Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


inscription: THE Inn of some travellers going
up to Jerusalem"
The Apache Indian, when he gets new
plug hat, cuts out the top, and lets his raven
locks float out and dangle all around. At this
the paIe-face cachinnstes and makes many finn.
ny remarks. But did any pale-faee ever see \
bald-headed Apache?
1t is fact that within few years there
has been a very notable increase in the number
and varieties of song birds in the parts of New
Jersey which are adjacent to PHILADELPHIA.
ment OF the game laws.
The King of Sweden recently received a
letter from young farmer who had been draft
ed for military service, begging His Majesty to
release him and let him join his relatives In
America, who had Just sent him a passage
ticket. The King did so.
The English crown is made up of dia-
monds, rubies, sapphires, pearls and emeralds,
set In silver and gold bands. 1t weighs 80
ounces and 5 peunywsights, troy In i there
are 8. 452 diamonds, Z3 pearls, rubtes, II
sapphires and II emeralds.
"A child was born to Mrs. George
Buckles, of Lima. O., with six toes on each
foot. Tho popularity is the doubling Of each
little toe. The little fellow Is healthy and
lively. The mother has six toes and her mother
also had the same peculiarly.
"A prominent Southern man recently
confessed that he was never afraid of but two
things. "One," he said, twas the Yankee army
and the other is my wife," The army Is dis
banded, but he has his wife with him yet SO
there is no fear of his being a rebel.
. Wallace Salisbury, Jr., of Little York,
Cortland county N. Y. has been annoyed for
some time by strange and unaccountable noises
about the house. 1t was the source Of much
annoyance and mystery until he tore OF some
clapbOards near the caves and found family
of l07 bats.
"A pass issued Wednesday to bridal
party over the Jacksonville, st. Augustine and
Halifax Railroad, gotten up especially for the
occasion, read as follows: what fools these
mortals be;' then the words, "Pass Mr.. and
Mrs. A. ]. Waite from st. Augustine to per.
petual bliss. Not good after divorce"
There was a curious case of a man
named Grubb, who was transported for the
seventh act of stealing a tub. There was moth
ing in his line of life. and nothing in his Dros-
poets, no motive, to make him specially desire
tubs; but so it was that when he stole it was
always, excepting on one occasion, tub.
"A funeral was in progress at Kicking
Grove Church, near Dashville. Mo-, the other
day, when lightning struck barbed wire
fence to which many horses were tied. Twenty
one were knocked to the ground and four
killed. Mrs. Robert Rigirie, in the church,
was shocked insen Sible and badly burned about
the face.
George Bradt, Jr., intends to start from
Flint for New York City, going all the way by
water. He will travel in a small boat weighing
about 80 pounds. with sails and CARS. He goes
by the Flint river to the lake, theuce south
along the western and southern shores to
Buffalo. finishing the journey by way of the
Erie canal and Hudson river.
An old farmer and hunter on Robinson
fork of Buffalo river, Nicholas county, W. Va,
with his nephew, while hunting in the mountain
pack of wolves The men traced the animals
to a den in the rocks. They followed the brutes
into the cave and captured seven young wolves.
The men realized sl4O for their capture
Mrs. Ann Stokes, of Urbana Depot, o.,
telegraphed to the Pension Bureau a few days
ago in some a. m that her property was about
to be sold under an execution. and asking IL
her pension could not be granted and her homo
saved. Next day the Commissioner telegraphed:
Pension claim allowed. You will receive
about $1,000 Certificate will be issued to-
day."
But few persons who view a passenger
train as it goes laundering past have an idea
that it represents cash value of from S75, 900 to
Sl20, ,OO0 but such is the case. The ordinary ex-
press train represents from SIS, 900 to SCI. 900.
The engine and tender are valued at Sl0.5] the
baggage car, $1,000: the postal car, $1,000; the
smoking car, 5000; two ordinary passenger
cars, $4,000 each; three palace cars, $4,000 eachy
total, $4,000.
--Gottlieb Seifert, of Terra Haute, died
Friday under peculiar circumstances. On the
5th inst he was slightly injured by q runaway
accident and dog licked bruise on his hand
while it was still fresh. While he continued at
work until Sunday last, his condition grew
the symptoms Indicating hydrophobia tetanus,
or lockiaw. He suffered untold agony. There
Is belief that his death was due to absorption
of saliva while the dog was licking his injured
hand.
Richard Pierce and Andrew Hall caught
q 6-weeks' old seal in the river Parker q few
days ago and on Wednesday they concluded to
return the seal to its lstive waters. The seal
refused to be left behind and followed them
back to the wharf, crying tC be taken into the
boat. Finding 1t to be impossible to force the
seal to leave them, Messrs- Pierce and Hall
made little house and placed it en- one Of the
lower wharVes. The seal goes our into the
water during the day TO get food, and returns
every night to be locked up in its new quarters.
A curious census story comes from
Georgetown, Tex, the county seat Of William
son county. An enumerator, while on his
rounds there to-day, came across family Of
colored people of which there were 1--WE genera
tions living in the same house. The oldest Of
the number is Aunt Lettie, the originator, who
gave her age at 108 Her daughter, who lives
with her, is 81 years old, and has greatgrand-
children 40 years old. There are white people
who knew old Aunt Lettie 40 years ago
and she was an old negress then. She Is in
good health.
About 500 people paid 81 each to witness
the fight between the puma and the bulldogs,
and when the excitement of the first round
broke loose, fully 500 more broke through the
gates in such a rush that the gatekeeper was
swept away. The fight was failure The
dogs. upon being turned loose in the cage,
paired of and began to chew each other. They
came In contact with the puma once or twic g,
and then the attacking dog was simply slapped
over The dogs were pulled out and put in one
at a time but neither of the beasts cared to
fight. A second time all were put in the cage
together and, as before, they paired on and
Iougbt each other, while the lion lay down and
looked upon the scuffle in an unconcerned
manner None of the brutes was hurt The
crowd was disappointed.