Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| 5,l5 pounds were picked.
Bees stung four horses to death at May
field, Mich, a few days ago.
-Four Norwegian vessels have arrived in
New York with 1000 tons of ice.
"A snake cucumber was plucked in Los
Angeles that measured seven feet
Owing to the heavy rains corn was
gathered in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y, Sum-
day. in boats
"A negro at Perry, Ga, is said to weigh
500 pounds and to have gained 100 pounds
within year.
"A Macomb county, Mich, farmer has
harvested GOA bushels of good oats from IL
acres of ground.
Henry Fantoine and Charles Kleiber,
Of West Bay City. Mich, go TO Jail for 20 days
"A Kentucky widower has just married
his seventh wife He is S3 and his new wife
over 80 years of age.
The Saginay Union Street Railway
furnishes policemen and firemen with tickets
at a cost of cent per ride.
Three Tampa, Fla, hunters in two
days hunting killed two deer, four turkeys and
100 each of quail and squirrels
A rattlesnake died in ten minutes after
biting a colored man at Lumpkin, Ca The
man suffered no serious results.
"A eolored man liylrg in Worth county,
Ga, is the owner of little red steer that re-
Gently tr0tted u miles in four hours hitched to
cart.
"A man stood on street corner in New
York on Tuesday and offered to bet $500 to a cent
that behind the clouds the sun IS still shin
ing" He had no takers.
Captain Holmes, of Mystic, Conn, who
has Just returned from his sixteenth voyage
around Cape Horn, believes he has made the
Trip oftener than any other living person.
Frank Ribner, of Hillsdale county,
Mich. placed his pocketbook. containing IS. on
stump while he felled a tree, and COW come
along and gobbled money, pocketbook and all.
The total imports of bananas at New
York during the year 1889 aggregated 1886, ,593
punches, to which Jamaica contributed about
one-third, or O62, while Colon sent 2l6,528.
"A Yankee has invented a chicken hob
bier. consisting of spring attached to hens
leg, which, when the hen attempts to scratch,
will move her onward, and WILL in fact walk
her right out of the garden.
The income derived by French people
who rear fowls, according to official returns, is
S37, 100, 600 francs of which l53 100000 francs
represent the value of the flesh and IS3, 100000
francs that of the eggs.
AN Augusta man spent a good part of a
night in the pasture with lantern hunting
after his cow, in company with neighbors who
joined in the search. when the COW was in the
stable, where she had been all day.
Il. G. Gregory, a journeyman jeweler in
Coldwater, has built an engine with boiler
half an inch high, piston with an eight-ineh
stroke and balance wheel a quarter inch in di-
ameter. 1t weighs four pennyweights-
William Hit, of st. Joseph, Mo-, was
advised to take sponge bath in alcohol and
dry himself with artificial heat to cure rheu-
matism. He took the bath and stood by a
stove. The alcohol took fire and Hit will
probably die.
Some of the advertisements in the eIe-
waited cars in New York are funnier than was
intended. One reads, "Kockroaches Killed
Kontinually'' (this is intended to be facetious);
then it gravely adds, "Water-bugs, rats and
mice Tor sale everywhere"
Two brothers named Kennedy, residing
at Eureka Flat, WASH, tied 19-year-old John
Clinton's hands and feet. and then tied the end
of the rope to the tail of an unruly horse and
started the animal on a mad run. After going
about quarter of mile the rope slipped from
the animals tail and Clinton will live,
Belle River, little village II miles
east of Windsor, Ont. is in a state of great ex-
citement over the discovery of natural gas.
Men were boring for water on Eli Trudeaus
property, and at a depth of So feet gas vein
was struck. The boring machinery was blown
to pieces. and when the gas was lighted the
fame shot up so feet
An Adrian doctor says that down in
Palmyra, county Lenawee. resides family of
seven. Every Monday regular 300-pound hog
is butchered and by the following Sunday the
hog has been eaten up. Besides all this there
Is the usual quota of beef and other meats dis.
posed of during the week, which is about 40
pounds Of raw hog to each person.
Evidently the days of big nuggets in
Australia are not yet over. By the last mails
from Perth comes the statement that five
men arrived from Shaw Falls, Nullagine IA
western Australian gold held), bringing with
them 400 ounces of gold and a big nugget
weighing S53 ouRces pennyweights." 1t is
described as "a very massive and handsome
nugget"
The Buffalo Christian AdUocate tells of
a member of a church who is taxed for Sl5O,OOO
worth of city property, and who is undoubtedly
worth a quarter of a million, who gives an
nually to all the benevolent interests of the
church the paltry sum of 81. He told his pas
tor as he gave it to him to divide it among the
several objects. missions, church extension,
freedmen's aid. Bible soeiet, ETC., etc.
The Sidney, o., public school senior
class were all expelled this year just short
time before the close of the schools. All of the
members of the class had prepared their gradu-
ating essays and as the school board refusedto
reinstate them they hired hail. charged 25
cents admission and had commencement of
their own. The citizens of Sidney admired the
spunk displayed by the class and patrOniZed
them so well that it netted each one q neat
sum, and the entire class took trip to Niagara
Fails with the proceeds.
-Doleful reports are received from
Dakota. A dispatch, dated Ellendale, n. D.,
September g. says: This country has reached
a point where it cannot invite immigration,
cannot retain what settlers 1t has. and must
become hopelessly bankrupt unless system of
irrigation be adopted or some means be found
to insure crops or give the people prontaole
employment. Charity was accepted in special
cases last winter; it will have to be bestowed
much more generally next winter" But very
little rain has fallen during the last two years,
and thousands of farmers have been ruined.
They are getting out of the State as fast as