Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-'T sell cigars in seven languages" is
| sign in Philadelphia.
Nearly $50 women are buying and SELL
in real estate in Superior, Wis.
There are eight Democratic candidates
for nomination for Congress in the Ninth
| North Carolina district.
Texas has double-headed cat. 1t is
perfect in form except the two heads. 1t has
/ four eyes, four ears and two mouths.
james Yates killed an owl on Hawk
Mountain. Ga, last week which measured 4
feet inches from tip to tip OF wings.
| Georgia beats the world in babies. The
wife of VIII Lennon. painter. in Macon. has
gived birth to child weighing 40 pounds.
"A Charlotte, N. c., clergyman wears
undoubtedly the largest shoes in this country.
The size is 81 and each shoe is 20xS inches.
The tombstone of the late Mrs. Ann d.
Carter, of Philadelphia, bears the following
/ lines cut in marble:
Some have children and some have none,
But here lies the mother off
Henry Edick, of st. Joseph, Mich,
celebrated his lO5th birthday lately. He was
drummer boy in the war of 1872 going to the
| front with bis father. He was born IN Deer
| field. Conn.,, June 28. l7S5 and moved to st.
Josephs on the Goth anniversary Of his birth.
/
| plentiful locks, and is remarkably preserved.
General Grants cabin, brought from
the banks of James river and placed in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, for preservation as
a war relic, is fast going to decay. In this
| cabin Grant issued orders for Sherman's great
march to the sea. In ii the rebel commissioners
treated for peace, and after Sherman reached
the sea, under Its humble roof Lincoln. Grant,
Sheridan. Meade and Admiral Porter met In
conference.
"A prisoner in the Jail at Huntingdon,
| W. Va, has developed into q remarkable
sleeper. He has been there four months, and
| on no one day in that time has he been awake
more than four hours. while he often sleeps
three or four days in succession, il being i'm
possible Co rouse him. He wakens with start,
looks about wildly for moment, then appears
to be perfectly at ease. his appetite is good,
aud ne doesn't seem to lose flesh.
There is family living at Athens, Ga,
whose head delights in long names for the
children. The first child is named Mary Maga-
lima Mandy Mectum Elizabeth Betsy Polly
Mack Barrett: the second child is named Alice
| Georgia Ann Yorena Barrett; the third child is
named Matte Francis Anna Tranna Barrett;
the the, fourth child is named Emory speer
| walker Buster Barrett; the firth child is
| named Tia Cory Coston Estelle Linment
Ettie Isiduler Barrett; the sixth child is named
Montine Cinicar Barrett, and the seventh child
Is named Etfice Bozma Mondenay Virginia
| Barrett.
"A Paris ILL.,, dispatch says: The little
town of Ransom's Ford, lying six miles south
Of here is much alarmed and puzzled over a
natural phenomenon which is Just now being
| exhibited there. On Friday last, short while
after sunrise, cloud coming from a north
easterly direction and descending from great
height, moving with rapidity, settled down
| upon the place and has remained undispelled
| ever since. The atmosphere Is SO dense with
the moisture from the cloud that objects are
wholly undiscernible at distance of less than
! two feet; but the remarkable feature of the
fog is its intense cold, which is such as to rem
| der hres necessary to prevent the people and
| animals from freezing to death, while all vege-
tatlon In the town and the country about for
| quarter Of mile around, and indeed, where
ever the fog rests. has been killed.
in the forests of Washington and Brit
fish Columbia trees are seen dripping copiously
during clear, bright days. when dew is
| visible elsewhere. The dripping is so profuse
that the ground underneath is almost satur-
ated. The phenomenon in this case Is caused
| by the remarkable condensing power of the
leaves of the fir, and it occurs only when the
| relative humidity is near the dew point. The
| Gripping ceases after 10 or IL o'clock in the
| morning, but resumes at or near sunset. In
Hakluyts Voyages" they is an account of
\ Hawkins second voyage to Africa and Amer
| lea. written by q gentleman who sailed with
| Hawkins in which We are told that In the
| island Of Ferro there is a weeping tree that
Supp1eS all Lne men and beasts OF the island
| with drink, there being no other available
| water supply. Further, he states that In Guinea
| he saw many weeping trees but OF a species
| different from that at Ferro.
Fergus Mccarthy, of Philadelphia, was
the subject of a peculiar operation at the Pres
byterian Hospital. A needle which protruded
from his abdomen was removed by Dr. W. B.
Gnliard. The needle was much corroded and
blackened. Mccarthy said he could not ex-
plain how the needle got there, but remem-
bered that about 20 years ago he trod upon a
| needle, which troubled him slightly but was
never discovered. Mccarthy says he did not
| experience much pain at the time, but since
then he has suffered extreme pains less or
more all around the left leg, which gradually
moved upward. The pain shifted to his side
and he has latterly experienced the stinging
pain in the region of the abdomen. While az
work at the foundry he was doing some work
which necesstated his STOPPING considerably.
He felt keen pain as If something was pene-
trating his flesh like needle, and had to get
up, and, on examination he discovered the
blackened point Of the needle. The case is one
of the most peculiar that has come under treat
ment at the hospital for many years.
Mrs. Abram Altman, of Buffalo, N. Y,
has in her possession a dog which, although
made OF bisque, is most ferocious-looking
beast. The animal was purchased from Bos-
ton woman, who conceived the idea Of the de-
sign which was to be used as a burglar alarm.
and. under whose care. she should feel as safe
as If she had big brass cannon at each win
dow. Following up her conception, she had a
Siberian blood hound cast in bronze as large
and fierce as possible. In IT'S diaphragm she
had phonograph set. She then borrowed
neighbor's dog to bark into the machine to load
II. The bark did not exactly correspond with
the appearance of the big bronze dog, but she
thought 1t would frghten burglars, for she
said the dogs bark will be worse than his bite,
anyway. And SO she sat her brazen image.
with its full set of Photographic howls and
patent Insides and had it connected with her
room by wires and an electric button, so that
when the burglars made their appearance she
could Just touch the button and The dog would
do the rest. But the burglars did not come and
when the old lady died. the dog burglar alarm,
as it was called, was shipped to Buffalo.
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs,