Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


loaded with ice at Gardiner, Me.
The snow is so deep in the Upper
Peninsula. Mich, that many OF the lumber
camps have been Obliged to quit work.
Farmer Kline, of Santa Maria, Cal, has
fine vegetable garden. Last week he pulled
up a lot of radishes. One weighed "a pounds.
AN old Alsatian soldier named thinner
man has just committed suicide through grief
at having been retired from the army against
MS wish on account OF his age.
While sinking we'll in the Santa Lucia
range, San Luis obispo county. Mr.. Anderson
exhumed the fossil vertebrse of a whale. His
well Is 800 feet above sea level.
Michael Sullivan, foreman of section
gang on the Michigan Central Railroad, took
so grains of strychnine at East Saginaw. It
Killed him. He left letter saying he died Tor
love of his wife.
Jonah Turner, of Saranac, Mich, sat
reading his Bible Sunday. His glasses fell OF
and Mrs Turner started to replace them. when
she discovered that her husband was dead. He
was 90 years old.
Fritz Jabuseh, who enlisted in the army
at Oshkosh in 1862, has returned to his home in
that CITY after an absence of Is years. He was
wounded In battle, went to Libby Prison, and
at the close OF the war became a sailor.
Eight miners at Lompoe sCreek, Mich,
DeQuCtlQ0
their wages at 81 a day and other expenses that
footed up s36S, the net profit to the owner Of
the claim was 81 252 The gold sells for S22 50 an
ounce at the bank.
"A Seattle young lady found horseshoe.
and wishing for good luck, placed it under her
pillow with her false teeth. In the morning in
the hurry of dressing she substituted the shoe
for the teeth and wore it for some time before
the mistake was discovered.
AS an instance of the loss of stock in
the John Day section, Ore. it is related that
two piles of dead horses were found on Bridge
creek, one of Is and the other of nine head.
They had evidently huddled together to escape
the cold, and perished one by one.
On a recent trial in Wales to test the
validity of will, it was proved that in 1869 the
testator became impaired in intellectto such an
extent that he went to the postOffice with a
postage stamp on his forehead. and requested
to be sent TO place he mentioned.
-Parson Williams, of the colored Mount
Pilgrim Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. John
Wilson. baptized l6 converts last Sunday in
Bayou Beuf There was ice in the morning
and the water must have been very cold yet
none OF them hinched in the least.
AT Baku, Russia, the walters have lust
formed a cooperative union which has pro-
cured its own silver, linen and other table ac-
cessories, and does catering of every sort at
prices diminished by the usual prott of the
hotel Keeper, caterer or other middle man.
In Warsaw the public houses, restaur-
ants and cafes have been ordered to remove
their telephones. on the ground that by their
use warnings have been sent around to all in
the business whenever the police set out to
raid them for violations OF the excise regula-
tions.
Late reports from the dam disaster in
Arizona show that the total number of lives
lost was 81, and that all would probably have
been saved were it not that the messenger sent
from the upper dam to warn the people lotered
on the way and got drunk. He has not since
keen heard from.
The mail carrier between Smithville and
Sparta, Tenn, reports that barrel containing
live baby about a week old, was found float
ing down the Carey Fork river and caught at
the mouth of Indian creek. The barrel had
hoated about go or 10 miles, but was in good
shape when found.
The crowd at a recent football league
match at Burney became exaspersted at the
referee and attempted to mob him after the
game. He was sheltered in the clubhouse until
extra police could be summoned, and was then
taken away in cab. followed by a bowling,
stone-throWing mob.
The daily rations of pair of ostriches
on the Fallbrook farm in San Diego county,
Cal, are 40 pounds of beets for breakfast and
for dinner gallon or two of grain. For dessert
tho birds are given bits of bone. "GaIl Hamil-
ton," the pride Of the farm, is years old and
stands feet inches high.
"A man who was forcibIy elected from
car San Francisco after rendering in pay
ment OF his fare s5 gold piece, which the con-
ducror refused to accept, has Just recovered
big verdict against the company The Supreme
Court held that s. was not an unreasonable
amount for the agents of corporation to
change
-Ignatius Donnelly's statement that q
profit of q cents busheI was made by the
handlers on all grain shipped to Liverpool from
st. Paul, brought out an offer from C. A. Pills
bury and A. j. Sawyer to pay $4,000 to any
farmer OF association who can ship cargo Of
wheat TO Liverpool and realize profit Of IL
cents bushel.
AN English medical commission, incl
dentally to another investigation had to make
some experiments as to the effect of tight lac
ing. Female monkeys were used. They were
put into plaster of Paris Jacket to Initiate
stays, and tight bandage was bound about the
waist to initiate the petticoat band. Several of
the monkeys died very quickly. and all showed
serious injuries resulting from the treatment.
Joseph Brown, of White Pigeon, Mich,
has a little eve trained to lead his fiocks If a
drove is to be shipped she marches at the head
of the column through the Streets and the
flock follows. She leads them into the stock
yard. thence into the car, and when one car is
Auii, oho euses neHeeh Ouk anu cOnuucbS the
others into another car, till all are safely on
board. and then returns home with the boys on
the sidewalk.
Fourteen years ago young girl named
Jennie Colby left her parents home in Brown
field, Me-, against the wishes of her family,
and went West. and since that time none OF
her friends had ever heard from her. She had
a sister Clara, girl IA years old, at the time.
Clara is now the wife of Orrin P. Allen of
Bridgton- The couple moved to South Brighton
a few days ago. On the first Monday spent in
her new home, Mrs. Allen a neighbor
hanging out clothes. and at once recognized
her as her sister. An investigation proved that
it was indeed she, now Mrs. Horace PiYett,
once Jennie Colby, of Brownield.