Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

portrait.
Some liquor-sellers in Boston think Of
| rying to cireumvent the law by selling under
| he bar, as selling over bar only is prohibited
"A 300-pound turtle and 900 eggs we're
captured at Melbourne beach. Fla. by party
| of fishermen.
! "A child in Westtown, this State, devel-
oping sudden taste for art, painted on the
photographs In the family album.
Elk Rapids, Mich, has a mammoth
pine tree in which an eagle has nested regu-
larly for rs successive years. 1t is bald
"A Grand Rapids paper saws there are
many counties in Northern Michigan without
single church and thousands of people grow
| ing up heathens.
"A Michigan farmer turned $500 colt
into field surrounded by barbed wire fence.
The colt ran into the fence, severed its jugular
vein and bled to death.
Judge Gornto. of Perry, Fla, has a
camphor tree on his place. The cold has not
injured it in the least and he believes the trees
can be successfully raised.
Smoky and grimy old Scotland Yard,
in London, the headquarters of England's po-
lice, now gives its name to a superb neW build
Ing on the Thames embankment.
The London county council threatens
certain managers with the withdrawal OF
their licenses unless they cease placarding
onens1Ve pictures on the metropolitan bill
boards.
When in the course of q few wears the
new trans-Russian railroad is completed, the
globe-trotter may be able to accomplish his
journey in 3S days, The world will then seem
small, inQeed.
Eugene Perry, a young boy of Wayne,
Neb., who was in the habit of leading his COW to
and from the pasture, tied the rope around his
waist one day last week-the COW ran away and
trampled and dragged him to death.
In 1914, when the Thames was frozen, a
printing establishment was set up and many
collectors rejoice over little volume entitled
Frostiana; or, a History of the River Thames
IN Frozen State. London: Printed on the
Ice In the River Thames, 1874"
"A craze for flowers suddenly struck a
gang of Chicago street railway Iaborers while
at work the other day and one after another
they bought at a neighboring flower stand
until every man had some sort Of floral tecora-
tion either in his hat band in his coarse shirt
front.
"A New York physician says that
plentiful supply of fruit denotes healthfuI
summer, and that it is as necessary that people
In this climate should eat fruit in the spring
and summer as that the EsQuimaux should
drink oil In the intense cold of the polar re-
gions.
-Philetus Baird, of Bangor, Mich. was
left widower April 5, 1859, and in December
ne married again. In February, 1890 Mrs.
balrd s NO. was called hence, and last Thurs
gay tne doubly-bereaved man was again we'd
MI Baird has thus loved three separate and
distinct wives within IL months
The Kentucky Legislature of 1915 was
noted for its mlsspelling. 1t named Green
county after General Greene Muhlenbure
county after General MuhIenberg. Menifee
county after Richard III. Menefee and Daviess
county after Joseph H. Dayeiss and the
orthogra ply disfgures the map to this day
Judge W. T. Newman, of Atlanta. owns
pewter coin or medal. bearing on one side the
representation of Independence Hall at Phila-
delphia, and the date l776. On the other side is
the Liberty Bell and the inscription: proclaim
Liberty throughout the Land, Unto All the
tion "f5."
The number of persons killed and in
Jured in railway accidents in the United States
in the year ended June 30. 1889. was: Killed.
5S23; injured, 26,309. OF the number killed
L972 were employees. 80 were passengers and
S;544 we're denominated ''other persons" OF
the injured 20028 were EMPLOYEES q l46 were
passengers and l35 were other persons.
Over thousand Africans are now at
miles of it had been completed. This portion
begins at Matadi, which is at the western end
OF the road. ninety miles from the sea- The
principal difficulties lie in the building of the
nrst ten miles, before the level plateau of the
Congo hills is reached. TWENTY-FIVE Europeans
superintend the work,
Sunday afternoon q tenants house on
Judge W. 8. Thomason's farm near Spartan
burg, N. C., was struck by lightning and com
pletely demolished. The chimney was knocked
down and three sides of the house torn down
to the sils. The bedsteads, tables and crock
cry were all broken. An old womon and four
children were In the house at the time and
none OF them seemed to suffer from the shock
-Gilead Goodenough married Joan
Bunks, Of Odessa, Mich, last fall, and when
she discovered that Gilead had wife living in
Lowell he fled. Goodenough was tracked to
Pennsylvania ana found recently in the insane
asylum at Warren, Pa, where he was at work
He was brought to Ionia and will be made to
answer for his crimes. 1t Is limited that Good
enough has wife or two in New York and
others scattered all over this broad land.
"A female pike weighing % pounds has
been found in the lake at Ewhurst Park, Bas-
ingstoke, the seat of Lord Alexander Russell.
1t had apparently met its death in the vain at
tempt to swallow one of its own species weigh
ing nine pounds. The two fish, in the nositfon
in which they were found, are being stuffed at
winchester. Pike have died in this manner
should be regarded as instances of Voracity or
pure accidents.
And now a fellow in Alexandria,
Egypt, thinks he has the skeleton and ashes of
Cleopatra under his thumb, and he wants to
sell the remains to the Chicago Exposition for
$4,000 His name is Alexander Tagliafero
He has sent TO the officers of the fair photo
graph of q sarcophagus which he alleges is that
of Cleopatra. The sarcophagus was recently
discovered in Cesar's camp, near Alexandria,
by arch8olOgtsts. When it was opened the
contents were in ashes with the exception Of
the skeleton, which was well preserved.
Victor Boulet, a poor workman at
Keeneyiile, N. Y, has made lucky find. The
path from his house to the gate had worn
1own so that some stones in it had become
One morning he took a crowbar
and began prying them up. He found that
they were coblestones that had been driven
INTO the ground, forming a circle. Beneath
them was a large fiat stone. His curiosity was
excited, and he pried up the latter when he
discovered beneath it a brass kettle full Of
money, but whether gold or silver is not stated.