Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

parties, are the latest fashionable diversions in
Washington.
Mr.. Smith, gun dealer Of stepuey.
Conn, ia suffering from lockjaw from the bite
Of a six-foot Dlacksnake.
"A company of Boston stock brokers re-
Gently dined on two Holsters weighing q
pounds. caught at Sullivan, NE.
Six eloping couples were married at
Jeffersonvile, Ind, in one day recently. One
justice married them all His ices amounted
20 S23.
"A. D. Thompson, Of Oswego, n. Y, is
said to be the Oldest railroad conductor in the
United States. He began railroading In lS44 on
tramway from Ithaca to Owego. he Is about
20 years old.
Horton Bailey, of Omaha, Is suing for
divorce. and one Of his allegations is that his
wife once hit him on the head with picture
Our Home"
The Illinois Assembly has shown it
self to be possessed Of truly Western sense OF
humor by appointing a gentleman named
Partridge to the Craftsmanship Of the commit
Tee on game laws.
"A horse at Ansonia, Conn, got q peb-
BILE in his nose while drinking from a shallow
brook, and now, whenever he crosses it, laps
water there like dog, though elsewhere ho
drinks in the usual fashion.
Timothy Smith, matchmaker, is doing
business in Belfast, Me-, in the shop that was
occupied by his father and grandfather, whose
f1rst names were also Timothy. The sigP which
hangs over his door is the same one that his
granddad bought.
"A letter mailed in Liverpool about s
o'clock in the evening Of May was delivered
to its destination in Chicago early in the morn
ing of May 10. As it probably reached the
latter city the previous evening the whole time
Of transmission between the two cities may be
set down as eight days. That is quick transit
indeep.
"A gentleman living few miles from
Vienna, Ga, dreamed few nights since that
an alligator bad him. He had often heard that
If you would gouge them in thseyes they would
thumbs into the gators eyes He awoke in
stantly from the scream Of pain from his wife,
when he found that ne had almost put both her
eyes out. She claims that he did 1t on purpose,
and refuses to become pacifed.
The youngest commercial drummer in
the United States is Harry Wade. of Buffalo.
He is but II years Of age, and a son Of Frank A.
Wade. The way Master Wade first went out
was owing to the serious illness of his father,
made frequent trips with his father and OBJ
served his ways of doing business. He prevailed
upon his father to let him take his route, which
is through New York State. The boy has made
two successive trips over the route, and is the
favorite Of the commercial men and his fathers
customers.
Blue Holsters are ceasing to be novelty
in Connecticut waters Five of them sre known
to have been taken within the past two years,
Charles Miner, of Quiambaug, near Stonington,
having taken the fifth within few days. Il
was like all the others, as blue as old-fash-
ioned blue crockery, and the shell was translu-
cent. All the blue Holsters, with possibly one
or two exceptions, that have been taken in the
history Of American fishing, were captured in
Long Island Sound, or at the eastern gate of
the sound, where the turbulent waters of the
Atlantic break into pacific Fishers Island
Sound
I'm the weird town of Moodus, on the
Connecticut river, a resident was cured OF
in a marvellous way. He went to
bed with aching joints, after leaving lotion
on the kitchen table with which to bathe his
limbs. He arose several times in the night and
laved his limbs freely with the contents of a
kitchen table bottle, and in the morning was
joyfully surprised to find that all his pains had
fed. It was not until be inspected himself
and perceived that he was black and blue that
he mistrusted that he had used the family
blueing bottle instead of the one with the To-
tion over night.
Probably the biggest hunting expei;,n n
ton ever arranged by private individual
that now under discussion by Messrs. Chat
Carroll, Harry Carey and Willie Chanler, Ni
New York. Their idea is to arrive at Zanzibar,
on the southeast coast of Africa about Novem-
ber and proceed inland after big game and
adventure Of all kinds. including the fascin9.
Willie Chanler, as advance agent, has already
reached Zanzibar, and letter Just scefYed
from him reports that the plan is perfectly
armed and equipped, will be the body guard,
and the outfit is already being prepared.
The barbed wire patents, which have
netted fortunes to their owners, have an inter-
esting history. The first patents were issued to
D man named Kelly, living down East About
two years later farmer at De Kalb, H., con- .
ceived the idea of keeping his unruly cattle in
the pasture by putting short barbs on a wire
and then twisting it with plain wire. This is
known in the market as the Gidden wire, being
named after its inventor, Joseph +. Gidden.
One day while he was experimenting with 1t .
neighbor going by shouted: Joe, you better be
out harrerin' in your oats instead of foolin'
away your time with patentsF' Gidden thought
and in less than two years receiveda
bonus of S60, 900, with the guarantee of arOyalty
On all made under his patents. For one year his
royalties exceeded SlI4, ,OO0
In AndoYer, Conn.,, recently G. Brad
bury, a prominent farmer, was suffering from
rheumatism. He could hardly hobble, and
ife was a burden, when one day he beard Of
'aith curer. He tried the impalpable treat
nent. The doctor looked steadily at Mr.. Brad
,ury and said: "You think you have rheuma-
ism, but you haven't; there is nothing the mat
er with you. What you call rheumatism is
,nly false thinking. Think right and your dis
'ase is gone" The doctor continued to gaze
teadily at the patient until the latter pulled
,ut s. and gave it to him, and then the faith
nan said: "You are cured; get up and walk"
dr. Bradbury got up, and, though bis joints
rackled some, he walked. That evening he
walked to his barn and did his chores, some
hing he had not attempted before in months.
dr. Bradbury is still well.
While Farmer Solomon Ellsworth was
owing grain In Tunkhannoek county, near
scranton, on a cloudy afternoon a flock of 200
It 300 pigeons alighted in the ploughed lot be-
lind him and began to gobble up his grain at
rate that he did not like az all. Farmer Tits
Forth tried his best to scare them away, but he
ouldn't. As fast as he drove them from one
art of the lot they few TO another and picked
Ip the grain as If they hadn't had any food for
wo or three days. Then the farmer got
eech CAD and set to beating the hungry birds,
ut they were too many for him, even though
10 killed dozen or so. The hunger Of the
igeons overcame their fear, and they stayed
D the field until they filled their crops, when
hey rose in body and sailed away toward the
orth. Farmer Ellsworth had to SOW portion
the lot over again.