Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
The colossal statue Of the republic at
the WORLDS Fair win be female nsure ~
feet high.
"A Philadslphis saloon has . sign IN the
window which reads: "a Abi-chloraoe-ofeoio
sandwich with every drink"
All other things being equal, baritone
voice In man and q oontralto voice IN =
woman win wear better and last longer than
any of the others.
There is man living in Calhoun, Ga,
70 years old, who boasts that he never wore
pair Of boots, bought suit Of clothes
white shirt or any store clothes In his ltfos
or wore q collar or necktie.
"A French company is now building Q
street car line in Tashkend, the capital Of
Russian Turkestan. where, not very many
years ago, any white man who had visited
the place would have lost his head. 5s-Etfsi
old "Aunt" Sukey Coats, who died in !
Dublin, Ga, last wee k, was reputed to be 10
years old. She was q professional nursev
and her death suddenly occurred while re-!
turning home from filling an engagement at
sick bed.
While young man was sitting IN
San Francisco theater the other night wan
dering rat sought refuge under his eeas
reaching for something from bis hip pocksS
he was severely bitten in the hand.
A dispatch from Danville, H., IN.
nounces the birth in that place Of two xirla
whose bodies are grown together face to
face. There are four fully-developed feat
and hands, both bodies being grown soiidfy
together. They are reported alive and well.
A Mississippi man who has counted the
number of seeds in a bushel of various
grains found that corn went ~, 100; wheat
S30, 900; peas, 109 900; cotton seed 164 1885, This
item would have more value If 1t stated the
Kind of corn, wheat and peas selected for
the experiment..
The most accomplished negro voodoo in
the United States lives near the small creek
of Gooseneck, in the Indian Territory, 10
miles from the Kansas line. His house IL
alive with snakes and rats, and Is adorned
with bones and skulls. His many followers
believe him implicitly.
"A South African mining journal saws
the surfaces of numerous bouIders have
been polished by the constant rubbing Of
countless herds of large game, such as the
w1ldebeest. These examples 1.-THE attritfon
of rocks by animals are found in a good
many parts OF the Transvaal.
According to the american Angler q
Mrs Stagg last year captured, with the rod,
10 tarpon in as many days in the gulf. Tho
total length of the fish footed up ss feet
inches the total weight 1774 pounds. and
hours and 80 minutes in actual play. The
largest fish weighed 205 pounds.
"A new viaduct over the River Lea, in
Bolivia, for the Antofogasta Railroad, is de-
scribed as the highest viaducr in the world.
1t is 9,SS3 feet above the sea level and the
height OF the viaduct above the river is 400S
feet. 1t is 10, ,497 ieet long, the highest pillar
is . 10 rect, ana the weight OF the structure
Is 8, lis tons.
Two Olympia, Wash, women caught q
big gray rat in a trap the other morning,
but, as there was no man about the house,
the rat was suffered to live in the trap sew
eral days, while lie was carefully fed and
Cherished by his captors. While the ladies
were waiting for man to come and kill the
rat, he died through sheer kindness and
high living.
"A party Of fox hunters around Cleve-
land, deciding that ''reynard' was too tame
to follow longer, liberated wild mountain
wolf from Kansas. Bv the time the fierce
animal had bitten of finger of one hunter,
Killed two dogs and severely wounded sew
eral others, the fox hunters, a ter killing
him, decided they had enough of that kind
OF sport.
The modern counterpart of the man
who recovered his lost eyes by q second
jump into a bramble bush Is found in the
person of A. A. Hubbard, of Stetson, Me.
shoulder by falling from an cart, and
wh1le on the way to a neighboring ia wyer's
his horse twitched the sleigh in some way
so that the shoulder was forced back into its
original position.
1t is related that at the marriage of Mr..
and Mrs. Sumner Soule, of Freepors, Me-, re-
Gently, the minister, in the course of a long
prayer, said; 30, Lord, give grace to some
soul to-day" As the groom was known
Familiarity as "Sum" Soule. and as his brides
nrst name was Grace, the prayer was an.
swered satisfactorily although the clergy
man was unconscious of having said any.
thing so we'll fitting the occasion.
The elster (piea candata) is bird that
is respected and feared throughout South
Germany. 1t belongs to the raven tribe,
and is about the size of q dove, with black
and white feathers and long pointed tail. 1t
builds its nests in orchards, and its life ia
sacred. If it is seen three times in success
sion on the same house top. in a place re-
mote from its home, it it believed to be q
sure sign of death in that house. If it flies
over house where anyone is ILL., and gives
its peculiar cry. the sick person is sure to die,
but y it does not scream the patient may
recover.
The woods and fields and the very air Of
Maine are full of the signs of spring, and If
that welcome season is not several weeks
ahead of time this year, the robins, blue
birds, frogs and butterflies are very much
out of their reckoning. Robins, fat and
saucy, are making merry in various locali-
ties from the AndroscOggin to the Penob-
scot, May flowers have bloomed in Otis, but
terfiies have been seen at C1ark's IslAnd,
and caterpillars have appeared in Calais.
The hills and fields about Portland are bare, .
and song sparrows, robins and bluebirds
have gone to building nests in Deering's
Oaks. 1t has been strange winter.
An example of the cunning of gulls was
observed at Tacoma when several alighted
on a bunch of logs that had been in the
water for long time, with the submerged
sides thick with barnacles. One was big,
gray fellow who seemed to be the captain
He walked to particular log, stood on one
side of it close to the water, and then uttered
peculiar cries. The other gulls came and
perched on the same side of the log, which,
under their combined weight, rolled over
several inches. The gulls, step by step,
kept the log rolling until the barnacles
showed above the water. The birds picked
eagerly at this food, and the log was not
abandoned until every barnacle had been
picked.
TRIFLING HUMOKESQUEA