Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

run i'll British Columbia
Bay City, Mich, has the largest wood
enware factory in the world.
There is more shipping now in the port
at Charleston than at any time for the last i've
years.
One Colorado county has 100 artesian
wells. New ones do not decrease the flow Of
the old ones.
"A wild sweet potato, found growing
neer Paulsboro. N. J., measured 20 inches in
circumference
All the butter in De Funiak, Fla, was
confscated by Uncle Sam last week. Cause
oleomargarine frauds.
AN English painter in water eolors,
named George Thompson, has opened an exhi-
birion OF SO pictures in Detroit.
a New York wedding party broke up
in general fight because an admlring guest
insisted upon kissing the bride too often.
Dry rot is making havoc in potatoes
grown near Erie. One farmer lost SO out of 100
bushels, and another saved but IA bushels out
of 70
With the view OF preserving the big
trees of California, Secretary Noble has with.
drawn from entry tracts of land containing
them.
"A San Francisco painter complained to
the police that spooks had robbed him of all
his Internal organs, He was arrested for in
sanity.
Mrs. Mary Levens, of Sunfeld, Mich.
who lived a complete century. had s. children,
grand children and great grand children at the
celebration.
Within the past three months injune-
tions have been given against $50 saloons in
Dubuque. Ia, prohibition State, and not one
has been closed.
MIR. George W. Kettoman, of Penmar,
Pa, has invented an ear piece for the phono-
tact is impossible.
"A young girl rode her horse in through
a store doorway at Lynchburg. Va, the other
afternoon, made her purchases, said good by
and backed gracefully out.
A st. Louis young man is said to be
able to stop the music of a band by sucking a
lemon in view of the musicians. The sight of
the lemon makes their mouths water.
1.-THE Twelve Apostles 4" is the name of
strange variety of bird in Queensland. Aus
tralia. They invariably fly IN focks of II
They resemble blaekbIrds in appearance, but
are of rustler color.
"A Kansas paper wants to get even with
the grasshoppers. and extends them cordial
invitation to come and see them now. They
will be the worst fooled lot of hoppers that
ever laid waste fair field.
"A hen in Paw Paw, Mich. laid twin
soft-shelled eggs the other day which were con-
nected, Ia Siamese twins, By ligament of the
same material as the shell.
"A Michigan poultry man buries his
chickens in sand heaps over winter, and when
warm weather comes draws his supply of
spring chickens from the earth.
William A. Hall, a convict in the New
Jersey State Prison, with six years of his seven
years sentence for forgery. thinks he was con-
victed illegally. and is now attempting to
prove it.
Que of Barnum's elephants broke loose
from street parade in Muscatine, Ia, yester-
day. and killed two horses, after frightening
group of small boys and bruising several keep
ers around
AT st. Augustine, Fla, a strange 1sh
was caught 1t measured 211 feet in length,
was of the exact color of silver, and had fangs
like those of a rattlesnake. 1t moved swifter
than ordinary fish.
Fort klamath, Ore, has been aban-
doned as military post. This posi- was made
famous early in the seventies, on account of
the war with Captain Jacks Modoc tribe when
GeneraI Candy was killed.
One Oregon woman is hard to please.
She has just brought suit for divorce against
her fifth husband, having previously rid her.
self of three of the others in the same way.
Two of the rejected mates were brothers.
The farmers in Yorkville, Pa, are
stirred over the appearance of an animal
that is killing off their sheep in large numbers
People who have seen the animal claim th2s it
is black bear, while others say 1t IS BACK
dog.
Jack the Ksser' is the title bestowed
upon a mysterious man in Jackson, Mich, who
claims to have stolen kisses from 300 women on
the streets. He became the terror of the town
until someone discovered his identity, when he
left for another field of operation.
A Wisconsin man won SO in novel
manner He met a lady, who, in a jest. offered
to bet him $40 that he dared not marry her.
He took the bet picked a quarrel with young
lady to whom he was already engaged, and mar
ried the fair bettor-
"A man distributing bills around hos an
educated pup to do the work for him. The
man carried the bills and folded them as he
walked. Every time he came to house he
over the fence and gravely deposit it on the
doorstep.
"A Carbondale spiritualist, consulting a
medium as to the condition of his deceased
wife, was informed she unhappy because
she was not dressed as well as the other angels
He shelled out large sums of money to replen-
ish the celestial wardrobe, but now, convinced
of his folly, sues the medium for the return OF
the money.
The Presidential fever comes upon a
man between the ages of 50 and gu years, was
an axiom which Zachariah Chandler orig mated,
and when he passed the latter period ne
thanked his stars he had never been afflicted.
General Harrison is 81, General Alger is % and
Mr. Reed is 81 and the exception which proves
the truth of the rule.
Near Bar Harbor, Mich, lived a man
who made his sole object in life the winning or
a heavenly crown. After his death the stone
placed at his grave contained onlv his name
and dates of birth and death. shortly a1ter-
ward the story goes. there m1raculously ap-
peared on the slab the outlines OF head wear
inc CROWN which still remains there
Iowa has passed stringent tramp law.
1t declares that any male person 16 years of age
or over who IS physically able to work, who is
wandering about begging or idle and who can
not show reasonable efforts to secure employ
ment shall be deemed a tramp. sent to Jail and
put at hard work. While in jail he shall not be
allowed tobacco, liquors, sporting or illustrated
newspapers, cards or any other means Of
amusement.
The corpse OF an italian was shipped G.
D. D. from Pueblo, Col, to Chicago, and S95 had
been sent to pay some railroad fares and freight
charges on the body. The box arrived marked
.. o. d. 1915. The conslgnee, refusing to pay
the charge, placed the matter in the hands or
the prosecuting attorney. The health COM
missioner will not allow the corpse to be sent
back, and will order it's burial if 1t becomes
nuisance. The matter will probably be COM
promised for SlJ0.