Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

| "A grizzly bear that Welgheu S'OVV
pounds was killed near Sissons, Cal, recently.
"A 79-year-old woman confined in the
| Steuben County N. Y, House has read the
| Bible through 10 times.
While sinking a well at his new saw
mill near Seymour, Ind, Jesse Cox came across
some large chestnut trees S5 feet below the sur
race In perfect state of preservation
Mrs. Haller, of Port Townsend, Wash,
dreamed that her husband stood before her
without coat or vest and drenched with water
from head to foot. The next she heard Of him
he was found drowned.
-Tadpoles were seen swimming about in
pools in Preston, Conn.,, last week, and Leba-
non man found tadpole that had ripe head
ana tail and was full of activity Nobody recol.
lecrs season before when tadpole tried to be.
come frog In the first month of the year
-HopkinsVille, Ky, has a prodigy that
is attracting great attention. 1t is colored in
rant named Louella Graves, daughter of Rev.
j. Z. Graves that is only months of age but
can talk distinctly. The child could pronounce
many words before it was weeks old and now.
at the age of months, it can talk plaiuly
Great crowds have visited the minister's home
TO behold tins infant prodigy.
The fly fishermen of the United States
have new pleasure before them. A fish not
hltherto known in America is to be introduced
that u will thrive and multiply wonderfully
The fish is the European sea trout s1tT1O TRUTH
nsn well known and abundant in England.
w ME tne sea trout is a salt water fish, it in
habits land-locked fresh waters and thrives
there. Eggs will soon be put into Mama
streams flowing into the ocean.
The other day there came to Salem.
Ore, boxcar that left Detroit l6 days before.
1t contained P. Harwood, wife and two babies
seven cows, two horses Two sheep, and an end
less assortment Of household and kitchen fur
n1ture an6 farm appliances. A stovepipe had
Deen pushed through Ventilator hole in the
car and the smoke that wreathed the opening
gave evidence those inside the car were not
suffering from the cold. Mr. Harwood said the
trip was made easily and quite pleasantly, con-
sidering the crowded condition of the car.
The Elk county (Pa. deer park of Hall
& Kaul is a mile square. All around the place
fence made of trees stand from 10 to Is feetin
height, while inside the brush and trees are so
thick that people are easily lost there. Ap-
proaches to the park are SO arranged that the
deer coming up find but little difficulty in gain
ing an entrance, but once inside there is no pos
siOle means of getting out Inside the fence
the ground slopes so much that the most ex-
pert jumper in the deer tribe would not attempt
TO get out. 1t is thought now that there are
not less than l5O deer within the park.
Captain Joshua King, of Belpre, O.,
has without question the largest and most COM
plete collection of Indian relics, curiosities,
moneys, ETC., Of any single individual in Ohio
His collection Of coins dates back to
the first issues of Continental money. coming
down with very few breaks and omissions to
the present day. His collection of copper
coins is nearly perfect from the first issues.
But one or two are missing from the continu-
GUS chain. The Indian relics embrace toma-
hawks, arrow and spear heads. cooking uten-
sils, ETC., many in a perfect condition. He has
also valuable mineral specimens and copies Of
many of the earliest American newspapers.
Homer Willis, a 12-year-old William
antic, Conn, lad was lounging along the road to
school day or two ago when he found an odd
looking shell by the wayside, and he picked it
up. He scrutinized it closely and his curiosity
was excited. He didn't know but it might be
a new kind of tropical nut. So he laid it down
on rock, and, getting a stone, whacked the
shell several times with great force. Then sud-
denly the air turned black, the queer nut
mysteriously disappeared, and moment later,
when Homer had gained his right mind, he
found himself on his back in the road. He dis
covered that couple of queer round holes had
been bored through his upper lip. The surgeon
who dressed the boys wounds said he guessed
the odd nut was dynamite cartridge and that
it had belonged to Williamantic sewer men at
work on Valley street.
1t is novel thing for blacksnakes to be
twining loose on rooftrees in January even in
sub-trOpical Connecticut but one tWined on
the roof of Mrs. Palmer's house at Christian
Hill, near DanielsonYille, the other day, and
when Mrs. Palmer opened the door he came
down on her head. and there was an acrobatic
act for a moment The serpent appeared to
have no prejudice against Mrs. Palmer but he
happened to come down just the lady was
stepping out into the world. First he hit her
about the crown of the head, then he sprawled
across her face took loop about her neck, and
finally, with one long twist, curled about her
comfortable bosom. Mrs. Palmer is not par
tial to snakes, and with a whoop she tore the
black fellow loose from her bodice, and then
historically held him aloft; but in a moment
she flung him on the stone doorstep and
stamped his life out. The snake was five
footer.
In the last week of the hunting season
Jack Dunham, who was looking for gray squir-
rels on Pole Ridge, IN Clifton township, near
Scranton, saw a flock of snowbirds futter
up from the brush short distance ahead Of
him as though they had been frightened by
something. The next thing Durham saw was
a wildcat 1t had pounced upon the birds as
they were pecking on the ground, and it had
caught one of them and was eating it when the
hunter got the first glimpse of it. Dunham had
a single-barrel rifle, and he pulled up and let
drive at the wildcats head. He shot the tip Of
its nose OF, and such tearing around and
yowling as followed the crack of tho rifle,
Dunham said he had never seen or heard In the
woods before. The wildcat didn't catch sight
Of the hunter, and while it was scratching
around and making a great fuss over its
nose, Dunham loaded up again and
sent bullet through its Tltals-
1t appears that the national game of
baseball, in addition to its other excellences,
has remedial virtues in the treatment of the in
sane. So reports DIR. Selden H. Talcott, Medical
of the New York State Home
opathic Asylum for the Insane, located in Syra-
cuse in the nineteenth annual report OF the
of the institution, just issued. He
states that an asylum nine was organized last
year uniformed and carefully trained. An ex-
,elIent ball ground was fitted up for their use.
So great was the skill attained and so great was
he interest manifested in this game that sever
Il challenges passed between the asylum nine
md other baseball mines in Orange and other
counties The asylum nine, during the season,
1layed l5 games; won IL, tied and lost but 8.
rhe beneficial effects of the national game
mon those whose minds have been depressed
n disturbed is very marked. The patients in
whom if had hitherto been impossible to arouse
. healthy interest in anything seemed to
Lwaken and become brighter at the sharp crack
# the base hits. Even demented patients were
,aeer watchers of the game.