Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


A blacksnake was captured at sea Of
the Brenton Reef fghtship. in Newport har-
Dor, the other dav.
-Messrs. Seldomridge and Pebbles, of
Colorado Springs, are arranging to dispose or
their their sheep. One has 10000 and the other IT.
j. G. Rich, of Bethel, Me-, veteran
trapPer, is engaged In the novel business Of
catcnlng wild hares to ship to sportsmen who
Wish TO STOCK game preserves.
james Cleyenger, aged Is, Of ofNasbville,
Brown county, and Miss Anna Patterson, aged
IA. were married recently at the home Of the
brides father, in Columbus. Ind.
Miss Minnie Earhart, of Glendale, o.,
awoke in Chattanooga hotel to discover .
man in her room She put her hand under her
pillow. drew out q long black silken purse
pointH it at him and threatened to shoot. The
fellow thought It was q pistol and left in
stanter.
Young T. B. Garrison, Of Fordland,
Mo. was walking home from church Friday
night when he felt strange impulse TO go and
see his mother. He stSvted to walk 70 her
home Is miles distant, aad when he arrived
there, at 3 o'clock Saturday morning. found
her dead in bed
"A few days since Sergeant Groo, of the
New York police force. met i've brothers az
his fathers house in the town Of Neversink.
The total weight Of the six was ], rs pounds
Is sprightly old man Of "a years, and can yet
hold his own with anyone Of his boys
In Stockbridge township, Mich,
hungry hawk swooped down on some young
turkeys. The mother turkey tried TO drive
him away. but failing to do so, sped away, and
In few moments returned with whole flock
OF aDle-0odled adult turkeys and made q com
bined attack on the barn-yard pirate and beat
hum on.
"A combination Of Western live stock
exporters, headed by q Chicago firm, has de-
vised new plan to ship its cattle to Europe BY
utilizing the between decks Of the tank steam
ships which now cross the Atlantic Ocean with
bare decks. All Of the tonnage has been char
tered by the combination, which will first ex-
pertinent as to what effect the vapor from oil
win have upon cattle. It is thought the Odor
from the cargo viii be benefit rather than an
injury to the animals.
"A few days ago a large hog belonging
to Leroy Hardy, of Stark. Ca, while the fam
lily were all out of the house, went into the
house, and after climbing upon feather bed,
proceeded to tear the bed and clothing into doll
rags. His hogship thought he had found
beautiful playhouse, and in his delight and
playfulness tore things up generally. When
the inmates Of the house came in the floors
were literally covered with feathers, and the
festive brute ran from the house looking more
like one Of the feathered tribe than fat
porker.
"A Winipauk, Conn.,, cat owner one day
not long ago heard shrieks from his wife and
lady guest in the parlor Of his house, and got
pitchfork. In the middle of the parlor hoor
with her kittens about her, sat the family cat
and In front Of her on the carpet was q lively
greensnake. The ladies were on the piano,
screaming. while the kittens, with arched
backs and bristling fur, betrayed terror sec
ond only to that Of the occupants Of the piano.
The cat was trying to convince her family that
the snake was worth trying for = banquet The
householder set his heel on the reptile.
There is at least one woman in North
Berwick, Me-, who wastes no time admiring
herself before looking glass, and she proved
it last Sunday by attending church and Sab
bath school with her bonnet adorned with half
dozen cards which q masculine sinner had
SasS. tucked IN am91g the trimmings day., DAY Sr two
them when she put on her head gear. But
the good woman's mind was on Sunday school
lessons, not bonnets, when she dressed for
church. and so the Sunday school got chance
to giggle.
Henry Smith, Of Brook Center. Conn.,,
was in the highway on his way to his days
work in the fields, when he suddenly beheld in
the road what seemed to him curious circuA
A blacksnake. six-footer, was curied on the
ground, tut instead of having a head, As the SER
pents Mr.Smith had been familiar with all had,
this snake seemed to begin and end in tails.
Eager to know the mystery Of his queer con-
struction. If possible, Smith picked up stone
and hurled it at the strange reptile. He didn't
hit him, tut the mystery came apart in the
middle. The big black fellow had swallowed
about half OF another one that was nearly as
disgorged him when the stone struck the
ground Beth snakes vera lively and slipped
into the roadside wall before the m1n eoRld
fnd another missile.
-Sixteen-year-old Harry Spencer, Of
Ransom, Pa, is q successful crow trapper.
Young Harry's guinea hens got in the notion
Of laying their eggs in the bushes back Of the
house last summer, and every now and then
the crows would swoop down and carry OF the
eggs At first Harry was at q loss to account
for the disappearance Of the eggs but one day
he caught two crows In the act Of stealing
them, and he straightway went to work to out
wit the black thieves. Out in the field he built
q little well of sods. with an opening on one
side wide enough for crow to pass through.
and in the passage he set . steel trap. Then
he placed an egg in the center Of the well, and
the first crow that saw it alighted on the out
s1de of the circle of sods tripped into the OPEN
ing after the egg and got its foot In the trap.
i
ran out and dubbed 1t to death. He has caught
nearly two dozen Of the sly birds in that way
this season.
I'm the western part Of North Carolina,
about seven miles west Of Hot Springs, there
lives q family by the name Of Brooks. Itiss
very interesting one. and many visitor to the
quiet little town Of Hot Springs has had his
curiosity 50 aroused by stories of this family
that he has hired a team and driven seven miles
to the Brooks residence. This consists of lit
tie low log cabin in an unsettled district and ID
occupied BY father mother and 20 exception
ally handsome children. Every one Is blonde,
with yellow-golden hair and peachy complex
ion, and all as ignorant wild and untutored as
they are beautiful. In addition to the above
family proper the two oldest girls are married;
one is widow with two children and the other
has three children and husband, Both these
little families are living with the old folks at
home, making in all family of g when none
are missing. The home or log cabin consists Of
but one room, and that a very small one. The
family sleeps IN berths, arranged like those on
ship.