Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A fr tree recently Gu. down in Sno-
homish county. Oregon. was 300 feet long and
IL feet in diameter.
"A faithful dog in Hamilton, O., didn't
abandon its attempt to arouse its drunken
owner. who had fallen asleep on the railroad
track. until an engine cut of its leg. The man
| escaped injury.
| j. W. r. HALEY, of GAINESVILLE, Ga. is
the champion fisherman of that section. He
caught an eel from W. Q. Halls carp pond that
was feet inches long, 9 inches in circumfer-
ence and weighed 6pounds.
Wilson Zackery (colored), of Sumner,
had leg badly burned when a child. but it
gave him no trouble until he severely injured
| It two years ago. The sore refused to heal, and
day or two ago it had to be amputated.
"A tree in Nashville caught fire from an
electric wire. One limb was burned entirely
of. A policeman threw water on the burning
limb wi tn q hose, and when the water struck
the fire he exp erienced severe electric shock.
The only attendants at the funeral of
Jermiah Miller, of North Mountain, Cumber-
land county who attempted to kill his wife
and then killed himself were the reporters
who acted as pastor. pallbearers and grave dig
gers.
Captain Walter W. Lenoir died last
Saturday in Watauga county. N. C. Captain
Lenoir lost leg in the Confederate service,
and since the war. though a man of means had
never worn anything manufactured north OF
the Mason and Dixon line.
Richard Tevithick built the first locomo-
tive in 1904, but the first locomotive after the
modern idea was built by George Stephenson
in 1879; the idea of the construction of a loco
motive was given to the world BY James Watt
In H68, and patented by him in 1854.
Six years ago Fred Mcconnell, aged 49,
- ~.
eat glass, and it so pleased him he determined
to learn to do 1t. The first attempt made him
sick, but since then he has experienced no i'll
effect, though he is no taller than a boy of or
10 years.
Mrs. John Gar red, of Leoni, bled to
death IN her sleep the other night. Her condi-
tion was not known by her husband until he
was awakened by the blood which was flowing
from her leg. The veins had broken by the
torce OF the life current, and she was dead in
10 minutes.
1t is not generally known that the orig
inal No Mans Land lies along the boundary line
between Delaware and Maryland and has been
attached TO Pennsylvania for judicial purposes.
II is triangular strip for which there was no
provision made in the surveys Of Mason and
Dixon. Pennsylvania didn't want the strip,
but it was crowded upon her.
AT Americus, Ca, as the workmen
commenced their labors on the root of the
furniture factory, which is three stories high,
huge rattlesnake was discovered coiled on
the highest point of the building. The snake
was soon killed. Just how he got into his ele-
Vated position is not easily understood. but it
Is possible that he may have been concealed in
one of the roles of roof tin.
B. Dean, of JoDesboro, Ca, has block
from garden gate post that was hewn out and
placed in the ground in 1904. He made a visit
to bis sister in Baldwin county, and it was at
her home that he secured the block from the
aged yet ser rviceable post. The post was hewn
OUT OF light wood tree, and is perfectly sound
to-day. Mr.. Dean says 1T is good for another So
years and perhaps much longer.
"A clever swindler has been doing
Florida. He guarantees to rid cotton fields Of
caterpillars, and on receiving his fee-usuaIly
so-he goes from stalk to stalk hunting for the
king caterpillar" Presently finding a big
fat fellow, he hangs him by a string to a tree.
He then tells the credulous farmer that the
strung-up insect will die at sunset and that
then all the other caterpillars will leave the
place.
"A woman in Plainfeld, N. j., who
died this week, had long been In the habit of
drinking. it is estimated, from three to four
gallons Of milk fresh from the COW every day.
and 1t is supposed that this over-indulgence
caused her death. She grew stout and seemed
to be in perfect health up to few days ago,
then she complained of pains around her heart.
forced to her bed and died a few hours later.
The post mortem showed the presence of
fatty formation around the heart that had i'm
paired its action.
Sarah Gregg, of Matherton, Ga, had a
husband in prison. She thought that was az
good as divorce and after a lengthy wooing
took to her bosom Jesse uernsey as husband.
But when she sat down and quietly thought
over the matter, the complexity Of her welded
relations became apparent. She then went to
the circuit judge, had the Guernsey husband
declared illegal, secured a divorce from the
Gregg husband, bought a license and was re-
married to Jess all IN the same day. Thus she
has had three husbands in as many months and
Mr.. Guernsey two brides and honeymooDs,
Chicken thieves raided the hen-roost of
a farmer near Belleyille, N. Y. early the other
morning. Just after the thieves got to work
exploded big torpedo. The farmer was np
and after the two thieves in few seconds.
He chased them to the Second river. They
jumped in and started to swim across and he
followed. In the mindle of the stream he
caught one of the men. The other swan back
and hit him in the face. Stunned for a
moment, n ne released his man and sank. When
he came TO the surface he had recovered from
the blow, but the fugitives were beyond
reach.
"A farmer OF Joanna, near Reading, in
digging an excavation the other day. unearthed
a large iron plate three feet square, bearing
date April 4, 1870. Two Indians are represented
on one side of the plate, and pair of anchors
on the reverse side. The plate also bears this
inscription in German: "Oh, hope yet for a
better time, as all troubles will cease. Hope to
Zee that blessed beam of peace, when hatred,
war and strife shall cease" Farmer Moore's
barn was built on property secured from the
original proprietaries, Thomas and Richard
Penn, sons of old William Penn, then Cover
nor in chief of Pennsylvania. The old Quaker
settlers in the county lived side by side with re-
ipfOnS refnQpa9 from Holland
md had intimate business dealings together
Ind it is believed therefore, that the iron plate
ust found was part of a stove made in Ger.
many or Holland go years ago.
WISDOM OF THE wAGs,