Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

feet inches high.
John F. Price, confined in a Colorado
penitentiary for horse stealing has fallen heir
to 100000 He formerly lived at Circlevine, o.
"A Chicago negro put in an hour in a
cold storage room to see II it was what II
claimed to be. His frozen nose and ears are
proofs that 1t was.
AN electric fire engineis new invention.
1t can be started at full speed. is much lighter
than the steam fire engine, and possesses vari-
Gus other advantages.
-'Unxawatawny," is the way the name
of that lively Jefferson county borough, PUNK
sutswney, appears after 1t has been carried to
Kentucky by telegraph and printed in Louis
vile paper.
John Shane had his red mustache dyed
beautiful black in Cincinnati barber shop
two months ago, but now he has none at all.
His lips were poisoned and are being slowly
eaten away.
Edward E. Littell, of Cass county,
Mich, is 100 years old, has been three times
widower is the father Of % and counts his de-
scendants by the hundred He is as hearty and
as active as man Of 60 He served in the war
of 1872
The annual brass band contest in the
northern counties Of England is about to be-
gin. Hundreds Of brass bands will compete.
The workingmen Of YORKSHIRE and Lancashire
practice steadily during their leisure hours,
and make immense efforts to win the Tkizes.
in an opinion written by the Chief
Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court it was
decided that . municipal corporation in that
State has the power to/compeI liquor sellers
engaging in the saloon business within two
miles of the corporate limits to pay license
fee.
The oldest war horse is not dead, after
all It Is alive at the age of "a and is owned by
A. W. Barrett Of SteNartsville Ind. This AMI
NAL Is a mare, Known as "Old Fly" She went
into the war in July, 1851, and served until Sep
tember, 1884. She was in several big battles
and numerous skirmishes.
While Farmer Van Dyke, Of Muncy
Hills near Williamsport. was ploughing few
days ago he dropped his pocketbook contain
ing 5000. It fell into the furrow, and on the
next trip he made around the field it was
plowed under. Since the discovery Of his loss
the distracted farmer has been replowing the
field over and over in the hope of turning up
his lost property, but up to the present time he
has not been successful.
-DennysVille, way down on the Eastern
Maine coast, is one of those 'old towns with .
history" The town has no debt; the village
has not had q dwelling house, barn, store,
church or school house destroyed by IRE for
more than 50 years and at the late town meet
ing Peter e Vose. Esq, was reelected Select
man and Treasurer, after service Of n years
in the former and q years in the latter position.
had ever written word or made figure 10
any town book (exeepting the Town Clerks
bookl or drawn an order.
There is in Fort Valley, Ca, in the per-
son of little Dellie Harris, aged l6 months, the
greatest prodigy of the present day. She not
only talks and articulates well, but knows the
infant tcatechism by heart; also the county she
was bornln (Crawford), the town she lives in,
the county site, the names OF the President
and Vice-President, the Governor and the
mayor of Fort Valley; can count up to so, and
says the alphabet with great rapidity. Beside
all this, she Is bright In many other things
which any one would doubt did they not see
and hear her talk.
AN old man whose hair was as white a.
snow and who looked as II he had been per-
sonally acquainted with George Washington,
accompanied by blooming female companion
who had seen 81 winters pass over her head,
walked up to Squire p. N. Rountree, at Nash
vile. ILL.,, and asked him If he was Justice Of
the Peace. Upon his answering in the aflrma-
tive, he SAID they wanted to get spliced, and
they wanted the job done Immediately, which
was promptly done. The groom was Mr.. VIM.
A. Aldrich, aged 20 and the blushing bride
was Mrs. Catharine Hartline, who Is Just 81.
They were as happy as two young ducks when
the ceremony was concluded, and went their
way rejoicing. Their home Is in Ashley.
The New Haven men who endeavored
to have the Legislature prescribe by law the
weight of bread made an unconscious effort to
revive some of the early laws of the colonV. In
the code of laws ordered printed by the Gem
eral Court of New Haven. October, 1885, 1t
was ordered that each baker have distinctive
mark for his bread and the weight of the bread
was defined There is only one copy Of these
laws now in Connecticut. That is in the State
Library, and 10 times its weight in gold was
paid for it The code remained in force 100
years. These early laws were founded on
Scripture, and the little volume contains many
references to the Bible. Death was the penalty
for witchcraft, Sabbath breaking, blasphemv,
the worship Of false gods and other oIfenses.
The pillory and the branding iron were among
the instruments of punishment.
while Frenchman name Pommes was
digging a well at Gainesville, Tex, he found
the bones vertebre and ribs of an animal, and
toward the end Of the remains II rattles, the
largest six inches across Attracted by the
strange find. the neighbors gathered. and the
work of unearthing the monster was prose-
cuted with vigor. After laying bare 10 feet OF
the remains Of the monster, imagine their con-
sternation at finding the skeleton of man in
the stomach of the skeleton of the snake. The
remains Of the man and serpent, so far as the
serpent has been exhumed, are as perfect a.
when first denuded of flesh, and were doubtless
coved by lime and gravel soon after death.
N lear the bones of the mans right hand is a
rude stone hatchet, which local geologist Of
some repute says is the handiwork of paleo-
lithic man.
The largest pair of black bass ever
caught in Missouri waters or in any waters Of
the United States, in fact, were caught by ].
w. Peters and Son. of st. Louis, in Peters
Lake, Pemiscot county, No., on March 3last.
They weighed II pounds and II ounces and II
pounds and 10 ounces, respectively, seven days
after they were taken from the water. The
larger fish was was 283z inches in length from
the lower lip to the extreme end of the tail,
and 1871 inches in circumference at the largest
portion of the body. 1t was at least three
pounds heavier than any one specimen Of black
bass ever caught in the United States before.
The heads of these monsters Of the black bass
CANT frames and were given to Captain H. @.
West, the Fish Commissioner of Missouri, who
IN turn will present one to President Harrison
and the other to ex-President Cleveland: They
will be exhibited IN a Broadway show window