Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Germany's production of silver in 1880
| was 1000 pounds, about per cent of the
worlds product.
in Richmond, NO., there is a horse
which measures l9A hands high and tips the
| beam at $50 pounds. He is years old.
The largest catch ever made in hoop
net was at Bluffton, No., the other day, when
over 100 pounds OF catfish were landed.
The Captain of the steam dredge Ajax,
now digging out the river channel near Bath,
Me-, says square yard of mud weighs about
| u ton.
Lightning followed line of gilt down
the wall paper in Methodist church at
Belpre, Pa, and burned off only the fashy
figures.
To indicate his reputation as an expert
wood carver, a colored man in Hutchinson,
Kan. recently in Is hours carved chain
nearly feet long out. OF a solid piece Of
wood.
I'm eastern New Mexico nearly 100000
acres of fruit and farm lands have been re-
claimed by the construction of storage reser-
voirs and irrigating canals during the past
two years.
"A young lawyer of Savannah swan
across the Savannah river five times one day
last week for a wager of $50. The river is 205
yards wide at the point and 12 feet deep. He
accomplished the task in one hour and was
only slightly exhausted. Fully 5000 people
watched the affair.
I'm one of London fashionable churches
the preacher made an appeal to the effect
that certain Baronet was, through no fault
of his own, In debt to the amount of ECO, and
had no means of paying. Consequently the
congregation were called upon to provide
the amount required.
"A rattler and black snake had a battle
near st. Clair, Mo-, the other day and the
latter won. The rattler was coued up in the
road with head erect, when the black snake
sprang and wrapped himself around the
rattler's neck before he could bite. After
few chokes the rattler gave up the ghost.
The Knox farm, near Independence,
NO., containing 325 acres, was sold the other
day for 800 an acre. During the time that
the peerless Suburb beyond the Blue" was
booming, this farm was bought" by specu-
lators for over $500 an acre. They made the
first payment-one-third-a then let the
the deal go by default.
"A clever, thrifty little woman at Wich-
ita, Kan, is the happy possessor of new
black silk which she earned in a most pecu-
liar way Every time her husband bought
% cents worth of cigars she laid a like
amount away in drawer. In less than nine
months she had enough to buy the silk and
pay for the making and trimmings.
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was blown down in the yard at the house of
Mrs. C. E. Lambkin, at Evansville, Ga. In
the place where the tree was broken or in
the fall was found petrified bird. The
head of the bird was perfect, every outline
being very plain. 1t is certainly a curiosity.
How the bird got into the tree is question.
There was no hollow in the tree.
The first section of the little railroad
which is to connect Jaffa with Jerusalem
has been completed and tourists are now
able to travel by rail from Jaffa to Ramleh.
about one-third the distance. 1t will not be
long before pilgrims to the Holy Land will
be whisked in an hour from the sea to
Jerusalem, to the great disgust of camel
owners and stage proprietors.
"A man at Jansen, Fla, will realize
So, 1000 this year from an acre of pineapples,
while Major Ryals, of Chatham county, Ca,
has a truck farm of 125 acres, near Savannah,
which yields him $4,000 year. His chief
crop is Irish potatoes, of which he has 50
acres. In addition, he raises cabbages, to-
matOeS, beans, cucumberS, onions and other
small vegetables. His income from onions
is 500 an acre.
Frog hunting in the swamp districts of
Southeast Missouri is getting to be a lucra-
tive and important industry. The frogs
come mostly from New Madrid county, where
the crop Is now being harvested. At the
French Market in St. Louis last Saturday
there was a pile of frogs that would have
filed two barrels. A half-doZen men with
pinehers were pulling the breeches OF the
green, old, original greenbacks. They are
esteemed a great delicacy.
Henry Cartright, of Paris, Mo-, has the
best paying turkey hen in the country.
Early in the spring she began laying, and
after she had laid the usual number of eggs
went to sitting. She was broken from sitting
and soon laid another sitting and this time
HrToa tnd n Ei nd haf Rhn6 ont
brood of young turkeys. During the entire
time she was sitting she laid an egg regu-
larly every other day, and since she has been
out with her young she has still laid every
other day.
The catfish are eating salmon spawn from
the head-waters of the Columbia to the sea.
The catfish has two sharp little prongs, one
on each side of the jaw, and while ordinarily
one fish ean feed on another smaller than
itself, in the case of the catfish, any fish at
tempting to swallow one of them is caught
in the throat by those spikes, and as it can
neither swallow nor spit out the catfish, the
fish that has the catfish starYe5 to death,
Then the catfish is set free and goes after
more salmon spawn
"A 6-months-old shote belonging to Cap
tain j. W. Anderson, of the Hurricane dis
trict, in Coweta county, Ca, disappeared
the other day and could not be found any
where. The eighth day after it's disappear
ance Captain Anderson Glanced to peer into
an old well on the premises and was both
surprised and delighted to find leisurely
lolling at the bottom his missing pig. There
was no water in the well, and the pig was
not only uninjured by the fall, but, consider
ing its lengthy fast, was in pretty fair condi-
ton.
DIR. A j. Smith, druggist, of Oakes-
dale, Wash, was handling a can of phos-
phorus, which had not been opened, but
from which the wafer had leaked out through
q hole in the can, and thougntlessly he
opened the can without submerging it in
water. In an instant his drug store was in
flames, the burning g; seJ and the DEATH
dealing fumes filling every space. By pres
ence OF mind and the free use of water, which
he dashed on the burning and phosphorated
room at the peril of his life, DIR. Smith sue
ceeded in extinguishing the fire.
"A party of savants, including Judge,
an ex-senator, and ex-County Attorney and
an army officer, are making some interest
ing discoveries in an Indian mound at
Bucksport, Me. Gouges, chisels, stnkers,
spear and arrow heads, war paint, toma-
hawks, etc., are brought to the surface, many
beautiful specimens being found. The ex-
cavations are in a gravel pit and the work Ia
under charge of Captain Blodgett, who shows
among his newly-found treasures a white
flint or quartz arrow head, about two inches
in length, three-quarters of an inch wide and
a quarter of an inch through the thickest
mart which ia said TO be one of the most mar