Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
CURIOUS CONDENsATIONS.

The people Of Adams county. Ohjo.
think they have discovered valuable gold ore
in the hills Of Jefferson township.
"A man in Augusta, Me-, in paying
bill deducted cents for the stamp on thu
letter in which he sent his remittance.
One Of the clauses of an Augusta, Me-,
weman's will read: II want to be berred at
East Readfeld, beside my father and mother,
and headstone"
Two Oil City policemen and divers other
persons shot stray dog the eother evening and
the next morning the dog was able to eat
pound and half Of beefsteak
"A curious fact in natural history comes
from Fairlie, Scotland. A hen. after Matching
several chickens, died; thereupon cat took
charge Of the brood. and has since renamed
Their jealous guardian.
The town of Hyattsville, Md, which
elbows historic old Bladensburg, is going to put
Henry Georges single tax theory to practical
Test IL was made the issue in the recent local
election, and three Town Commissioners VINO
were CHOSEN are converts to the idea.
"A. W. Horne, of Greenland, Me-, re-
Gently fred into coYey of wild ducks, on
Green Bay, killing nine and disabling four at
tne nrst nre. The three survivors started
rapidly away, but Horne fired again, and two
escaped.
"A gentleman over As years of age, who
was born and has always lived near Hartwell,
ga, has never rode on the cars nor seen q
river. He has a good pair of ewes and ia an in
telligent and industrious farmer The Savannah
river Is not more than seven miles from bis
residence.
There are two idle superstitions about
cramps that come in the legs, and start man
out of his bed quicker than anything else. One
is to stick a jackknife in the headboard of a
bed on retiring for the night. and the other is
to arrange the slippers very carefully, bottom
up, at the foot of the bed.
"A Duluth man wants to encourage mat
rimony. A strike at A. N. Cox's broom factory
was settled by the proprietor increasing the
wages Of all his married employees and giving
the single men notice that they would not be
wanted after the end of the month, unless they
were married 5y that time, IN which event they
would be retained at an increased salary.
AN Austin inventor has devised steel
corn husker, which. drawn by team. picks and
husks the corn at the rate of 8 to u acres day,
according to the capacity of the team The
team and machine move aStride the row, one
horse on each side, and every ear Of corn, large
or small, Is picked up. Corn husking can now
be done Just as threshing Is, lasting but few
days.
"A novel way of selecting nominee for
postmaster has been agreed upon by the dozen
aspirants at Little Valley, N. Y. The names
OF IS Republicans are to be taken from the re.
vised Republican poll list and placed in hat.
twenty-five are to be drawn. These, together
with one delegate for each aspirant, are to con-
stitute committee OF the whole. This COM
mittee are to ballot upon the applications and
decide the light.
notwithstanding the continuous thun-
der on the elevated railroads in New York, the
bold sparrows are busy building their nests be
tween its crossbeams and roadway, right under
the reYerberating trains In that part of the
teenth Precinct station, those birds are build
ing by the hundred When weary from work
they come down to the fountain in front Of the
station, take a drink and bath, and flock back
to their labors refreshed.
b An Alabama man, charged with steal
ing calf, made the following statement: ST
was always teaehed 70 be honest, an most al
ways have been, but when l seed the calf l
caved. IneVer wanted calf 50 bad in all my
life, an you all know that when man wants
calf he wants him." The Jury returned the
verdict: I'VE, this Jury are satisfied
that Steve stold the calf, but as the feller thai
owned the animal is considerable of q slouch,
"S sHAOO w SAOoA 0bONO AAA AAohO buC oAOuCu
pay the costs"
During the peanut harvest in the South
everybody, from pigs to people, gets fat. They
are not known there as peanuts but as goober
peas, and raid into goober patch has about
it all the delight of watermelon raid. IL is
related that a Southern gentleman catching
two small black children among his goober
vines, called them by way Of punishment
Goober Dan and Goober John. The boys, how
living Tn ha nroud Of II ad0nfad "a
family surname, and to this day the descend
ants are known as the Coolers.
old ocean pilots and sea-goiDg people
VINO .Satched: the school of devil fish that
played about the pilot boats and the tug Gym J
shia before the boats got OF in a recent regatta
ar Charleston, 8. c.. say that such a sight is
very rare in the life of a mariner. They played
about the craH for fully half an hour, and
were principally young devil fish, from four
feet long to six feet, and they looked like
great bats. Some of them had shed their tails
while others had caudal appendages fully
Gus looking marine euriosities were seen at
one time, and one was shot by one of the crew
Of the Neca, and after lashing the waters Of
the sound into foam it sank out Of siRh
"A German traveller has discovered the
very smallest Republic in Europe. The honor,
which was claimed for Gersau until it was
absorbed in the Canton, seems to belong in.
SVhOeosoDAy W eno AhuoPonuonb Ham4ob u
Goust. This petty group OF huts, situated a
few hours distance from Oleron, in the:depart-
ment of the Lower Pyrenees, belongs neither
20 France nor Spain It has somewhat over
100 citizens, Roman Catholics in religion, who
i've by silk weaving, and constitute q brave
ind self-dependent Commonwealth. They have
10 taxes nor any other public charges They
have no Mayor or other civil official They
have not even an established church priest
If their own, but attend at a neighboring
1illage. Their very language. an amalgam Of
French and Spanish, is spoken only in their
little land and scarcely understood elsewhere.