Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

OF family of 16 near Taylorstown,
this State. ID have died of diphsheria.
"A chicken with four legs, four wings
and two heads has just been hatched at Del
mar, Del
An oil we'll was struck recently in
TORY Canyon, Ventura county, that flows 200
| barrels day.
Charles Miller, of Hueneme, Cal, has
tains l9 $50 pieces.
"A tree was felled recently at Tillamook,
Ore, that was 120 feet long, while the butt
measured only foot through.
There are 200 courts in the United
States engaged in granting divorces, and one
marriage in every S is thus annulled.
The national debt of Germany, which
is much smaller than that of any other great
country in the world, is, in round figures,
sI92 100000.
They're getting together again Bill
Nye is a well-known citizen of Kalamazoo
Mich, and ]. Whitcomb Riley does the barber
act in Au Sable, Mich.
"A child of in Manchester, Me-, drank
half pint of whisky that had been obtained
for medicinal purposes and two days after
died OF alcoholic poisoning
AN Alpena, Mich, justice swore him
before him as Judge. He wanted to serve as
juryman also, but the defense objected.
When the late Charles E. Sitton, Of
Portland, Ore, died suddenly a few weeks
since, his estate was said to be worth 100000,
but upon appraisement it was returned at SSzls-
2l0 81
-Silkworms when newly Matched scarcely
weigh one-quarter of an ounce, yet in the
course of their life, which only lasts about IS
daVs thRv will between S.UUu ana
1000 pounds of leaves.
The last issue of the American News
paper Directory" shows that no less than 797
German newspapers are published IN the
United States and Canada. OF these 81 are Is
sued daily and 5S5 weekly.
I'm digging we'll on Hyde's ranch,
near Viawest, Tulare county, a buffalo horn
was found at the depth of 81 feet. How 1t got
there is puzzler, as no buffaloes were known
to have been in this county.
Tho annual competition Tor the Boyl-
ston prize for Harvard students in declama-
tion was held Thursday night IN Cambridge.
The first prizes were won by W. E. B. Dubois,
80, and II. E. Burton. go. Mr.. Dubois is a
negro.
During clear days people Of Carthage,
ILL.,, have distinctly heard the ringing of =
ponderous church bell ut Golden, q miles away.
The bell hangs in the German Lutheran Church
tower at Golden, and it requires two men to
ring it
"A mule was taken to CIancy's shop, in
Grass Valley, CAL, to be shod. The beast
kicked the shed to pieces and hoisted the anvil
through the roof. Clancy swore he would shoe
that mule and he did, but he had to use q
BUCKET of chloroform first.
"A small instrument has been devised
for use in mines to indicate the presence Of fire
damp, or in gas mains to indicate the escape
of gas. The invention is based upon the prop
erty certain medals have OF evolving heat IN
the presence of hydrogen gas
William McCulley, of Solano county,
Cal died recently, who left by will $4,000 in
property to his son, aged 17,upon condition that
he paid So 900 to his only sister, aged Is when
she comes of age. The boy says lie will wait
until he is q, when he will Divide the money
equally.
Lake Chelan, Wash, never freezes,
although in latitude 45o north. The reason
given that it is SO deep and the warm water
arises from the bottom to supplant the cold,
which goes down to warm itself. The Indians
fish in the lake at all seasons and use salmon
eggs for bait.
DIR. Laugardiere, of Toulouse, reports
to the Academy of Music that he has discov-
cred cure for Group. 1t is a very simple one
"a tablespoonful of flour of sulphur in a
tumbler of water. After three days of the
treatment his patients were rescued from i'm,
minent death, and fully recovered.
A ministerial club in San Francisco re-
Gently gave itself banqueT. And in connec-
ton with each course on the menu an appro-
pirate passage from the Bible was printed. For
instance, with the soup there appeared this
verse: "Set ON the great pot, aud s6ethe the
pottage for the sons Of the prophets"
"A remarkable trout died recently near
Kelso, Scotland. Its dead body was found in a
covered well only few feet in depth. The
tradition is that, some 81 years ago, this fish
was taken from the Tweed. placed IN the well,
and lived there until its DEATH Its body was
IL inches in length and very much emaciated,
weighing only six ounces.
"A shoe factory at New Canaan, Conn,
has Just made pair of shoes for Charlotte,
N. c., man. They are the biggest ones ever
made. The size IS No. 81. Each shoe IS 20
inches long and inches wide The man who Is
to wear them is a clergyman, feet 10 inches
tall and weighs 40 pounds. and the county in
which he dwells is roomy one.
"A remarkable coincidence is reported
from West Virginia A census of Elm Grove
was taken Friday, preparatory to incorporating
the village as town, with the following result:
Number of males over 81 years of age, l48;
number of males under Il years of age, 148;
number of females over l6 years OF age, 146;
number of females nnder l6 years of age, l4S;
grand total, 592
AT Durham, n. c., since the city has
had electric illumination, the ravages of the
tobacco worm nave Deen RIedtlJ IouuCou, bno
insects having been killed by the lights. 1t is
suggested that powerful electric ighs in the
center of one of the sea islands growing the
famous ong staple cotton might save all the
plantations surrounding it from the destruc-
tlon SO frequently wrought by the cotton army
worm.
Sam Cobb, of Madison, Fla, found a
wild turkeys nest With several eggs in it, which
he took out, and as he was not to be at home
for several hours, wrapped them in his coat and
laid it on the bank Of creek, where be was
fishing. He was surprised shortly afterward to
hear a chirp of a young turkey. he tnVesti-
gated and found that one of the eggs had given
forth a turkey; soon another followed, and SO
on until be had quite brood in LIS coat. They
were carried home, but all died in domesti-
eating.