Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A horned rabbit is the curiosity of the
day at Akron, o.
The Pennsylvania Railroad system en-
ploys 1871 engineers.
"A Montreal Judge has decided that a
hotel cook is not domestic servant.
"A Missouri newspaper recently pub
lished an editorial on "The Bedbug in Politics"
Hay 80 years old has been found in
\ Wetmore and is said to be well preserved,
| bright and sweet.
"A resident of Parkers' Ford, Pa, is
said 20 have ring dove which is n years old,
and has been IN one cage all its life.
There are now 1888 newspapers Of diff
ferent classes in the United States and Canada,
net gain Of l.6l3 over last years record
"A Liberty county. Ca, man mas found
oysters growing at the bottom of his 80foot
well, and actually has some Of the shells 20
show his neighbors.
"A COW being driven through the streets
OF Hannibal Mo-, charged on q red coat hang.
ing on a post. entangled her horns in it, gave q
below and dropped dead.
"A scientist of Tennessee thinks that the
Gulf stream every day, passes through thou
sands of miles of subterranean channel that In
surrounded by living fire.
-Keene, N. H., is meditating on the
cheek of a resident who is receiving outdoor
relief from the town and who paid tax OF 50
the other day on his three dogs.
The people of Starlight, Grundy county,
Mo-. complain that the man who carries the
mail TO that town puts young pigs, ETC., in the
pouch along with the love letters, etc.
A tramp stole a razor and opened up
shop in box car near the fire-brick works at
Mexico, Mo. He shaved 25 men In half q day.
pocketed 81 so and again took TO the road.
Between January and April of this
year l,7Ss bodies have been cremated in IL
cites Eighteen Berliners have been cremated
this year and the Berlin Society for Cremation
has increased its membership to 100.
"A benevolent Atch1son, Kan, woman
keeps bar of soap on board near a creek
that runs through the town for the use of
tramps. and number of them may be seen at
that place every day washing themselves.
"A Honesdale, Pa, lady has full set of
carpenters tools, which she uses with remark
able skill in making useful and ornamental ar
ticles for her home, full set Of chairs being
among the productions of her mechanical gem
lus.
The champion wrestler with the English
language Is employed as a newspaper eorre-
spondent at Franklin. Pa. In writing an
count Of the work of an incendiary. he says;
superstitious people here cold chill"
A new appliance weighing onlya few
pounds enables cloth dealers and others to
measure fabrics while rolling or blocking
them. The cloth passes over and under a set
of four rollers. the last of which actuates
counter which tells the number of yards paid
out
"A Florida paper that ought to know
says that there are over 80 varieties of sweet
IN mi ha afoclr
which is the larger and handsomer fruit than
the sweet orange, and it is excellent for
orangeade and marmalade, but, being very
sour. is seldom shipped North.
AT Gooseberry ravine, Nevada county,
Cal, some boys recently found four pieces Of
float quartz containing gold to the value Of 80,
SIS S23 and s32 respectively. Prospectors have
week one of them found ledge which is be-
heved to be the source Of the float.
AT pigeon shoot near Newark, N. j.,
on Saturday, pointer dog owned by 3 resident
of Harrisburg, Pa, caught wounded bird by
springing into the air after 1t. The bird was
SIX feet above the ground when the dogs jaws
closed on it, and the old trap shooters entered
in the sweepstake shoots SAID that 1t was the
finest catch ever seen.
Near Leavenworth, Kan, q farmer had
his entire farm gradually washed away by the
Missouri river some years ago. Soon after the
river began to deposit rich soil along the
banks where the farm once was, and recently
the owner went to the County Clerk and mad
his farm, which was much larger than before,
replaced on the tax record.
In excaYating at Nimroud number Of
drains were found covered over with pointed
and elliptical arches. each layer being built
slanting SO that it rested the one imme-
diately beneath it. This method Of building
renders timber center or scaffolding unnec-
essary to support the stones until the keystone
is in place. Experiments with this plan are
now in progress in this country.
In South America there is a species of
fly that lays its eggs in the body Of man, and
large-sized Larvae or incipient insects are fire.
quently taken out from under the human skin.
This fly is supposed to lay its egg while the VIC
tim is in bathing, as any part of the body is at
tackled. Very often some of the Southern ma
tives are fairly alive with larve, which, if left
to themselves, will at last become free from
their confines and develop into true dipteras.
"A boy and an enormous eagle had an
exciting tussle near ,Alpena. Mich, the other
day. The boy had been disturbing the birds
nest. and. after several big swoops, the bird
dropped almost upon the boy. He grabbed the
bird by the foot. and for several yards he was
carried ten feet above the ground. He then
managed to get hold Of one of the birds wings,
and the two fell TO the ground. the boy hanging
to his prey. The bird measures seven feet be-
tween the tips Of the wings.
On Saturday a workman. while ex-
cavating for levee near SkeIton, Ind, un-
earthed mammoth foot supposed to be of the
ostrich species. The leg was disconnected az
the knee joint. The leg from the knee down
was intact. This relic was found about eight
feet below the surface of the ground. The en-
tire length of the limb from the joint to the
end of the middle zoe is 6 feet 8 inches; the
length Of the toes are respeetiyely9 9, and 81
inches each. 1t is thoroughly petrifed and
heavy as rock.
Aurora, III, has a curiosity in the shape
of a man who keeps a suburban grocery on
Blackhawk street, and until last night had not
been down town or two blocks from his store in
IS years. The last time he veptured down town
was when he went to the polls in November,
1854, and cast vote for Abraham Lincoln.
Sunday night he went to an electric car with
friend. and stepped on board to ride block
and see how they went. The car started and
went SO rapidly that the veteran found himself
down town for the first time since the var be-
fore he realized what was taking place.
I'm the last two years local lobstermen
bagged in their deep-water traps in Fishers
Island Sound not less than five or six indigo
lobsters which are SO rare that it is not known
that more than two of the kind had ever been
taken in the world before. II the same time
two blue Holsters were caught by Maine fisher
men. Blue HOLSTERS are as blue as the summer
sky and extremely beautiful One more blue
lobster has been caught this season, and one
day this week fisherman got still more curl
GUS lobster, perfect albino one, in Fishers
Island Sound. The albino is almost as white
as milk. even to the end of its claws and it has
a sort Of a spirituelle expression. but its eyes
are pink. 1t is believed TO be the only albino
lobster that was ever taken.