Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

last week. The city's population is 33,OOO
Mr.. f. NJ. z. jolly, of Alpharetta Ga.
killed "A blackbirds at one shot few dlys
ago.
There is said TO be a tree at Monticello.
Fla, which bears three kinds of fruit-quInces
pears and apples
One OF the men who claims to have
written THE Beautiful Snow" is reported dy-
ing In want, in New York.
"A clerk in the Orlando, Fla, postofice
wrote note to a lady who received postage
que package to come in aud pay at wouncer'
1t is reported that several hundred dead
cattle are frozen in in JamisOn lake in the
Grand COulee, Washington, and that they stand
In the ice looking as natural as life.
"A Thomaston, Ga, negro tried to take
out warrant for another sable brother for
'coniuring" his muIe and was much disap-
pointed when told that no such otfense was
recognized.
"A Riverside, Cal, man sent piece of
manzanita wood to 4 friend in New York re-
Gently. He has now received an order from
maker of musical instruments TO forward a
whole carload.
The priests in Northern Italy have
spread report that there will be three days of
absolute darkness this year. only to be lighted
by conseerated candles. The peasants are
fee.
Here is name worn by colored girl
in Western Tennessee. 1t is pronounced in a
sing-song way according to the division of the
different names. Cary-Ann Happv-Ann Ann
Eliza-Scales Blow-the-Bellows POtters-held
Rosa-Ann-Thomas.
The vitality OF the snail is remarkable.
One that had been glued to a card in the Brit
ish Museum for four years came to life upon
harra sal
mems in the collection of a naturalist revived
after they had apparently been dead for ID
years.
DIR. Harrison invited Charley Whitner
and Charley Starke out to his place near Fer
nandIna. Fla, when he set fire to an old field
and the sportsmen shot rabbits rs they ran ont
of the burning straw. Twenty-Five were bagged
Four large rattlesnakes were burned to death
at the same time
Oscar Hill, a farmer, had fight with a
negro in Clay county. Ala, and was badly
bitten. Hill had to have his arm amputated
and he developed symptoms of hydrophnbia
and died The negro has blue gums, and il is
believed that the bite of such negroes always
proves fatal
Some unknown disease has suddenly
made its appearance among the canine inhabit-
ants of Athens Ca. and within the past month
some OF the finest dogs in the city have died
1t comes on in the form of a bad cold and is
followed by cough, which the animal keeps
up incessantly day and night.
Education does not seem to make people
any the less superstitious About ], 500 different
kinds of dream books are in the market. and
all of them find buyers. while sales steadily in
crease about in proportion to the increase of
people. Nor is the demand for dream books
confined to the poor. Women with sealskins
and diamonds buy them.
"A freak who died in Iowa a day or two
ago had the body of a 2year-old child, but
head as large as that of the ordinary man. He
was 80 years old, and was never able to speak,
For 30 years he was tied in a chair and fed
with spoon by his mother, whose constant
fear was that she should die before her boy
and no one be left to wait on him.
The Town Board of Unadilla, Otsego
county. pays a bounty of lG cents on every
woodchuck's tail 1t has recently. however,
come to the knowledge of the Town Board that
boys are IN the habit of catching woodchucks,
cutting off their tails. and then letting them go
in order that they may breed more wOOdchuckS
with l0cent tails. The farmers say that unless
the bounty is stopped the town will be overrun
with woodchucks.
-Zelotas Martin, of Company NJ, Fifth
Michigan cavalry, was killed at Gettysburg,
and subsequently his widow became an army
nurse. She served until July. 1865. on account
of illness, and few years later she suffered
the amputation of her leg. Mrs. Martin got
married again. but her husband, though an old
soldier, has no pension, and the House Com
mittee has voted to place the unfortunate
woman upon the roll.
The champion meanest man and the
most heartless justice live in Sturgls, OAK The
meanest man lost his pocketbook. containing
$3.50; and when the finder returned it to him
after month spent in discovering the owner,
he demanded that the finder pay him interest
for the use of the money. Naturally the finder
A..
the meanest man brought suit for the interest.
and the most heartless justice gave the meaness
man judgment for 81 45 and costs.
One of the early settlers of Oscoda
county, Mich, made peculiar request when
he died few years ago. For some time before
his death his stock was being stolen, either by
men or bears, and the old mans mind was af-
fected by his loss. He asked that he be buried
standing. on the east side of a tree which grew
on a hill overlooking his farm. From this
position he hoped to detect the thieves. And
he has kept the ground round about well dug
up, because he said that his savings were hid
near by People have concluded that he made
a mistake concerning the money but no cattle
thieves have been there since his burial.
-"Blind Franc is the name applied to
an old Frenchman, who came from nobody
knows where, whose life is wrapped up in mys-
terry and who runs a saloon in the woods back
in Altoona county, Mich. His nearest ncighbor
is six miles away, and his patrens consist of the
choppers, who drive miles to spend drunken
night at his place. He pays nothing but the
Government tax, and is supposed to have an
iron pot full of money buried near his shanty
He is about blind, and occasionally a man
empties the bottle handed over the bar and
pays only for the single drop which the timber
country glasses hold.
"A letter with history passed through
Bath the other day. 1t was directed to Captain
B. s. Rairden, Manila. Philippine Islands, and,
IS the handwriting showed, was written by
Captain Rairden's sister, Mrs Abbie Peterson,
who. with her husband, was lost at sea six
years ago. Across the end of the letter was
written a direction to return the letter to Bath
in case Captain RaIrden's vessel had sailed.
The letter has thus been wandering over the
world for six years, and though somewhat
Taded the envelope has not been opened and is
IN an excellent condition. Captain Rairden is
now in business in AMER, Java, and the letter
Is now on its way to that place.