Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Twenty carloads of rasins left Fresno,
CAL. Sunday. for the East.
"A Georgia woman is the mother of 26
children, all Of whom are alive.
"A banter at Columbus. Ca, resulted in
two men swapping their artificial legs.
An editor Of Georgia newspaper has
been presented with six-pound potato.
"A Chicago janitor is in the habit of
Kidding by electrocution the building he serves
of rats.
If all wife beaters were treated like one
In Augusta, Me-, wife-beatipg would probably
die out He was fined s152 20.
California prunes have become 50 pop
ular in this country that ir is said the French
are eeginning to put up their prunes In the
California style.
An optic nerve belonging to Mrs. VIM.
Bailey, Of Port Huron. Mich, went back on her
and never hurt bit.
"A Brooklyn woman, Mrs Augusta Elk
blom, who is seekinga divorce from her hus.
band. has been married three times within .
year. Two of her husbands died soon after
marriage.
"A kitten in Hood River, Ore, caught a
lizard, but will never catch another. The rem
tile, in attempting to escape ran down It's
enemy's throat, where it lodged, with fatal re-
suit to the cat.
"A boy was recently discovered in Mid
land county, Mich. pear Pleasant Valley,
whose body is covered with scales marked
similar to that of a mud turtle. He has been
coopered and will be put upon exhibition
A serious epidemic has broken out
among the horses around Dawson. Mich. The
nostrils and lungs, and they froth at the mouth.
Death happens seemingly from strangulation.
Herbert A. Clark, of Chaplin, Conn.,,
fell in love with a woman who would not listen
to his declarations. He then pestered her with
ANONYMOUS letters, writing as many as $50. He
has finally been arrested, and a commission has
adjudged him insane.
"A citizen of Summit, Ga, was awakened
one night by racket in the smoke house. He
took light and went to see what it was and to
his surprise he found the would-be intruder q
'sliek tail possum" in a piece of old stove pipe
where he had crawled for cOncealment.
&C. Goodrum, of Athens, Ga, has invented
an improvement on the telephone, which, it is
claimed. would revolutionize telephone COM
munlcation. 1t is now announced that the
Bell Telephone Company is fighting the grant.
ing Of patent by the authorities at Washing
ton.
Patrick j. Han!ey, convict in the
State prison at Boston, has had 40 days of soli-
tary confinement for threatening to kill ex-
District Attorney Ives. of Salem, who has re-
Gently been sentenced for embezzlement. The
confinement was the longest in the history Of
the prison.
"A strange story has Just been pub
lished IN Germany on the strength of letter
from an eye witness, now dead, to the effect
that General Abel Douay, who fell at the bat
tie of Worth. was really shot by an officer in a
Turco Regiment who was furious at Douay's
order Of retreat.
"A minister from Africa, Rev. Leonidas
Tourkelsen, is lecturiDg to colored people in
Georgia on the advantages which Africa holds
out 20 them and urging their emigration. He
has arranged for an expedition for Africa
November 10, and expects to carry about 900
negroes with him.
ANY patriotic and unsoph1sticated
couple that will stand up in cotton bagging in
the fair grounds of the Piedmont Exposition,
at Atlanta. during Alliance week, and there be
welded for better or worse. will receive 500.
The second couple that fancies this sort of
wedding will get $50.
Some sly rogue, who had learned the
exact location of the boxes and barrels in
store at Woodstock. Ga, crawled under the
store and bored auger holes through the floor
into the coffee and sugar barrels and then, by
ting supply of these articles.
"A man who spent ten months in South
Carolina. where divorces are never granted,
made record of 540separations, many of them
with murder as the result and several hun
dred cases where husband and wife have lived
together for years without speaking. He says
that divorce would have been godsend in
every case
"A Michigan woman whose husband
dreamed that she saw tree fall upon and
crush him. She got assistance to look for him
and he was found crushed. II wasn't under a
tree. however, but on the public highway,
where he got drunk, lay down and let a load Of
hay roll over him.
The Senate has passed the House bill to
discontinue the coinage of the 81 and So gold
pieces and the Scent silver pieces. They will
presently drop into the cabinets of coin col
lectors or follow the trade dollar back to the
mint. The 20-cent piece. silver half dime and
2-cent copper piece might follow them into re-
tirement and not be greatly missed.
The negroes in the neighborhood of
Cohutta. In Whitfield county. are excited over
what they claim to be a case of conjuring.
strangely for several DAYS. Last week she be-
gan to bark like dog. bray like jack and i'm
itate snakes. The darkies declare the girl has
been conjured, and say that Just under her
skin are scorpions, which run when touched.
While fishing for crevalle at TitusVille,
Fla, man hooked a specimen of this gamey
fish. and in its rapacity misjudged the location
of his throat and allowed the bait. hook and
line to slip out through his gills, when the bait
was instantly seized by another hungry
crevalle, who was firmly hooked in the mouth.
Both of the fish, which were beauties, and
weighed about six pounds eacn, were landed
A young Eastern tenderfoot, who is now
in the State of Washington. writes thus to a
frfend:." What do you think of trees $50 feet
high? They are to be found in the unsurYeyed
townships near the foot of Mount Tacoma. and
what is more, / have seen them and made an
measurement with that result
There are lots of trees in that locality whose
foliage is so far above the ground that it is i'm
POSSIBLE TO tell to what family they belong ex-
eept by the BARK. Very few people know or
SOMETHING To LAUGH AT,