Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The sounds Of the heart have been 70
corded and reproduced by the phonograph.
Burglars at Warrenton, Ca, robbed
the depot and carried OF the safe on a hand
car.
An Iowa Judge has decided that cider
is an intOxicant and cannot be sold in the State
legally.
Within week eight sets of twins and
i've Of triplets have been born in Pike county,
Georgia.
1.-TWO salmon worth s45 were recently
caught az Bangor, Me. One weighed % and the
other 237z pounds.
james Stokes, Of PENIS Manor, Bucks
county. is l8 wears old, weighs go pounds, and
is growing heavier rapidly.
Two toads found imbedded in coal at
Thomas @. Henn's premises, in Tioga county, .
lie" days since were alive, but stone blind.
John Wayne, of Reading, has leaden
jar 659 years old, in which his gTeat-great-
grandfather used to keep tobacco. gold. etc.
"A Georgia exchange says that Hon. h.
w. j. Ham, Sam Veal and Major r. A. Bacon
met recently by accident in store at Rome.
John Airhart, of Phenixville, Pa, has
a rooster that he claims can eat corn of table
three feet high. BE weighs Is pounds and his
crow is spropUrtionate.
William Hedges, who lives near Or
bana. o., shot big eagle the other day The
bird measured feet from tip to tip Of wings
and 81 inches from the tip Of bill to the tip Of
tail.
"A circular saw in mill in Indiana cut
Charles Wadsworth in two so quick the other
day that he spoke several words before he re-
remarks, of course.
h. av,1-
Just the sort Of people he wants in his country
is Dorrien-Smith. the owner Of the seiIly
Islands. III any islander doesn't suit him he ls
shipped to the mainland and can't get back.
Miss Lille Bodmer, of Steelton, Pa,
who lately emerged from q trance of several
weeks duration, has again been thrown into .
cataleptie state by immersion at a baptism SER
vice which had caused her much religious ex-
element
For the first time in the history of the
game. baseball is made a cause for divorce. A
Mrs. Belle Jacobs, Of Toledo. has sued for
divorce on the ground that her husband Is con-
hrmed baseball crank. The case is now under
advisement by the judge.
"A new invention to prevent collisions
at sea. consisting of small plate fixed at the
side of the vessel, has been very successfully
tried on the Thames. Electricity is the active
agent. The approach of another vessel with
In two miles causes bell to sound, and an in
dicating arrow shows the direction whence it
comes.
London has become recognized as the
great clearing house for all European thieves
who operate on a large scale The proceeds
for any great robbery committed in Europe
which it is intended to restore through nego-
tiations are always sent to be delivered in
London and there is as yet no legal way to put
q stop to the traffic.
While the pastor of Dubuque Metho-
dist Church was in the most interesting part Of
his sermon last Sunday, an old man arose from
his seat and announced that the world would
be destroyed in nine days, and that he was COM
by the Almighty to declare the news.
Afterward the old man announced the fact on
the high bridge.
"A French missionary gives serious ac-
count of the state of slavery in Ecuador.
Though it is not legal institution, yet the law
permits an Indian to sell himself as a slave
when he is unable to pay his debts, and once 4
slave he is rarely able to free himself. He may
be beQueathed by will. The majority of the
interior Indians have been reduced to this con-
dition.
"A Maine ball player, it is said, has i'm
provised batting machine. He put long
beam on the top of his fathers barn, letting
one end extend about three feet over the side
of the roof To the end he attached a stout
string and on the end of the string attached
League ball. The ball hung Just at theb batting
height, and the player would go out and bat
the ball to his hearts content.
"A gentleman in Worth county, Georgia,
has trained a large cat to hunt squirrels and it
is said that he can tree more squirrels in day
than the best dog. When the squirrel hides
from the hunter, Tom is sent up in the tree to
find it. He rarely ever fails to run him around
SO that his master can shoot 1t. When going
on long expedition the cat will climb up on
n11rr
like a dog.
"A daughter Of Charles Havins, of West
Roxbury, Mass, was amazed lately while look
ing through the museum attached to the Dead
Letter Office, Washington. to see two minia-
lures that had been stolen from her farher six
years before. Upon examining the records of
the office it was found that the articles in an
envelope, had been dropped in
Boston letter box a few days after the robbery,
and in the ordinary course of events were sent
to Washington. She was given the property.
AT the Postofice Department curious
thing has been found in the line of applications.
It is photograph of the applicant for q post
ofice, and is accompanied by request that the
picture be fled with the papers in the case
What is intended to be genial smile has evil
IDENTIFY been too much for the skill Of the coun-
'ry photographer, and the result is an ex-
preston of mingled astonishment and dismay
which is no doubt much more amusing than
she original smile. This is the third application
ACCOMPANIED by photograph received at the
Postofice Department.
Colonel John Attaway, Of Canton, Ca,
has a most remarkable dog. 1t is keenly alive
10 the misfortunes of the animal world. A few
lays ago this wonderful canine happened upon
/ COW in the streets that had lost her tail.
After looking with an eye Of pity on that poor
creature, he dashed of to the blacksmith shop,
where an old cows tail was being used to keep
The flies from disturbing horses while the smith
ihod them, and sn atehing up the brush ran
back and laid it down at the cows feet. The
low, however, failed to appreciate the dogs
kindness and left in disgust.
Farmer Hufstetter, of Bourbon county,
lately witnessed remarkable battle.
What he supposed were two small bridesmaids
IT than crows-were seen at great height and =
Iuarter of a mile away fighting and descend
ng and approaching nearer him. They fought
md descended until down they came to the
,arth Immediately at his feet where they con-
inued to fight until he killed one with a pistol
md the other with a club. One proved TO be .
black eagle which measured 8 feet inches.
md the other gray eagle which measured6
eet inches from tip to tip of wings.