Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

postmaster.
Buck KiIgore's boot is exhibited to ad-
miring thousands of the International Fair In
San Antonia, Tex.
There was quite romantic marriage in
Athens between an old gentleman of So and
young lady of I6
Vermont had her first snow furry of the
season on Wednesday last. At some places a
1all OF two inches is reported.
AN Alpena, Mich, woman wheeled her
dead baby to photographer, carried the body
upstairs and had its picture taken.
The best dressed men on the other side
are having their trousers cut two inches longer
than they have any use for and turning them
up.
The chime Of bells being made in Troy
for st. Patricks Cathedral, New York City,
viii comprise 10 bells and will weigh in the
aggregate $1,000 pounds.
Young sharks, under the guise of stem
derloin of SOLE" are exposed for sale in the
San Francisco hsh markets. The inspectors q
few days ago eonf1scated 100 pounds.
The length of telegraph lines in the
world at the end of 1889, it is said, had reached
a total of $50. 900 miles, length sufficient to
go round the equator almost 70 times.
The police force of India numbers IT,
constables, not reckoning the 1850 police Iof
Upper Burmah, and 5000 village warchmen.
A Marcellus, Mich, liar says he dug
up stump and found SO rattlesnakes in a nest,
varying from to 10 inches in length. Marcel
lus IS Just across the line from local option Van
Buren.
"A man who earns g, 900 year and is
worth $4,000 sent in application to the
Wilkesbarre Cyclone Fund Committee recentlv
for $50 loss caused by chimney falling on his
kitchen.
"A contract for a 50, ,OOO, 900 16-story
building, to cover the half block bounded ty
Adams, Dearborn and State streets, Chicago
has just been let out. The building is to be
general store.
Game is so plenty down in Connecticut
that the partrldges are reported flying into the
cities and roosting on the back fence, where
they are shot and roasted for dinner. This
sounds more like fish than game story.
BARRIERS report that hair-dyeing is going
out of style. Many "tonsorial parlors' do not
keep the dyes. Gray threads In young mans
head, especially if his occupation can be con-
strued to be Intellectual, are considered dis
tingue.
In Cincinnati, on Wednesday last, two
girls, one of whom was but IL years old. were
arrested for drunkenness; and two boys. one
only years of age, charged with being incor-
rigible. were taken to the police station,
''shackled together with handouts"
-Mackinaw Island, Mich, has some
queer people. Enias Pelotte is SO years old,
was born on the island and has never seen
locomotive railroad car. Rosa Louisignaw
is also S6 years old and for so years never left
the island, breaking her record last year.
"A sentence in Massachusetts in 1868,
d;uoa rod in of ali Rohart
Coles find f10 for abusing himself shamefully
with drink" and enjoined to stand with "a
Drunkard" in great letters on white sheet on
his back, 'soe longe as the Court thinks meete."
AT Montrose, while Nelson Hawley was
pasturing his COW, she bit OF mouthful of
grass and Immediately splitting it out com.
menced coughing An examination of tha
throat developed nothing, but lifting the
tongue he found needle had penetrated
through and stuck out half an inch above.
Engineer Springer, of the 500 Line,
killed three deer the other night near Glad.
stone, Mich His engine was running 35 miles
an hour, when a buck and two does stood in the
center of the track, fascinated by the flash OF
the headlight. 1t is not unusual to kill a single
one, but three at once is a remarkable run.
In hotel dining rooms the name of the
house is frequently seen woven in circle on
table cloths and napkins. For years the large
linen, Indelible ink was no longer indelibe
after the thieves got atit The device OF weaY-
ing the name in the center of the piece came
from ireland. and is said to be almost certain
protection
The death of Register Poydras, colored
man, 1Us years old, formerly the slave of Julian
Poydras took place near Port Allen, West
Baton Rouge parish, Louisiana, last week. He
was a grown man when Jackson won the battle
of New Orleans and "often related tales of
Tafi and he old nf the GnlfD
refreshing to chronicle new feature about the
oldest inhabitant
"A Holstein bull belonging to Joseph
Lippeneort of Woodstown, N. J., is IN an in
teresting predicament. The door of an under
ground ice house on the farm was left open,
and in endeayoring to get better view of the
interior, the bull slipped and fell IL feet. As
the bulls disposition has not been reposeful in
the past Mr.. Lippencott has decided to allow
him to remain there indefinitely. He is fed
regularly every day.
Near Clifford station, on the Staten
Island Railroad, there is a peculiar piece of
woodland, spot where the roots of the trees
will attach themselves to the trunks at from
four to six feet above the level of the ground,
giving to the stumps an odd, spidery appear
ance. The soil of the vicinity is very porous
which lends weight to the opinion that the
banyan-like grove has been formed by the
action of frost and water.
residence near Port Jervis, a few years ago i'm
ported number of wild Russian swine for his
game preserve. Four years ago they escaped
from the preserve and have since been roaming
on the mountains. The other day party COM
posed of members of the HARDWOOD Park Asso-
citation, while hunting in their preserve, en-
eOuntered a small herd of these wild swine and
one was shot which weighed 200 pounds. The
animals have committed great depredations on
the farms.
The authorities in Chicago have let o
contract for the construction of what is called
a folding bridge" the canal aG Weed
street. from Goose Island to the mainland, at a
cost Of Sl1 co., The bridge will be built with
ont a center pier. Each half of the bridge will
consist of two sections or folds When in posi-
tion for traffic the halves will meet in the CEN
ter. When boats are to be let through either
or both halves will fold back upon the ap-
proaches The invention is patented by the
manager of a local towing company.
The romance of a ring, ending in
tidings of a long missing son, has come to the
surface in Scranton. Truth says that when
City Engineer BIewitt attended the State Fire.
ner's Convention at Chester he met George
Sykes of Swarthmore. Sykes informed him
ne had in his possession ring which Reese P.
Davis. formerly of Scranton, had traded with
him lust before q battle in West Virginia in
$50 in which Davis was killed, and that he was
anxious TO communicate with Davis relatives
1iJh view of sending the ring to them. A
lew days after the appearance of this state
menI John R Davis, of Pittston, and William
IN BIewitt and learned for the first time the
tory of his sons death. Members Of the fam
ly will visit Swarthmore to see Sykes and get
he ring.
DOUGHNUTS AND CIDER.