Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are hVe banks and six uewsnanera
and an average daily sale Of $50 worth Of poa.
tags stamps in Guthrie. Oklahoma. a town
which did not exist prior TO April q
"A Buffalo bachelor has memorandum
book in which he keeps the name of eyery 0irI
he has ever kissed. He had 923 names on thu
list the last time he counted up
Boston evidently thinks that to spare
the rod spoils culture. During the school year
of 1883 there were 1854 fioggings administered
in the public schools Of that city, which have
an enrolment of 29, $50 boys.
In the quaint old Anglican Church Of
Japelle-Ferne, near Dover, there IS no proYis
ion made for lighting it at night and at the
evening service those who attend are in the
habit Of bringing candles and lamps along with
them.
AN Indiana woman who had been twics
divorced from one man, recently appeared at
his home in Peru and asked permission to be
married in hisparlor to man who accompanied
her. Consent was given. and the couple were
united. with husband No. and bis second wife
as Witnesses
In few of the famine-stricken districts
OF China mothers are selling their children A
missionary, who visited the market town OF
Wang CHA Ch'uan, met many women on the
streets calling out: who will buy this boyf !
can reed him any longer, and don't want -
near MIN crying about for food"
"A colored chap, named Newkirk, hail-
ing from under the Hurley Mountain. was In
Kingston, N. Y, circulating a petition recon-
mending him for the position of "Blower Out
OF Electric Lights" Some Joker had told him
that the city wanted man to climb the poles
AZ O'Clock every morning and blow out the
lights, and that a welLrecommended person
could get the job.
Foxes are very plenty in Connections
this spring. Not many months ago a New
London man killed fox with bean pole in
his henhouse on Jay street. The animal had
killed score Of hens belonging to dwellers on
that street before he met his death. In Tolland
county foxes are so numerous that the farmers
strew poison ed meat in the fields, and some
times bag half dozen of them in night. A
few weeks ago Charles Crane, of Atwoodvi1le,
in that county, while following his hounds that
were tracking three foxes, saw the dogs lead
after one Of the animals, while the other two
professional concern. He stole up within
range of the idle ioxes and killed one with each
barrel Of his breeehloader-
Soup have come. Soup is the Rhods
Island name for porgies, one of the sweetest
and most delicious fish in the Atlantic. The
fish are in weight from one to three or four
pounds, and because they are boneless, with
the exception of a broad backbone, many
people prefer them to shad- Soup rush on the
season, are caught by the million by fishermen
for week OF two. and then they disappear, to
return only about the same time the following
year. Except for few weeks in midsDring,
they are said to abide in the deep waters of the
ocean on the coast. The fishermen are very
busy when soup come. They build great
pounds out into the sea all along the COnnecti-
cut and Rhode Island coasts and frequently
load schooner from single nights catch.
DIR. Abbott, of Trenton, is warm adj
Of ~ ah or -
its culinary excellence as because the females
Of the tribe are good mothers. He has studied
the habits Of the fish long and carefully, and he
knows this to be fact. He says that on one
occasion he captured an entire brood of little
catfish in hand net, -etting their mother, who
was swimming with them, escape. She would
not leave the spot where she had been be-
reaved, and when the doctor put the fry into
, glass jar and placed it in the river where she
could see 1t, she dashed herself furiously
against the obstacle that separated her from
her young ones. When the jar was drawn
slowly from the water she followed it to the
surface, and then absolutely left the river and
Wrlggled " inches up the slOping beach in her
frantic efforts to recover her progeny.
Here are two young men who would
1ot make very profitable boarders. Mack
of New Orleans, while in Louisville
recently, drank quart of whisky at draught.
Then he drained bucket containing three gall
ons of water, and finished up by eating two
beer glasses and four lamp chimneys. This
Ease is even more surprising. Samuel Morse,
of ESSEX, Mass, IS afhieted~with most -
culiar disease, being constantly hungry. J
eats ravenously nearly every hour in the
getting up several times during the night
lppease his appetite. He has been examin,
by many physicians, none of whom can e
my reason for this abnormal appetite or
cribe any medicine which will afford re- f.
dorse is not very particular what it is he efss. 4
lie often bakes quart of beans and eats the
most OF them at one sitting, and in ten minutes
3 hungry for more. He recently purchased
our and half pounds of lamb and made
roth Of it, and ate the whole in the course OF
wo hours. The vast quantities of food which
le Partakes OF do not seem to fnjure him. He
las been afflicted in this way tor some months.
g. J. FIncher, OF Pike county, Ca, was
ngaged near a creek in replanting some corn
Vhen noise on the bank of the stream at
raeted his attention. He went to see what
Eas up and found two snakes, apparently the
anne size, engaged in a mortal combat-the one
king snake and the other water moccasin.
he king snake had the moccasin by the throat
nd was using his best efforts to put it under
aralyzing circumstances. Finally both snakes
ell in the creek, but the war was not ended
he fight grew hotter-so hot that the water
izZed for ten feet around. Down the stream
hey went, Kissing, wrestling, sinking and
They reached water gap that
topped their downward march, and here it
TaS that the mellow heart of Mr.. Fineher 1aYo
be snakes. So far as intentions were con-
erned it was mislick. But on drawing the
ole out he found that he had run it through
be head of very large fish. The fish weighed.
ccording to Mr.. Fincher's statement IA
ounds. A Georgia paper is responsible for
ne above story,
The other day party of fishermen in
be oaky woods Of Dougherty county, Georgia,
ent out to fish. They found the head of an
immense loggerhead turtle lying near the
anks of the creek. A fisherman had caught
le turtle three days before and cutting off
8 head, left it on the ground, while he took
,e decapitated turtle home to feast upon it.
ne of the gentlemen mentioned the peculiar
,nacity to life possessed by this species Of
lrtle and suggested opening the mouth of the
cad and putting the tail Of a hne cur dog
lerein. The owner agreed, the immense dog
as gently enticed to them and the tail in
rted. The huge jaws came together with a
cioUs snap. and the dog started homeward on
run, dragging the heavy head behind him,
hich hung on like grim death. Like dog
ith a tin pail hung to his extremity, the faster
ran the more thoroughly alarmed he be-
me, and the way that canine broke through
lose woods was sight to see. He ran two
lies and stopped at his masters farm, where
70 negroes. seeing his peculiar annoying con-
tion, tried to force the jaws of the head open,
1t not succeeding, they had to cut it to pieces
release the tail from the Vice-like grip.