philadelphia made a wager
that he could walk from Broad and Chestnut
streets to Bristol, Pa, and back in one day.
He accomplished the feat in 10 hours and 40
minutes The distance travelled was 40 miles.
The State fish hatchery people at Green's
Point, on the north side of Chautauqua, have
been drawing a seine. Wednesday the catch
of buIlheads is said to have reached two tons at
one haul. Two fine muscalonge were taken
and kept TOR spawning purposes. There was
also an enormous quantity of bass. All were
returned to the lake.
M. n. Kulp, of Shamokin, was one of a
party OF fishermen who went up into Center
county for trout. They had good luck and got
over 400 fish. While on the mountain they were
chased by bear and compelled to take to the
trees. The bear followed Kulp up tree, but
he is a good shot and put several balls from a
revolver through the animal and killedIt. The
bear weighed 200 pounds. A young cub was
captured alive.
-Lowndes county, Georgia, produces little
COW which is indeed curiosity. 1t is the same
distance in height. length and width and is
supported by legs not more than II inches in
length. It bears the name of the guinea COW.
The first were brought from Spain by an old
Spaniard who came to this country before the
war. The COW Is very small and chunky, but it
keeps rolling fat on almost nothing. and is a
splendid mixer, the average giving from three
to three and half gallons Of milk per day.
These animals sell at SlOO each, and the people
prefer them to Jerseys.
Some weeks ago Russell Rice, farmer
at Scottsburg, Ind, found nest Of five young
squirrels In the woods and took them home
and placed them in care of the family cat.
The cat at once adopted the squirrels and
raised them In the same manner as she would
have done her own young. The squirrels are
now half-grown ana deeply attached to their
foster-mother. and when separated from her
the other day and placed in the courtyard
park. they acted almost like kittens, but are
now fast learning to climb the trees in the
manner OF their nature.
-Amzira Elkins began housekeeping at
Seymour, Ind, 81 years ago with young and
handsome bride, with whom he lived happily
for a time. Fourteen years later, at a church
meeting he and his wife, Hannah, quarreled,
whereupon he deserted her and his children and
went to Iowa. He has lived there since without
communicating with his wife or friends. Sew
eral weeks ago he returned suddenly and be-
gan proceedings in court for divorce, which
was denied him. He is 73 years old, hearty,
rich and well preserved. His wife is past 70
and is totally blind They have grandchildren
married.
"A novel sight was witnessed in Colum-
bus recently. There is colony of gray squir-
rels in tree in the State House yard and in
neighboring tree on Broad street are q num-
ber of fox squirrels. A motherly gray squirrel,
concluding her frisl1y neighbors are not the
right sort OF associates for the young, removed
her children to another tree further away.
The removal was effected with none Of the
modern Improvements in travel. She simply
took the little fellows by the nape of the neck
with her mouth and carried them from one end
of the lawn to the other. 1t was tiresome bust.
ness. She would travel about 80 feet with one
of the half-grown fellows in her mouth and
then stop forrest. Finally, arriving at the
fayorite tree, she would painfully climb it until
she arrived at the box in the fork. Then she
would stick the babies heads in the hole and
give them q push This was kept up until
three ''shy things" had been transferred to their
new home and the mother then considered her
self entitled to a little vacation on the lawn.
She therefore frisked around awhile and gath.
cred up some Of the grass which the lawn
mower Of the day before had shaved on the
turf.
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.