Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


tea when travelling.
When the British Museum is opened in
the evenings the additional cost per annum
will it is stated be $4,000.
AN exhibition of monkeys was opened
at Alexandra Palace in London recently.
At least a thousand monkeys from various
parts of the world are being shown.
"A Cincinnati father fixed the big rock
ing chair in the parlor to upset If greater
weight than 40 pounds rested in II. On the
very first night afterward his daughter got a
broken shoulder and her young man had his
nose skinned.
The male members Of the Reformed
Church in Easton, Pa. having been dilatory
about digging the cellar for the new church,
the ladies' turned out with shovel and pick and
did so much work that the shame-faeed men
finished the job,
The bill restoring the punishment OF
nogging with the cat-o'-nine-taiIs and authoriE-
ing its innietion upon burglars convicted OK
naYlng dangerous weapons In their possession,
mas n5 passed its third reading in the British
OF Lords is assured, it is said.
"A duck with four legs has been Matched
out at Lisle, Ill The two superhuous legs
stick up from beneath the wings on the back,
30 that the bird will be able to swim upside
down. When it wants to reverse its motion on
land all It has to do is to turn a half somer-
sault and light on its back, when it can run
away with its face to the foe."
Some time ago DR.. Weber, of Lancas-
ter. Pa. saw poor boy of IL years passing his
office who was suffering from the effect of a
metal tube inserted in his throat for diphtheria
six years ago in Germany The metal had cor.
roded. and the flesh was "angry" The doctor
raised fund and bought a gold tube in Phila-
delphia, and will insert it shortly.
Sebewa (Mich.l school, took novel method Of
supplying demand that the School Board re-
fused to heed. She had each pupil bring an
egg. and then sold them at convenient gro
cery. With the proceeds she purchased towels
and soap, and the appearance of the children
after play hours Is much improved.
"A colored man by the name OF Abed-
nego Young was in Eatontone Ca, the other
day, who Is slowly turning white. He was very
sick last year with typhoid fever. When he
began to recover white spots showed them
selves on one side of his face and ear and on
different parts of his body, which are gradually
spreading, and the prospect is that eventually,
II he lives long enough. he will become wholly
white. His beard growing out Of the spots is
white, otherwise it is black.
Some Of the Germans of Punxsutawney,
Pa, in the hope Of being able to locate the
body Of Roman Baldauf, who was drowned
OdbuFudy ulBuI, UOOk lOdI OF OFedQ, WTAppeu
it up in the last shirt which Baldauf had worn,
and threw it into the water at the place where
he had fallen in. The theory was that the
bread and shirt would d oat down to the point
at which the body stopped, and there sink.
They did float about half a mile down the creek
and sink. Dut here the parallel ends. The body
was not there.
Edwin Bryce, the 14-year-old son Of
Mr. w. F. Bryce. of Swansboro. Va, in vio-
lent coughing spell the other night, which
lasted for several hours, coughed up two-inch
English galvanized horseshoe nail which he
swallowed Is months ago while living IN Fred
ericksburg. Several physicians endeavored to
locate the nail, but were unsuccessful, and it
was finally concluded that the little fellow
must have been mistaken in saying he sWal-
lowed it, and as his health began to fail and be
was subject to continued spells of coughing,
his case was pronounced consumption, and he
has been treated for that for some considerable
time. He is now doing well and will recover.
Grandfather Smith, of Punxsutawney,
Pa, who was gathered to his fathers several
years ago, used to say, after the great food Of
1851, that it was all in the moon. whenever"
he said, "the moon changes at IL o'clock and SO
minutes in the day time on June j, you may
look out for heavy rains and big flood. Ihave
seen two or three great floods during my life
time and they were all caused by the change of
the moon at this particular time-l159 June l.
When the change of the moon comes again at Q
that time look out" Several of the citizens Of
that place remembered this, and, looking up the
almanac, found. that the change of the moon
took place on June 1, 1850, precisely at u;59 and
in consequence they marvel much.
"A gentleman from Glynn county, GeoF-
gia. saw curiosity while travelling in ClinsA
county recently in the shape of a three-legged
chicken. Two of its legs were growing in their
place; but the third grew inverted
from the chickens back, its toes pointing up
ward, and extended to their utmost tension.
Whenever its head descends in picking up
food, or its bLdy is IN motion from walking, the
muscles of the inverted foot relax and expand
with astonishing rapidity. Another singular
freak is that it has q horny substance growing
from its bill, some two or more inches in
height similar to the horn of the unicorn, and
as hard as flint, and with which it fercely at
tacks other chickens, dogs and even hogs. and
sometimes inhiets mortal wounds. The chicken
was Matched in the early spring, and has deVel-
oped great size and strength
There is an old man on the upper Sa-
vannah. living on the Georgia side Of the river,
who has not lived in house since the earth
quake Of 1885. An old oak, with inviting limbs,
has been his place of abode since the shakeup
referred to. During the earthquake his house
was stirred violently, the chimney tumbling in,
and he ran from it in fright, and has never re-
turned to il. A negro was employed to bring
him from the building such articles as he
needed, and he has DuiIt himself sleeping
place in the limbs of the tree, with stout can
vas as his only shelter from the rain. His cook
ing is done on the ground, and his reception
room is the grassy spot under the shade OF the
oak. The least rumbling will cause his precipi-
tate rush to terra firma, and he will instantly
Jump to the ground at the sound of thunder or
seeing fash of lightning.