Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


"A bunch Of celery containing 12 stalks
has just been gathered At Kalamazoo. It
weighed 30 Dounds-
AN Augusta (Me.) lady started out to
collect 100000 postage stamps. She has 40
eumuiated A0oO0. and Is ready to sell out
"A West Virginian got marriage license
the other day and gave the Iady's last name
wrong: When notified Of bis mistake he said
ne really didn't know what her name was
There is lady in Greenville, Mich,
who has three daughters whose birthdays are
celebrated on the same daytime 17th Of June
Iney were AZ married in the same month OF
the year, and each Of them married man
having four letters In his surname
Uncle Bob Carlton, of Magazine, Ark,
is said 70 be 126 years old. He is strong and
hearty, has good eyesight and can shoot more
squirrels than any boy in the neighborhood,
He uses an old-fashioned rife that vas carried
BY soldier in the Revolutionary War.
When the citizens OF TayIorsville. Neb..
turned out and rode Jason Mitchell on a ran.
and then put on tar and feathers a. a further
testimonial Of their love and esteem, he didn't
through be b began suit against % different men, en-.
and made them glad to settle with him for 500
each.
u. H. Myers, Of Horton. Mich, an
nounces himself the champion guesser Of Jack
son county. Last spring he guessed on the
weight Of $50 sheep and came within half .
Rouna OF II, and turned round and guessed that
sne oean crop on the farm would be 40 bushels
ana the measurement showed only fYe quarts
lacking from that amount
The European residents whose property
was destroyed In the recent revolt in Cham
King. China. have received as indemnity $4,000
taeis, or SlI5Oo0 It Is rather remarkable that
this sum was paid by neither the Governments
nor r1s province. but BY the officers Of the city.
ernor OF Shanghai the same while the minor
officials paid the remainder in proportion to
was entirely demolished. received 10000
Captain Alexander Kendall, of Nash
vile, has Q horse named Mack that he has
taught to perform more than 30 tricks Mack
receives commands from his master, which he
recognizes and obsys as promptly a. If he fully
understood the English language He can un-
CORK q bottle with all the expertness Of VET
eran bartender, and can drink its contents like
an old topper. He viii ring dinner bell. carry
il he were an individual. Mack Is beautiful
black animal, only years old. and 10 . whole
circus all to himself.
Mrs. Schmults, of Hackensack, n. J..
the wife of the private secretary Of Dr. Norvin
Green, has beaten the record Of rail bird
shooters on the Hackensack meadows this sea-
son. She hired pusher and boat on Friday.
and after an absence Of one hour. returned
with IA birds. having missed bur one Of the
number raised. Several years ago shs vas
quite famous as an oarsman on the Hacken-
sack river. Mrs. schmults is an expert swim
mer and 2 good horsewoman. She may be
seen on the streets Of Hackens4ek almost
daily on safety bicycle. which she rides with
pete with her in burst Of speed.
The menu Of the farewell banquet to
the members Of the Oriental Congress at Stock
holm ought 70 take permanent place In coli
lections Of literary curiosities. The initial
sup" or nip Of schnapps which always begins
Scandinavian dinner. was recorded with q
song in the Kairs tongue. The soup was de-
scribed in Getziani and . song in Chineses
Prof. Max Muller wrote song In Sanserif
praisIng the salmon. The flet de bBuf was
mentioned by verse in Malay and by another
In Javanese. Artichaut an beurre was treated
In Coptic; Gateau q Ia Victoria in hierogIyphies:
the ices in Himyaritic; the eheeses In ichare.
custom, with Thanks for Dinner written in
Persian.
"A story is told about one of the menu
bers of the Flint Union Blues while the Michi-
gan State troops were in camp. The story Is
also vouched for for. its veracity. One of the
members Of the F. q. Bsvas doing guard duty,
and while at his post gentleman came along
and the boys along the line did their best at
saluting the passerby. Noticing that the Flint
youth gave no salute the man asked him why
he did not salute as the other soldiers had done.
Didn't have to-" came the unsatisfactory re-
ply. But you saw your comrades didf'
wen, don't salute every gol darned farmer
came the reply do you know whom you adj
dress that Wayf I am Governor Luce.5 aEhs
OIL goshi Excuse me. Governor, just once"
"A small, black-eyed woman, about 35
years Of age, giving the name OF Mrs Mepsted,
arrived in the town Of Warren, Mimi, on horse
back the other evening, and stayed over night
at the home Of Henry Wheeler She was up
bright and early the next morning and on her 1,
way to La Crosse, which she expected to reach
that day, She had left Denver, Col. June 49,
on horseback, and was on her way TO Rochester
N. Y. She made the trip two years. ago from
dead under her by . deer hunter within 30 miles d.
of Denver. On the last trip she used saddle,
but this time she had q blanket on the horses
back instead. She carried revolver and q
gun with her, and when she started had large
st. Bernard dog. but he went mad and she was
obliged to shoot him. She had q quiet way
about her which was attractive, and was a.
quick as fash IL her movements. =
Most people think that rattlesnakes are
entirely useless upon the earth, but the story
told by the Athens, Ga, Banner will set aside
such belief. There are places il South Geor-
gia where men extracted oil from the rattle-
snake and used it to cure rheumatism. These
persons will give anegro 81 to point out . rat
tlesnake to them, and then they kill it in a Pc
cuIiar manner. They place forlxed stick over
the snakes head. then put a cord around is
and strangle the snake This is done to keep
the snake from biting itself. The body Of the
reptile is then strung up and the oil extracted
from it. It sells at 81 per ounce, and this in
dustry is a very profitable one. The snakes in
that section are very large, averaging five feet
In length, and one rzttler gives up great deal
OF oil. little negro once saw two rattlers
lying close together, and wanted to get the
money for finding them. 1t was a mile to the
nearest house. He was afraid the snakes would
crawl of while he was gone, and so he took on
his coat and placed IL between. the snakes. He
went of, came back, and found them still eve
ing the coat. He had them charmed So the
snake is cultivated down there as . profitable