Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

harvested 40 acres Of grain this season without
any help from the masculine sex She used
machine reaper.
Some one sent Missouri church
deacon postal card advising him not to pray
SO loud, and not TO attempt to sing at all, and
ne Jnsb Dacksiid and licked three Of his neigh
bors inside Of week.
The 9-year-old son of Rev. Mr.. Sweeny,
pastor Of the Episcopal Church at Geneva.
Neb., arrived from London, England. few
days ago, having made the long journey alone
and without mishap.
Just what full-gown black bear can
do in the way Of hugging was demonstratedin
Maine week or two ago when bruin seized a
barrel of beef. gave it Squeeze and crushed ir
in pieces. IL was estimated to be q squeeze Of
two-horse power.
In the municipal court at Farmington,
Me-, James II. Wright, of Temple, was fined
so and costs Tor violating the liquor Law.
Wright sold some young men a quantity Of
sweet CIDER as II ran from the press which -
Vloialng the law as 1t now stands on the statute
books. wright appealed and gave bonds for
appearance at the next term Of the Supreme
Court.
For several nights the Inhabitants Of
West End, a suburb of Palatka. Fla, have
been bothered by the whoOping Of an owl, who
lodges in large tree near the river. Monday
night the owl set mp howl near the colorea
Method1st Church. and it came near breaking
up the meeting Superstitious people living
near tnere dropped on their knees and begged
for forgiveness. Tuesday morning fire broke
ont IN town, and the scary folk now elaIm that
the owl came to warn the people of danger
One Of she chief attractions at the Fat
Stock Show at Chicago is the trotting dog from
Kansas City, an Irish setter called Doc. weigh
ing 50 pounds Thursday night he beat the
buehskin pony three times around the ring.
The spectators were most enthusiastic over the
performances Of the Irish setter, and members
OF the Turf Congress declared that no such
novelty had ever been seen before When lit
tie Willie Ketehum, the dog owner and driver,
cut sharp in on the turns be held the lines like
a thorough horseman- The buckskin pony
trotted one-haH mile in 1s38
"A Philadelphia reporter was so deter
mined to go on the second trial trip of the Bal
timore thar he hid in one Of the coal bunksrs.
where he remained for hours. The Cramps
were informed that he was on board and made
an Intellectual search for him. As the fog was
very heavy, the Baltimore did not start at the
appointed time, but her engines were started
while she was still tied at the wharf and kept
running for four hours. At the end OF that
time the reporter concluded he must be far
enough down the river. so he came out from his
place OF cOncealment and was much chagrined
to find he was still at the wharf. He was en-
at luncheon. however before he was
escorted to shore, the officers greatly enjoying
pose.
"A man whose locks were sprinkled with
the frost Of Is winters, with slow and solemn
demeanor, strolled into Castle Garden the
other morning and said TO Detective Peter
Groden, now known as the wife obfainer,"
that he was Jonathan McReynolds, OF Green
wicb. Conn, where he has a farm valued at
$50, 0OQ He wanted wife, not a giddy girl but
4 plump Irish lass who would love him for him
self alone. Detective Gr0den told him to take
q seat and then trot.ed ont Mary McGown, Just
arrived from County Tyrone Ireland Her
looks and general appearance satisfied Mercy
nolds, but her solicitude about his worldly and
financial affair made theo old man suspicious
Mary was allowed to depart and Detective
Groden is now watching out for another candi-
date for McReynolds' hand and money
Among the euriosities to be found in the
Minnesota State Law Library are two vol
umes Of the colonial laws of Massachusetts,
1760 to l772 They are. of course, reprints bus
''ye 0lden style" has been faithfully reproduced.
The code Of laws in vogue in those provincial
days was truly very crude. It was then that
the whipping post was resorted to as a mode Of
butt is stipulated that mo man
shall be beaten with above 40 stripes nor shall
gentleman, be punished by whipping unless his
crime be very shameful, and his course of life
vitious and prohigate.7 Again the code says:
If any man shall Blaspheme the name Of god,
the father, Some or Holy ghost with direct
expr3sse, preslimptu0us OF hig1 handed bias
phemie. OF shall curse God Ia Ihe like mannat
be shall be put to death"
AT Brunswick, Ga. james 2 Lam,
had quite an experience 'EikhS
hawk His hawkship had grown hungry from
ihe morning fasting, and suddenly determined
70 enjoy passing pigeon, 50 at him he went
The pigeon few for dear life. and recognizing
The fact that man was iTs best friend. darted
into the kitchsn through an open door and hid
under table. The hawk was in hot pursuit.
and as he entered the door he saw window
beyond. and supposing his pray had gone that
way. darted for the aperture, but, 10 his horror
found an invisible pane Of glass, through which
bis momentum carried him, and to the ground
beyond, where he lay for some time who
row dat brick3' sang out the cook. Mr.. Lam
bright arrived on the scene Just in time to dis
,over that dat brick" was hawk, and to see
him disappear after recovering from his en-
counter with the window pane
The remarkable achievement of sinking
deep shaft through treacheroas grounds By
means Of first freezing the earth has been ac-
.omplished at the Chaplin mine, in the upper
Michigan peninsula. by the Roetsch process.
rhe CONTRACT was 70 freeze. excavate and curb
lp a rectangular shaft l51<x161z feet, and
90 feet deep. This was done BY first putting
lown the freezing pipes three feet apart, in a
arcle 20 feet in diameter. to the depth proposed
o be reached by the shaft The pipes were
connected at the top and filed with a solution
i brine containing about Is per cent Of cal
ium chloride. The brine was Trojan 70 =
Ioint below zero BY means Of an ice machine.
nd in 40 days frozen wall Of ice, earth and
tone was formed ten feet thick The excaVa-
ion in the meaztime had been going on. and 10
ays from the c0mneneement II was c0mpleted
o the ledge 100 feet down, in spite Of some
ifhcuity from the percolation OF water near
be bottom, which was stopped hy freezing,
Except for this ingenious method the sinking
( the shaft would, it seems have been practis
ally impossible on account Of the great Inflow