Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

The peanut, sheLleo, mas Deen AHiV
duced at dinner parties instead OF foAsseo
almonds.
Mrs. Catherine Smiley, Of Salt Creek
township. Muskingum county, o., Il hale and
hearty at the age Of 1O2
February is fatal day for the Trout
family Of Pottstown. Three members Of It have
died on that day Of different years.
Aunt Mary Flareity, of Jonesboro, Me.u
She refuses to have help and does her own
work.
"A Fremont, Mich, man owns hen
which lays at night. proceeding. which ne
claims is as phenomenal as though she Hte nay
Like horse.
In Maine spruce gum DOW brings to the
men who gather it from $50 to $50 barrel
according to quality. A barrel weighs aDonk
l70 pounds.
"A practical joker at slatin0tOn, Pa.
circulated the report that young man Of the
and his life was made miserable by piano agents.
VINO sWarmed from all directions.
Mr.. John Lunce Talbot, Of North Mid
dletown, KY, aged 116, is very III with the pre-
yaillng disease, Ia grippe. Owing to his ex-
IRENE age his friends are very anxious aDous
MIN. but 1t is thought he will pull through
There is an increasing agitation in Cali
forniA for division of the State on the line Of
the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Division would
mean one DemocrAtic and one Republican
State In place OF State now Democratic in
State elections and Republican on national
issues.
DR.. Edward Goertz, SomerVille, n.
z, dentist, was operating few days ago upon
the teeth Of . girl when she was suddenly
seized with an epileptie ft and shut her teeth
down on the dentists fingers so firmly that the
No cd 70 Forcfhlv aYtricaka the
imprisoned members. laceFating them In most
painful manner.
AT the French cooks ball in New York
on Thursday evening the work of art was the
representation Of temple Of commerce. 1t
was made Of 900 pieces Of gum paste and
sugar, and stood several feet high. The afohi-
coloring was especially clever. 1t was the work
Of G. Ranhofer, the chef of Delmontco's-
The oil industry will soon be fully and
extensively organized in Barren county, KY
A refinery has been erected four miles from
the town of Glasgow, and viii be completed in
short time. Fifteen wells have been sunk in
county seems 70 be fertile in oil resources, and
the product Is pronounced equal to that OF
Warren county, Pa.
An eccentric and romantic marriage
took place near Hanly, KY. The high contract
ing parties were Mr.. Franklin Baker. a success
ful farmer, and the charming Miss Catherine
Foley daughter Of Colonel John Foley. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. q. B.
Scott in the open air on the banks Of the Ken
lucky river in the presence OF an enthusiastic
crowd. They were determined and In hurry.
They have been forgiven by an angry father.
Mrs. 7. W. Burritt, wife Of the assistant
superintendent Of the Belle City Street Rail-
way Company, Of Racine, Wis, has been ailing
with dyspepsia for five years. She adopted .
heroic mode of treatment at the suggestion of
her physician She commenced = fast Of 2l
days, and Friday was the seventh day since she
had taken morsel Of solid food. For the 1rst
| four days Mrs Burritt reports . great diseom-
fort, owing to her fast, bus Is getting used to
| the ordeal, and has hopes Of holding out the Il
/ days. The case is being watched by physicians
with considerable interest.
There is lesson in perseverance, to be
learned from woodpecker that makes an an
nual visit to certain church stseple in North
st. Joseph every spring. Although this church
| steeple is completely covered with tin. he puts
| in his appearance in the early morning, and
pecks and pecks throughout the entire day.
| Last year was his third season, and up to that
| time he had not succeeded in making dent in
| the tin; however, he was good natured as ever,
and seemed well pleased with the results. The
| people Of that vicinity expect his advent soon
| again, and when he comes il Is certain that his
| maneuvers will be watched with more interest
| than ever before.
Winter and early autumn Joined hands
when Philip Shook. aged 50, residing near the
city welded Sarah A. Ware, aged IS at her
home in ROyalton, N. Y. The bride was given
away Dy Judge Arnold. while two ministers
were required 70 perform the ceremony, both
contracting parties having their preferences.
Mr.. Shook Is as hale and hearty as a boy of 20.
and his actions are more like one. The bride
mustered up q blush when the clergyman
kissed her at the earnest solicitation Of the
groom. The couple have come 20 the city to
reside, and are going in for whfEl Of social
gsyety. Both have plenty OF money.
Some exciting times may be expected at
no distant day in the Hamilton Club, of Brook
Iyn. 1t is said that At the next meeting the
question to be discussed Is How Shall We
Tram Our WivesP" The gentlemen will have
their say all to themselves, and women will not
be permitted to expostulate controYert any
thing that is stated either az facts or fancies.
The ladies Of the club have announced their in
tention to have luncheon, at which they will
discuss the subject, How Shall We Educate
Our Husbands So That They Can Train Their
WivesP' The ladies' session will be further on.
livened by reports on the mems meeting by
wives who may be successful In obtaining its
secrets from their husbands.
This is time-honored belief which has
been shattered a number Of times but GER
talnly on no occasion more effectively than by
this story, from q HopkinsVlle, KY, paper
Talking Of quail, Colonel s. NJ Startling. Of
this vicinity, now in his eighty-fourrh year, has
broken the ancient and hOary superstition that
to eat quail, however daInrily cooked. for thirty
days successfully will produce nausea worse
than sea sickness into countless fragments. On
the first day Of last October, being in rather
delicate health, he began to diet on quail flesh
exclusively, eating one bird and sometimes two
every day. He has not missed bird for one
hundred and twenty-five days, and has not the
slightest inclination TO change bis diet, which
rather improves IN favor"
-Rensler B. Dayton, Of Speonk, L. l..
Is Interested in chickens, and recently had . hen
setting. which, through perversity, or other
cause, did not hatch out the eggs which were
put under her, as dutiful han should. Be-
ljeying that the eggs had been brought far
along toward . condition when they might be
expected 70 hatch, this young man taxed his
brain to produce some thing which would take
the place Of the hen, and after . series Of ex-
periTnents he succeeded. Taking an ordinary
lin nan. he put the eggs in it, and then placed
mis- in another pan containing water. Then
the two paDs one inside tie other. and covered
With an old quilt, were placed in a standard or
frame which suspended them over . kerosene
lamp, the chimney coming within about an incn
of the bottom Of the pan. The lamp heated the
water in the pan and thus the eggs were
pan with the eggs and in this way the the heat
was regulated until this primitive hatcher had
done its work. and out Of 2eggs AL but one had
produced chicken.