Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| While tearing down Joe Smiths old
hotel, the Mansion House, at Nauvoo. Ill,
| workmen found the skeleton of an infant un-
der the flooring. silent evidence to some
| crime of the long ago. The old Mansion House
| Is one OF the few Mormon relics left at Nau-
| VOC.
John McDermott reports strange case
| of early DEVELOPMENT in the Big Spring Ala
neighDorhood. Mrs. Polly Taylor owns an
months heifer calf which has been suckled
| by a smaller calf until it is giving milk
The children took from 1t about pint at one
milking.
"A gambling club was raided by the
police of st. Petersburg a few days ago, and all
of the inmates were arrested. The players
were released with fine the next day, but the
principals were held for tr1ai. Afterward they
were tried and sentenced to exile in Siberia for
five years.
The prolific eve owned by Millen Nc
Dowell, of Mt. Morris township, which in the
year 1888 gave birth to the perfectly developed
double-headed lamb which was exhibited alive
about the country Until Its death, died few
days ago in giving birth to a second double
headed lamb.
-"Old Billy" says the Boston Globe, is
now 40 years of age, and is the Oldest railway
horse in the world. For % years he worked ON
car running from BroOkline to Boston, and
during this remarkable career never lost trip
rom sickness or Inability. He actually traV-
eIed during this period over Ia, 600 miles.
The latest addition to the State Library
at Albany, N. Y. is collection of woods,
which is designed to include every kind of tim
Der growing naturally within the limits of the
State. The first installment comprises 43 spe-
eles. Each specimen is taken from the trunk,
81 feet long, and shows the bark and grain.
1t you have ever paid money to see
gorilla go and demand it back at once for the
most eminent naturalist in the country says
that no gorilla-no genuine. straight-edged go
rilla-haS ever been captured by man. and that
II he had he would never live to make the jour
ney from Africa. They simply have been giving
US oYergrown monkeys.
Temperance advocates will be sho eked
to hear the record of a Russian eentenarian,
who has just died at Peru at the respectable
age Of l05. Since he was Is years old he has
gone to bed dead drunk every night He had
only been i'll once in his life, when be fell
asleep in the street during fit of intoxication
and his nose and ears were frozen.
d. d. Bowles, a negro, was ARE sted in
Lynchburg for biting his child. Bowles treat
ment of his child was so cruel that all over its
body were scars where he had stuck his teeth.
The child's tongue was also sore account of
its father having almost torn it from the roots.
When arrested Bowles made big fight for
freedom. He bit the officers wrist and the lat
ter had to use his club freely to defend him
self.
Rev. Benjamin Moody, Of Clay county,
is somewhat of a remarkable man. He is now
in his Goth year of age, is the father of large
family of children. has always been an abb
stainer from alcoholic drinks, never had occa-
sion to pay but one doctors bill, and but twice
in the daytime has he been asleep. The gentle
man is in good health. and bids fair to live a
number Of years to continue his record Of use
fulness.
The census enumerator finds that with
about 1,25O people in GuntersYille, Ca, as
against so ten years ago, there are no negroes
in the beat, no blind, no crutches or wooden
legs, no paupers and only one person found sick
in bed. Another very remarkable showing is
the very large population when compared with
the voting strength, it being the rule rather
than the exception for one voter. the father,
with house full of healthy children, none Of
whom are old enough to vote.
1t is stated that some of the Rothschild
family have purchased. at the high figure Of
$4,000 francs, about f33,6 800 sterling, the
identical clock manufactured by the royal
hands of the ill-fared Louis XVI. in the days
when he was more actively and congenially
employed in his workshop than IN his council
chamber. This curious timeplece for a long
time was an historic heirloom in the possession
of an English family, and it has been bought
at st. Petersburg.
Miss Amanda Anderson, living in the
East Macon district, is 60 years old, but the
longest journey she ever took was from the
house in which she was born to her present
home, a distance of one and alf miles. She
has never seen Il railroad, brick building,
and only one painted house. She has never
been in a church. Three years ago she visited
neigh Dor 200 yards away and then complained
that she was so far from homie that she could
not find her way back.
"A queer old chap turns up about Union
square, New York, these days about o'clock
in the morning with broom and pan. In
saloons in the neighborhood he has the privi-
lege of sweeping. From out his sweepings he
gathers up every cork, looking all the time for
coins. 1t is said that on the average he makes
a fair days wages from silver thus gathered up,
but his sure income is realized from the corks.
Such of these as are not broken he whittleS
down to a size that will fit the small phials
used by druggists. He sells these at prices
which make it profitable to the druggists, and
the refuse, the shaVings and broken bits he
disposes of to men who pack bottles Tor trans
portarion.
There are said to be but 135 of the
famous goloid dollars in existence. The first
one of these ever coined is in the possession Of
Colonel John A. Stephens, Of Augusta, Ga,
having form erly been the property of Alexander
H. stephens. Ex-Governor of Georgia and
Chairman of the Committee on Weights,
Measures and Coins at the time these historic
pieces were struck. The gooid dollar is about
the size of silver half Collar, but hardly as
thick and much lighter. 1t has a bronze color,
darker than gold. which is due to the copper
contained in its composition. On one side are
the words: United States of America, 100
cents;' on the rim and in the center these
words, letters and figures: "Goloid. metric, l,
G:l6i s.; L9 c.; Grams I425." On the other
side are the words: "E Pluribus Unum, 1873"
on the rim, and in the center the head of a
female, with the word Liberty across the
brow The figures indicate the composition,
which is the invention OF a man named Hubbell.
The COMPOSITE metals in its makeup are worth
exactly 81 in cash. Gnloid is a composition
of 10 different metals of which but one part is
gold (l6.I) sixteen and one-tenth silver and
II 81 one and nine-tenths copper.