Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


wire to be used In the Paris Exposition build
ings comes from the United States
The wealthiest colored man in the South
is a New Orleans sugar planter named Marie.
He has an income OF $4,000 and is a cultivated
gentleman.
Colonel Majendie concludes as a result
of his experiments that one volume of LIQUID
benzine will render 1900 volumes Of air in
fammable.
The first Arbor day was observed in
Nebraska II years ago, when 100000 trees
were planted. There are now growing in the
State 605.O 900 trees.
The little daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. L..
P. Fisher, of Colunbus, Ind, who died few
days ago. was probably the smallest child in the
State. Although three months old, she weighed
only three pounds.
Mrs Groundwater, the new Police
Judge at Cottonwood Falls, Kan, began her
administration by fning plain drunk S. and
costs. On the same day she set hen, made
two Gingham aprons and returned five calls.
The 3-year old girl baby of William
Laws, of Erie, fell into a well containing four
feet Of water, but its stiff skirts assuming
parachute shape, sustained it till pole could
be thrust down, to which it elung till it was
drawn out.
"A Maine mechanic is the inventor of
sleigh which is to be run by steam. The model
which he has built has capacity and motive
power sufficient to carry 15.UO0 feet of logs.
The sleigh has made a number of successful
trips this winter.
"A Portsmouth paper publishes the fol-
lowing copies of the ballot slips used by jury
which tried aman for grand larceny in New
Hampshire court: City, getty, guilty, not
gealty, gllty, geiltv, not guilty, guIldty guildy,
guilty, giltey, gealty.
The Pike county superstition that it is
unlucky to kill white deer is discounted by the
case Of the late Christopher Tallman, who
killed 13 Of them during his life, and died lately
at the age of SO years. without having had ex.
traordinary i'll fortune.
An immense terrestrial globe on the
scale of one-millionth is to be exhibited at the
Paris Exhibition. The globe measures Is
meters in diameter and is TO be surrounded
with platforms and ladders that any part of its
surface can be examined. Paris appears on it
in space not quite centimeter square.
"A Homer, Neb., girl, named Johans
Christopherson. has within the past few days
killed So snakes, and Miss Nina Ream. of the
same place, gave the alarm which saved lot
of valuable property from being destroyed by
prairie fire and outran all of the men to the
scene scene Of =. the ,cOnhagratiOn; Homer is very
1t is said that Lee street, in Dawson,
Ga, is the abiding place of spook. A citizen
living on that street says that when on his way
home the other night a white object, in the
shape of gander, suddenly arose before him
and finally grew to the height of man. The
man was badly scared, and now when going
home after dark always takes his gun with him
to protect himself.
AT a Philadelphia restaurant, with
bar attached, says paper Of that city, walters
may be seen coming daily to the bar with q
IT
straight" The cups are handed back to them
containing fluid that very much resembles
tea, but smells OF something stronger. L 7.
means ladies' tipple, and it is simply an in
genious way of serving whisky straight at
table to the many women who call for 1t with
out attracting attention.
Ashland, Me-, boasts of a woman who
besides managing family of children and
refractory husband carries on large lumber
ing operation. She recently made trip 10
miles into the woods to her lumber camps. set
tied with her men, examined the landings of
logs and timber with critical eye, inspected
an extensive dam made for driving purposes.
and made ARRANGEMENTS for driving out the
lumber. She can boast of having been farther
into the AroOstook wilderness than any other
white woman.
An old Washingtonian says that the
game of picking or cracking Easter eggs is
played in a novel manner by the youth, black
and white, of the Capital City They take the
the toughest and hardest shelled eggs they can
procure and repair with them to the slope back
of the White House. There matches are made
between the lads, who decide them by rolling
the eggs down the slope. The boy whose hen
fruit survives the down-hill journey without its
shell cracking takes the more unlucky egg as
his prize that Is provided 1t Is not wholly
wrecked on the trip. as is frequently the case
The slope after Easter presents wonderful
appearance. Pieces of egg shells make it look
from distance as if a light snow had fallen on
it. The scene while the contests are in progress
is highly diyerting, and it is a wonder that no
great artist has deemed it worthy of transfer
ence to canvass.
-Hezekiah Spalding, the meanest citi-
zen of Hardin county. Kentucky, is dead. Had
Hezekiah met his deserts he would have been
hanged long ago. but that was impracticab1e,
and he was never even brought to trial He
was only q years old, yet his reputation for
meanness was the outgrowth of a whole life de-
voted to wicked deeds. Hezekiah was white
mule owned by Richard Spalding. When
years old he was stolen by Yankee soldier.
He threw his rider into a creek and ran home.
When he was years of age he smashed up five
wagons, nine ploughs, broke the arms of three
men and the leg of fourth. When he was 4
years old Mr.. Spalding succeeded in selling
Hezekiah to a Louisville stock dealer, who in
tended to ship him South for work on cotton
plantation. Hezekiah went along peacefully
to Louisville. and was put in a stable there
awaiting shipment by the railroad. Before he
was in the stable three hours he kicked the end
of the stall out, overturned all the stable boys,
and ran into the street. He got back to the
farm again, and the man who purchased him
made a present of Hez. and what he had paid
for him to Mr.. Spalding. The older Hezekiah
grew the meaner he became, but he was not
perverse at all times. He seemed to have
spells, so that many Of the neighbors used to
date events by the time when Hezekiah
Spalding had a fit" The only time he was
ever worsted In fghSwas when he tackled
locomotive. Even that didn't kill him. He
diad of old age