Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A farmer of Braintree. Mass, has Just
died of glanders. having caught the disease OK
one OF his horses.
Potatoes in Anderson, Shasta county,
are sold at cents each. They are more of
luxury than oranges.
The Santa Rosa letter carriers complain
thai heir letter boxes are stuffed with cigar
stumps. sticks and every kind of refuse instead
Oh letters.
-Burwell Spence, who lives in the Nav
ajo country, New Mexico. sports beard seven
feet long. He generally has it braided and
colled inside his vest.
Marshall Pass, on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, 1851 feet above the sea
level, is the highest point crossed by railroad
lnside the limits of the United states.
Mrs. Mary Cooper, OF Paterson, n. j.,
celebrated her lOOth birthday anniversary
Thursday surrounded by 20 of her descendants
including one of the fifth generation.
Two teams, one loaded, the other light,
stood still for an hour in the road near Bangor,
"Wednesday, while their drivers, both promi-
nenr citizens, argued the question whose place
it was to turn out.
"A California judge is the possessor Of a
night blooming cereus that is the largest of its
kind in the United States. 1t is 30 feet high,
with branches that cover his house and porch
nearly go square feet.
-Plowing by steam has been introduced
in Walla Walla Valley, Wash, and is pro-
nounced a success. Heretofore il has cost 81
per acre to plow, while under the new system it
can be done for 40 cents.
"A mountaineer preacher down in Crook
county, Oregon. astonished part of his audi
ence by exclaiming: MY friends, all the world
shouted for joy when the good news of Christ's
birth flashed over the wires"
All OF the bank note currency of the
Italian Government is engraved and printed in
the United States. The notes are neat. but
small, resembling somewhat the fractional
notes issued in the war times.
"A woman, Miss Jessie Carson, drives
the stage between Usage and Park Rapids,
Mimi. She has done it for years-making three
trips a week-summer and winter. and often
with the thermometer down to 4Oo below zero.
"A new worm has made its appearance
in Atchison county and is killing the wheat.
The farmer who discovered it has never seen
anything like it before, though he has been
fighting weevil and fly and chinch bugs for 80
years.
"A Baltimorean who went it blind at
an auction sale of unclaimed freight, buying
for 81 barrel that had not been opened,
thought he had barrel of lamp black, but
found that he had about $50 worth of fine
WHISKY.
soldiers from Fort Lowell recently
penetrated the extensive cave near Mountain
Springs. Ariz., for more than mile without
coming in sight of the end. According to the
Tucson Gazette the cave has never been thor
oughly explored.
The barge Maud MeLain was formerly
the blockade runner Robert E. Lee. After
being captured and returned from st. Johns,
N. B., she was turned into the United States
gunboat Frolic. and finally transformed to her
present shape and name
Malcolm Mcpherson, the erratic Scotch
man who got into the Detroit House of Cor
rection for a term and wrote up his experience
for the newspapers, and who has traversed the
State as a knight of the pen, is now editing
daily paper at Milwaukee.
I'm Europe iron Stag is cast into blocks
and used for street pavements and in house.
building. In Cleveland there Is factory which
converts It into mineral wool. 1t is a mass of
very fine fbers filled with CLASSY particles. 1t
is soft, plant and inelastic.
While grubbing a short time since
Florida man discovered an Indian canoe i'm
bedded in muck. 1t is about II feet long, hewn
from 4 cypress log, and is in good state OF
preservation, although showing great age.
With it was an Indian paddle.
Two Georgia ministers preached from
the text in the sixth chapter of Galatians and
first verse. There had been no consultation on
the subject between these ministers, and, Of
course, they were surprised to learn they were
both on the same line of thought.
Ernest C. Koutz, the 24-year-old Aud
itor and Recorder of Atlanta, Ca, earned
during the summer months, by acting as Pull
man conductor the money with which he paid
for his tuition in the University of Georgia.
from which he took the degrees of both htera-
ture and law.
The beautiful Duchess of Marlborough
wears three gold bracelets ftom which three
gold keys hang en- pendant. One opens the
lock of Her Grace's jewel box, the other be-
small satchel, brass-bound, in which she keeps
her loose money.
During the recent floods at Anaheim,
Cal, every hummock was swarming with hares
and rabbits that were driven from the plains.
They were slaughtered by thousands by boys
and men, who USED sticks, and when tired of
the sport would run the poor beasts OFF their
dry places into the raging waters.
"A reporter found ''stamp fend" gloat-
ing over some rare envelope stamps of the issue
OF 1870 The stamps-fye in number-were
sent to MuskegoD. Mich. by an agent. their
value being Sl7 so. A 30cent stamp was quoted
at So 80, 15-cent stamp at So. "a and 90-cent
stamp at 81 80 each and l2cent stamp at 81.
"A Chicago upholsterer, in repairing an
old sofa that had been brought to his shop
found the following articles which had slipped
down between the back and the cushion:
Forty-seven hairpins. mustache combs, 10
susDender buttons, 13 needless cigarettes 4
photographs, 2l7 pins some cloves, q cuff
buttons. 6 pocket knives, Is poker chips vial of
homeopathic medicine, "a Jumps of chewing
gum, 50 toothpicks, 2S matches and button
hooks.
"A strange battle is reported to have
taken place in Toxic, Japan. A stream ruRs
through the compound of Tobukuji Temple az
Sugamo, and some hundreds of bullfrogs
gathered ON either bank. Then terrific battle
ensued, lasting from A. NJ. to 4 P. M, and it is
stated that when the combat finished the brook
was blocked to such an extent with the bodies
of the slain that the course of the water was al
most totally impeded. Large numbers of peo-
pie visited the place TO witness the strange
spectacle.
-Elon Booth, miserly bachelor who
died at Newton Conn.,, could not bear the idea
of leaving his wealth behind him, but when he
found that he was obliged to do SO he wilIed
the property SO that no one can spend it for IA
wears. AT the end of this time IL will go to his
brothers grandchildren. The estate is valued
at 100000 Booth once walked from New
York to Newton to save the dollar for passage
and during his entire lifetime denied himself
everything but actual necessaries in order 20
accumulate fortune.