Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Boston has clergyman, Rev. Pitt Dill
lingham, who is only now recovering after .
year and halfs suffering from the effects Of
vaccination.
"A pigeon, which is supposed to be q
carrier. came to Hon. +. Coles last week at
Gettysburg. It had brass band on one of its
legs. on which is stamped 8,l5I and the let
ter K.
Bangor, Me-, has battalion of 30 Young
women called the CniIcothfans who wear uni
forms and carry Springfield rifles. They gave
an exhi bition few days ago before the Gov
ernor and his staff
Two cows were instantly killed by an
electric shock during the storm Sunday after.
noon in Somerset county. They were lying
alongside of a barbwire fence that had been
charged by lightning.
Louis Bresett, Port Huron carpenter,
was thrown 25 feet into the air by hosting
derrick yesterday and then dropped to the bot
tom of the dry dock without breaking bone.
1t is feared, however, that he sustained some
internal injuries.
AN old man named Zimmerman has
been found living alone in q log shack near OF
tawa, Can. He has been living in the shack for
36 years, stark naked and hops about like frog
or kangaroo, stealing out in the twilight like q
Wld Deast TO get Lne air.
"A prohibition crank up in Genesee
county recently sent water pitcher to Presi-
dent Harrison, with the suggestion that it take
the place of wine decanters on the White
House table. The President acknowledged
the gift, but didn't say yes.
"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 metals have of evolving heat in the
presence of hydrogen gas.
Nebraska City, Neb., claims to have
beaten the record on divorces. A petition was
fled there at 2P. M; the defendants answer at
ZiS; the case was placed in the referees hands
at 80; ne reported at 3:20. and the decree Of
the Court was rendered at $40.
An Au Sable thief went into a widows
barn the other night and MIXED the widows
cow. Next morning that poor widow found a
pOcketbook containing 81 IL in the stall and
ad yertises for the loser to come forward, prove
property, return the milk and get his cash.
The grapple plant of the K kalahart
Desert is said to be real vegetable curiosity.
In its gen eral appearance it looks more like
starfish than plant, and each ray or arm is
tipped with barbs, which, when fastened to the
wool of sheep, have to be cut out, that being
the only way of removing them.
Miss Ethelyn Roe, of Setauket, Mass,
had lively encounter last Friday. While
picking wild flowers in the woods near Rocky
Point, white-throated black snake sprang az
her. but fortunately missed its mark. After
running some distance she secured stick and
returning. after short battle killed the SER
pent. 1t measured six feet.
One of the most remarkable and curious
happenings occurring in New York this year
was reported yesterday. Nine able bodied men,
claiming to hail from Pittsburg. had the
temerity to play a game of ball with the
Gothamites and likewise win the game. II
they don't let the same thing occur again all
Will be forgiven on their return home
There is standing on the banks of the
Augusta, Ca, canal, in a somewhat dilapidated
condition, the house where George Washing
ton was entertained on the occasion of his visit
10 10 augusta over 100 years ago There is said to
De negro woman in jefferson county who was
In Augusta when the visit was made but was
too young to remember anything about it.
AS Mrs. Fairfield Cole, of Winterport,
Me-, was preparing her breakfast the other
morning. she found leak in her coffeepot. and
so put on her coffee in tin can. AS it began
to boil she was about to remove the cover when
the can exploded, the cover going through the
window breaking a large pane of glass, and
nearly the whole contents striking her in the
face.
"A century ago the Duke of Grafton
called up his jockey, who had won two import
ant races tor him, and said: John Day, have
sent for you as 1 am going to make you =
present for your good riding. There is a f20
note for you, and he hope you will not waste it,
received as much as 63, 600 for winning single
race.
Surgeon 7. H. Parke, who was with
Stanley in his last African expedition, vaccl-
mated 40 native bearers with the party. An
epidemic of smallpox breaking out, 3S of the 40
passed quite unscathed while the unvaccinated
natives were dying ike sheep around them; the
other two, who showed imperfect marks, had
slight attacks, from which they recovered un-
harmed
"A thoroughbred Poland-China SOW
owned in Mount Leonard. Mo-, recently gave
birth to hairless, hesh-colored monstrosity
with head. ears. teeth and one fore foot re-
sembling bull pup. and the rest of its body
q pig. All who have seen the
thing unite i'll declaring its resemblance to the
dog family, though it's skin is almost human
and its body that of a hog.
DIR. A. G. Young, Secretary of the
Maine State Board of Health. was recently
suffering from disease that baffIed his physi-
clans, one of whom finally sent sample of the
wall paper from the sick room to Prot. ROBIN
son, of Bowdoin College, for analysis. The ex-
animation revealed that the paper contained
arge QuauLlLl6S OI dToouC OInCe DT OuHkS
from this room his recovery has been
rapid.
During the American Revolution an
English magazine published an estimate of the
uture population of the North American
Placing the population then at
0C0 OOO and assuming that it would double
tseff every 25 years, the writer estimated that
n the year 1890 the number would have in
,reased to 81 900, COO As a matter Of fact, this
: near the present ed population OF the
United States.
This year is the two hundredth ami
ersary of the invention CT the improved to-
acco pipe-the bowl, the tube and the mouth
iece Up to the year 1890 the only medium Of
moving the fragrant weed was by means of
yiindrical instrument fashioned from the
rude clay and smelling of the earth earthly.
he inventor of the present combination pipe
Ias a physician. Dr. Vilarius, of Vienna. The
rst tobacco pipe mandatory was esta ablished
1880.
Eleven old citizens of Little Equinunk,
numbering town in Wayne county. Pa. have
cen counting up the number of their children,
nd this is the record: Amos Tyler, .: Thomas
odd. 20; Jonathan Adams, Is; Eben Brown, Is;
avid Eaton. Is: Jacob Killam, IA; James
dams. IA; Josiah Cole, 13 John Phillips II;
liver Billings l2: James Brown, 10; William
VIer 10: John Killam, 10. Amos Todd is the
1ly one of these men who has been twice
larried.