Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

There are many cases Of la grippe in
Saginaw. Mich.
"A blackberry bush at Grand Lodge,
Mich, is preparing for a second crop this
season.
Two Americus, Ga, farmers succeeded
in killing nearly 100 rats in one day lately on
their farms.
"A Kansas bantam, which was hatched
March II, has laid II eggs and hatched from
them II chicks.
The latest device for attracting attention
to store windows is a swarm of bees making
money In glass box from syrup.
Jersey City has a law under which fines
OF slCO each are to be imposed upon persons
detected drinking malt or alcoholic liquors in
her new parks.
The demand for Saginaw valley salt is
larger than at any time since its production
began 1t is impossible to obtain cars enough
to fill the orders.
"A young man walked in his sleep one
night this week. at Statewide, Ga, and when
he awoke he found himself at a prindstone
sharpening his knife.
Young men who do rot like to be seen
carrying a luncheon basket in the street NAV
now have case made like a kodak camera
An old prospector bought a piece of
ground near Nevada City the other day for
$500. He went for guild. and soon struck de-
posit that will pay him 5000.
The total number OF passengers carried
in the United States during 1889 was 472l7l, ,s4s
One passenger in every ,523. l3S was killed. and
one in every 22O,024 was injured
"A strange freak of nature in connection
with the recent tornado appears in South Law
renee, Mass. In the district torn by the storm
lilac and pear trees have begun to blossom.
There is an inmate of the Georgia State
lunatic asylum who imagines, in his insanity,
that he is grain of corn. He will not go into
the yard, fearing the chickens will eat him.
AN old chief gave his experience of In
dian agents this way: 'Spose agent heap bad
man. heap swear. steal half Injun blanket,
lnjun flour; spose agent loVum Jesus, steal
all"
"A careful estimate made BY the Maine
Central Railroad states that 100, 600 pleasure
seekers have entered the State this season.
About 70 per cent of them came into the State
by rail
j. W. Grover, clerk of Thomas county,
Georgia Superior Court. .hss in his possession
little calico frock which his mother made for
him 45 years ago. He wore it before he was
able to walk.
Rev. E. B. Carroll, of Albany, Ca, has
found some interesting relics on the battlefield
of Jonesboro. They consist of the barrel Of
muzzle-loading musket that was pulled from
the breastwOrks in a dilapidated condition, a
bayonet, that has been placed on the muzzle Of
the barrel. and several bullets. battered by
their contacts with objects on the tield.
George W. Davis, OF Morgan county,
Georgia, has a white hawkr whith measures
four and half feet from tip to tip OF his wiDSs
Mr.. Davis says he had seen the bEo II his
neighborhood for several years, but had never
had an opportunity of shooting 1t before. The
hawk was slightly wounded and Mr.. Davis
speaks Of sending it to Grant Park Zoo in At
lanta.
Joe Brown, coIored, was bitten by a
mad dog in Robinson county, N. c.. In 1872.
On the same day the same dog bit a white man
and a horse. both of whom died the same day.
The negro, Brown, was attacked with hydro
phobia. but did not die. Periodically. at The
same time every year since. he has a return Of
the disease He is now suffering the most ex-
cruciating torments of well developed case Of
hydrophobia-
"A monster snake has succeeded in stir
ring up quite an excitement among the more
timid people Of Essex, Mass. Some of them
declare that they have seen the reptile many
times during the past few months. On more
than one occasion, it is said, chase was given,
but the snake escaped. 1t put in an appear
it estimate that it is more than Is feet long.
Its body Is as big around as bootleg"
Iowa has passed stringent tramp law.
It declares that any male person 16 years of age
or over, who is physically able to work, who is
wandering about begging or idle and who can
not show reasonable efforts to secure employ
ment, shall be deemed tramp. sent to Jail and
put at hard work. VIII lie in Jail he shall not
be allowed tobacco, liquors, sporting or illus.
trated newspapers, cards or any other means of
Tramps will give Iowa wide
berth.
"A Pomona man came up recently from
Redondo. He changed his seat very often,
opened the windows squirmed about uneasily,
and finally kicked because he supposed there
was a corpse in the baggage car. Arrived in
Los Angeles, be reached into his coat pocket
for his handkerchief, and found five or six
fish, which he had carefully placed there three
days before, to be used for bait. They were of
the variety known as smelt, and they were
true to name"
1.-THE disappearance of the mackeral gull
from Maine waters is aue", according to the
Biddeford Times ITO the merciless work of the
men who supply the milliners with plumes.
For the mackerel gull they paid ten cents each.
a price so remunerative to professional gunners
that these birds were in the short space of two
years practically exterminated. All of the
snipe family were also in great demand; even
the little ox-eye did not escape for 4 single or
der was placed for 800 900 of these at three cents
each to fill an English contract"
"A widow lady living in Jacksonville,
Fla, was badly stung about the head by wasps
while working among the plants and shrubbery
in her yard. The stings were painful enough,
but in her agony and confusion she added TO
her misery by rushing into the house and ap-
plying hurriedly to her wounds what she sup
posed was laudanum, but which was carbolic
acid For a few minutes her pain was intense,
and had not remedies been applied oy neigh
boring ladies' she would have, it Is believed,
gone into spasms. The acid raised numerous
blisters on her face.
The wife of John Beam, of MITCHELL
ville NY. .,aged s. years, gave birth to twins on
Monday evening. Her daughter, Mrs. Stratton,
who lives in a neighboring township. presented
1er husband with twins the same evening. Mrs.
daughter Eva was married year
100. and lives in Bradford. The friends OF Mrs.
SIratton and her mother were not yet through
them over the interesting natal
coincidence in their families, when Mrs. STRAIT
on received a letter from her son-in-law an
,ouncinc that her daughter had given birth to
wins herself on Monday.