Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

large numbers IN Rhode Island.
1t is reported from the ruby mines Of
Burmah that ruby weighing 3O4 carats has
been found.
The greatest deposit of manganese ever
found in the United States has been opened up
at Tredegar, Calhoun county, s. G.
Two old gentlemen, one so and the other
7S years old had a stand-up fight one day last
week in Portland, Ore, over a young widow,
"A brakeman on an Ohio railroad. who
dreamed that he lost leg it is said, fell under
his train a lew days after, and had both leg
and an arm taken OF.
Several young men on Mackinac Island
have formed a society with capital stock of
5000. which will be spent on a visit to the
Worlds Fair and trip around the earth in
1893
Italy has turned out a torpedo ram that
can take rank with naval sluggers of the SuIIi-
van class. She is called the Fleramosca and
can, it is claimed, fire a 44Spound projectile
through 26 inches Of solid iron.
"A girl, named Amelia Waterworth, en-
ployed by Mrs. Davidson, of Dundas, Ont, was
accused of stealing 50. She at first denied the
charge. but after taking a dose of rough on
rats. confessed and then died.
An obstinate farmer in New Jersey,
who refused to pay toll because the road was
in bad condition, saw his folly afterward, when,
on being sued he had to pay costs amounting
TO IS. The toll was a few cents.
AT Mansfield, Pa, boy was seen
riding an imported Shetland pony and leading
a big draught horse. The pony is IL hands
high and weighs 365 pounds. The horse is u
hands high and weighs 2 400 pounds.
No less than Is sparrow nests were
found in the ivy running over a wall in West
Chester. All of them were removed, but some
almost m m n6latalV bnlldlnO
new homes, and in the old spots, too.
"A man named Collins, at Rioche, New,
refused to pay two employees, whom he had dis
charged, their money. He was given eight
minutes, by the watch, to settle. but did not
weaken, and at the end of the time was shot
dead.
"A number of capitalists of Seattle and
Minneapolis contemplate the building of an
immense fume or tunnel from Lake Washing
ton to the shores of Seattle harbor for the pur-
pose of furnishing water power for manufac-
turing purposes.
The sheriff of Mackinac county. Mich,
the other day examined the bolts of his prison
doors and found that many nuts had been filed
OFF. preparatory to a grand exit of prisoners.
The men had worked patiently for long time,
and were nearly ready to finish the plot.
Mr.. Thomas Beatty left home four weeks
ago and has not been seen or heard from since.
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Mr.. Beatty is about 20 years old. Any informa-
tion concerning his whereabouts will be thank
fully received by his daughter, Annie Beatty,
MeadVille.
George BidweIl, the famous ticket-of-
leave man who served 1414 years on life sem
tence IN British prisons for the great S5 900, 900
forgery on the Bank of England has % acres of
property near Muskegon, Mich, and is there
now looking it over. His home is now in Hart
ford, Conn.
"A 11-year-old Oil City girl was trying
to exchange two IS gold pieces for pennies and
nickels. Later in the day lady came down.
town and said she had lost her pocket book
The little one was found and acknowledged
having gone into the house and taken the
money from the lady's purse. She didn't know
1t was wrong.
"A couple in Hancock county, Me-, who
promised over 80 years ago to take each other
for better or for worse, seem to have suddenly
come TO a realizing sense that their engagement
had been long enough. as local paper reports
that the minister was called on one night re-
Gently to get out of bed and perform the mar
riage ceremony.
Fifteen years ago Chief Grant had q
Swiss watch stolen from him on
run between Erie and Cleveland. The police
have been on the lookout for the
watch ever since, and few days ago the Cleve-
land Chief of Police found the watch in a pawn
given up all hopes of ever finding it.
Curtis Hicks, of Racine, Wis, has be-
come oss1ned. His feet, toes, ankles, legs,
knee Joints, and even his hip-joints are per-
Fectly ossiied, In fact, solid and stiff bone, and
The skin of hard, reddish color. His arms,
hands, fingers and all the joints of the same are
IN like condition, and the man states that
there is not single joint in his body that Is not
1ssified.
Colonel L. C. Hoyl, Of Dawson, Ca,
has in his possession book 100 years old that
IS of considerable interest to curious readers.
1t is the printed laws of the State of Georgia
from 1765 to 1879. In it is an act taking certain
persons out of the penalty Of confScation and
banishment, so far as it relates to the Reyolu-
tionary War. An act of I795 makes counter
feiting death offense.
-Workmen while excavating in a lot
near the Mcclellan House, Gettysburg, Thurs
day. dug up the remains of Union soldier.sev-
sral U mon buttons establishing the fact The
bones were taken to the National Cemetery for
reinterment. A number of teeth filed with
gold were also found 1t IS said that the lot in
which the body was buried was occupied at the
time of the battle by an embalming establish
nent.
"A burglary was committed in a jack
son, Mich, store, and stranger giving his
name as Joseph Cathcart was arrested for the
crime. The next morning he was given a razor
discovered in his cell with his left forearm cut
half off and his throat cut-not single cut, but
Is to 20 of them-so that slices of his flesh had
fallen away. He was unconscious, but revived
while a surgeon was sewing him up, aud may
recover from his wounds.
An Americus, Ga, young man says
that he had a game rooster that kept every
other fowl off his beat. and last Monday night
he heard 1uttering in his chicken house. The
next morning he investigated it and found the
rooster and a very large owl on the floor of his
hen house. The rooster had driven one Of his
spurs clear through the owls head, and it hung
there while the owl had q death grip on the
ROSTERS wing. The owl was dead, but the
rooster, as soon as released from the talon Of
The fowl, stretched his neck and crowed Justify.
There is a man in Somerset County,
Ore. who is a Selectman, Assessor and Over
seer of the Poor in his town. He is also School
Agent and Highway Surveyor in his school
md highway district. 1t is said that the town
paws him 81 per day for the board of his mother
n-law. and that he has hired his own daughter
for the school teacher. An ex-soldier, he
1raws a nice sum each month as a pensioner.
He carries on farm and speculates some in
farm produce and stock. He also owns build
nc that is the headquarters OF a poker club,
,nd ba ia leading well as succoSsful mern-