Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Nockamixon township, Bucks county,
boasts Of four.legged duck, which uses them
all In q way that Is q sight 10 see.
"A Bangor, Me-, woman was taken sick
on the cars. The car was switched of on A
side track and left there by the train.
Mrs. Eva B. Hart, who died near
Syracuse, N, Y, recently At the reputed age of
lIS smoked as far back as her children can
remember.
"A Washington attorney offered to get
the editor Of the Charlotte. Mich, Tribune .
pension. The editor was ten years OLD when
the war broke out.
A 12-ysar-old girl living at Croswell
were but four inches Of water and was drowned
before help reached her.
"A Waterville, Me-, man was placed in
the lookup for being drunk. When be awoke
in the morning. he discovered that he had been
sleeping with q corpse all night.
-Waterville is proud of several things,
among them lady's orchestra, in which the
little fddle. the big fiddle and the horn are all
manipulated harmoniously Dy maidens young
and fair.
-"Daisv," the veteran war-horse which
carried Captain William A. Hill, of Boston,
through the battles of Gettysburg and An
tietam, died on Monday. The horse was "a
years old.
Files lit on horse at Lapier, Mich,
and when the owner tried to drive them away
the horse kicked him in the face, smashing his
nose and bruising his face. He will be disng-
ured for life.
John McGlynn, shoemaker of Kings
ton, suffering from an abscess on the neck,
died suddenly on Sunday evening. At noon
he said to his wife: II want good dinner; II
do die don't want to die hungry"
On an uptown street in Philadelphis
there are six houses adjoining each other in
which the wives are all sisters. The last was
married a month ago, and last week secured
the house adjoining those OF her sisters.
"A Cameron, Mo-, woman employed q
neighbor woman to do the family whipping for
her, and after the job had been done in thor.
oughly artistic manner, she brought suit
against her substitute for cruelty to animals.
"A mathematician announces to an ex-
pectant world that two persons playing domi-
noes ten hours a day and making four moves q
minute. could continue lis. 00O 900 years without
exhaustlng all the combinations of the game.
-Manistique has an aqueous volcano, a
spring $50 feet wide and 400 feet long. The
water and sand boil up from depth of s. feet
and throw the little lake into conieal shape.
1t supplies a creek 20 feet wide and feet deep
the year around
"A remarkable invention has been made
in austria. whereby the serious effects Of rail-
way collisions are prevented. Glass tubes pro-
ject before the train. and IL they are broken by
an obstacle an electric movement Is applied 20
the brakes, bringing the train immediately TO
standstill
Major Thomas W. Harwood, who was
10l years old last March, has arrived at Bath.
Me-, from Brooklyn, N. Y, where he passed
the winter. He was one OF Baths first ship
builders. He drove his own team down town.
walked up q flight Of stairs without any assist
ance and transacted some business.
"A farmer near st. Louis has q nest Of
owls In his barn. and they keep It free from
rats and mice. The birds lay up provisions At
night for the next day. The farmer marked
one foot with pair Of scissors. At nightfAn
the marked mice would be gone, and the next
morning there would be fresh supply.
One afternoon Of last week Gertrude
Pollack. Of Klamath county, Orc, left home TO
hunt for somo stray cows. While passing
through wood she came face to face with .
bear. Gertrude set her dogs TO tree the bear,
while she went homo for q rifle. The dogs did
their duty, and when the plucky girl reached
tho tree she killed the bear at the first shot.
A courageous woman In Galesburg.
Mich, heard burglars downstairs the other
night. She shouldered q gun, cautiously slipped
below, and, before the men knew what was
going on, they stood looking into the black
ueptnB OF the weapon. 5no tuoreupOn CAllou
for help and now has the rascals In jail await
ing trial.
Patsy Mitchell, Of Thompsonville,
Mass, promised that he would meyer drink
another drop Of liquor "as long As h4had hair
on his head" When his thirst became 80 un-
goyernable he sold his busny head OF hair TO
Bod Grumpy, q barber, for a pint of gin. and
when his hair was removed with q razor and
the gin in his possession he went on and got
drunk.
Mrs. Obed Raymond" reports the New
Bedford Standard, started to drive a cat out
Of her chicken yard recently, when the door
swung to and the animal, seeing no means Of
egress, sprang at Mrs Raymond, and a lively
tussle ensued, resulting in The death Of the cat.
Mrs Raymond's arm was so badly lacerated
that a physician was called 70 dress the
wounds"
w. h. Record, of Palatka, hasa inter-
esting souvenir of the surrender Of Vicksburg.
1t is a ring made of the tree under which Gen.
erals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange
terms for the surrender. The tree stood nearly
midway between the hostile lines which were
about 20 yards apart. 1t was carried away root
and branch literally by the Union soldiers.