Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Maine county fairs.
"A horse ran away at Ocala, Fla,
dropped dead in pond.
A lawsuit is now in progress at Nor
town, Pa, over the ownership of six chiekt
Two crops of peaches from the same
in one season is reported from Orlando, Fla
A white rabbit with long, woolly b
was caught recently by ]. s. Fleckinger,
MOrrellviIe, Pa.
"A Knox county, Ind, farmer plan
30 acres in Russian sunfowers and realized
per acre on the crop.
The nurse who is attending Mrs. Wu
ter, the Whitehall woman who has fas
ABOUT 10 days, says she is Dewitched.
A negro attempted to shoot his wife
klssimmee, Fla. The bullet missed its M
and hit little girl instead, killing her
stantly.
A Philadelphia girl staying at Eli
land Lake picked up small rattlesnake a
days ago and the reptile never made the le
attempt to bite her.
A black water snake was killed rec
ly at Oakland. Wolf Lake, Mich, 81 fee
length. When opened 54 live S-inch sna
were found inside.
AN inmate of the Georgia State Fl
pital for the Insane imagines he is n grain
corn and will not go into the yard for fear
chickens will eat him.
The Bedford (Pa.) Gazette is S5 yt
old and Its publisher thinks it is the OLE
newspaper in the United States. 1t is me
among country newspapers.
Some candidates for naturalization
Reading displayed such ignorance of
United States Government that Judge Erd
refused to grant the necessary papers.
-Maine's hay crop is estimated at 1 IS
900 tons, worth at least fifteen million doll
The ice crop brings in perhaps as much N
and the summer visitor crop over 81, 100000
1t is now asserted that the ghOs
Bartholomew, hanged at the Easton Coz
prison for the murder of Washington Dill
visits the jail the first night following t
new moon.
"A Williamson, Mich, man, whose
ran dry, found that the roots of willow
grown a distance of "a feet, coiied up on
bottom IN solid mass. and were carrying
the water into the foliage.
The Paris tailors are organizing aga
the swaIlow-tailed black coat for dinners
aters, concerts etc. They intend to introd
garment of lively colors, with silk Innings,
broidery and brass buttons.
Charles Rector, of Parbow, Nova SEQ
boasts of four uncles, three aunts and mo-
whose combined ages amount to 73S wears.
youngest is 81 and the oldest is 9S. Two al
are twins, one of whom is 81 years old
In Habersham Park, GA, is q curl
grapevine. About i've feet from the grou
from a large live oak. there protrudes gr
vine about one inch in diameter. The tire
perfectly solid, and no roots 10 the grape
can be seen.
Officer Charles Fish has been dismis
from the Chicago police force for shamn
illness. He represented that he bad spra
his leg, and wore plaster cast. drawing
salary and weekly allowance from ben
lent society.
Frank Evans, young farmer liV
near Ottawa, was infatuated by the face
woman he saw in the streets of the capital,
spent his days trying to see the face again
stead of finding what he sought he went CT
and has disappeared.
"A Biddeford, Me-, man was so gla
be sent back to Jail by the court, after he
experienced one brief days contact wi
heartIess world, that he offered TO wal
Alfred and take the mittimuS along with
to save the officers all trouble.
Mr.. Walker, OF Massachusetts, W;
the House of Representatives to requh
second for motions to adjourn and for rec
also to impose a fine of $40, to be dedu
from his salary, on member who fails to
upon the pending proposition.
An ordinance in Sterling, Conn,
empts blind persons from taxation. FaI
Barbour claims exemption under the law,
proved to the satisfaction of an inteM
Judge and jury that though he could l
hna md lno hay r. hn nrUac cfn Il
"A novel idea in connection with
national eneampment of the Grand Arm
Detroit next year already is broached-
that instead of the customary parade, 70
the veterans present to be grouped upC
huge raft upon the river to be viewed
passing boats.
"A law suit in NorristoWn, Pa, is
the possession of family BiOle that bel
to the estate of Elizabeth Kolb. Before
died Mrs Kolb had told her oldest daug
that she should have the bible. but lef
written instruction to that effect. Now
other heirs want the bible.
Charles Mcdonald. well-known e
neer of New York, has offered to double
sum up to 5000 contributed by the citizeI
his native town of Gananogne, Ont, to-
erecting an institute there. The building
-
bowling alley billiard room, ETC., and it IS
for both sexes The proposition has taken
and citizens are subscribing literally.
"A humorous application of bad et
in photography is to be found in the phi
rapher in an agricultural district who
often occasion to take negatives of cattle
horses He oyercame the difficulty so
experienced of the animals whisk1ng their
and spelling the exposure by the ingenlou
pedient of keeping large and varied as
ment of negatives of COWS and horses
from which he selected one that matched
of any given specimen and printed it in, ha
previously stopped out the original thai
blurred by motion.
Mrs. EIizabet Kennedy, the ecce
widow of ST. Louis, whose relatives have {
to put her in an asylum, filed suit Thursdi
set aside certain deeds of conveyance for
$50 900 worth of properly granted by her tc
The peculiar point in the
is that Mrs. Kennedy wants the cOnVeya
set aside on the ground that she was not IN
right mind when she made them, thus ad
ting the very point she has been combs
with these same relatives. When she
the deed her heirs declared she was insane
tried to put her in an asylum, but jur
cided she was sane.
A few days since, chicken belo1
20 family in Oglethorpe, Ga, happenk
all in an old dry well 81 feet deep. Its 8
Lttracted attention, but, the well being uf
10 one could be found who would risk
elves down in the well to get the fowl,
eemed doomed to starvation. A mem1
he family, taking compassion upoff
prisoner, procured box, tied it to roHn
ct it down in the well. and, surprisini
ooner had the box reached the botto1ns
he chicken. seeming to realize its s1ti