Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
cUR1OUs CONVERSATIONS.

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| Michigan has passed law for paying .
bounty of cents each for sparrows' heads.
Some of the fishermen on the DeIawape
river cleared $50 each last week catching stur-
geon.
| "A Minnesota woman disloeated her Jaw
in yawning, and had to ride 3 miles toa .
/ physician.
| Another litter of fox cubs has been dis
covered under barn between AnoWay and
Friesburg. in New Jersey.
Two slick strangers managed to pass
$500 in counterfeit money in two hours on the
merchants of Rushville, Ind.
George Bullock, of Birmingham town.
ship, near West Chester, is 70 years old. he
has son 43 years of age, q grandson Il ana
great grandson months old.
| "A woman living near Freehold, N. j.,
/ nearly 80 years old, claims she has Travelled Dut
once on the cars. never saw steamboat, and
was never more than % miles from home.
The cod banks recently discovered 100
miles on the coast Of San Diego Cal, by the
Fish Commission steamer Albatross are to be
/ inve stigated, with view to immediate deVelr
| opment, it is reported.
| Something described as a petrifed
snake was unearthed by a farmer while pIow-
ing at OhioVille, W. Va. The piece was about
| as thick as a mans wrist and II inches long.
1t is supposed to be part of the remains of
reptile at least ten feet in length.
One afternoon, while Nellie Sawtelle, of
Smithheld, Me-, was sleeping on the lounge, .
| pet cat of the family threw across her neck an
adder which measured three feet in length.
She threw it on the floor. where it showed fight,
so as to keep her prisoner until neIghbor
arrived and killed it
John franklin, of Athens, Ga, was
| very much surprised when he went to his homo
last Monday night to find that during the day
swarm Of bees had taken possession Of his
house. They entered through knothole in
the Misunderstanding, and he Is puzzled to
know what to do about IL.
The following remarkable instrument
is the last will and testament of Dolly Jones
(colored), of Jasper. Fla, and was signed Sep
tember q, 1888: "Farder l want you to take
them 2 cows and my bic Pot and head OF
hoes and keepe them as long as you live it is
my Will for you to have them an do the best
you can cos must di and cant live you must
mete me in hevean when dun with wourld."
"A very peculiar occurrence took place
at the fruit stand of G. P. Mcdaniel, in Titus
vile, the other day. A nice looking and we'll
behaved eoeoanut, of its own free will and ac-
cord, exploded, scattering itself to a consider
able distance in every direction and causing
knot of ladies standing near admiring each
others heavily laden flower garden hats to dis
perse instanter and starting the report that
bomb throwing was going on in the vicinity.
The experiment of propagating musk
alloDge at the Chautauqua Lake station of the
fish hatchery has proved a failure this year,
and the station will be tenantless until another
spring, when the seines will be drawn earlier.
superintendent Jonathan Mason is chagrined
by the failure, which he ascribes to the method.
which is the same as that employed in Matching
white fish. But he is as confident as ever that
the muskallonge spawn can be hatched and the
fry reared at the station until old enough to
shift for itself IN the lake, and he has the sup
port of the State Fish Commissioners.
One of the most successful boot and shoe
drummers in Pennsylvania says that the size
and shape OBJECT vary in different places Just
as the shapes of the States vary on the maps.
That was one of his first discoveries. He sold
a case of boots in Harrisburg, and nobody there
could get one of them on because boots had
low insteps Over in the coal region around
Pottsville low instepS are the rule, and so the
shapes change with the different localities. In
Lancaster there is woman who wears number
fourteens, and has to buy mems boots Hers is
the biggest female foot in the State.
The police of Dunkirk, France, arrested
two grocers on the charge of having for several
months sold large quantities of dried lea
under the name of tea. Both the tradesI
were able to show that they had been sup
by wholesale firm in Paris. Samples we
cordingly bought from the firm and wer
to chemist. His report indicates tt
leaves submitted to him are not tea
They are of broWnish color; but this il
under a thin coating of a blutsh-gr
stance which easily rubs off. Ther
ance was exactly that of gunpowdert
Bernard Ritchie, of Aurora,
at work on the drive at Bog dam, on
branch of Union river, discovered close to the
rivers bank huge and ugly looking bear, ae-
by her two cubs. Mr.. RItchie at
tackled the trio with the only weapon he had at
hand, an indispensable adjunct of log drivers,a
common 'peavy," which is a long pole with
pointed iron at one end. He succeeded in kill
ing the two CUBS in a short time, but the dam
became so ferocious that Ritchie was obliged
to take to the water to save his life. The old
bear escaped before help could be summoned.
-Haw pond is about II miles east of Cor
dele, Ga, and is perhaps one of the most won
derful natural curIosities in the State. 1t an
nually sinks with roar about this time in May,
and in a few minutes every drop of water dis
appears. Last Thursday about q dozen Cor
delians left here for the pond. They carried
fishing tackle in abundance and spent day
and night catching any number Of the finest
specimens of the hnny tribe. They met about
% others who had gathered at the pond to fish
and wait for the water to disappear. Where
The fishermen dropped their lines to the depth
Of ten feet Thursday night, there was scarcely
, drop Of water Saturday morning. In day
;he water had disappeared completely. For
nil les around the ground Is said to be unstable
and liable at any moment to sink. Only few
weeks ago the bottom dropped out in one place
above the ground. Every year large crowds
from the surrounding country gather to witness
the disappearance, and this year there were
perhaps 150 people there.