Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Judge Park, Of Norwich, Conn.,,
granted II divorces in one day recently.
-over $500 trout were taken in Big
Spring creek, near Newvflle, Pa, on Monday.
Josiah Anderson, the giant Of Marion
county Kansas was killed by lightning. He
was 8 feet and inches high.
Mr.. Gardner Carr, Wyoming county
widower Of 10 IN visiting Dalton, Luzerne
county, for the nrst time met Mrs Gay Adams,
widow, and In three days they were married.
"A wide-awake Steelton grocer offered
13 pounds of white sugar for 81. A rival. hear
ing that sugar had gone up. bought l40 pounds
OF the wide-awake sugar By proxy. A eoolness
has resulted.
Mr.. ,Boher and Miss Casenius had q
license and were nearing preachers house in
Bedford, Pa, few nights since, when the
ladys heart failed her, she dropped his arm,
and took fight for her home.
Isaac Keim. Of Reading, has the fur Of
the largest fox ever killed on the Blue Mount
The fur shows that the animal was cross be-
tween the red and gray foxes.
"A rosy-looking Chester county man
stayed some time in Pottstown hotel, leaving
his horse unhitched. When he came out,
brushing his mustache, the well-informed ami.
NAL awaited him some distance up the street,
before another hotel.
The constable Of Everett, Pa. was or
dered out of house In that town but refused
to 90. The mistress attacked him with broom
and broke It up over him. Then she took nm
the mush paddle and used 1t with such good
effect that the officer obeyed orders and de-
parted. 4e.U-
"A young man giving the name of Henry
Banks, visited Mount Holly, N J., several
v,aa nd nado III
death. Two weeks ago his grave was dug at his
direction, and Monday he died from consump-
tion, without disclosing any information about
himself.
Lightning acted strangely in q Middle
town (Pa.) barn. One large steer next to the
wall was found dead, two next without hair
singed, while the fourth was killed outright,
Then It crossed the entry and performed the
same feat the one next the wall and the third
one being killed.
of all the war vessels of the United
States the largest and most powerful will be
the Maine. She wiz be $40 feet long, with
breadth Of 81 feet, displacement Of 8,64S tons
and horse power Of 1000 She will have two
batteries, and her armor viii be II inches thick.
She viii be very ugly customer for any hos
tile vessel to attack.
Peter Berger, of New York, was pre-
sented with an old iron safe which was consid-
ereu useless. ne tr1eQ TO sell IL 70 JUNK
dealer, but the latter found it too heavy to
carry away. So Peter gave 1t TO his son. The
boy. very naturally, tried to find what was in.
side the safe. He broke it open and found
lot OF old silver worth $500.
"A Dubuque newsboy got even with q
deadbeat in great shape. The man owed the
boy for papers and would not pay him. The
boy wrote to his (the boy's) brother, who is at
tending school in Indiana, telling about the
r1r1N oAA 1o-N ..wI-
the man received box by express marked &C.
o. D." The express charges amounted to sew
eral dollars, and upon opening the box it was
found TO be full Of bricks.
George Baisden, Of starke, Fla, while
holding chicken roundup the other day saw
little chick that had only one wing. This was
on the back, like the dorsal I'm Of 1sh. The
legs were placed where the wings should have
been. But as this arrangement made him top
heavy behind, another pair Of legs and feet
we're tackled on to the end Of the body. The
little fellow hoped like a toad, sat down on
his launches and scratched with his forefeet-
Sometimes he wonld fan himself with the
wing.
LIN the flower yard Of Mrs. E. Swami, of
Lexington, Ga, is growing pretty euonymus
bush in the shape Of q large arm chair. Its
shape was only discovered short while ago,
and when trimmed and trained Will be an al
most perfect figure. Growing in the same yard
Is q flower Of an unknown name that captures
humming birds, This flower is quill-shaped,
and when the birds insert their bills they be-
come sometimes 30 securely fastened that the
birds are unable to withdraw them. Several
have been captured in this way.
AN interesting case, growing out of the
viii Of the late J. @. Stilson has Just been fled
in the Circuit Court at Galssburg Ill. The
suit is brought by Anna Stilson, a daughter by
Mr. Stilson's first wife. Mr. Stilson left . large
wife and three children. He states that Anna
shall receive but 500 In case she marries
Samuel Unger, young man with whom she
has been keeping company for some time and
20 whom she is engaged to be married. The
case promises to be long contested one.
The following snake story is told by
South Haven, Mich, paper: THE first Of this
week Mort Hopkins was out with his rife
looking for squirrels and other game, when
right in front Of him he saw some snakes. Now
listen and get this right, so you will not stretch
our story in trying to tell Ii. He shot one of
them some six or eight inches from the head.
paralyzIng all below that point. The others ran
iess than yard from the wounded one formed
semtcircie with their heads to the front, and
lay there until Mort loaded and fred ten times
killing snake each time, making IL snakes
that we can have any time we go after them"
George Gray, an employe Of Farmer
Bull, near Pine Mill, Pa, was hauling stones in
the field, and while oVerturning pile Of them
was attacked by weasel and bitten on the
arm. The taste Of blood seemed to increase
the fury Of the weasel, and Gray had all he
could do to keep it from springing on his
throat He at last succeeded in stunning the
weasel by kick. and was about to hurry to the
house to have bis wounds dressed when SIX
other weasels, one after the other, trooped
from the stone pile and made combined at
tack on Gray. They swarmed upon him, biting
and tearing his flesh on the legs arms and
body. Fearful for his life. Gray turned and
fed, followed by the weasels, which chased
him clear TO the house, over half mile inf1ict-
ing still further wounds with their sharp teeth
his assistance. The weasels were rnalIy
routed, but not until the men were covered
with blood from head to foot. Gray has been
confined to his bed ever since.
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