Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Rabbits are damaging crops in Sehley
county, Ga.
Some genius has discovered that the or
dinary watch gives 1l6, 600 ticks year.
The citizens of Green Cove Springs,
Florida, raised subscription and purchased
hearse.
Seattle, Wash, is said to have 9, 900 idle
laborers standing around the street, with no
prospect of work.
"A snake 10 feet inches in length was
killed in the act of carrying offa small pig
near Gladwtn, Mich. He stole several before
he was caught.
Wolves have killed large number Of
sheep in Webster county, W. Va. and the
county court offers $50 each for wolf scalps
to which citizens committee will add $40.
"A schooner of ofProvincetown, Mass, has
just returned from 20 months mackerel
fishing cruise in African waters. She sent
home LOCO barrels and brings 80 barrels
more.
The recent Englishf Census gives the
population of Liverpool at $4,000. The Cen
sus of 1881 gave that city So. sos. This shows
decline of 6.2 per cent but the reason there
for is not given
Fields Martin, who lives near F1owery
Branch, Ga, has worn a coat only a few
times since the surrender of General Lee.
He says he feels more comfortable wfthout
one, no matter how cold the weather is.
"A COW OH Georgia farm last week gave
birth TO q calf that had distinct earmarlxs on
each ear, a swallow fork ON the right and a
smooth crop on the left. This is the exact
stock mark of the son of the owner of the
COW.
AN electric car in St. Paul, Minn.,
while passing the end of a bridge in heavy
rain recently was struck by lightning. The
car was set on fire and the machinery rem
dered useless. Not one of the passengers
was injured.
Thomas Cooper and wife, who live near
Flowery Branch, Ga. have four daughters.
All except one married widows sons. all Of
their husbands being named W illian, and all
of them the youngest of the family. and all
married ON the third Sunday in the month.
"A lady of Jacksonville told reporter
that she swallowed one box of of pills each
week for 16 years. There are 25 pills in a box
and she has consumed the contents of S32
boxes-2O 500 pills. For each box she paid %
cents, making o total spent in the Is years Of
$20s
In the jungles of Sumatra is found an
enormous spider, which measures three
inches across the body and seven across the
legs. 1t is black in color. with red and yell
low markings. 1t spins geOmetrical web
about four feet in diameter between two
trees.
There are IS counties in.Pennsylvania
that have no debt. They are Lehigh, Beaver,
Cameron, Center, Columbia, Erie, Forest,
Franklin, Green, Lawrence, Mercer, Mon
tour, Perry, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna,
Wyoming and York. The combined debt Of
all the other counties is s5S,979,972.
Mrs. Hodgins, of Milton county, Ca,
killed snake in her yard on Tuesday even
ing that had just runoff a setting hen, and
appropriated Is eggs The snake was so
gorged that locomotion was difficult, so he
was easily dispatched. The reptile meas
ured feet inches from-tip to tip.
1t is claimed that John Rockefeller
could give every man, woman and child in
the United States g each and still have
left the modest sum of s., 100000 with which to
start q peanut stand. William Waldorf As
tor could do the same thing, while our own
dear Jay Gould could give 81 so each and
then have left $, 100000 with which to sink q
well for more water.
"A well-known physician of Jackson
vile, Fla, went out north of the city to ad-
minister to O colored woman patient. He
drove up to the gate, dismounted, entered
the house and inquired as to how the sick
was getting along. Imagine his surprise
when informed that the woman was dead
and buried. The doctor smiled and said he
didn't think she would recover.
A house cat belonging to j. G. Barry,
of Pine Hill, Florida, cauSst n large rabbit
the OUncr night anu uId8ScO IL W bu6 HOuSC
and into the kitchen, where the cat had lot
of kittens to feed The cat was followed by
q huge rattleSnake who cOiled himself up by
the stove, probably waiting for share of
the rubbit. but the rnttle attracted the atten-
ton of the family, and his SnakeShip was
quickly d1spatched
"A two-legged goat has been agitating
Cordele, Ga. James BaTnhill is the pOssessor
of this freak of nature, and heis exhibiting
him at 10 cents a look, witha slightreduction
when you look several times. He is of the
fbilly" gender walks upright like chicken,
sits down like dog, is very intelligent lit
tie creature, and is indeed q curiosity. 1t is
a great pet and children and ladies go wild
with delight over "billy-"
"A peculiar chain of events was recently
brought to hight in Il Kansas.divorce case, i'll
which man petitioned fora separation on
the ground of his wife's insanity. 1t de-
yeloped that the Judge who granted the di-
yOrce issued the marriage license to the Pc
titioner, performed the ceremony, presided
at the trial to establish the insanity of the
wife, and finally, acting as the Judge pro
tenn of the District Court, issued the decree
of divorce
Weighing machines and scales of some
kind were in use 1900 B. c., for it is said that
Abraham at that time weighed out" 400
shelels of silver, current money, with the
merchant to Ephron, the Hittite, as payment
for o piece of land, including the cave and
all the standing timber ''in the field and in
the fence" This is said to be the earliest
transfer of land of which any record sur
wives, and that the payment was made in the
presence of witnesses.
"A H. Quarles, the uncle of Miss Birdie
Laramore, whose mother insulted teacher
at the Savannah, Ga, High school afew days
ago for rendering Birdie second instead of
first honor badge, was arrested and a case
made against him for disturbing the busi-
ness of the public schools. This otfense vio-
lates a city ordinance. The principal fault
committed by Quarles appears to have con-
sisted in his having accompanied his sister,
Mrs Laramore, when the teacher was in
suited by the latter.
Joseph Graham, of Eastman, Ca, had
fed his hogs the other morning and was lean
ing on the fence watching them eat, when he
felt something chilly fondling and caressing
him in a peculiarly earliest way about the
head face and neck. He saw ut once that
he had placed his elbow about midway on
the body of o king snake several feet long
and was holding him fast down on the rail,
and. as one would suppose, both ends of the
snake being loose, they cut up vigorous Gu
oerS nbOut Mr. Grahams cOuntenance.