Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

james Look, of Jonesport. while out in
hunting party. was fired at twice by one Of
the party, who Inistook him for deer.
ID. A. Slaght of Buffalo, N Y, has
cat which weighs 2S pounds. The dogs of the
| neighborhood give the animal a wide berth.
AN Indian graveyard has been discov-
cred on the farm OF w. F. Black, on the North
eastern Railroad. about five miles from Athens,
Ga.
The building of water tanks and ladders
for orange growers is rapidly becoming a lead
ing branch at the iron and wood working shops
at Apopka, Fla.
"A church in Reading, Pa, boasts that
IL has Just paid off its debt in $4,000 pennies.
Between this disbursement and the arrival of
should disappear
"A new Institution to be incorporated in
New York is the New York meteorological In
stitute. II will furnish free treatment to con-
Laglous diseases. and will have Pasteur and
Koch department..
There is money in turkeys. One firm
at Richmond, KY, has slaughtered 1000
turkeys this season. Fully 1000 of the birds
have been marketed there and the people who
raised them have pocketed $1,000.
"A 14-year-old cat belonging to Mrs.
Bradley, of Westport Conn.,, recently died. It
was given an expensive funeral. The remains
were placed in handsome caSket and granite
slab Is to be erected over his grave
Five children are reported lost in the
snow storm on Thirteen Mile creek, w. Va
and they are probably dead by this time. More
than 100 families, mostly miners, are showed
IN near RonceVert, and their situation is dan.
gerous.
Several marine fossils have Just been
found, 1t is reported, on the top of Pennington
Mountain. Conn. The mountain is about 300
feet high, and is seldom visited because 1t has
dense growth of underbrush and is tenanted
by rattlesnakes.
Mrs. Amanda Fleming, wife of Hon.
Benjamin Fleming, was buried at Fairmont,
w. Va, on Monday She was So years old and
was the daughter of Thomas Fleming who
came to that place in 1888 and who was one of
the earliest settlers in Marion county.
The town of Starks, Me-, is in dreadful
predicament-it has no tax collector. A cor
respondent of the Fairfield Journal says the
collector elected at the annual town meeting
resigned, and here it is almost 1891 and none of
TINS years tax collected and nobody TO collect it
"A church and a clubhouse in Brooklyn
took fire on Fifth avenue one night. The
church burned, down, while the clubhouse was
saved, so the only moral that can be drawn
from the circumstance is that it is good plan
to look well after the furnaces in cold weather.
Burglars in Maine seem to be getting
not only bold but fearless. Several officers OF
the law have been among their recent victims,
and now one has walked into the Bangor police
station and walked out with an overcoat be-
longing to the City Marshal who has since
found his property in pawnshop.
John Williams, colored, lost his life at
Vicksburg, Miss, last week. in a singular man
ner. Having an aching tooth which panied
him severely, he took some nicotine from an
old pipe and applied it to the cavity. Ten
mi ntaG lafG ha fall hfa htful 6na6
Opinions differ as to the cause of his death.
George Young started to run across the
track in front of Cleveland and Pittsburg
passenger train at Bridgeport, when his foot
slipped and he fell directly in front of the en-
gine. Young jumped to his feet Just in time
to be struck by the end of the pilot beam and
was violently thrown into snow pile. He
made miraculous escape from injury.
The railroad commission bill Just passed
by the South Carolina Legislature is copied
closely after the Georgia bill, and gives the
commission absolute power to ix and deter
mine rates of transportation for freight and
passengers within the State. A new commits
sion is TO prepare and publish the rates when
decided on. The railroad men made no fight
against it.
Mrs. Julia Mcdonald, of Portland, at
tempted suicide Monday evening by jumping
into pond at Providence, r. L She was res
cued, and, accompanied by her sister, left for
New York. Mrs Mcdonald had been engaged
in literary work, principally in writing short
stories for newspaper press syndicates. She
was married IA months ago, and later was at
tackled with melancholia. She attempted to
take her life once before.
-Middleborough, KY, has the champion
eater. A young man, who is a peddler about
town, named Philip Herman, asserted that he
could eat 80 eggs without stopping. Mr..
Rothchild doubted this assertion, and Herman
feat The dollar was put up. Max Flexner
went out and got three dozen eggs, and the
feast began. Herman ate 30 of the eggs with
out break. but there his appetite went back
on him, and he concluded he couldn't 90 any
more.
Mrs. G. Zimmerman is the heroine of
Port Angeles. OAK, just now. She killed
deer the other day all by herself. She was out
hunting with her husband near Morse's creek
She was near the top of the bluff when she
heard the dogs coming down the stream after
deer. She says she got to the bottom of the
hill in some way, she doesn't know how, but
soon enough to see the deer coming at full
speed. Sne raised her gun and blazed away
and brought it down in great style. Mr.. Zim-
norman saw that the game was carried home.
1t is not often that wife's jealousy
brings a fortune to a husband, yet one of the
most prosperous artists in America is said to
owe his success and popularity to thar cause.
He began his professional career as a painter
of female figures, mainly of ladies in fashiona-
BILE attire. He married and his wife exhibited
a strong dislike for his practice of working
from female models. In short she was jeolous
He was obliged to promise that he would not
employ any more women models, and he shifted
his line of work into a totally different field.
The result was that he became famous for his
new specially and rich from his sales.
AT the eastern edge of Cloverport, Ky.,
near the railroad track. is a well 10 feet in d.
ameter anc % feet deep. From it has been
taken and tested peculiar clay or slate. Its
quantity is apparently limitIess. The product
of this hole makes brick as hard as flint and
glazed on its surface, which withstands the ac-
Ilon of fire beyond ali others, and makes pave
ment imperviOus TO water and frost and wear.
1t also makes the best tilinS, and is regarded as
a most valuable discovery. A large manufac-
turing concern in one of our cities has been
quietly prosecuting the investigation and tests
Of this remarkable product of nature, and,
rumor says, is far advanced toward establishing
extensive works to utilize it.
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