Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


AN East Saginaw family that is sup
ported By public charity seraped together
money enough to pay the taz on a 50 dog.
"A dozen boys, rendered insane by ex-
cess1ve cigarette smoking. have been admitted
to the Napa (Call Hospital for the Insane
within short time
BENJAMIN Huliek had to get detective
to help him to find what became OF peach and
| apple orchard he set out lately, near Farming
| dale. N. j. Every tree had been transported to
farm some miles away.
Philadelphia had a noted doctor whose
name was Physic. The names OF Keen, the
surgeon; Cruel, Friend, Hartshorne, Musser,
Pepper the Provost, Seltzer and Irotter are
also found in her medical directory
1T was Connecticut boy who surprised
his teacher In reading the other day BY bis in
| depreciation of the sentence: There Is worms
/ 90 not tread on him." He read slowly and nes-
himr'
The Paris Academy of Science is re-
ported excited over plant called C0locasia-
''This plant often exhibits a trembling or vi
DraTng motion without any apparent cause,
| and as many as 100 or l20 vibrations have been
| observed in single minute"
DIR. ]. T. Moorehead, of Arkansas City,
Kan, has pet coyote. He got it when it was
young and raised it on the bottle. It is quite
tame, resembles a bulldog in disposition. and
IS good hunter, showing much skill in CATCH
ing rabbits and prairie chickens.
Charles Bonner, negro of Douglas
vile, Ga, does not possess the discriminating
taste Of an epicure. Recently castor oil,
with coffee grounds sprinkled in it, was given
him for beef gravy. He ate it with relish,
smackad his liTS and asEad for mora
The other night burglar got into the
house of a Bay City man named Jackson, and
made such a noise that haaWoke Mrs Jackson
She got out OF bed, picked up q bed slat, and
banged the burglar over the head. Then she
tainted, and the midnight visitor escaped, while
jackson still slept.
The new law which has just gone int
effect in New Jersey forbidding any person
from marrying minors except in the presence
of guardians or parents, or unless properly
authenticated certificate of their consent is
presented, will seriously affect the marriage
business of Camden and all the other Jersey
towns across the Delaware from Pennsylvania.
"A Bridgeport, Montgomery county,
family having gone to the circus, leaving the
house in care of son aged II, the youth left
the front door open, scattered clothing on the
floor, hid gold watch that was in bureau
and devised other indications Of robbery.
When the excitement was at its height he came
forth demurely and explained the joke. In the
JOY at the return Of the lost treasures he es-
capped castigation.
The Smithsonian Institution, WASH
ington, D. c., has a special quarter for live an
inals, which for long time has been infested
with rats. Captain Weedin, who has charge of
the animals, has made valuable discovery, by
means of which he is rapidly getting rid of the
Id noticed
raided the stock of suniower seeds which
were used for food for certain of the birds, and
acting on the hint, he baited his rat traps with
the seeds. The bait acted like charm, and
next morning every trap held from 10 to Is
rats.
"A rumor comes from the Dead river
logging camps in Maine that two trout fisher
men recently resurrected curious relic of an
tiquity from beneath the placid waters of one
of the Carrying Place ponds. The story goes
that they had finished fishing and were about
to start for their camp when they found them
selves unable to raise their anchor from the
bottom. The rope was strong, however, and,
redoubling their efforts, they pulled to the sur
face rude shallop, partially filed with stones,
which had caught upon one point of the wood
en- hillock. The boat is supposed to be one of
those used by Benedict Arnold in his daring
but fruitless effort to capture Quebec.
Spring brings the turnpike musicians
and monkeys in great numbers While one
pair of these were giving a concert on Main
street, in Carbondale, Pa, to a crowd of
youngsters and two inebriabed counHymen,
one of the men gave the monkey cent, for
which it DOTTED its cap jauntily. Then the
countryman teased the little animal until at
last 1t buried its teeth in the mans finger to
the bone. When the blood gushed from the
Er,n Eounu sne monAey mon lookea Fegretlu1y AZ snS
back bis money. No amount Of persuasion
would induce the penitent animal to again ac-
fI<,ar urh afofl1 ynffa
and though he accepted money from others all
around him.
During the last month considerable
number of emigrants have been passing through
Montana to the British possessions travelling
by wagon. 1t has been ascertaiued that they
are Mormons from Utah and Idaho, and that
their destination is the country through which
the Gait Railway passes. Some time ago the
Allesta Railway and Coal Company was ap-
by an agent of the Mormon hierarchy
with proposition to buy several thousand
acres of the company's land in the Northwest
Territory upon which to settle colony of the
saints. The negotiations hung FIRE for some
time, but were completed little more than a
month ago. 1t is not known what the consider
alton was nor just how many acres were Dur-
chased. The deal was large one, however,
and the Province is likely to have a consderar
BILE Mormon population within short time.
The President and three members of the
Ananias Club, of Greenv1lle, Mich. went to
Baldwin Lake to fish recently. They had angled
most of the afternoon, had caught about 100
pounds, and were rowing near shore at the
upper end of the lake. when they came upon
what appeared to be log, some 20 feet in
ength, lying in the rushes a short distance
from shore. An oar touched the supposed log.
when it gave quick start and the head and
about five feet OF the body OF an enormous
reptile raised and gave a hiss as loud as a
goose, the head fattening as to give it .
most horrifying appearance. The fishermen
1ead," but jumped into the water from the
opposite side, capsizing the boat, and fed
never once looking back. This
makes the second time sea serpent has been
een in the lake. The first one chased and up
let boat load Of fishermen.
Colonel Stevenson, of Fairview, Conn.,,
las very intelligent dog named Point. The
log has often been held up to the telephone
md has become accustomed to listen to it. The
,ther evening when thes telephone rang, Point
lashed up and barked as usual. The call was
rom Hartford announcing the result Of the
.reat railroad battle in the Legislature, and the
lefeat OF the cause with which the animals
master was so prominently identified. The
was carried on for some minutes.
Point seemed wrapped in attention until word
anne that the vote stood l35 to l03 against the
petition, at which juDcture Point put his tail
nto the back garden An ejaculation of dis
nav and disappointment had preceded this
Lction of the animal and probably gave him
lis cue. He lay down under cedar tree. and
rouse. He refused to eat or drink, lay out all
light. and would not be consoled until his
,wner came home the nextday and told him il
vas all right
SUITS AND MIsFITS.