Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| and Wisconsin have occurred in 1871, 1881 and
| 1891
In tearing down an old chimney at
Powder Springs, Ca, the other day, 1000 in
| gold was found
"A Dooly county, Ga, negro named
Warren Mckenzie owns three farms, mill,
| steam gin and store.
-Parnell wanted to marry a Providence,
r. l., girl 20 years ago. Serious objections
| came from her millionaire pa.
An Osborne county, Kan, man with a
pack Of hounds is bagging from 10 to l5 wolf
scalps day, on which he realizes 50 apiece.
"A fine of s. is imposed on members Of
| the German Bakers Union, of San Fran
cisco, caught smoking Chinese or non-union
cigars.
"A number of skeletons were recently
discovered in field near Lucker, N. J. It
Is thought to have been an old Indian bury
ing ground.
John NJ. Evitt reports seeing buzzard
with bell on it's neck near Ringgold, Ga,
recently. The bird is quite large one, and
the tinkling of the bell could be heard q
considerable distance.
Several boys who were candidates for q
naval cadetship from district in Michigan
were rejected because the examining physi-
clan found that their hearts had been affect
AN Atchison (Kas man has sent s.
bill to England in an envelope every week
for the past 20 years and has never lost a
dollar. This information came out in a re-
cent trial In the Probate Court.
I'm the last year II, ,224 bed tickets at 20
cents each were sold to poor, homeless
women for q nights rest in the New York
Temporary Home for Women. OF this num-
Der s75 were accompanied by child or in
FAINT.
-Candler, Ga, can boast of having one Of
the youngest plowboys anywhere in the
country. He Is the son of j. W. Simmons,
only 8 years old, and does about as much
work of any kind as 16-year-old boy can do
on a farm.
of o crew of 215 men on the United
States cruiser Omaha, which recently ar
rived at San Francisco, only 10 are Amer
leans. The rest are principally English,
Irish, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch,
Japanese and Chinese.
There is very great misery among the
working classes in Rome. Owing to the de-
cline in values and stagnation of building
interests, thousands are out Of employment.
The multitude of beggars has never been
80 great or importunate.
The stingiest man In Georgia lives in
Wilcox county. He has been married IL
years, and during that time has only bought
one sack of flour and one 25cent calico
dress. He lives at home, and the spinning
wheel is still at work in his house.
An unknown choral work BY Gluck has
just been discovered in MS. at Dresden,
written in 1861 at the request of Grand Duke
Leopold of Tuscany, to celebrate the birth
of an heir. The librettO is by a FlOrentine
poet, and the work, which is short and en-
tirely for chorus, is entitled Prologue.
DIR. Berheim's report on his latest
transfusions of goats blood for the cure of
tuberculosis shows that out of Il cases of
the most advanced stages of phthisis ended
in death: 2 who had reached the last stages
of an@mia were cured, and 10 persons suffer-
ing from other forms have improved greatly.
May is usually said to have been so
called in honor of Maia, the mother of Mer-
curry, but this appears to be erroneous.
Modern photographers concur in the opin-
ion that the root of the word is a contTae-
ton of the Latin word magins, and that it
simply means to grow, or the month of
growth.
"A Wiksbury cat has been distinguish
ing himself by catching snakes, of which no
less than 25 have fallen victims to his
charms. Tom lives at Henny's bakery on
Main street, above North, but since the
building was destroyed by fire last year he
cannot be induced to step foot inside the
new structure.
"A tell-tale clock in connection with the
London-Paris telephone keeps the record of
seconds while the patron talks. When $50
beats have been counteda bell rings and the
circuit is cut of. Another three minutes
talk may be secured on the payment of the
ordinary fee, but no more than six eOnSecu-
tive minutes are allowed to any one person.
An Oakland, Cal, doctor has Just had
peculiar experience. He was carrying in his
oN-N-x
potash, and, while shaking hands with q
friend, the friction caused combustion of the
potash, and it set the doctors clothes on
fire. His waistcoat and other garments were
badly burned before the fire was extin-
guished, and he got blistering.
There are now, it is said, 1914 cotton
seed oil mills in the Southern States, with
aggregate capital of over $4,000, 900, against
40, witha capital stock of s3 5OOO OOO in 1880. In
the last crop year about 100000 tons of
seed were crushed, and yielded $1,000, 600
gallons OF oil, besides furnishing meal for
mixture with other substances for fertil-
izers, while the hulls are used for the fatten-
ing of cattle.
The Mayors Office, Boston, was visited
the other day by the delegation representing
La Societa Italiana Purificatrice La Trenac-
ria. who presented q queer protest against
wealthy Italians being permitted to collect
should be restricted to poor people, and
hopes in that manner to elevate its people to
q higher appreciation of their opportunities
for advancement in this country"
"A resident of Washington street, Water
bury, Conn.,, has invented a new plan to cir.
cumvent chicken thieves. He uses copper
rods for roosts, and these he has connected
with battery in his bed room. When a
thief tamperS with the hen coop an alarm
rings at the proprietor's head, and by press
ing q button shock is sent through the
roost, and the whole congregation of fowls
crow and cluck in yociferous unison.
"A Philadelphia chicken exhibits rare
intelligence. A baker who supplies the
family with bread is met every morning at
the front gate by this chicken as soon as she
hears the baker toot his horn. She then
commences to cackle and Is given her GUS
tomary meal Of bread crumbs. If the baker
walk sometimes half a mile to meet him.
She never shows herself at the gate on Sun
day morning.
Some fishermen who went out to raise
their nets the other morning before daylight
at Keyport, n. j., found great surprise
awaiting them, and they rowed ashore with
a much more valuable freight than they had
wandered in on this part of the Jersey coast,
and the men captured over 500 of the deli
cate fish, Such thing rarely happens. They
are the ordinary, not the Spanish mackerel,
and weigh about a pound and half each.