Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A petrifed deer horn has been found
near SylYania, Ga.
"A Bay City, Mich, man can make salt
for 8 cents barrel.
-Onecoun in Michigan paid nearly $500
for woodchuck hides last year.
"A company has been organized at Port
Townsend Washington, to cultivate an oyster
iarm OF ITO acres. 1t will be stocked with the
Oese varieties from the East.
Charles Milton Gray, Of Chicago, is
willing to go round the world on horseback If
the Government will foot up the horse and ex-
milton.
-The New York Tribune entered Thurs
DAY upon the fftieth year of its existence. One
OF tne compositors who helped to get out the
MS nrse NUMBER, Washington Dodge, has Deen at
the case ever since.
Mayor Glenn, of Atlanta, Ga, has
vetoed the liquor license granted to . woman
Dy tne City Councils, on the ground that it is
against public policy to allow women to engage
In the liquor business.
Annie Caplis, an 1S-year-old girl en-
ployed in the spice mills at Detroit was caught
in an elevator Wednesday. Her head was
crushed and the body dropped to the bottom Of
the shaft, distance of 50 feet.
"A German photographer in Constanti-
nople recently came near losing his life by
taking negative of the Sultan in violation of
the Koran. which prohibits the reproduction of
the human ngure or countenance.
"wednesday morning large steam neat
ing and cooking range in the Livingston county
all exploded into atoms. Five children were
In the room, but escaped injury. The explosion
shook the earth for several blocks.
The bolo flower, discovered by Dr.
Schadenberg growing upon a volcanic mountain
in one of the Philippine Islands is perhaps the
largest flower in existence, being about feet
in diameter and q pounds in weight.
"A 17-year-old lad who climbed to the
dome of the State House at Topeka the other
day managed to fall to the basement distance
OF 80 feet, without breaking bone. He is the
only person who ever made that trip alive
"A piece of pink coral 80 feet long and
inches in diameter at one end. with branches
projecting about 4 feet on all sides. was re-
Gently obtained on the coast of Japan. Its
value in prepared state would be about
$4,000.
-Philadelphia is in state of mind
through fear of having secondhand coffins
passed II upon it, the discovery having been
made that cottins brought to the erematory are
not burned with the bodies, but are preserved
Dy the attendants and sold again.
AN engineer on the Iron Mountain road
has perfected an automatic bell ringer on his
locomotive, and now, when running in corpora
tion limits or whenever the bell must be rung,
he just jerks spring and the bell is kept going
by steam power till he turns off the steam.
Near Columbus, o., lot of hogs set
upon heifer and young calf and devoured
them. In an adjoining pasture a drove of
cattle became inturiated at the smell of the
blood, broke down the fence and charged upon
the hogs, killing ten of them and WoundinS
many more.
"A saurian, venerable in years and
kingly in proportions, has for years made his
home on Gadsden point near the Tampa.
Many times his 'gatorship has been rudely
awakened by the sharp crack of the sports
mans gun. and many futile attempts have been
made to rob him of his hide.
From its source to its mouth the ANA
zon is $500 miles in length, but the name ANA
zon is not continuous, and it is called by three
different names in that space. From its Lake
Itasca source to the gulf the Mississippi is 2,6l6
miles long, and from its Missouri tributary
source to the gulf, 4, lJ4 miles in length.
"A wealthy Jackson county man died
recently, and after the last sad rites the family
made search for the will, but couldn't find it.
Finally some one suggested that the body
should be exhumed. This was done, and in the
inside pocket of the grave coat the will was
found. The careful citizen had put it there for
safe keeping
Charles Seitz, of West Fairfield, West
moreland county, found piece of glass about
one-half inch long and one-sixteenth of an
inch thick, sharp on three edges which had
been embedded in his knee since the wreck on
the 18th of August 1889 on the Butler branch,
bruised. 1t annoyed him great deal since
until Tuesday evening, when 1t cut its way
out.
1t is now believed that the mammoth
abounded to as great an extent upon the east
as on the west coast of Behring Sea. In fact,
mammoths have already been discovered in
Alaska, and news comes that a syndicate has
been formed for the purpose of procuring their
ivory tusks, which are now Of great value and
which will undoubtedly continue to become
more valuable, as the elephant is being exter-
minated.
In 1885 the Chicago postofiee was log
building at the corner of South Water and
Lake streets The postoffce was on one side of
the room and grocery and bar on the other.
A Justice of the Peace held court upstairs
One day penny dropped from the ceiling OF
the postotfice to the floor. Two or three fellows
rushed for it. The postmaster, John S. G. Ho-
gan, rushed out and said: Let it alone; don't
touch it. The jury upstairs has tipped for
heads or tails to see what shall be done with
the man on trial" Sure enough. the hext min
ute the foreman came down a ladder looking
for the penny.
One day last fall, while picking cotton,
Ellen Powell, negro woman, lost bag from
her person containing S. in silver. She was
working for N. Hughes who superintends the
plantation of Y. b. Baum, near Toomsboro
Last week, after thunder cloud had Just
passed, she was at work In the same field
knocking down cotton stalks. Seeing beauti-
full rainbow across the field. and thinking at
the same time of the lost money. Mr.. Hughes
told Ellen to go to the end of it and she would
find her money. She took him at his word, and
Just in frontof her. about 100 yards or more,
where the end of the rainbow appeared TO be,
she looked on the ground and found her lost
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