Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A bow of IS and a girl Of II years of
age were recently married in Cherokee county
"A tarpon feet inches long, weighing
l35 pounds, was taken at the mouth Of Peace
river, Fla, by a guest Of Hotel Punta Gorda
The Gainesville (Fla.) Furniture Com
pany has just completed table composed Of
1000 pieces of wood of different kinds and
colors.
1t is said that the Georgia Railroad is
the only road of Its size in the world that has
never killed a passenger and never had
mortgage on it.
Two Chester fishermen quarreled about
the ownership of a boat and neither would sur
render his claim. The boat was finally sawed
IN tWo and each took part.
"A man with a penchant for statistics
has computed that more than 4,OOO 900 miles Of
blood pass through the We ins of an ordinary
human being during lifetime Of 70 years.
"A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
1Tmes-Star, writing from Nashville. says that
IN the tennessee penitentiary women are
back.
Barney Mcclure, aged IS, who has been
in prison 30 years of his life, pleaded guilty in
Rochester to larceny. saying he had no home or
Irlends and wanted to go to prison for life. The
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to Auburn.
MIR. j. E. Lewis, living a few miles
from Culpepper, Va, has a mule which. for
sagacity and agility. takes the cake.n Mr..
Lewis found the mule in the hayloft the other
morning. The only mode of ingress to the loft
Is by ladder.
John Cozzens was buried at New
Brunswick, N. ]. Just as the funeral process
sion was moving away it was discovered that l3
carriages were in the line. One carriage was
hastily Withdrawn in Difference to the opinions
Oh those who believed that the number l3 was
unlucky.
w. II. Smith, the leader of the British
House of Commons, has recently built new
church at Portsea, at cost OF more than
$4,000. He has no interest in the place what
ever. but happening to visit it for day on
Government business he noticed that it greatly
needed new church.
Mrs John Lowrie, farmers wife aged
about 40 years. living at Charleston, o., had
bore triplets. On Sunday last she gave birth
10 two boys and two girls. Mr.. Lowrie is some
what surprised The children are all alive,
well formed and apparently healthy.
The Columbus Southern railroad fol-
lows in straight line the trail of the Indians
100 years ago. 1t also follows the path taken
by General Andrew Jackson in his march to
the night at what is now the present village OF
Sasser. Blazes made by him are now seen on
some of the trees along the route.
Margaret Thorne, of Accomack, Va, is IA
yeritable 'istrong man. in strength and size,
for, though she is 80 years old she weighs nearly
800 pounds and equals any man in physical
prowess. She has at last been placed under
lock and key by the authorities of the town In
which she lives. For many years she has defed
arrest, though convicted by the courts.
In tearing down the steeple of the Bap-
tist Church in Lumpkin, Ga. one of the work
men found a smoothing plane in a secluded
corner The tool had probably been forgotten
and left there by a carpenter who assisted IN
building the church over 10 years ago. The
plane Is in a good state Of preservation, and
after its long rest will again be used in making
shaVings.
There is lady in Glynn county, Miss
Piper, who lives IA miles from Brunswick, Ca,
who has spoken to nobody but two women and
little girl in I6 years. Miss Piper lives within
two miles of railroad, and can hear the whistle
OF the engine every time it passes her house,
yet she bas never seen an engine or ridden on
q train in her life. She has been living on the
same place for Is years
"A middle-aged woman stepped into
drug store In Sandersyille, Ga. last week and
purchased five sets OF rubbers for the purpose
of making ''slings" for her five BOYS. She
says they are more useful and less expensive
than Shotguns, as her boys can kill birds on
the wing. knock rabbits silly on the and
pick squirrels from the top of the tallest trees
in the forest with single shot.
Among the curiosities in the Athens
library is large book, the works of Angeles
Polftionous, which was published in 1498. The
volume was published in Venice. is covered in
vellum, and yet is III good condition. At the
time 1t was published 1t sold for "a 4s.-about
s2l in our currency. 1t is very precious book
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some museum, probably several thousand dol
lars.
james Sparks, of Dahlonega, Ga, the
ditch walker on the lower section of the Hand
ditch, has been walking this line daily for IL
years. distance of Is miles. AT this rate he
has walked 416 miles per month, 1892 miles per
year, OF total of 4,9l2 miles. or nearly two
and one-half times the distance around the
world. Mr.. Sparks Is now come 70odd years
old. and is still apparently as active young
man.
Experts have been at work on q we'll
near Tidioute, Pa. trying to remove a set Of
tools from the depths thereof, but without suc-
cess. A patent Photographic apparatus was
lowered down the hole for the purpose of get
ting picture of the situation of affairs there.
Cautiously the camera was lowered, but before
the bottom was reached the rope gave way and
the instrument went to the bottom of the hole
and renamed there.
In excavating for a building in Oregon
City the shovelers came across numerous old
fints that had been kept by the Hudson Bay
Company in the early history of Oregon for re-
plenishing the old filnt-loek guns then in vogue.
These were found several feet below the level
of the street in a substratum of black deposit,
Just above the river wash of sand previously
deposited. Just above the level where the
flints were found the excavators came across
the remains of an ancient sidewalk almost COM