Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


According to California paper one Of
the tramps OF the Santa Cruz chain gang wears
kid gloves when sweeping the streets
AN English gentleman who has been
making tour Of New Zealand, says: 1 once
saw Maori that knew walking up and down
the Veranda Of an hotel, and looking very much
disgusted about something. On my asking
him what was the matter, he told me that ne
had had Is glasses Of whisky, and coulan I get
drunk.
An Ohio poultry raiser has made
curious discovery. He says that II you go out
to feed flock of chickens and will cause them
to wait, they will Invariably. as they crowd
about you, begin a circuit around you from
right to left, in 'front.' and continue tals reVolo-
tlon as long as you stand there. No amount Oh
interruption or maneuVering can confuse tnem
OF compel them to take the contrary dlrecnon
at any time.
"A good story is told about q man who
has II acres of land In Portland Ore, to sell.
de asked $3.50 per acre, and finally found
purchaser at that figure. His wife, however,
refused to sign the deed, and the sale was on
Ihen he offered the land for 81. 900 per acre,
anu anu again purchaser was found, and AGAIN
me ore goou wife exercised her royal prerogatiYe
@ anu refused to sign the deed. The property ID
now LOT sale at $4,000 for the II acres. For
tuhate IS the man who possesses wife who
Knows now to refuse to sign deeds tudiciously.
M. Mosso, of Turin, having carried out
series OF experiments with the blood Of eels,
nnds that it possesses marked poisonous prop
critics. Even to the tongue it has an insupport-
able acridity, and a very small quantity of the
serum is sufheient to kill a dog. Half cnbio
centlmeter injected beneath the skin of dog
weighing IS pounds killed it in four minutes.
At this rate an eel weighing five pounds would
contain enough poison TO dispatch ten men.
The blood of animals thus poisoned cannot be
made to coagulate Just as after the bite of SER
pents. Fortunately the blood is inert when in
troduced via the stomach, and it loses its toxic
properties when heated.
General Thomas Ewing, in his address
before the Typothetse Association, Of New
York, told of trip he made with companions,
when boy in Ohio, to the Hooking hills to get
some famous clingstone peaches for his mother:
I'VE passed paper mill at the foot Of very
steep and rocky hill, and our wagon made such
a racket that all the windows in the mill were
heads and stared at u.s. asked the driver what
all those girls were doing in the MILL We'll,
Tommy said he, you see, they make paper Of
rags and they keep them girls to ehaw the ragsp
making was not quite that bad 45 years ago-6ut
pretty near It."
"A terrific explosion occurred recently at
the residence of E. G. Broyles, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, which resulted in tearing down the walls
of his kitchen, and the blowing out of two win
dows and serious injuries to a servant girl
named Lydia Hunt. A rat had appeared in the
kitchen, which Miss Hunt tried to kill. It es-
capped into box, which proved to have a lot of
gunpowder in it, but the girl was not aware Of
that fact. In order to get the rat out of the box
she lighted a taper and put it into the box,
which caused the powder to explode with ter
rifle force. The girl was blown a distance of at
least 20 feet, and her clothing set on FIRE, but
the flames were extinguished before she was
fatally burned. Several members of the family
made narrow escapes. The rat got away.
"A strange man, few days ago, on
leaving a north-bound train Of the Hudson
River Railroad, at Tarrytown, N. Y, inquired
of the station agent where he could find Miss
Helen Van Duzen, and on being informed that
she was a pupil in Miss Buckley's school, at
once went there. In response to his ring Miss
Buckley opened the door, when the officer, as
he proved to be. said that he wished to see Miss
Van DuZen for the purpose of serving some
papers upon her personally. Miss Buckley ex-
pressed objections to complying with his re-
quest unless he showed his authority in the
matter, when he produced papers, signed by
the Governor of New Jersey, requesting the
young woman's presence in Trenton, on March
g. for the purpose of Identification, in order
that she might obtain legacy of $4,000. The
anxiety caused by the officers visit was soon
dispelled, and was succeeded by congratula-
tions to Miss Van Duzen on her good fortune,
In London, recently, a well-known
artist of the camera was called in to photo
graph the body of a young lady who had Just
died under peculiar and distressing cireum-
stances. The body was laid on sofa in the
drawing room, and presented a singularly beau
tiful spectacle. The photographer was left
alone in the room with the body and took
negative After inspecting 1t he was not salts
fed that the exposure had been sufficient. and
he took another. And then, to his amazement,
he discovered that the two negatives were not
alike. The body must have moved. Not hav-