Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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Thirty thousand dollars month ispaid
out for lottery tickets in Key West, Fla.
An English firm has purchased the right
TO slaughter and pack 10000 hogs year in
Ssrria.
The first shipment of sealskins to Lon
don this season left Victoria by the Canadian
Pacific last week. They filed seven cars and
were valued at sl5O.OOO.
"A vicious stallion at Rochester, Ind,
bit its owner In the shoulder, then attacked
passing dairyman, and finished up by biting on
the ear OF the latters horse.
"A sycamore tree near Newtown, Conn.,,
is said to be IS feet high and q feet in diame-
ter, while its branches shade an area extending
50 feet from the trunk. IL produces large and
abundant white blossoms.
1t is told of a young man in Hancock,
Me-, that though he goes to meetings, parties
and other gatherings he has never been known
to speak to anybody but his parents. No Iea-
son is assigned for his silence.
AS the result of a severe burn little
Grass Valley. Cal, girls side and arm grew to-
gether becoming united by a webbing of flesh
nearly an inch in thickness. She was released
from her unpleasant predicament by a success
fui surgical operation.
Rev. Frank E. Jeffrey, a missionary to
India. who leaves for that country in few
weeks, was married in the Joliet, Ill, Peniten-
tiary on Tuesday to the daughter Of Warden
Bergren, the convict orchestra and choir furn-
ishing the Incidental music.
"A man named Platt has discovered a
piece Of gold-bearing quartz in a brook on .
farm two miles west of Birmingham. Conn.
The town IS running wild with excitement.
Quartz has been found in the same vicinity be-
fore, but was never assayed.
"A miser at Dublin, Ind, having no
faith in banks, placed some $500 in gold in
tomato cans and then buried the cans under
the brick floor in his cellar. One day this
week going to the hiding place he found that
thieves had been there before and carried on
his hoard.
"A bookkeeper named Davis, in New
Haven. Conn.,, who, while visiting a brewery
with party OF friends, drank corrosive subli-
mate in mistake for champagne cider. was i'm
baT1ia gyen Pe%ertui ,Gd e%etc stS ana now,
well as ever.
Sam Ward and Sam Lee, Ocala's re-
spective celestial restaurauteur and laundry
men, remembered their dead chum, Son Lee,
Sunday, by preparing a sumptuous feast over
the grave of their departed friend, saturatlng
the ground with liquors and wines and then
setting it on fire. 1t is their way of making
celestial spirit life euduraDle.
Colonel Webb, of Chester, N. j., is in
the Goth year of his age. He can stand upon q
chair, bend backward. touch his head upon the
floor and rise up again without the aid of his
hands. He goes fishing nearly every day in the
BLACK river, stands in the water up TO his knees
from morning until night, and oftimes lands as
many as so catfish day. Who Of that age can
beat this record?
"A young woman visiting the family Of
". II. Moon, of Greenville. county, s. c., was
standing near post on the piazza. when the g.
year-old daughter Of the house came up noise
lessly from behind and playfully clutched her
dress. Ihs @ young woman, Is startled; @ 10 lost her
which gave way, falling with the young woman
back on the child. who was instantly killed.
"A few days since party of gentlemen
and ladies were walking in the cemetery, and,
glanciDg at an adjacent lot, they saw a sight
which has only been seen in savage and half
civilized lands, says the Hudson Journal The
sight referred to was that OF young girl
hitched to a cultiyator, like horse. and driven
by an apology of a man. who, when the poor
girl faltered in the work, would urge her on by
threats and curses.
Gertrude Buthe, go years old, arrived in
New York on the steamship Ems from Bremen
Tuesday and told the clerk who registered her
at the Barge Office that she was searching for
husband. She is only feet inches in
height. She claims to be wealthy, and exhib-
tied $500 to the registry clerk. The woman said
that she had travelled nearly around the world
to find a suitable mate
One day last week large hawk invaded
the premises of Thomas Morgan. of Americas,
Ga. and carried of a frying-szed chicken. He
ate all he could Of it and left the remainder for
another meal. The chicken had been poisoned
for the purpose of finding out who had been
stealing them from Mr. Morgan. Next morn
ing Mr.. Morgan went out where the chicken
had been left by the hawk and found nine dead
'possums that had been eating it.
One of the longest telpherage lines in
the world is to be opened this month in South
America. This overhead electric railway will
be I58 miles long, and will connect Buenos
Ayres with Montevideo. Its object is to allow
of travelling letter boxes to be dispatched every
two hours between the two cities. The line
will cross the La Plata estuary in that part
where it is l9 miles wide. The two wires will
be supported on either side Of the river by Two
towers. nearly go feet high.
On q Western and Atlantic train that
pulled out of Atlanta Monday, was a negro
woman who had paid her fare to Chattanooga
When on the outskirts of the city her 25cent
straw hat was blown through window. She
Jumped up and pulled the Dell cord. The train
stopped and when the conductor rushed into
the coach he saw the woman disappearing
through the opposite door. While the woman
was chasing her straw hat over the meadows
the train pulled out and left her behind.