Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-13


jay Gould has an orchid in his conser-
vatory at Irvington that Il valued a. $4,000
"A huge rsttlssnake crawling along the
sidewalk was one OF the sights a. Athens. Ga,
the other day.
Charles Chamberlsin, Of North Dakota,
has found valuable deposits Of salt on his farm
near Bismarck.
"A large eagle was shot near Deposit
Delaware county. on Monday. Just previous
20 its demise iE killed hen.
"A huge rattlesnake is monopolizing the
kitchsn Of John Carty's house. near Columbus.
Leave.
AN old prospector recently died at
Idaho Springs. Col. who at one time was max
ing 3, 900 per week. yet he had to be buried By
charity.
Mr. H. Williams and Miss Martha
Critsten were married the other day az Clay
TON, Ala. after q courtship OF one month The
young man Is only Is and the bride 46
There is pond in New Jersey where
the sacred lotus Of the East has become estab-
lished and proved itself hardy although in the
winter the surface Of the water is frozen over.
in August, 1889, $1,000 worth Of
stamps were sold in Portland, Ore., as against
5000 for the same month in 1853 There are
now lSS ships on the way to thar city from for
eign ports
H. N. Harding, Of Calhoun. Ca. re-
ports that II rattlesnakes were killed in one
log near his home In the Twenty-fourth district
one day last week. There was one large and
ten little ones In the lot
Among the inscriptions in her album
most priced by Mime. Patti-Nicolini is this, by
the the elder Dumas: Being man and Chris
were bird should die Of envy
"A large and very important discovery
OF uranium is reported In Cornwall. It is . true
insure vein, the ore containing an average Of l
per cent Of the pure metal, going up as high in
many places as 30 per cent The market price
OF uranium Is 81, 900 ton.
William Wilkinson, of Putnam county.
Florida, killed q 350pound bear last week in
Wet Bay swamp, near his home. The bear had
killed hog the evening before. and Mr.
Wilkinson faced him in his den next day and
silenced him with load Of buckshot.
"A million Mannlicher rifles have been
ordered by the German Government from the
steyr factories. which have been working ex-
clusively for the Austro- Hungarian Govern
mems for nearly year past. On October the
whole army and the LandEehr will be armed
with them.
The man who has been going around
Orange township. o., clipping the hair OF
the tails Of horses, has at last been caught.
He turns out to be insane. He explained that
he wanted the hair to make bed and took his
captors to a cave in the woods where he had
three bags full Of hair.
There are alleged to have been many
instances of colored persons turning white,
but the case Of q Yamaeraw, Ga. woman il
most remarkable from the fact that her niece
a few years ago also became Caucasian to all
appearances. and that her skin drops on In big
fakes. She is almost entirely helpless, her
limbs being paralyzed- Her illness began with
her change Of color.
The plague Of feas which is annoying
the residents of Cambridge, Mass. is accounted
for scientifically by Boston paper. which says
that the number of companies OF educsred
feas now performing In the dime museums In
the country have increased to such an extent
College at Cambridge for the purpose OF putting
the finishing touches to their education.
The amount Of water passing over
Niagara Falls varies with the height Of the
river. Prof. w. d. Cunning estimates the
average amount at Is, 600 900 cubic feet per min
ute. Allowing 62x pounds TO the cubic foot,
this would give total of 502 500 tons per min
ute. or 25,a2 500 tons In As minutes, Of which
somewhat more than tw0-thfrds passes over the
total amount passing over both falls as high as
OO,O0O, 900 tons per hour.
The rate-cutting mania is spreading in
the West Jeffersonville. Ind, is the Gretna
Green of runaway Kentucky couples, and a
very comfortable business has been done there
in the tying of the matrimonial knot For 81 50
elopers could be married. the sum including
license magistrates fees and the service Of a
witness to swear to the lady's age. But the
00mUafffi0n IN In tho
two matrimonial agencies. The old firm, 70
meet competition, cut the rate TO S.: then the
opposition y: on; came m ID down to g which was met
firm agreed to provide all the official requisites
for nothing, and now has all the business.
The funeral Of DIR. H. H. Tucker, an
eminent Baptist divine, which took place at
Atlanta few days ago, was unique in many
respects. DIR. Tucker left letter giving in
structions concerning his funeral. He directed
that he be buried in coffin of wood in order
that it might rot. He instructed that prayers
be offered for anybody connected by affinity or
consanguinity with his family; for anybody
who had ever done a favor or good turn to him
or his family; for everybody who had injured
any kind at the funeral and no music, only
prayers and reading OF Scripture. His orders
were carried out to the letter.
"A gigantic bone, part Of the femur or
thigh bone of mastodon or some other huge
prehistoric animal, is on exhibition in Port
land. Ore, store. 1t was purchased from man
who declined to state exactly where he found
il, as he says there are other bones around the
place. and he expects to find other parts of the
skeleton Of the huge beast The bone. which
is well preserved, is nearly three feet long, and
the head which ut. ed into the socket IN the
hip is ~ inches In circumference. Many who
saw 1t and who had seen bones of other masto-
dons said this was the largest they had ever
seen. 1t is certainly whopper, and must Lave
hal N q anfr of fho aafr
don giganteus.