Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

pound sweet potato.
"A vicious brood SOW killed Abner
Kyle. Columbus, Ind, farmer, a few days
ago.
The Alpena, Mich, fair committee
roasted one of the racing oxen and cut him into
sandwiches for the crowd
The cook of the leading club at Spokane
Falls was employed as chef by President Cleve-
land while he was in the White House.
"A Goshen, Ind, couple were married
on the race track. in front of the grand stand.
sixteen thousand people witnessed the cere-
| mony.
Eddie Condor was killed near Midland,
Mich, by a runaway team Thursday. The same
horses Killed his father in the same way few
| weeks ago.
A Bar Harbor, Me, woman is so fussy
that she compels her eoachman to take of his
hat when he goes to the telephone in the stable
to speak to her.
"A great many of the oranges on the
west coast of Florida have been sold for 81 per
box on the trees. This is better price than in
any previous year.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota is re-
ported to have lately rendered declsion de-
clariDg that 'bank checks are not cash. and do
not possess legal value as money until cashed."
The La Crosse Humane Society finds
much scope for work. Two little children
we're found in a large dog kennel tied to
rope. They had been left there by drunken
parents.
1t is estimated that if the tobacco used
in France during a single year were twisted into
cord two inches in thickness it would be long
enough 10 encircle the earth 30 times, following
The line OF the equator.
AN Admission, Ala, man killed another
man 20 years ago. He was arrested at the time,
but his trial has been continued from time TO
Time, ana last week he was sentenced to a term
OF one year for his deed.
Charles Smith, of Bovine, Mich, has a
team of horses 26years old whose teeth dropped
out; and which now chew their euds with a set
OF false molars adjusted by q veterinary dentist,
and are held in place by rubbers.
The following advertisement lately ap-
peared in morning newspaper: "Dog-Re-
qulreG kind master for an excellent black re-
trlever dog. Owner parts with him account
OF savage tendencies. Address, etc."
The peculiar actions OF the family dog
caused ]. J. Campbelrs family of Danville,
ILL.,. to follow him. He led them to where
James Campbell, A. lay in an unconscious con-
dltlon, MS horse having run away "a hours be-
fore.
The German fleet is already so import
ant that it stands at l39 vessels in a French
estimate of effective naval forces, which gives
only l6l to France. Italy comes before it with
152 vessels; Russia before Italy with IS5, and
England before all of them with SS3
Five years ago those who enjoyed bowl
ing on 'ten-pins' in and about New York City
certainly did not number more than 1000, says
the New York Times. To-day, if census
would be taken, it is doubtful If less than 5O-
patrons OF the alley would be counted.
There is tree, or trees, in front of a
sawmil at Palatka that is a curiosity. \
hickory and magnolia, each fully two feet in
diameter, have grown solldly into each other
from the roots to some distance up, the bark
covering the whole without seam or break.
james Russell, Detroit man, expected
and desired a son each time his wife presented
him with a daughter. When the fifth child
was born to the family few days ago. his
Joy was great that it developed into in
sanity. His physicians think 1t is only tenn
porary.
"A Meadyille attorney who recently won
tor a client an important suit. the outgrowth
of third party's rascality, received hand
some fee, and as he did so remarked: odd,
isn't it? have an overdue note at the bank
which / signed for this same chap, and this fee
will just lift il" and it did.
DIR. Fischer, of st. Louis, kissed a
saloon keepers wife without her permission,
and was put to bed for four days after being
interviewed by the irate husband He then
sued the saloon keeper, who was discharged by
the Judge with a compliment upon 'his do
nestle loyalty and pugllistic ability"
The whaling bark Lagoda, of New Bed
ford Mass which left San Francisco at the
opening of the season for the Arctic. has haD,
pooned her last cetacean after brave battle
of "a wears with wind and wave. She lum-
bered into Yokohoma with leaky seams, and
beaching her old bones, was there condemned.
"A teacher, who found among her pu-
pills work the other day an assertion that 1.-The
cerebellum is separated from the cerebrum by
q fold of the Delamater" lit had been read
d1ra mater in dictatiOn), wants to know
whether this is case of politics on the brain.
1t looks like case of unconscious cerebration.
Cairo, ILL.,, boys are doing a wholesale
business In sparrows. The birds make rooss
of an old chimney in an abandoned house. The
BOYS have secured a net, and after the birds 90
to roost at night they spread the net over the
top. Every morning they have from
30 to 200 sparrows, for which they get IA cents
per head bounty.
A New York swindIer entered a
Fremont, Wis. store, leaned his elbows
heavily on the glass case and broke it through.
The owner demanded damages, but the
stranger claimed he was strapped. The store
keeper, seeing $40 bill sticking out of tho
1ther's vest pocket. seized it and gave back Sl7.
It was 81 bill raised.
Prof. Buhler, New York musical ar
list, now at his summer home in Stockbridge,
N ass, mas passion Tor SNAKES he CATCHES all
he harmless serpents he finds in that wild
mountain region and puts them into big, close
cages in his parlor. Black snakes, striped
snakes, green ones, and so on, are his pets On
pleasant days he takes his reptiles out of the
boxes. fondleS them and lets them run about
he room.
William J. Brooks Of Sanford, Mid
and county. Mich, was soldier in three wars,
he Mexican, Central American and for the
Union. He received 13 wounds and carries in
lis body three bullets. When the civil war
,roke out he enlisted, and he served TO the
lose A large part of the time he was engaged
n carving dispatches, and had many hairs
readth escapes one time having rope aroand