Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| -Paola, Kan, has rented It's city park to
q carpet renovator.
-''The piano taught moderate is a sign
on house in London.
| The decrease in the public debt during
May is estimated at ss,ooQ0oo.
"A Nevada man has q strawberry patch
which yields 1000 boxes day.
The popular sport in FL Paso is fight
between rattlesnakes and bullsnakes.
There is a man in Hart county, Georgia,
who spells his entire name with two letters
Bob Bobo.
| Two hundred and seventy-fVe ladies
are clergymen in the United States and occupy
| pulpits as such
"A little girl in Orvingsville, KY,
choked tn death after swallowing grain Of
corn, which lodged in her throat.
"A housewife at Gridley, CAL, while
dressing a chicken for dinner. found in its crop
diamond, which was sold for s1S5.
I'm bicycle race at Poughkeepsie on
Decoration Day John Van Benschoten, Of that
city, covered 16 miles in hour minutes and
II seconds.
Mr.. Gus Asbury killed a jointed snake
last week. He says It fell to pieces before he
struck it, and, If he had not killed it. it would
have put itself together again.
The yearly sales of Phil Armour's great
packing house in Chicago now amount on an
average to s55,OO0.00O. They have at times
reached as high as $50, 600, 900 year.
The almost incredible statement Is
made by South Florida man that it has
rained more or less in the vicinity of his home
on the 10th of Nay for the past 10 years.
Some ingenius arithmeticisn has calcu.
lated that the SoOOO,OOO stamps issued by the
English postoffice from 1910 to 1884, if placed
end to end, would reach to the moon and back.
Greensboro, Ga, has rooster that climbs
atree by using his spurs as telegraph lineman
uses his leg spikes in ascending a telegraph
pole. This is the first case of the kind on rec
ord.
Z Judge Wray,o Walton Springs, Greene
county, Ga, keeps a horse saddled and bridled
to answer the calls of couples bent on matri-
mony, There is an epidemic of marriages in
that county now.
"A carriage maker of Armstrong county,
Pennsylvania. has Just shipped to Persia car
rage packed in boxes, to facilitate transporta-
tion across the desert on camels' backs. The
total freight bill was about s100
Benjamin Hulick had to get detective
to help him TO find what became of a peach
and apple orchard he set out lately near Farm
ingdale. N. j. Every tree had been trans
ported to farm some miles away.
Theodore Urban, an antiquarian and
student of Columbia, Pa, says he has evidence
that this continent was settled about $50 years
after the deluge; that the inhabitants were
highly civilized and used tools of metal.
"A Cairo colored man narrowly escaped
being bitten by rattlesnake. He fired his
gun at the reptile and it kicked him in the Och
locknee river. He could not swim, butlwas
pulled out by passing teamster. The snake
escaped death.
"A Minnesota man who appears in
the public streets drunk will for the first Of
fense be fined from SO to $40; second offense
from so to $50; third offense. imprisonment
from so to 80 days. For the first two offenses
Imprisonment may be substituted for fine.
One day last week W. A. Newton, Of
jackson, Ga, went to his blacksmith shop and
started fire in the furnace for the purpose Of
sharpening some plows. After heating one
plow and while standing at the anvil hammer
ing away on it the bellows burst with the noise
Of a large gun. Lying on the bellows were sew
eral heavy plows and other old irons, and they
were dashed against the roof of the house with
such force as to loosen the shingles The leather
covering was torn into shreds. 1t is supposed
that the bellows had become filed with gas
from the stone coal that had been used in the
furnacep which, becoming ignited, caused the
explosion.
"A curious ceremony took place at the
White House on Saturday-the cremation of -
bushel of letters written to President CIevs
land by cranks. They had been preserved
two mail bags, and were found during the
cent cleaning of the White House attic Tn.
were written by cranks in all parts Of the couy
try, and gave Mr.. Cleveland advice on all sor
of subjects About 100 letters bad beenE
ceived from a man who signed himself "David
God" Another, from one ]. H. Whiting, fe-
lated to the disappearance OF stovepipe. AS
the weather was warm, however, Mr.. Whiting
informed the President that the loss was not
serious.
Mrs. Reuben Frost, of johnson county,
Louisiana, has two genuine madstones that
were given her years ago by her father, the IA
nous huntsman, Lord Price. Their power Of
extracting the poison of .rabid dogs has never
been tested, though they will be loaned to any
applicant. Mrs. Frost says her father killed in
his lifetime upward of 500 deer and found only
three madstones, two of which he gave her
when girl. She further states that her father
told her that hunter could tell as soon as
deer was killed whether or not its stomach con-
tanned the magic stone, as in every instance
where the stone is, the hair Of the animal slain
turned the reverse from its natural position
when cold in death.
"A Florida paper opens the summer alli-
gator story season with the following: In this
paper few weeks ago mention was made of an
alligator about four feet long that had been
captured by Dan Warner on the sidewalk in the
most thickly settled portion of our city. Dan
felt as soon as he saw the young saurian that it
possessed unusual intelligence, and set about
to teach him It is perfectly wonderful the
"John'-he has been christened John
has made. The bakeshop is to him a reVea-
ton. He viii, after the bread has been taken
from the pans, take the utensils and pile them
in the corner as neatly as a boy could do it. The
first trick he learned was TO stand on his tail
and hind feet. It is pathetic to see him as he
assumes the position and crosses his forefeet
over his breast, awaiting the loaf which is
given him as a reward for his skill. He is very
fond Of cider, and Schmidt & Warner have
found it necessary to place the barrel beyond
his reach, as he has half dozen times turned
the faucet The boys do not mind the single
glass, but he does not seem to have learned the
art of cuttingit off, and he was not discovered
until a gallon or more had been wasted. The
music by the band pleases him hugely, and he
will lie in front of the band room every practice
night unIil the last note is heard. His harness
will not be done for another week. but Dan is
confident he will drive well. Dan has given him
. huge palm leaf fan, and he handles this with
the utmost grace m keeping OF the flies, which
seem to annoy him excessively.
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