Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

o1ole Dfldal couples are edht W AafS
visited Washington this spring than ever be-
fore
The Dickerson mine, in Morris county,
n. j., has reached the perpendicular depth OF
LO7Q feet. The bottom is now 335 feet below
sea level.
For every 100 pounds of soap used in
the United States, England uses s5, Germany
So France IS. Sweden 20 Italy 81. Bulgaria 35.
and Mexico q.
Fourteen deer and 80 turkeys is the sum
total of the game killed in Layfayette county.
fla, lew days since by a Suwannee county
hunting party.
Edward Little, of Marcellus, was 100
years old last Wednesday, and 300 friends. in
Guiding representatives of five generations Of
the family, accompanied by band called UPON
him, leaving few gifts.
The crows are meeting fatal reception
in some parts of Maine. A man from Yarmouth
Foreside recently called on the Selectmen OF
the town with 66 crows heads, the result Of
two days work with paris green. -,
New York has quite large and impor.
tant Japanese colony with clubs and other in.
stitutions for mutual benefit There is not. a
single japanese pauper in the city. and every
Japanese resident possesses at least moderate
means.
The Office boy of the North Amherst
Reporter not only sweeps out the Office, inks
the forms on the press and folds papers, but
also does the cooking for the editor. who keeps
bachelors hall in the office room and sleeps on
the bed of the press.
"A number of farmers living near Atehi-
son, KAN, report that a sort of wire worm is
doing great damage 10 the wheat. The worm
Is about an inch long and the thickness of fine
wire. and of dark brown color. Wherever it
works the wheat soon w1thers.
John Hicks, white-haired man of S5,
who has spent As years in prison, has Just been
arrested again for larceny in Preble county,
Ind. He regards the State prison as his home
ceny Tor the purpose of being sent there.
The roads are not so straight as they
might be in Redington township, Me. Last
week man who wanted to drive two yokes Of
oxen to the camp from the other side of Sad
dleback Mountain, only SIX miles away
direct line. had to travel So miles before he
reached the camp!
The Bashaw of Tangier has become so
corpulent that he is unable to walk abroad. He
is only feet inches in height and must be
about the same in breadth, as he weighs over
400 pounds. He has been advised by his 81
physicians to fast for a month, but he says he
will see them bow-strung first.
MIR. Youngblood, an old settler in Coffee
county. Ca. but yet strong and robust man
for his advanced age, has killed 993 deer in his
time. He sticks to his old hint-and-steel rifle,
and saws he can yet see to cut a turkeys head
of with distance of 70 yards. He says he
would not give the old gun now for q carload Of
Winchester rifles.
Charles Smith, at one time resident Of
Stanton, Mich, moved to Wisconsin and re-
manned there two years. Recently he returned
to Stanton, and on election day he deposited his
little ticket just like citizen. For this he was
arrested, but he proposes to make fight, de-
claring that he had the right to vote in Stanton
inasmuch as his divorced wife lives there.
Captain Hill, of Maine. once got So q
ton for taking cargo of ice from Boston to
New Orleans. his ship carrying about !, 300 tons.
1t was in midsummer, the supply had given out
and the cholera was raging there fearful1y.
This was about 1858. Captain Hill was in that
city for several months during this epidemic,
when the dead bodies could not be buried but
bad to be burned, and when the death rate for
three months reached the terrible figure of
5000 victims.
There is dog in Chester, Pa, which
will never walk when there is chance to Jump
on a street car and ride. He is a black New
foundland. Much of his time is spent at the
stables. Although his home is only two squares
away he never walks to it, but waits for car
going that way, on which he jumps. He often
goes off on pleasure trip. riding to the differ
ent sections of the city on different cars. always
sitting on the curbstone until the car he wants
comes along. showing remarkable inteIligence
in allowing To pass him those cars which branch
on In directions contrary to the one he wishes
to take.
Mrs. Winnie Mitchell, widow lady
living about mile from Rochelle, Ga, has a
small leather-covered trunk which, in all prob
ability, is 25O years old. It has been handed
down through seven generations 1t was
hr0n frop
war of the revolution full of gold, and was
used by Mrs. MitchePs grandfather while in
service under General Washington. 1t was
first owned by Mrs. MitchelPs great grand
father, and Mrs. Mitchell is now near 81 years
of age, and has great grandchildren. Were she
to beQueath the trunk, which is in a good state
Of preservation. TO her great grandchildren, it
would have passed down to the tenth genera
tion.
AN engine driver on one of the Scotch
lines reports that he has noticed that certain
hawks of the merlin or ''stone falcon' species
make use of the passing of the trains for pred
atory purposes. They fly close behind the
train, near the ground. partly hidden by the
smoke, but carefully watching for the small
birds, which, frightened by the train as il
rushes roaring past, hy up in bewildered
shoals. the merlins then, while the little birds
are thinking more OF the train than of lurking
foes, swoOD on them from the ambush of the
smoke and strike them down with ease II
they miss, they return to the wake of the car
riages and resume their flight and their hunt.
They can, it seems, easily keep pace wi b an
express train, and outstrlp it when they please.
Out in the wild West a mail bag was
empted OF valuable contents by parties un-
known and Tiled with stones. The loss was not
discovered until the bag reached its destination.
and no one had any notion where the theft was
committed within 1000 miles of the journey.
But petrologist was shown the rocks. and he
said at once that there was only one place in
the United States where such were to be found
He told where the place was. and a detective
going there-it was $50 miles away-found two
Cinnamon at work IN an isolated spot, where, it
was subsequently remembered, the robbed
train had stopped for water He promptly
charged them with the crime, and they were so
taken by surprise that they confessed it. So
much for rocks.