Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

No. dog pound to the ground
Il oar fish two feet long was taken from
the tank of Missouri Pacific passenger en-
gine the other day.
There has been an increase in the popu-
lation of Denver. Col during the last year, the
total population being estimated at l25,OOO.
Look out for your rubber boots. A
Yale sophomore is very seriously i'll in New
Haven, his blood having been poisoned by the
anniline dyes of the lining OF MS ruDDer boots
Down in North Carolina an 11-year-old
son Of the boss brick mason is earning MS " %
day. He is at work on the outside OIL the
wall, where none but experts handle the troWeL
AT Crystal Falls, Mich, Mrs Joseph
Clark was found Monday with Smonths-old
babe and not thing in the house to eat. She
has lived on dozen eggs for week. Inc
good people provided for the starving Womans
wants and viii look after her in the future.
There are some curious men on the legal
bench in this country. A Connecticut court
fines man S. for lying in wait to kill his wife
and stabbing her, and an Ohio court calls It
assault and battery when four bullets are fired
into farmer and he is robbed of his wallet
AN unknown desperate rode into Golden
City, Barton county. No., began firing right
and lett and made people dance under penalty
Of death. He terrOrized everybody for 20 min
ubto duu butn IOuo away, Dub was pursued anu
captured after being wounded in three places.
Anthony Burrows, of Walker county,
Ga, has a small pine stump that has been pet
rified. 1t is as heavy as stone, cuts hard and
resembles rock, though the streaks of rosin
and growth can be seen, and beyond a doubt
has been small pine stump, which shows the
marks of an ak.
"A French chemist named Beaumetz ex-
hibited at recent meeting of the Paris Acad-
emy of Medicine new alimentary substance
which he names fromentine. 1t is obtained
from wheat by the aid of special milIstones and
is really the embryo Of the wheat reduced to
flour. 1t contains three times more nitrogenOus
substance than me at, and a large proportion OF
sugar. 1t is thought that it may adVantageOusly
replace powdered meat as a concentrated food.
1t may be employed for making soups, and even
for making biscuits.
II. s. Robins, Of Eatonton, Ca, says his
father built house in Greene county in 1854
and hen laid two eggs in the boxing under
the caves Of the house. The carpenter, not
knowing the eggs were in the boxing. ceiled
them up aud lett them inclOsed. Recently the
house was recovered, when the eggs were dis
covered. AS the boxing was tightly ceiled, no
one could have placed them there since, hence it
is believed they were deposited in the nest when
the house was built, which makes the eggs 80
years old-the Oldest eggs, we suppose, on
record.
Logan county, Kan, comes to the front
with natural barometer in the way of whist
ling well, which warns people from six to II
hours in advance of approaching storms. 1t is
lS5 feet deep. and sends out strong current of
air, which, as 1t escapes through the apertures
about the pump stock, whistles in a loud, flute
like tone that is distinctly audible TO every
citizen in the township and more penetrating
than the noise Of any fog horn. Whenever the
people hear the well whistlng they strike out
a: once for the cyclone caves. A man by the
name of Smith owns the well.
The following story is told at Ypsilanti,
Mich, concerning Miss Mollie Richards. one of
the Johnstown victims: During the past winter
Miss Richards was troubled with frightfuI
dreams. In every instance she imagined her.
self crushed to death. The trouble became so
great that the young lady refused to 60 to
sleep until overcome by exhaustion. 1t was
then her friends determined to send her to
Johnstown TO visit her sister. Hers was one Of
the first bodies recovered, and it was taken
East by young man who thought 1t was his
sister. The mistake was discovered and the
body was reshipped to JOhnstown.
Merrill E. Shepard, of Haddam Neck,
Conn.,, is the owner of hen which made its
nest in the woods near his home, and laid
several eggs only to desert them finally. A
partridge then appeared to usurp the claim,
and, after laying few eggs, settled down for
the usual three weeks stay. Five young
chickens first appeared on the scene, but these
were removed by Mr.. Shepard, in hopes the
bird would stay and present him with some
young partridges. He was disappointed, how
ever, but on the principle that fair exchange is
no robbery, the partridge eggs were hatched by
a hen.
About year ago, a Baltimore exchange
relates. some wag polished nickel till it only
resembled the coin of the realm in size and
color. After it had dropped into the bottom of
bobtail car box the driver eyed it suspiciously,
and evidently thinking the other side of the
coin might be all right he gave the decisive
pull and let it pass. From that time 10 this the
company has been endeavOring to get that
nickel back on the rascaly public. But strange
to say, every man who tears open the little
envelope containing it and its companion piece
always puts the smooth nickel back into the
box. OF course no driver can now complain,
because the coin always comes out of the COM
pany's package. During its first year of service
It has taken about q 100 trips, and as it is get
ting thinner and smoother all the time, there IS
now little hope of its ever escaping street car
service except through the charity Of some
kind deliverer, or through the final dissolution
Of the company's corporation.
e. B, Washburn, ofThree Oaks, Mich,
was until the other night, the very dirtiest hu-
man being that could be imagined. His hair
was long, snarled and unelean; his whiskers
shaggy, his clothes in rags his boots were made
Of rubber, and his general appearance such as
to disgust any decent citizen. He is a widower,
and has two children about IL years of age,
whom he refuses to allow to attend school, The
other evening the citizens of Three Oaks pro-
cured large tub, quantity of soap, brushes,
towels, etc, and after receiving the donations
of hat from one merchant, a shirt from an
other an overshirt from another, ETC., repaired
to the dingY hovel of the old scamp, in the rear
OF an old store building, and proceeded TO give
him cleaning. He protested vigorously and
even showed fight but the crowd was too much
for him. and when they got through, an hour
later he had his hair clipped, his whiskers
trimmed, and was positively clean for once,