Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-11
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Connecticut capitalists are boring for oil
in that State in the town of Southbury.
An old well gave indications that there was
oil beneath the surface there IN 1881, and
il is near this well that the capitalists have
now had bored n shaft which Is already
/ .46O feet deep. II is intended to bore Tor
oil at least 5000 feet.
A veteran locomotive engineer named
William Brady. while running between
Fruityale and San LeandrO, Cal, ran INTO
what appeared to be a small cloud, sweep
ing close to the ground, but what was IN
reality a swarm of bees. The cab was
literally filed with bees for few minutes,
but neither he nor his fireman was stung.
William Chandler of Waynesboro', Ga,
saws that he saw party OF twelve men
living at and around old Ringgold 60 fish
ing, each one carrying with him hshing-
tackle in the shape of sledge-hammer.
They would strike the lodges Of rock COW
cred in the water, and the strong cOncus-
sion from the heavy blows would stun the
fish and enable the fishermen to gather
them IN.
For several years past learned, or appa-
rently learned, arguments have appeared
in western newspapers TO the elect that
the level of the great lakes is lowering and
that a period OF low water Is beginning.
These theories have been upset the past
month by rise of the level Of the lakes
and the passage over shallow places OF
large vessels conveying big cargoes One
propeller, the Corsica, has Just passed
through the lakes carrying the heaviest
cargo ever shipped on lake vessel.
A gallant young disciple of Blackstone II
Ellayllle. Ca, finding business in the legal
profession rather dull at this season, aud
having a wife and baby 10 provide for, lad
away bis law-bOOks, closed his office, dotted
his standing collar, congress CATERS aud
courthouse clothes, hauled on his seedlest
garments, seized "A trOwel, and sailed forth
TO earn bread by the sweat Of his brow un-
til the law business picked mp. He had
gotten a Job of brick-laying, and earned
over 800 before his friends missed him out
Of town.
Mr.. J. /. Grant, of Mapping, Conn,
calls public attention 20 his pigs. There
are half dozen of them, and they know
more than all the rest of the pigs IN Con-
nccticut. Mr.. Grant was not aware how
smart his pigs were until, having noticed
that one of his cows gave less milk than
she was wont to do, he Investigated the
mystery. He found that the pigs were
milking the COW regularly. They were
only eight weeks old, but they were long
enough by standing on their hind legs TO
milk the cow, which is short, quite handl-
ly. The COW does not mind 1t.
A PENNSYLVANIA editor answers a CORE
spondent who propounds the query, a." Did
YOU ever see a baldheaded woman" In the
| following strain: No, we never did. Nor
did we ever see q woman Waiting around
| A. 81, ola NIT No
tween her teeth. We never saw n woman
90 fishing with bottle in her hip-pOcket,
sit around on the damp ground all day,
and 90 home "bOOZed" in the evening.
| Neither have we seen woman yank of her
coat. spit on her hands, and swear she
could whip any man III town. All OF the
| foregoing privileges are reserved Tor
men"
Slowly the great falls of the Niagara
| river are changing in shape, through the
eating away ofthe shalc rock which under
| lies the hard rock that forms tho bed of
! the rapids. II Is almost misnomer now
| to speak of the Canadian portion OF the
| great cataract as the Horseshoe rails, "
and within a week this designation has be-
come more than ever misplaced IN conse-
uuence of the fall OF a large section of the
| bed rock in the very centre of the falls.
| So much rock fell that an eddy below the
| falls near the Canadian side of the river
| has been narrowed more than half, and the
| little steamer Maid of the Mist has less
| difficulty than before IN running into the
curve of the falls.
At Newington, Conn, the other dav a
| black spider had a curious adventure. The
matron of a family lay down on her lounge
and slept. The spider crawled over her.
Along her side he crept, up her cheek,
around TO the side of her head; then he
| climbed on the rim of her ear and gazed
down into the aural crater. 1t was spa
| cious one, and he went in. Then the lady
rot up with shrek and q bound. The
| family ran to her aid. She told them that
something, fly possibly, was walking
about in her head. They prepared pint
| of warm soap suds and poured most of 1t
| down her back and some of il into her ear.
| Thereupon the black spider rushed out,
wet, astonished, but as lively as ever. lie
| leaped TO the floor and got into his hole in
the padding of the lounge.
Fourteen years ago Joseph Butchel saw
a little fellow knocked down by a horse
! drawing n street-car in which he was
riding in Portland, Ore. The drivers head
was turned, and Butchel. grabbing the
reins with one hand, wheeled the horse
away from the child, and with the other
| grasped him, Just as the wheel was about
| TO crush him. The father, W. Q. john
son, was profuse in thanks, and the affair
was apparently forgotten. The child grew,
! and on his eighteenth birthday Mr.. Butch
| Ell was invited to Mr.. Johnson's office,
where he found the family assembled. The
| boy made neat speech, and handed has
surprised rescuer a gold-headed cane, in-
! scribed From w. Carey johnson, June
| q, 1889. In memory of brave deed, 1915.
| | owe YOU my boys life.n The aeknow-
! ledgment was little slow in coming, but
it got there just the same.
The Texas and Pacific Company sank a
| bored well some years ago near Eagle Fiat
station, Ala, in order TO obtain Artesian
water. The well was abandoned when il
bad been bored 500 feet, but the tubing Is
| still intact in it. For twelve hours each
day a furious gust of air PUSHES into the
| tubing, and the next twelve hours an
equally strong gust rushes out. A local
| theory of the phenomenon IL as fol-
lows: 1.-The well must penetrate into
some large subterranean cavern which
contains large body of water, this
water having connection by an un-
| derground passage with the Gulf OF
Mexico or the PacificOcean. Ii this be true,
| il is very plain that the suction and es-
Gaming OF the air is caused by the ebbing and
flowing of the tide. As the tide ebbs down
| in this cavern a vacuum IS made under
ground, which is Allied by the air rushing
in through this well, and, conversely, when
the tide comes up the air Is forced out
| through the same opening. The air while
in this cavern may become mixed with
various gases, but not magnetszed. as has
: been supDosed."