Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-01
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.

OOhAOOO
A buzzard with bell fastened around
its neck has been Topping around in the ueiqh-
borhood of Cedar Greek, Ga.
The biggest schoolboy in Rhode Island
is believed to be William Davis. of Westerly.
who is l3 years old and weighs 27 pounds
The people were charged $40 for
| street car tickets for the use of United States
Senators during the fiscal year ended June
go 1889.
The italian faster, Succi, who is said
| to have abstained from food for over $50 days
IS the attraction to the medical authorities in
London now.
AT Albany Friday, a white man gave
negro woman baby about 2 years old to hold
Tor few moments but at last accounts had
not called for it.
"A bear was recently killed in Ashland,
WASH, that weighed 600 pounds. He had killed
four head Of stock in one place and camped
there until he had deYoured them.
While blowing in a field in Georgia q
nest of hornets was unearthed by the plov.
They Immediately pouneed upon the animal
and stung him to death before he could be re-
moved
jacob Kimmel, a farmer of Orwigs-
burg, Pa. has had piece of wood an inch
long and half an inch wide taken from his arm.
1t was splinter from gun which exploded in
his hands 81 years ego.
There is in the vicinity of Thomasville,
in South Georgia, a negro preacher who con-
tinues sermons in defense of Judas Iscariot.
He is attracting much attention and many
negroes go out to hear him.
"A Chinese gardener near Tucson, Ariz.,
had n row recently with one of his countrymen
On Wednesday morning last he went TO feed
his pigs and found 81 dead in one pen He says
his enemies poisoned them to get revenge.
The London Lancet furnishes this list of
football casualties from ali over the world
during the last season: Deaths, I3; fractures
of legs, Is; of arms, A. of collar bOnes IL; Seri-
Gus injuries to spine, 5; to nose l; to knee l. to
ankle. i; to cheek, i.
The rush to the gold fields in the
TransvaaI region has been unprecedented in
history In three years s15O, 100000 of English
money have been invested fthere. Cities have
sprung up where IN 1888 only grass could be
found and no habitation-
On Bloomfield avenue, Newark, an
electric railroad car received discharge of
lightning from an overhead wire. The two in
candescent lamps IN the car were burned out,
but no other damage was done. The occupants
of the car were scared out of year or two's
life.
-PIeasantville, n. j., has citizen with
25 fingers and toes. Some of them had to be
cut off because they restricted bis freedom of
action. The freak in this case appears to be a
family one, his father and his brothers and
sisters having bad seven toes each on the Left
foot.
The huntsmen of Southern Oregon are
engaged in the wanton slaughter of deer. 1t is
said that in the vicinity of Kerbyville, Jo-
sephine county. the skinned carcasses of deer
are sometimes so thick in the county roads
that teams are compelled to stop while the
driver pulls them aside.
Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washington,
never freezes, although in latitude 4So north.
The reason given is that it is So deep and the
warm water always rises from the bottom to
supplant the cold. which goes down to warm
| itself. The Indians fish in the lake at all sea-
Sons and use salmon eggs for bait.
In prehistoric cemetery lately uncov-
cred near Montpelier in the South of France,
| among other things found and reported to the
| Paris Academy were two skulls, evidently
| belonging to the Aryan race. and some human
| bones that, judged from their proportions,
must have belonged to a man at least ten feet
| in height.
| The negro who preached in an Augusta
church recently while asleep. has many
peculiarities. The morning NetCs has already
| alluded to his intelligent sermons while he is
| asleep, though while he is awake he is very
| lllterate. Ills sole diet Is eggs or 0SneS and ne
never drinks water, whisky or coffee, only tea
| made of pine bark.
AT Visalia, Cal, every day after each
recess battalion of chickens, led on by one or
two naughty chandeliers, makes a raid on the
| public school grounds as as the pupils are
| summoned to their respective rooms. They
| find pretty good picking there after about 40
urchin5 with pronounced appetiteS and we'll
| filled dinner baskets.
F. H. Orvis, of the Windsor Hotel, has
IN his possession a couple of teeth belonging to
some extinct animal of the cretaceous period.
The teeth are gigantic in size, one of them
| weighing IL pounds and the other pounds.
| These teeth were found near Peace river on
the property OF the G. w. Scott Manufacture
| ing Company. OF Atlanta
In 1871 a man living at Porterville,
CAL, set a slip of ivy az ono end of his store.
To-day it covers the whole building and has
climbed upon large oak tree. The first occu-
| pants were a pair of mountain linnets, who
| were not disturbed, and their descendants still
breed there in immense numbers. They sing as
well as the German canaries.
The village of DATA, on the island of
Lesbos has q woman said to be l35 years old,
who still has the complete use of all her senses.
The same island contains three other inhabit-
ants who are said to have passed their hun
dredth Dirthday-Ismail Apa, ITO years old;
Khall Apa, in his 10th year, and Aschik Baba,
aged lis. All three of these centinerians, it is
said, earn their living By daily work.
"A Boston gentleman, to test his dogs
understanding, read aloud to him from the
newspaper an article to the effect thar our
worthy legislators had abandoned the attempt
to muzzle the dogs. Thereupon the Joy of the
ST. Bernard knew no bounds. He barked,
leaped into the air. ran around the room, and
even became so excited that he ran up and
down stairs until restrained by force.
A man named Juan Vaca died at Lone
Pine. Ariz. About Is years ago a deputy
sheriff was murdered in Kern county. Recently
the murderer was discovered and arrested.
Vaca was the only eyewitness to the killing;
his testimony was not taken, and now 1t may
not be possible to convict the accused. Vaca
lived with an Indian woman: after his death
she said, Il heap sorry; cry like I'LL"
The negroes in Liberty county, where
so many ''false Christs" held forth last sum-
mer, have not quie ed down as much as
everybody Is led to believe. There some crazy
snirits among them who are daily looking for
the coming Messiah. and anyone could lead
them on another pilgrimage. Some of them
burn fires of nights to light the way of the
expected Savior. should his advent be at
night.