Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

AT Huntsville, Ala, pink and white
| chicken was hatehed short time ago.
A small boy killed blue racer at Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, the other day, BY cutting
| off its head with hatehet, 1ne SHAKE was
| fully feet in length.
There are five girls in one OF the
Humphries families of Fleming county, ky.,
and their names are Arkansas, LOUISIANA, len
nessee, Florida and Virginia
An Australian who was hanging 70 tne
beam of a bridge and realized that ne must
fall made verbal will to companlo @ oisPEs- POS
| ing of about $50, 900 worth OF properly @nu 'uo
courts have sustained IL.
Ten thousand eight hundred and ten
persons assembled to the top of the washington
Monument last month. making total OF LN-
| $50 since October 9, 1888 when the structure
was opened to the public.
John Williams, a bachelor in Augusta,
| Me-. was told that certain widow had set her
cap for him, and John was SO afraid that ne
might be roped into marriage that he went 70
the barn and hanged himself
"A boy in Meriden, Conn.,, broke the
handle of teacup belonging to a neighbor,
and the trife has not only made enemies OF
dozen people, but led to several assault and
battery cases and three lawsuits.
1t is said of Canadian mother who
died the other day: "She was true wife.
fond mother, and so managed affairs as to
marry off her nine girls before any other fe-
male in the neighborhood could even get .
beau"
The jawbone of huge monster has
been unearthed recently at the Wauchula,
Fla, phosphate beds 1t measures Is inches in
length and about in width. Some Of the
teeth are or inches long and 2or 3 inches in
diameter.
"A Connecticut woman ssuing her neigh
Dor for damages for putting up fly screens. She
claims that the flies which cannot get into the
neighbors house on this account will come 70
hers, and she will thereby have double the
usual number.
An Iowa man advertised in Western
papers that he wanted good reliable men to
send him 81 each. for which he would send 70
ones, 3 tWos, fiYes and l ten." he kept MS
agreement, but sent postage stamps instead OF
dollars. Now he is in jail
"A test has been made in France to see
whether the color of a horse had anything to
do with his characteristics. 1t has been DEM
onstrated that any such idea Is all nonsense.
Pedigree and early training have all to do with
it, and color nothing whatever.
They have new way of planting orange
trees near San Diego, Cal They bore a small
hole and drop in dynamite cartridge. the ex-
plosion of which makes hole big enough foI
the tree. and, loosening the soil to depth OF
several feet, enables the tree to take root
easier.
"A New York physician names these
among other evils to be guarded against at
summer resorts: Over fatigue and undue ex-
posure to the sun, irregular eating, over feed
| ing on food to which one is unaccustomed, sit
ting or lying on the ground, and unnecessary
exposure to the dew and dampness after night
fall.
"A Maine paper has discovered that
many of the alleged new potatoes that people
are buying and eating nowadays are not new at
ALL and nave not been since year ago. Some
fellow has discovered q way OF making old
potatoes look new by soaking them in prep
aration that makes the rough, outer skin peel
off, and leaves only smooth inner skin like
that of new potato.
Tom Fuller, of Geneva, Ca, says that
he saw a rabbit whip and kill snake a few
days ago. The snake had caught young rabbit
and was trying to swallow it. The old rabbit
rushed by the snake and bit it as it passed.
1t then ran by the snake again and bit it, and
repeated the run several times. biting the
snake each time. The snake finally dropped
the young rabbit, craWled OFF short distance,
and died.
Among the most interesting fetes dur
ing the French exhibition will b. the interna-
tional gymnastic feast at Vineennes. 1t will
be monster athletic demonstration, no fewer
tnan lZ,UUU gymnaSJS, Frencn anu IOrelgn. TAX
ing part IN it. They will be lodged in tents ex-
tending from the chateau to the POlygOne.
France will be represented by 45O societies,
Belgium by 81 and Switzerland BY 40 while
Italy, Denmark, Holland Sweden and Norway,
Luxembourg, and other nations viii send their
crack bands. -->
Friday was the one hundred and
twelfth anniversary of the adoption fthe Stars
and Stripes as the flag Of the United States.
The flag used as early as January, I776, by the
Continental army. had 13 alternate red and
white stripes, with the united st. George and
st. Andrew crosses in, into the Union. This
was changed by act of Congress. June IA, l77T,
by retaining the stripes and placing IL stars in
the blue field An act of 1894 provided that there
should be as many stripes as stars, but on April
4, 1878 1t was determined that the flag should
be as it is at present, the ID alternate red and
white horizontal stripes, representing the indie
pendent l3 original States, and provision being
made that there should be as many stars in the
field as there are States in the Union, one star
to pe added on the admission Of each new
State on the 4th of July succeeding the admis-
sion.
"A flock Of goats were browsing and
looking for stray oyster cans, sardine boxes
and the like in North Dallas when all at once
there was a commotion among the foremost
ones, which beat hasty retreat. An old billy
who had been fetching up the rear with the
solemnity of deacon, walked to the front,
paused and began to strike the ground right
hard in an odd sort of way with his fore feet
and at the same time to shake his head as il
going through some sort OF superstitious incan-
tation. He then walked back in the direction
he had come, for few yards, and, taking
running start made a long jump, alighting with
his legs punched, and Immediately on hitting
the ground, made a second long jump far out
to one side. The gentleman who witnessed this
strange performance. prompted by curiosity,
went up to see what the trouble was, and there
lay big rattlesnake cut nearly in two writhlnG
in the throes of death.