Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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the physicians. The child is in perfect health.
While drilling for water at San An
tonic. Tex, oil of a very superior quality and .
seemingly healthy flow was struck at a depth
of 635 feet.
AN Indiana COW, years old, has given
birth to eight calves. At3years of age she gave
birth to bankruptcies, and the two following
years to twins.
Antrim Worrillow, of Delaware county,
has been awarded s925 damages for injuries re-
eeived on the public road. He was watching q
couple of bulls fighting when an overhanging
limb caught his head and tore his hair out By
the roots.
Reports from different towns in Wyom-
ing county. N. Y, go to prove that the fruit
crop in that region will certainly be consider
ably below the average. Some give credence
to the claim that the recent electrical disturb
an ces blighted the young fruit
AN interesting question which will be
solved by the census is whether suffering is In
creasing or diminishing. According 70 the
census of 1880. the Sufferers in the United
States n-n-numbered t-t-ttwo hundred and
f:f-fffty thousand and m-m-more.
"A letter, recommending the bearer as
an honest, sober, truthful and industrious
young man, was found in the pocket Of young
fellow arrested the other night in New York
for stealing silver watch from the pocket OF a
slumbering Italian vender in upper Broadway.
Joseph Van Nostrand, aged 10 years, of
Hoboken, N. j., carried a parcel for man on
board the steamship Werra several days ago.
The vessel left the wharf before he was aware
OF it, and he has been carried across the ocean.
A cable message has been sent to have him re-
turned.
A census enumerator at Richmond, Va,
has found a colored woman named Martha
Gray who has had 81 children since 1858. She
has given birth to triplets SIX times. TO twins
Blk times and TO seven others singy. She Is
now living with her third husband, and OF the
81 children but one survives.
Last week, during the heavy rain,
bolt of lightning struck one Of the shade trees
in A. Harm on's yard az Lincolnton, Ga. He
had a wire clothes line fastened TO the tree and
extending to his dairy house. Tho bolt passed
down the tree to the wire and followed that to
its connection with the dairy, igntting the dairy
and completely burning it up.
A radish is on exhibition at a store in
Tennille, Ga. which, with slight deformity.
bears perfect resemblance to a human hand
with five fingers. 1t was grown on the planta-
tion of F. B. Cullins. who died about three
weeks ago and il is said by folks who visited
Mr.. Cullins during his last illness that the
radish is a perfect likeness of one of the old
mans hands lust before he died.
WIN. Martin has a curiosity in the
shape of gosling at his home in Eaton town.
ship, near 1unkhannock. This little farm
bird" about one month old, has two feet but
one of them is a perfect chickens foot; the
other is a natural web foot and when placed
in the water 1T goes around much like top.
This freak Of nature is new one, and we
doubt If there is another like 1t in existence.
Down. in Raleigh the other day col
ored man who had done some work for the city
called at the Collectors office for his pay. His
r. = a
to his clerk to Issue a warrant for the colored
man, meaning, of course, for the amount due,
when with his eyes bulging out he exclaimed:
For de Lords sake, boss, don't git no warrant
for me. l clar ter gracious l amt done
nuthin.'"
-Rarper's Bdzdr prints this compost
tom on George Washington, the work of a
9-year-old boy: George Washington was the
father of his country one day he went to his
fathers yard and cut down a tree. What are
you doing asked his father am trying to tell
lie and cannot when he grew up he was presl-
dent and was killed by man named getto who
was jellish of him and the no engine house
was draped in black"
The only liquor saloon that was ever
opened in Moore's Hill. Ind, was "knit out''
by the temperance women Of the place. lou
see it was this way" says a citizen. when
the saloon was started the women formed in
relays and went and took their knitting to the
higher than kite. 1t was not long before that
saloon had to be closed, and since that time no
man has ever had the nerve to start another"
There IS a saloon keeper in Utica, Neb.,
who must be pretty square man, as saloon
keepers go. He inserts the following adver-
tisement in the local papers: TO whom It may
concern: Know ye that, by the payment OF
81, ,527 40 l am permitted to retail intoxicating
liquors at my saloon in this city. To the wife
who has a drunkard for husband, or friend
who is unfortunately disipated, say, emPhat-
iealy: Give me a notice of such cases in which
you are interested and all such will be excluded
from my place. Let mothers, fathers. sisters,
brothers. uncles, and aunts do likewise, and
their requests will be regarded"
There is an ingenious device for keeping
oysters good in the shell for several weeks after
they have been taken from the water. Hitherto
this has been done unsatisfactory by boring
holes through the edges of the shells and lock-
ing in the oysters with bits of twisted wire. By
the new scheme the edges of the shells are
dipped into plaster OF paris, mixed with GER
tain chemicals that make it harden quickly In
a few mInntes the oyster is hermetically sealed,
and so strong is the cement that not even the
most muscular mollusk can manage TO get
breath of fresh air after having been subjected
TO this process.
A thoroughly reliable gentleman informs
your correspondent that he saw near Scotts-
vile, Va, two small snakes deliberately en-
tion of each snake having been taken into the
stomach of the other. This reminds as Of the
old farmer who saw a large bullfrog basking in
the sun on the bank of his mill pond. A large
water mOccasin commenced to swallow his
frogship by taking in his legs MeanWnne tne
frog began the same process Dy taxing IN tne
tail of the snake. The swallowing process, as
the story goes. continued until the reptile and
the frog swallowed each other and both dis
appeared from view.
Solomon Levine has brought suit against
Health Inspector Max Levy, of Brooklyn, to
recover 500 which he alleges is due him as
marriage broker for having negotiated the
un1on of DR.. Levy and Miss Lillian Marks. the
daughter of New York merchant, and who
has large fortune in her own right. They
were married in the Lexington Avenue Opera
House. in New York, on Nays DR.. Levy
states that he offered Levine 81 to bring about
an Introduction which should result in
marriage, but that Levine refused this, and the
negotiation between them ended there and was
never resumed. Levine claims that his services
were worth $780, and that it was understood No
should receive that sum.