Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

John Frey, of Wind Gap. Pa, who died
last week, had l6 children. His father had q.
Joe Sullivan, of the Oakland, Cal. fire
department stands ] feet ~ inches in his stock
| Ings.
"A policeman Mt Davis City, W. Va. ar.
rested a drunken man, and, having no jail,
| locked him up in box car.
A drove of six antelopes passed within
| a few rods OF the house of the editor of the
Bayard, Neb., Transcript the other day.
Chinese pheasants, unknown in Oregon
10 years ago. are now so numerous there as to
be nuisance. and farmers are shooting them.
Mrs. c. V. Hollister, OF Bellevue, Mich,
is IS years old. and has just finished, as a COM
fort in her old age, bed quilt containing 4,070
pieces.
The shifting sands threaten to bury
Grand Haven, Mich. making a sort of modern
Pompeii of it The City Council is planting
1000 trees on the hills, hoping IN this way TO
keep them stationary.
A curiosity revealed this week at Holly
Hill, near Daytona, Fla. was the hatching out
OF a couple of chicks by cat from eggs left in
the nest by hen that had got tired of waiting
for them TO do as had the other eggs.
Clarence Grimes, of Moses Coulee,
WASH says he has discovered rare snake-like
lizard in what is known as James Burdens
lake. The lizard is said to be an axo-lotl
which are found in great numbers In the lakes
Of Mexico.
Judge Gary, of Chicago, who presided
at the trial of the anarchists in that city, re-
Gently decided that it is not libellous to apply
the term anarchist" to another. since the mere
term itself does not necessarily impure any OF
fense to him.
"A pair of Mongolian pheasants direct
from China which are said to lay crockery
eggs and live on rice pudding, are the newest
things at the Michigan Agricultural Coiiege.
The faculty is plannin. pheasant hatchery 70
supply the Michigan woods.
The house of Charles Branch, at Sar-
gents, Santa Clara county. CAL, was ruined by
the recent earthquake. When the first shock
came Mrs. Branch caught the baby and rushed
from the ROOM When the second shock came
the cradle was crushed and buried under heavy
blocks of adobe.
M. Fouque, the mineralogist, claims to
have discovered in a mixture of copper and
lime the beautiful color of azurrino, the com
position of which has so long been puzzle to
artists. His TINT is said to be perfectly un-
changeable, and is identical with the famous
AlexandrIne blue.
DR. Dixon, professor Of hygiene at the
University of Pennsylvania, has been making
some experiments with air and dust obtained
in street cars. He has found in them the
germs of many diseases, contagious and other
wise. Better ventilation and more effective
cleansing are sorely needed
John Thornton, of Sandy Cross, Ca,
has freak in the shape of chicken with one
more than the usual number of legs The third
leg is really maltormation of its tail, which
takes on the shape of complete foot, though
1t is entirely useless. Otherwise the chick is
well formed and bids fair to live.
The Cinnamon of Astoria, Ore, are
amusing themselves with huge top made out
of an empty 25-pound white lead keg. A square
opening is cut IN the side, and it takes three
men to spin it, one to hold the top and two to
pull the string with stick which sets it in mo-
tion. While spinning 1t sounds like the
whistle of q steamer and can be heard three
blocks away.
"A new sport has been inaugurated at
Leeds, where. the other day, pair OF fox ter
riers were "articIed for Sl25 side to pick up
and return ball thrown 81 times thrown over
a mark so yards away. the one completing the
task in the shortest time to be declared the
winner" One of the dogs did it in Is minutes
45 seconds, but the other beat him in II min
utes Al rs seconds.
How legitimate business, we'll con-
Quoted, may grow was illustrated by the parade
of the Adams Express Company, in Baltimore.
to celebrate the fiftleth anniversary of its or
ganization. banner recorded the fact that IN
lS40 the working force consisted of men,
boys and l wheelbarrow, and that in 1890 the
AOiCC was 0tN0' CAlPAOJOos -.oVO AOAoCS
and 800 wagons.
-Bucoda, Wash, has a citizen who
weighs 300 pounds. and according to local
paper sis master of flute, fife and tin whistle;
he can handle the snare drum TO perfection, or
give an imitation of the Bucoda Cornet Band;
he can also whistle the mocking bird In a man
ner so natural that you will be searching for
the little feathered biped, and he can sing up
ward of 100 songs"
Judge Willis Sweet, in the District
Court of Mount Idaho. Idaho. has decided that
Chinese have no right whatever on mining
lands in the United States, and that lease Of
mining ground to them is invalid, and amounts
to an abandonment of a claim. Measures
will now be taken. if an appeal is not allowed.
to oust all Chinese miners in the Territory.
The decision is far-reaching, and will lead to
the abandonment of much ground by the
Chinese.
Mr.. Youngblood, an old settler in Cof-
fee county, Ga, but yet strong and robust
man for his advanced age has killed 993 deer in
his time He sticks to his old flint and steel
rifle. and saws he can see to cur a turkeys head
off at a distance of 75 yards. He says he would
not give the old gun now for carload Of Win
chester rifles He contends stouily that the old
is better than the new. Mr.. Youngblood is q
unique character of the old-time wire grass
school.
AS Mr.. Kolb, who has Just removed
into his elegant house at Moultrie Point. Fla,
was in the act of making fire yesterday morn
ing, he heard strange noise. that sounded as
if rats were IN the stove. He Immediately got
his dogs and club and proceeded to investigate.
Raising up one of the lids in the stove, he was
surprised when a large owl jumped out upon
him. 1t had gotten into the chimney, which is
25 feet high. and went down through 4 fve-foot
stoveDipe into the stove, where it was discov-
cred by Mr.. kolb-
-Totems are defined by Mr.. ]. G. Fraser
as "a class of material objects which savage
regards with superstitious respect, believing
that there exists between HIM and every men,
Der of the class an intimate and altogether
special relation" They are tribal emblems,
family symbols signals of nationality, express
lions of religion. bonds of union, and regulators
IF marriage laws and of the social institutions.
rhe system of totems exists among most prImi-
i've peoples and in similar forms with the
North American Indians. Australians. Sourh
A Africans, Arabs hill tribes of India, Polyne-
ians and many other peoples.