Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

w. L. Osborne, of Phoenix, Ariz., has
collected 10 tons Of honey this season from III
hives.
"A Los Angeles pickle factory bought
so tons OF cucnmbers at Anaheim recently for
one cent pound.
The electric battery has superseded the
| hose and cold water treatment for tanning re-
| factory prisoners in the Ohio penitentlary It
ls reported to be very ef1cacious
"A negro who was caught robbing the
| till Of merchant at Atredendo, Fla. was
| given so lashes by the colored people residing
In the neighborhood and then set at liberty.
David Marshall, of Lapeer. who has
been Democrat for "a years, has fled re-
quest that his old collection OF Democratic
tickets be placed in his coffin and buried with
him.
Judge James N. Shackelford, of Indi-
ana, whom the President appointed to the
Bench in Oklahoma Territory, took his son
along as Clerk of the Court. This son has since
taken Cherokee TO wife.
"A triplet steer team is one of the curl
osities to be seen at Old Orchard. The steers
are hitched to a vehicle resembling those used
in the chariot races IN circuses. and 10 cents
pays for short ride in this novel turnout
Vegetable or fruit sandwiches are
recommended as new delicacies for picnics.
The newest dainty sandwich is made of nastur-
tium leaf, sprinkled with little salt and set
between two round slices of biscuit and butter.
I'm Cowlitz county, Wash, which has
been settled for 40 years and has 1900 inhab-
itauts, is section covering several townships
that has never been trodden by the foot of q
white man. It Is dense, unpenetrated wilder
ness.
"A report Of the existence of a very
peculiar cat family emanates from and Atlanta
(Ga.) barroom, which claims to be the possessor
of q Maltese cat and kitten, which are bringing
up with the utmost care and attention couple
of infant mice.
"A Sumner (Kan.) county man went
into the country to collect note which he held
on farmer. The farmer was not ar home but
MS vile was. and she hoped onto the holder
OF the note and took it from him and gave him
good drubbing into the bargain.
"A coffin inscribed with the date 1898
was recently opened in the graveyard of st.
James church, Clerkenwell, and to the surprise
of the workmen there was little about the
corpse to show 1t had been burned hundred
years, and not few days. The flesh seems to
have turned into a kind of wax. The body was
that of fnely-formed woman of 35. The
features were perfectly distinguIshable, the
teeth were in place, and the lines of the body
were irm and clear.
Moses Turk, of Gainesville, Ga, cut a
poplar tree that measured ~ feet in diameter
at the stump and feet in diameter 80 feet
from the butt. 1t made six stocks, Is feet
long. clear of knots and windshakes. Every cut
had to be split before it could be hauled ex-
cept the lap cut. 1t made $3.50 feet Of square
lumber, for which firm paid 81 per 100.
Counting two years for every circle in the
stump the tree was S6i years old. 1t took two
yoke of oxen to turn over one-half of the butt
cut. and three yoke TO pull one-third of it out.
"A rather unusual marriage ceremony
was performed in shapleigh, Me-, the other
day, according TO the Springyale Advocate
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel E. Shacklsy were married
Is years ago and soon after the wedding the
Clergyman who united them died. Recently
Mrs. Shackley, not having any marriage certi-
fcate, became uneasy. instituted inquiries and
found that no legal record existed. So she de-
termined to have the ceremony performed
anew and properly recorded, and this was done.
The wedding was in the presence of invited
guests and not even the cake was omitted.
An invention by which writing can be
transferred from paper to iron Is the work Of
Boston man, who has invented a hard ink
with which he writes tbackward) upon ordi-
nary paper. That paper is placed in a mold,
melted iron Is poured in. and w'hen the hardened
iron is removed it is found that, while the heat
burned away the paper. 1t did not affect the
ink, but left the impression Of the writing
nodded into the iron. This discovery was made
by noticing one day that the printing on an
ordinary handbill that by accident had fallen
into the mold was family transferred in this
way.
1t is, reported from Maine that, buried
among the clam shells at Cundy's HarbOr. the
Pejepseot Historical Society recently found
''some rare and suggestive reminders of prehls-
torie times. Bones Of the deer, porpoise. beaver,
fox, Yoodchnck and some smaller carnivorous
animals, birasnef several kinds, including a
well-Dreseryed specimen OF the wing bone of
the great aux, nov wholly extinct were picked
II r. nm N NJ NNQF nTIrn
well as chips OF stone broken on In the manu-
facture of stone implements. or implements,
half o dozen perfect and some broken ones
were discovered. Only one piece of worked
bone occurred, a broken awl."
A strange case of hypnotism is reported
from London. Ont. A woman OF 40 years, who
has lost her reason has unconsciously acted
upon young lady of 20. The two live upon
opposite sides of the same street and two
months ago, when the elder woman was taken
sick, the young woman waited upon her until
at last she could not stay away. and was cob
stantly running across the road to the house.
One night this week, unknown to the people
OF the house, she stayed all night, and when an
attempt was made 10 arouse her In the morn
ing it was found impossible. A doctor was
called. and at the end of "a hours he succeeded
in waking her. The young woman has good
health and is very intelligent
An East Searsmout, Me-, lad is the
possessor Of three small chickens, which he
has been keeping in barrel. The other day
he missed one and hunted everywhere without
finding it. The next day another disappeared
in the same unaccountabe manner. The boy
then resolved to watch, and was soon rewarded
byseeing the old house cat steal slyly into the
barrel, grasp the remaining chicken carefully
by the neck and march off with II. Following
her up stairs into the garrett what was his
surprise to find the other two chickens safely
euddled in q nest of old clothes with two kit
tens as happy as could be. The cat carefully
placed the last chicken in the nest and got in
as calmly as If the whole family belonged TO
her. The chickens were unlnjured and con-
tented in their new quarters. says the Belfast
Age; but we suspect that puss was laying In .
supply of provisions for the future.