Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
"A California farmer has just plucked a
u pound cabbage from his patch.

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3711 pound cabbage from his patch.
AT Sherlocks, Mariposa county, Cal.
lions have killed all the hogs, goats calves and
donkeys that are not kept under lock and Key
Tombstone county, ,Ariz., contains 4, ,461. :
OSO acres of public land The reservations Of
Forts Bowie and Huachuca contain 23,04O and
4.SO0acres each.
In the neighborhood of Harris road.
Fla. two families with Is boys, one having
| nine and the other seven, and none of the
parents are yet 40 years old.
| The Mayor OF New Orleans recommends
that gambling should be licensed In that city
| and made to contribute to the finances of that
| city or TO the charitable institutions.
William Beck, of Grand Rapids, and
Clara D Barr, of GreenviIIe. who were married
when they were young, but had been separated
Tor lOyears, called upon the preacher recently to
| make them one again.
The British War Office has decided that
when 1t becomes necessary to handcuff a SOL
| dier in uniform he must not be marched
through the streets, but a covered conveyance
! shall be provided
Calvin Hemstreet has had a well put
down in the north part of Akron, o., 100 feet.
AT the depth of $50 feet he found three feet of
coal. and one foot further another body of coal.
making five feet at least.
"A New Bedford clergyman who has
been IN service long time, advertises 700 SER
mons for sale, covering all subjects. and appli-
cable to any locality. He only wants 81 piece
for the LOT, If taken in a lump.
Michigan University has II graduates
in Congress-the largest number of any ipsti-
tuition of learning in the country. Harvard has
l6 and Y ale IL This is the greatest blow that
Western colleges have received lately.
Jane Simmons, little mulatto woman
living in Milledgeville. Ga, is said to be the
first woman in the South to become a butcher
by profession. She can kill clean and cut IN
more hogs in day than any man in the county
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
decided that wine made in that State from
grapes grown there may be sold in the State
even in prohibitorv counties. The laws of the
State encourage the manufacture of native
wines.
The librarian of the New York Free
Circulating Library states that Germans read
better books than Americans and boys than
girls. IN fiction Uncle Toms Cabin" leads all
competitors in the main library and three
branches.
The Indian ponies on the reservation
near Yakima. WASH, have been dying very
fast this winter. One Indian. who entered the
winter with l2S head of eayuses, report is that
he has but 40 left, and they are reduced to
mere shadows
There is young man Of 21 near Vic,
lrwln Co., Ga, who was never intoxicated,
never spent bot 10 cents for drink land that
was Tor lemonade for his sweetheart), never
used an oath, never carried pistol and never
sparked but one girl.
The food of Zoo" hippopotamus is
estimated to be about 200 pounds day in
weight, and consists chiefly of hay. grass and
roots. The daily proYender of giraffe weighs
about so pounds. The lions and tigers obtain
about eight or nine pounds of meat day.
j. w. Wesley owns a foothiIl ranch
near Pomona. Last September he invested s4S
in some chickens and has spent one hour day
in looking after them. His receipts from this
single branch have been 1887, and he cannot
supply all his orders for eggs apd chickens.
John Ray, of Eaton Rapids, Mich, so
years old. is the son of Reuben Ray, who en-
listed under General Washington when he was
but l6 years old, and went through the entire
war He lived to be 100 years old. John Ray
was born when his father was 70 years old, and
served during the late rebellion.
Last Tuesday night 80 members of
the Washington Legislature went to theatre,
and the Portland Oregonfdn says they made a
show Of themselves. They acted like lot Of
school boys, and threw paper balls, rubber over
shoes and orange peelings at each other, and
hooted and guyed the players.
MIR. G. W. Williams, of Rochelle, Ga,
says that while pruning apple trees the other
day he observed one tree that forked a few feet
from the ground, and about Il inches above the
two limbs or trunks were connected by small
limb growing from one and centrally into the
other, perfectly uniting the two together.
"A farmer over in Carroll, county, No.,
who bought a receipt for making wheat weigh
double, and signed a contract for dividing the
profits with the gentlemauly agent who sold
him the process, is not advertising the fact that
the contract materlaizsd in one of the Car
rolltOn banks as a promissory note for $500,
which be quietly paid.
"A sensation was created at Fort Myers,
Fla, by party of hunters bringing in a very
large leg bone of an animal supposed to be the
meggotturisus or mammoth. The weight of
this bone is 20 pounds; it is 81 inches in diam
eter at small end, 1614 inches at large end a
inches long. and apparently about six or eight
inches of i. has been broken of.
The first white settlement in the State
of Missouri was made at st. Genevieve, below
st. Louis, between the years of 1876 and 1863
the time not beng definitely determined. The
city of St. Louis was settled by Pierre Inquest
Laclede in 1854 Laciede was murdered by an
Indian who was bribed by an EngIishman, who
paid him for the horrible deed by giving him
barrel of whisky.
While two women were seated in a
house in Emanuel county. Ca, they saw a
negro trying to approach the house without
being seen, by rolling along the ground like
log He knew the ladies were alone in the
house. Miss Marie seized her fathers w1n-
chester drew a bead and pulled down on him.
She did not hit him. but at the report of the
gun the black rascal jumped up and ran like
deer.
"A Florida fisherman recently baited
his set hooks with small green frogs He left
his hooks in the water all nicely foating-hav-
ing been told that this was the best or Dait-
expecting to return next morning and find fish
by the dozen. He returned. and to his surprise
all of his baited hooks were setting out on the
banks looking at him. and as he came close to
them thav Iunnld innr hack intn fhs HUatar