Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Leavenworth. Kan.
Two Indians near Boyne City, split and
piled 5< cords of maple wood one day last
week.
"A hen at Conestoga, in Lancaster county,
| has distinguished herself by laying nine double
yolk eggs.
Colonel Flagler, the st. Augustine
money king, has just paid.the doctor for attend
| ln3 MS daughter S250OO0
-Cincinnati's lamp posts were recently
draDed with Grape in memory Of deceased di-
rector OF the gas company.
Two Italian prospectors took out $500
worth Of gold from a small pocket near Jack
son. Amador county, last week.
The other day woman was fined at -sIn-
poria, Kan. for using profane language. and
preacher was sued for his board bill.
Three Angora goats owned by Mr..
Hickathier, Of Drain, Ore. were sheared re-
Gently whose Heeces weighed 195 pounds.
"A big squirrel hunt was held in the
neighborhood of Latah, Wash. and it resulted
in the death of nearly 1000 of the little pests.
George Brown, Flat Rock farmer, 80
years old, has been licensed to marry Mrs.
Catherine Burgess, aged %, of Ash, Monroe
county.
"A Colorado man bought sack of wheat
to feed his chickens. Inside the sack he found
So and SO gold piece. Some men have riches
thrust upon them.
"A man living near Barning, Ca, has
in his possession two family relics. one seyen-
gallon Jug that has been in the family SO wears.
the other a blowing horn which has been in the
family 81 years.
An artesian we'll on Charles Smiths
farm, near Anaheim, Cal, is constantly throw
ing out small fish. Smith has built a number
of ponds that he will stock with the fish sup
piled from natures laboratory.
Minnie Rush, a 15-year-old girl, recent
ly arrived at Colfax, Wash, from eight miles
up the river, bearing in her arms a little baby
sister 8 months old. The two had been left
homeless by the death of their mother.
Paris cab fares will no longer be franc
and half for all distances but the distance is
to be accurately measured by an apparatus in
the cab, and the charge is to be 10 cents for the
first kIlOmeter and % cents per kilometer for
any further distance.
AS an instance of the loss of stock in the
John Day section, Oregon, it is related that two
piles of dead horses were found on Bride creek,
one of Is and the other of nine head They had
evidently huddled together TO escape the cold
and perished one by one.
While colored woman was walking
along the road in Marlboro, n. C., her clothes
caught fire from a spark from the pipe which
she was smoking, and before assistance could
reach her the flames had so badly burned her
that death resulted in few minutes.
-. -"Uncle Billy" Powers, formerly Bap-
tist clergyman. is the only living Georgian who
cast vote for Lincoln in 1860. One other voter
in the State was for Lincoln at the time. but he
was killed during the war. Powers was
Blaine eectOr in 1881 and is now census
supervisor.
An official stenographer OF the German
Imperial Parliament has calculated the exact
rapidity of speech of some of the most cele-
brated German statesmen. Riekert, leader
of the free trade Independents. he says, talks
in minute 153 words; Count Herbert Bis
marck IN. and Stumm, the coal baron, l4S.
"A congress Of beauty is to be held in
Rome in May. Only Roman ladies of ''the
strict four grand branches. viz, brunette,
blonde. auburn red and 1axen," will be al
lowed TO compete. and they must be between
the ages of Is and 25. There will be only two
prizes, the first &, 900, and The second 81 900
The annual catch of fish on the Euro
pean and North American coasts is computed
by German statistician to amount to 10000
tons. A ton of fish corresponds with % sheep
in weight and with 20 sheep in nOuriShing
power. Therefore the total European and
North American catch equals in number A.
OOO, 600 sheep, and in nourishng power 30.OO0OO0
ton Medical Museum is said to be pair of
shattered skulls. They look as though they
had interfered in a locomotive collision. Trey
originally belonged a couple of plueky
darkIes who loved the same Venus. They
agreed to fight duel with their heads and the
survivor take the girl. Neither of them re-
membereG anything after the first butt.
"A maker of shoppers for beer bottles,
with suit for infringement before the United
States Court, gave some notion of the immense
business done in bottled beer by stating that
there were 30 O0O COO of his shoppers alone in use
in the United States. They are of course used
over and over again, though it is not imprOb-
able that one-half of them may be, for one
reason or another, out OF continuous use.
Experiments have been recently carried
on at Toulon with a view of determining to
what extent accuracy of aim could be attained
at night with the use of an electric light. A
gun was mounted on revolving platform,
which also carried an electric protector. The
target was fixed at a distance of between three
and four kilOmeters. and it was found that the
same accuracy could be obtained under those
conditions as during daylight.
Bridget Doody, probably the oldest
woman in the United States, recently cele-
brated her l1Sth birthday at her home in Min
eral Point, Wis. She was born in County Wex-
ford. ireland, according to an authenticated
copy of her baptsmal record. April 2. 1772, and
has been a resident of Galena and Wisconsin
for period of 60 years. She Is in apparent
good health and in the possession of all her
faculties TO a wonderful degree.
"A "widow" in Utica, n. Y, upon an
swering the door bell Saturday afternoon was
startled at the appearance of fulI-bearded
man. who recalled to her memory visions of her
early married life and then caught her in his
arms and showered kisses upon her still hand
some face 1t was her first husband, Arnold,
who. after an absence of % years, had come
back tn ask forgiveness and he reinstated as the
head of the family The couple are now living
happily together and intend removing to
Arnold's home in Indiana in few days. The
wife had long thought her husband dead.
While seated on his horse at the depot
in Westminster, n. C.. a tram rolled up, at
which the horse became so frightened that he
backed upon the rotten plank covering of an
old well, which broke ana let both horse and
rider through. An old rail was sticking in the
muddy bottom. on which the horse was i'm
ualed His struggles were fearful and his
rider vino, strange to say, did not get unseated,
had narrow escape from being crushed to
DEATH AS it was he was severely hurt before
being rescued The well was 40 feet deep and
the horse died before he could be pulled out