Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| n "if' Dre"eFpoi birmingham O.p uiou
last week aged los A son. 81 years Of age, AZ
tended the funeral.
Miss Lizzie Graft, Of Jackman, Me-,
who died recently at the age OF % years, was
the mother OF IA children, eleven of whom are
living.
An Adrian, Mich, Democratic Coun-
Gilman has nominated the following ticket for
| 1892: For President, Speaker Reed; for Vice
President. the Mayor Of Adrian, Democrat.
Grand Army men are greatly displeased
because 1t is proposed to charge 81 for horses
for the grand parade at Boston. Al st. Louis
the figure was 81 80, at Columbus g. and at
| Milwaukee last year IS.
AT Pensacola colored woman suddenly
fell to the sidewalk. Her fall was caused by
the bursting OF one Of the arteries Of her left
leg, and she came near expiring before the flow
| of blood could be stanched.
About five years ago Reece T. Lewis, Of
| Springfield township, Pa, while plowing lost q
silver trade dollar. Recently his hired man
while plowinE turned up the trade dollar, and
| thus the lost was found again.
While boys were hunting near Monro-
via, Ind, Wednesday, q carrier pigeon was shot
pressed the following; sc. & W. Bandle, liz
Thornton street, Frankfort, KY"
The French Canadians at New Bedford,
Mass, have organized q naturalization club.
AZ present Of all the Canadians IN the city only
| 7S are citizens. but the club. by active work,
hopes to Increase the number to 500
Daniel Keleher was taken 10 O jackson,
Mich, hospital, as he was III and had no friends.
Daniel died Friday, and search OF his clothing
revealed 5000 cash and a 5000 certificate OF
deposit Keleher was thought TO be very poor.
When the deceased wife's sister act was
passed In Canada, the logical necessity Of Its
extension TO the daughter of the deceased wifos
sister was overlooked, and bill has been
brought Into the Senate TO remedy this defect
There were 1888 lake disasters in A pril
In Lake Ontario, aggregating s246SO0. Strand
ed S43,6 ,6O0 disabled $4,000; heavy weather s4D,-
100; ashore, $4,000; fire sS5 100; collisions S2i-
100; sprung leak, $1,000. The cargoos were
| damaged 1000
"A fashionable visiting card In Berlin Is
m African importation. 1t Is q leaf OF the sill
| yer poplar, which keeps Its color when dried
and can be easily written upon. IL delights
fashionable Berlin under the name OF "Emin
Pasha's visiting card"
-Alpena, Mich, has faith cure doctor;
he's one who doesn't take his pay In faith.
This particular fellow was called TO attend 4
poor family, and after amounting the patient he
took three yards of calico, intended for . dress
for babe, as security for his claim.
The head Of Belfast, Me-, household
ordered some phosphate for his lawn and the
honest man who delivered the goods. seeing no
ono about tho place and doslrous Of putting tho
bags where no ono would discover them, stood
them up In the front hall and loft them thoro,
"A dead-head Chinaman who for seYera
years has beon resident OF Athens, Ga, says
| he has never paid cent tax either as poll tar
| or property tax. lie says he has been In
| America 10 years and has never known what
tax was until some ono told him the other day.
In a small and high hammock IN sight
1 ~ 2AfY L.. III
some 20 inches In circumference and 30 feet
deep. The earth surrounding II Is Of such
character that IL packs solidiy enough to foIm
curb Tor u. ana such curb has been thoro
| for yeasr.
William Gof, farmer In the vicinity
Of st. Louis, Mich, sent his wife to market and
he went into the fields to plow. About noon
the good wife returned and explained to her
husband that IL was Sunday. Neither had re-
membered the day of the week until Mrs. GoR
found st, Louis people going to church.
An instance OF canine sagacity is re-
ported from Corinna, Me- John Henry Young,
OF that town, has dog (colile) that one day re-
Gently crept up behind a crow which was sit
bite and the crow was dead, with the head Bit
ten OF, all ready for the town treasurer.
AN Auburn, Me-, tailor and Lewiston
clothier went fishing for brook trout the other
day. They fshed seven miles up and down the
stream and came home with n string OF q
small perch. As they were leaving the brook
for the trip home a man informed them that he
had lived near there all his life and he had
never heard Of u trout being caughE In the <
brook.
"A rich treasure Of more than q thousand
silver coins OF the eleventh century has been
found while digging the foundations for new
house in the Gierstrasse, in Bonn, Prussia. Tho
coins were all in a large pot and, strange to
W. altOWQ1 clitdrau
ers to take away q considerable number, and
their attempt to sell the pieces caused the dis
coyery to become known. whereupon the Mayor
ordered the remainder 20 be taken to the Rath-
. haus and preserved.
C. L. Palmerton, Of Woodland, Mich,
has worked up quito reputation for himself
as n weather prophet. Last fall he prophesed
that there would not be enough snow at any
one time during the winter for sleighlng ~
the beginning OF the spring months he pub
lished weather predictions, claiming that be-
tween the Goth of March and the 9th Of June
there would be 62 storms. and rs 40 OF them
have already put In an appearance 10 ls safe TO
say that he had IL pretty near right
Major Ogden died at Fort Riley, Kas,
In 1866 The remains were removed TO Fors
Leavenworth and buried In the National GENE.
terry there. but his monument still stands upon
u little knoll 10 the northeast Of the fort, and
u lifts lts head tnwafds the clouds N the exact
geographical center Of the United States. OF
the thousands of men who have been located
AZ Fort hlisY during the past 10 years, perhaps
not one ~ a hundred knew or cared ABythlBR
about the 6ddlty % lis situation. The post u
a few miles east Of Junction Ulty, kas,, and
was formerly one Of the most Important 10 the
United States
ON recent morning farmer living In
HedgdoH, Me-, was disturbed by.a noise In the
swamp, doing ~ the place he found heFss
laundering Ia The mud nearly up 10 bis back
When spaEsh Go the animal came ~ him with
almost human delight, Upon examination he
found that vein had been 8pehed ~ his side
aud his throat cut, IL was afterwards aseeFs
tanned that the horse belonged 90 = resident
and had been injured In the stable, lie ems
played veterinary surgeon 60 put him 80
dsath-With the result above mentioned. The
writer IN mercy put the poor horse ous OF his
misery
There Is a cat living near Athens, Ga,
that behaves IN a mysterious manner, Every
tIne IL thundeTs and dark clouds roll over the
oanOpy of heaven In q manner that threatens
a storm the cat begins to tremble piteously
and screams In the most weird and frightful
accents its tale of woe. When the ltghtnings
fash from cloud to cloud the cats agony seems
to know no limit aud it rolls over and over,
Yelling in the widest way possible. Even at
The dead hour Of night this mysterious cat viii
rush franticaly into the room OF It's mistress
when clouds appear, and will scream in such
terror that the lady oftentimes has TO arise and
nurse 1t III It's fright. The cat Is large black
animal and has one eye, the other having sud-
denly disappeared recently.