Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Henry Clay, Charles Foster and Henry
Watterson are three names that appeared on
the docket Of Cincinnati police magistrate
the other day.
John Fredericks and his wife and Henry
Williams and his wife. OF Laporte, Ind, were
all born on the 18th of February. The men are
brothers-in-law.
Henry Merritt, of Franklin county,
Me-, was peering into a stone wall for a wood:
cnuck. The animal saw him first and Dit on
the end of his nose.
AT East Lyons, Ia, a goose died very
suddenly. On cutting IL open q silver thimble
was found in its throat. IL is thought the fowl
choked to death while trying to swallow it.
Seamless boiler tubes are now made
from solid ingots of metal by process that
twists and stretches the fbers and is said to
make tube much stronger than the ordinary
ones.
John Goslow, a street car driver, in San
Jose, Cal, has been arrested for fast driving.
and new cropof headlines. based on whats
in namef" may be expected from the Pacific
Slope.
The heading of the great railway tunnel
at Cumberland Gap was knocked in a few days
ago. Trains in passing through it will cross
sections of the States Of Kentucky, Tennessee
and Virginia.
"A camping party at Moosehead Lake,
Me-, broke up and went home because a ghost
insisted on sharing the tent with them. The
specter appeared at a regular hour every night
ana was seen by everyone OF the campers.
Fred Martin, Of Muskingum county,
o.. has 'happy family" consisting of two
dogs, four kittens, two raccoons, three gray
squirrels and young woodchuck. All are pets
and eat and play together, apparently on the
best of terms.
u. N. English exhibited at Americus,
Ga, the other day. q tusk that was taken from
the mouth OF a wild hog that was killed in his
corntield. on Camp creek, five miles from An
dersonville. The tusk was a very large one,
measuring nine and a quarter inches long. Il
formed almost circle, and was very sharp.
Five years ago the dried fruit industry
of the Pacific coast amounted to comparatively
nothing. Not one box of California prunes
was sold east of the Rocky Mountains where
100 were imported from France. tariff cal
placed upon dried fruits. and now not less than
75per cent of all the prunes consumed in this
country are grown In California.
"A new departure in dairy instruction
has been taken by the Victorian (Australia)
Department of Agriculture. A staff of teach
ers, with all the implements of butter and
cheese making, travel from place to place. At
each place a course of several days instruction
in the best and latest methods of dairying Is
gone through, all that is required of the farm
ers De1ng supply OF milk and cream Tor the
purpose Of demonstration.
"A Donipnan county (Kan.) farmer,
whose COW mysteriously lost her milk between
the pasture and the house. watched her last
week and discovered that big blacksnake met
her in the path and relieved her. The cow
stopped and waited for the reptile to coil
about her hind legs and stood patiently while
the milk was Withdrawn. The farmer killed
the snake and now the COW brings her milk
with her when she comes home.
-Workmen on the Columbus Southern
road in Georgia, while digging in cuts, turned
up an immense lot of soil resembling rock
phosphate. The soil contains skeletons of very
curiously formed animals totally unknown in
these parts at the present day. Oyster beds
have been discovered. and sharks teeth and
the teeth of various other animals have been
found in abundance. The most curious dis
covery of all was two live green bullfrogs,
taken from an excavation in solid rock
"A most remarkable case of animal
vitality was "unearthed" by the discovery at
the Pratt mines, Birmingham, Ala, that II
mules caught in Shaft No. three weeks ago,
when the mines took fire and burned for a
week, were alive, and apparently little the
worse for the wear. The smoke from the burn
ing coal was very intense. and the FIRE damp
consequent upon this and putting water in the
shaft very deadly. George Scott, the only I'M
prisoned miner, was found dead some days ago.
The mules we're taken out
Quite romantic wedding took place
in Clarksville, Tex, the other evening. The
contracting parties were DR.. N. w. Perkins
and Sarah A. Parker, of Rogers, Ark. A cor
respondence was brought about through a
matrimonial paper The doctor went to Clarks-
vile and met his prospective bride az the depot.
They were enabled to recognize each other
correspondence. They Immediately repaired
to the Methodist parsonage, and were married
in Is minutes after the train arrived
The alleged ghost of Selah Bunce, that
for several weeks has haunted the Northport,
L. L, Cemetery, and kept young lovers from
their favorite promenades, has been laid to its
Anal rest No more will the winged apparltion,
clad in white robe, display its sulphurous
halo on emerging from the tall marble column
that towers above the grave OF Selah Bunce.
The girls and men who graphically described
the specter as they saw it are ashamed to tell
their stories over again since Harvey Bishop,
the cemetery keeper. solved the mystery and
found that the unearthly light on Selah
Bunce's monument was only the flckering re-
Election of kerosene lamp in the window Of
Widow Fletcher's cottage on a neighboring
hill. Confidence has been restored, and the
moon.Iit walks are again literally patronized
by Northport's swains and bellos.
Baker Bros, of Gambler, Ga, have in
vented novel way of catching owls or night
hawks. They have set up long pole near the
fowl house. The pole is about IL feet high,
with the top end sawed of smooth, and little
steel trap is set on top of the post, fastened by
a string to the post below. Notches are cut in
the post by which ir is easy to climb. On a
moonlight night the owls when they are around
are likely to light on something near the fowl
house. The other night an owl was heard not
far off and thinking that he would be likely to
come for a chicken during the night the
brothers went out after supper and set the trap
on top of the pole. Before they went to bed
the family heard q huttering in that direction,
and going out found that they had trapped an
owl that measured feet inches from tip
TO tip.