Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Idaho Territory has 1000 miles of irri-
eating ditehea-
| AT West Harwich, Mass, little Sylvia
Latbrop, II years old, recently picked lof quarts
OF cranDerries in single day Her picking
this season has brought her In nearly so.
"A Blissfield, Mich, man accidentally
put small cartridge into his pipe along with
some tobacco the other day and when the
thing went on 10 removed the end Of bis nose.
The United States Fish Commission
win send to the Boston Maritime Exhibition
three immense cars, with aquaria Containing
specimens Of every food hsh in American
waters.
The Experiment Station at the Uniyer-
sity of Illinois is investigating the disease Of
cattle known as milk sickness. It is supposed
to be caused by eating q plant Of the genus
eupatoffum. In the last two weeks rabbits
have been fed on ii, and three Of them died,
and now calf is being fed on the plant.
"A. c. Carr, the "apple king Of Ksnne-
bee county. Me-, has raised queer apple this
year. Tne sweet and sour portions are disrrib-
uted in alternate layers extending from stem
to blow, and from one-half to one inch wide,
and can be distinguished By the color and tex
ture OF the outside skin. The apple grew IN
the famous Pullen, or Benson, orchard in East
Monmouth, and there are said to be several
trees which bear this peculiar variety Of fraik
The other night John Burns, Of Ansonia,
Conn. went out after rabbits with bis dog.
Within mile Of the center Of the borough his
dog treed an animal. which Mr.. Burns thought
must be coon. He took good aim and brought
it down. It proved to be a fine silver-gray for,
very large, and with his coat in excellent con-
dit1on. The tree was pine. with limbs grow
A fno Arntf 81 nnr~
known in local annals Of silVer-gray foxes In
that section, let alone one climbing 4 tree.
Charles Rozell, Jr., died at his fathers
house, in Litchheld, Mich, October a, aged %
years. This man was born without 4 spinal
column and had been obliged to lie prone upon
his back all his life. He never walked q step.
and lived most Of the time in q room built and
adapted especially to hls peculiar necessities.
He could talk and feed himself, but was not
very bright intellectually 50 that his entire Life
was almost as blank as that of 3 mollusk- Few
but members Of his family have seen him.
-Woodsburg, Long Island, has been
for two weeks haunted by mysterious woman.
She is seen only between the hours Of midnight
and "a. n. and is always clad in funereal black.
with single white feather in her sable turban-
She leans pensIveiy on . fence outside the cot
tage occupied BY q family named LongWorth.
and gazes wistfuliy at that pretty vineclad
home. The moment anyone accosts her she
uizsd her features though scores of the most
prominent residents have seen her quite close
party is being organized to capture the
mysterious being
"A newly appointed justice Of the
peace in Fairhaven, VT, was asked what he
would ask to marry a forlorn-Iooking couple
that had appeared to him from the backBoods.
The ]. P. thought he could perform the csre-
mony for 80 cents. The man allowed that he
might raise that sum. After the ceremony vas
performed the Justice called for the fee. After
overalls the bridegroom thonght he had either
lost the 50 cents or left it TO hum The ]. r.
having no desire to lose so large prize as 80
cents, calmly informed the rustic youth thar be
was unmarried A bystander came to the
cents, which was handed to His Honor. The
justice then remarked to the couple that they
we're again married, and that they were at
liberty 70 resume their journey.
Several days ago, when Mr.. John L.
Walker, . farmer living In the northeastsrn
part Of Lowndes county, Ga, was In his field
picking cotton, his attention was attracted by
a fuss made Dy his hogs IN swamp near the
ield. They made noise fsry much like they
do when they come mp with an unfriendly ami
NAL. or perhaps strange drove Of swine, and
Thought little Of it, supposing they we're having
a tilt with neIghbor's hogs. But be soon went
to the house, when his soEs came up. One
tumbIed over dead. and then another and an
other. and the fourth became very sick, but re-
covered Upon examination he discovered
that they had been bitten bya snake on the
nose. and one Of them on the tongue A man
working for Mr.. Walker went into the swamp,
found the snake and killed IL It was . are
foot rattler.
Mrs. L. G. Stevens, Of Cameron, \. T..
il undoubtedly sntiflsd % bs called tne-e4am-
pion female angler OF the country. sbs and
her husband spend the summer IN camp At
Lake Keuka. This season they went On the
lake on the 24th Of June. They broke camp
on October "a During that time they captured
400 salmon trout Of an aggregate weighs Of
1000 pounds. $500 black bass, weighing from
half pound to i've pounds, and 500 picksrel
Of an average weight Of pound and half
largest black bass and the largest plckersl.
The trout, weighed s5S pounds the bass
pounds and the pickerd 81 pounds OF t1e
and Of the pickerel 200. These fish are inde-
pend ent Of the hundreds Of rock bass and
perch Mr. and Mrs. Stevens caught. which
don't count
Gus Wolf, hunter in the Wood river,
Colorado country. fred i've shots 1t bear
with out killing IT This exhausted his smmuni-
tion and he began clubbing the brute with his
gun until the weapon was knocked out Of his
hands. Gus, in describing the fight tells OF
how he first tried TO run away from the bear
after the animal was so wounded as to have
but three legs. He describes how the bear
caught his right hand In his jaw, holding Il til
Gus gouged the bear in the eye with bis left
forefnger, making the brute let 60. and then
how the bear grasDed his left wrist. Gus
finally reached out with his right hand and got
a rock with which he beat the hear over the
head, and then they rolled down the hlIl 10
gether, the bear falling into the creek Gus
fhen managed to get loose and ran. soon reach
ing camp, and his associates At once went Tor
surgeon. who sewed up his face. makinr Is
stitches, and using lots Of plaster and bandaxo
cotton. The nsxI day some men went out 70
the scene Of the contest and found the bear
dead, but still warm. lying about 20 yards from
where the fight took place. The bear weighed