Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

of 200, 900 people kills $4,000 worth Of trade.
The Long Island seventeen-year loeusts
are distinguished by their red eyes, others
having black.
George Francis Train estimates the
wear and tear of clothes lines in this country at
$4,000 year.
One gator hunter brought to Arcadia,
Fla, the other day over 100 gator skins. all Of
which were between and IL feet in length.
1t has been decided that the minimum
for the British Foot Guards shall be lowered to
feet 7inches in the case of men under ~ years
Of age.
"A number of young women IN Cush-
bert, Ca, have organized an antikissing So
ciety. Those who have seen the members say
tnat sucn precaution was not necessary
Six men were recently convicted OF
murder in the Punjab. Some legal question
wa was raised. and the case went up on appeal to
the chief court. Shortly afterward the "mur-
dered" man turned up alive and WELL.
Australia has a remarkable form OF
earthworm which would hardly make good bait
for trout. They are one and quarter inches
in diameter and six feet in length and exhale
a strong odor analogous to that of creosote.
"A Hoboken gentleman has a pet goose
which st1mps about with the aid Of wooden
leg. An accident necessitated the amputation
of a part of one Of its legs, and the owner
caused the stump to be heightened with splint
of wood.
"A man in Tennille, Ga, dreamed the
other night that he was in fight, and he raised
up, grabbed pillow and sent it with all his
might at lamp sitting on the center table,
which he supposed was his antagonist The
lamp was smashed.
THE DISPATCH has received a sub
g.. ~. nr--,
year, the paper to be addressed as follows:
Josiah Wigley, Nomeheya, Nqwamkwe Post,
Fingoland, South Africa. There must be q
great many cases of lockjaw in that vicinity.
AT Tennille, Ca, few days ago some
eggs were taken from under setting hen and
thrown away, as they were thought to be un.
productive. Charlie Lancaster, little boy in
town, passed by the eggs, which were exposed
to the suns rays, and discovered several little
chicks peeping out Of the shells. Charlie took
them home and by careful nursing thew soon
came out ana now bid fair to become 1T sub
jects for big chicken pie.
-Olin j. Clark, of Dade county, Ca, has
a curiosity which he thinks is the next thing to
being miracle. Last fall he felled an old
cherry tree, cut it into cordwood and threw the
sticks in pile into his woodhouse. The other
day he happened to look at the sticks, which
note that several Of the sticks were covered
with perfect cherry blossoms. Twigs had put
out from the old logs, and the flowers were
on them. Such vitality in wood is unprec.
edented. Mr.. Clark has left the blossoms un.
touched.
Leonard Searborn and Jennie Maylord,
of New Haven, Conn.,, were married last No
Vember, and on their wedding day, just as they
were leaving the church after the ceremony,
they were confronted by a coffin containing the
remains Of a young man who had died Of
rheumatism. The bride turned pale and, with
many other persons, deemed ft an omen of bad
luck for herself and her husband. SearbOrn
was stricken with rheumatism four weeks after
his marriage, and has been confined to his bed
ever since. He is now so crippled and helpless
that the doctors say he cannot recover. He
and his wife attribute all their misfortune to
meeting that corpse on their marriage day.
AN account recently published gives
one deep respect for the taste Of Russian
women of means in want of nightgrows, and is
calculated to make the American envy the
Petersburg climate, which makes such things
excusable Princess Alexandra of Greece,
who is soon to marry Prince Paul, of Russia,
will have such fine nightdresses as will make
her sorry she cannot drive out and walk about
the streets in one Of them. Three of these
things are to be gwen to her by the Cars wife.
They are made an ready to be sent One is
made Of silver fox bordered with gold; another
Of sables tasted with six large pearls, and the
third, which is the best, is made Of fur Of blue
fox, with girdle of diamonds.
"A remarkable girl died recently in Chi
cago. Josephine Grebski was her name and
she was Is years old. She was the eldestlof q
family of six children, and had never walked
step in her life She- had never seen the light
OF day, never heard the sound of voices and
nff od an i0fa oil avl1 ha ara
what was given her, rejecting nothing, and
never made sign that she desired more. The
only feeling that this semiinanimate creature
ever betrayed was when flower was placed in
1o-year-old child. After death her countenance
looked like that of beautiful angel in sweet
repose, and the lips were parted in a smile,
though she had never smiled in life.
"A singular accident happened to Henry
Epps, of Sparta, Ga, recently, while on the
point of threshing oats. One of the hands con-
nected with the separator took pistol out Of
his pocket and laid it on shelf near by. Epps,
thinking it looked like pistol that was lost at
the burning Of mill several days before,
picked it up and began to examine 1t. He
cooked it and was letting down the hammer
the muzzle pointed toward the ground-when
the weapon went on. Feeling sudden pain in
The region Of one of his eyes, he supposed that
d part of the cap from the pistol had entered it
Growing painful. he went to doctor, who ex-
smined the wound, and cut out a piece of the
pistol bullet from under the eye-or, rather,
from the under part Of the eye, in which it was
"A party returning from church at Pond
Spring. Ga, saw In front Of them an object in
he shape of human being, with eyes like two
great balls of fire, teeth as white as snow and
lair ALMOST trailing to the ground. As the OBJ
ect was neared it appeared as a woman dressed
n white and of giant size. The party, with
much bravery advanced when the ghost began
o move backward getting larger and larger,
inally disappearing as If IN an explosion. The
,arty ran In fright. On the ground where it
disappeared the next day the following was
'ound traced in the sand: II come to warn all
Who may see me- or read these lines, that unless
inners repent of their evil ways and ask Gods
forgiveness damnation is their portion. The
md of time being close at hand 1t behooves one
md all to take warning"