Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Jdmes daluganS OF Gaporte, lnd., Qleo
recently, and "a children mourn his loss.
"A copy Of the first folio edition Of
Shakespeare sold St auction in New York for
Mr.. and Mrs. John z. Brown, of Peru,
Ind. have 10 children, including two pairs Of
twins.
Miss Laura Jacobs, of WappapeIlo,
Mo-, was married Tuesday evening and sloped
the same night.
John Miller, living near Goshen, Ind,
has a family OF q children. There have been
| no deaths and only one pair OF twins
ID. Stump, of Burnt Cabin, York county,
Pa. can put large goose eggi in his mouth and
close his lips without crushing the shell.
English as it is written Omaha: Gown
ers of dogs must register them before the 10th
of May, or they win be shot by the police"
"A young lady of East Nottingham, Pa,
in strolling in a field the other day. found 96
! four-leaf cloVers, and some with i've leaves.
"A sparrow is making itself at home in
cage Of flying squirrels, at the Fallon House,
Lock Haven, Pa, and no jars have resulted 80
New York has an organization known
as the Handsome Club, made up Of 1s4 women,
who are distinguished for beauty of face and
form.
Stephen Richardson, Of Harvey county
Kansas, has planted three miles of peach trees
on the public highway for the benefit OF
travellers.
Out of 80 Justices of the Peace whom
the Earl Of Rosebery. as Lord Lieutenant Of
the county of West Lothian has appointed to
the magistracy, three are workingmen-
Several years ago piece of a pump-
stocF was placed in a spring at Neversink, Pa,
for safe keeping. 1t was taken out lately. and
T0J da oo1fr or7Ao hall foafIo
found in it full of animation.
Mayor Star enumerates the number Of
| languages spoken on Main street, Deadwood, as
follows: English, German, French, Italian,
Chinese, Norwegian Swedish, Finnish, Scan-
dinaVian, Russian, Irish, Spanish, Hebrew,
Sclavonlan-14, with possibly few over.
looked.
The British Consul at Havre says that
the complaints of British shipmasters against
the British tars are constant He has heard
captains say frequently, "Give me Norwegians,
Swedes or Germans, but no English sailors for
| me-" They have their old-time ability as sea-
men, but are drunken and Insubordinate.
Mr.. Samuel Fries, residing near Steins4
vile, Lehigh county, Pa, is happy in the pos
session Of q beard measuring 4 feet and
inches in length-the same extending eonsid-
| erably below his knees. He is a man II years
Of age, well built, weighing 2S5 pounds, and has
been cultivating his wbisker crop for B years
straight along with success that proDaDly
stands unsurpassed
"A game of baseball at Long Branch
was suddenly terminated on Thursday by the
center fielder, in fielding q ball, falling head
| foremost into nest Of 80 garter snakes. He
picked himself up, but again sank to the
| ground almost prostrated by fright, and it was
| fully half an hour before he recovered sufh-
| ciently to walk. His companions, with their
bats, succeeded in killing 26 Of the ugly reps
| tiles, some Of which measured three feet in
length.
"A colored woman at Birmingham, Ala,
removed to Memphis last fall. She determined
| to leave her dog behind Just as she was start
| ing the faithful animal came bounding into the
| car where she sat. When she returned to Bin
mingham she did not feel able to incur the exf
| pense of dog fare again and so left the animal
| in Memphis. Last week the dog, foot-sore and
| half starved, came bounding into his old home.
He had travelled 25l miles to rejoin his old
\ mistress.
| Opium is gotten by cutting the capsule
of the poppy flower with notched iron instru.
ment at sunrise, and by the next morning q
i drop or so of juice has oozed out. This il
seraped OF and saved by the grower, and after
| he has a vessel full of it it is strained and
dried. 1t takes great many poppies to make
| pound of opium, and it goes through a mum.
Der of processes before it is ready for the mar
ket. In. liquid state it looks like dark
strawberry jam.
Chris Speicher, wealthy farmer, en-
| joyed the distinction of raising the largest
| family in the northern section of Indiana. Mr..
Speicher died several years ago, leaving p sons
and three. daughters. all of whom are now
living. He celebrated the marriage of each
child by giving him deed for 80 acres Of land,
disposing Of 1000 acres in this manner. The
descendants Of Mr. speieher are al an the heads
proud sire of 16 children, all living in the
vicinity of Wabash.
| AT Rushford, Mimi, the harvest of the
wolf crop has Just commenced IL is reported
that Norwegian living on 4O-acre bluff
farm on the Badgers, in houston county, took
in a wolf scalps, for which the county OF
Houston paid the sum of sos. On Saturday
| Little Gunderson took some young wolves to
/ Preston and obtained $40. 1t is said that at
| Pilot Mound the boys have an old she wolf
that has bred one or two litters year till she
| is so old that her claws are nothing but stubs
| and she has not a tooth in her head. The boys
| feed her. and she is so tame that she goes for
her food.
| While workmen at Gardiner, Me-, were
exca7ating for the foundation of a new build.
ing they came upon liquor sellers outfit Of .
peculiar design. 1t was large liquor cask
buried six feet under ground outside Of the
| foundation wall to the building, the tap to it
being arranged on the siphon plan, the end Of
| it provided with a faucet. This was concealed
| by convenient brick carefully replaced after
|
| position. Above this opening second tube
| connecting with the cask passed through the
wall and 1t was through this the stuff was
poured when the indicator ran low. The OH
GERS searched in vain years ago to discover that
| particular rum shop.
Judge G. s.. Garrison, Of Merchant
vile, II. J., is the owner Of a remarkable hen,
whose popularity consists in the fact that from
the time she began to lay her first egg she se-
lected the little angle Of the hall behind the
| front door of the house as the place of her
| choice. As regularly as the family seated
| themselves at the breakfast table she would fly
up to the window sill of the dining room, res
| peat the gentle tapping of "Poe's Raven,n
and when the window was raised, betake hers
| self with eluek to her favorite nest When
| the egg was lald she did caekle until she was
| fairly out Of the house. She then invariably
ran as hard as her legs would carry her to the
| barnyard and awakened the echoes with her
| triumphant notes.