Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


"A million-pound bank note is kept at
the Bank Of England.
"A head Of cabbage grown by Georges
Berry, near Pensacola, Fla, measured rs inches
in diameter.
"A grocer on Broadway, New York, ad
vertlses his business by stenciling. his name
and address in red ink on every egg ne sells
The presents given by the imperial
household of China to the Emperor on the
occasion of his marriage comprised 2O ounces
Of gold, 10000 ounces Of silver and one gold tea
pieces pie Of % cloth snd @ 20 poDiss @ with saddles and
brides complete.
"A young woman of Owingsville, KY,
whose father objected to her marrying the man
Of her choice, eloped, clad in an old calico
dress, and without any head covering, her
father having hidden her clothing. She rode
| IL miles on horseback, when friends furnished
her with suitable garments, and the wedding
took place.
"A Dalton family owns clock which il
30 years old. il a day. It went through the
war, lost one Of its hands by a spent mimic
ball, but still keeps accurate time, and has
never been repaired but once or twice. Tho
same family owns large, oval-shaped dish,
quantity ornamented, that was brought to
America from the old country soon after the
! Revolutionary war.
! Nick johnson, a farmer of Sumter
county, Georgia, says that he picked up a Curl
Gus shaped rock q few days ago and struck ft
| against something and large piece dropped
out OF the center, leaving cup-shaped rock.
he gave 1t to his children to play with. One OF
| them flled it with water, and as soon as it was
| emptied the rock went to ringing like bell.
1t Kept it up some five or ten minutes, and will
| do 80 whenever filed with anything and it 10
taken or poured out.
"A workman engaged in removing bodies
from an old graveyard in San Francisco found
in coffin containing the remains of a China
man one of the $50 gold slugs which were
coined and put in circulation by the San Fran
cisco assay Office in 1852. Thinking the piece
was Chinese coin, the man tried to sell it to
contractor for S5. The latter refused to pur-
chase the slug, and, when its true value was
soon after discovered, the finder said he would
not sell 1t for SO.
Mrs. Charles Osborne, dashing young
widow Of Parkersburg, Md, was put on trial on
Monday for attempting the life Of James
Campbell, who is a middle-aged man with
family. While out riding he passed the house
of the widow as she stood ou the doorstep. He
took from his pocket handkerchief to blow
his nose. The young widow imagined he was
flirting with her, and. taking revolver, fired
four times at him, Two of the shots took effect
in his face.
Mrs. Alexander Hanna, of Apollo, Pa,
was born on the 9th of March. She was mar
ried on the 9th of March. Two of her children
were born on the 9th of March, and one died on
that day of the month. A brother of hers died
on the 9th of March. Last Saturday, the 9th Of
March, the ninth anniversary of her marriage,
Mrs. Alexander started to visit relative. As
she was crossing one railroad track to get to a
train on another she was run over by the East
ern express and instantly killed
The oldest of all the obelisks is the
beautiful one of rosy granite which stands
alone among the green fields on the banks of the
Nile, not far from Cairo. 1t is the gravestone
of a great ancient city which has vanished and
left only this relic behind. The city was the
Bethshemesh of the Scripture the famous On
which is memorable to all Bible readers as the
residence of the priest of Potipherah, whose
Greeks called it Heliopolis, the city of the sun,
because there the worship of the sun had its
| chief center and its most sacred shrines.
Captain o. g. GurIey has shells of the
following varieties on exhibition in his Office at
cambridge. Ga: Coneh, oyster, turtle. clam
and sea porcupine. The wonder attaching to
the above statement is that the shells are found
in the solid rock which is being crushed for use
in the massive concrete pier of the Alabama
Midland drawbridge over the Flint river. The
rock is found eight miles above here in bluffs
| 100 feet above the river bed and nearly so
miles from the sea. The shells are, in form,
| perfectly preserved, and indicate that this
| corner of Georgia was once part Of the
oceans bed.
Two Greensboro, Ca, gentlemen have
for some time been batting fish hole in Town
! creek. The other day they concluded to go
| down and examine the hole. They carried
along few crackers and scattered them on top
of the water In few minutes the fish ap1
peared in perfect drove, eagerly gulpinG
down the food. One Of the gentlemen became
SO excited that he could not restrain himself,
and he hit a terrific blow with his walking
stick at the bobbing noses. And with good
| effect, for he succeeded in killing four fish,
which he took home as an illustration of what
one man can do with a walking stick.
Judging from the following stories
there seem to be some exceedingly hungry
horses down in Georgia. In Oglethorpe, recent
| ly, Mr.. Jackson put 50pound sack of -four
in his neighbor's buggy, Mr.. Murray, for him
| to carry home. Murray's horse was feeding out
| of the buggy, and had Just finished IL ears of
| corn and two bundles of fodder. He turned
| his attention to the -four, and when Murray
| went to hitch up to go home the horse had
| eaten all the flour but a handful Another
| gentleman drove mule to Andersonville the
| same day, and hitehed it to the stockade. The
| mule was hungry and ate up 70 feet of the two
| by three-inch pine palings and the tops Of ten
| pine trees that were cut down.
Recently outlines of trees and shrub
berry appeared in large kettle belonging to
Mrs. Goode, of Toccoa. Ga. Two explanations
| of what caused them to appear have been sug-
| gested. One is that the smooth surface of the
| Kettle, from unknown causes, may have been
susceptible to impressions of the rays of light;
| the kettle acting as camera, and thus the
| trees and shrubbery from some distance away
| were photographed around the sides of the
/ kettle The other suggestion is that the inside
| of the kettle may have been damp, covered by
thin film of water which froze, and in crys-
| talizing the minute ice sprangles shot in the
| peculiar forms seen in the kettle, Just as win
| dow glass covered with many brilliant and
beautiful outlines on frosty mornings, in mid
winter.