Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-28


mon practice of small boys who get the
worst of fight but such conduct doesn't
harm the victor in the least.
OUT In THE STATE.
Railroads and Stage Lines To,rns Along
the Route--A Rock County Rock What
May Be Seen From. the Top Fat Boy of Lu-
rerne--Hunor0us Pen Picture Subject
for Barnasnr.
Correspondence of the Globe.
On the Worthington g. Sioux Falls rail-
road daily trains are now run as far as Beav
or Greek, but the track is down and con-
struction trains go on several miles beyond.
Beaver Creek is about ten miles from Lu-
verne. Seven or eight miles. further on,
just in the edge of Dakota, is Valley Springs,
to which point they expect to have the cars
running early in June, and in July they are
to greet the citizens of Sioux Falls with
prolonged screech. If the cars should reach
the Falls by the 4th of July there would be
grand rally on the high pressure principle
A celebration of more than ordinary vehe
mence would take place, and enthusiasm
would bubble up to a hundred and nine de-
grees above fever heat. From Beaver Creek
to Sioux Falls, distance of twenty two
miles, Daniel Shell, of Worthington, runs
line of four-horse coaches, making close
connection with the trains both ways, and
taking passengers through in three hours, or
three and a half. There are coaches enough
at all times to accommodate the travel. If
two are not enough, three are brought into
requisitlon, and more if necessary. The
stage road is very good one, and the trip is
not without its funny. good-natured side.
Three miles north of Luverne peculiar
rock formation looks down upon the sur
rounding country from an altitude of over
hundred feet above the common level. The
top is in the form of a terrace and has an
area of six or seven hundred acres. On the
east side are vertical cliffs frowning and
jagged, in places sixty or seventy feet in
height. Basaltic columns stand DIP like pal
isades, SCARED and scanned by the elements
into fantastic forms, unique and full of in
terest. In many places these rocks are as
smooth as polished marble, made so by the
rays of the sun and the storms that have
pelted them. By exposure the rocks harden,
and they may be polished like agate.
Hundreds of tons are being quarried and
used for building purposes. Although the
surface rock is almost as hard as flint, yet
like good mine it improves as they pene-
trate the mighty mass. How to account for
it here in the middle of vast prairie is the
subject of some speculation. It is not of
the character of moraine, and an iceberg
would hardly have been guilty of dragging
such ponderous unshapen body out into
the heart of great country like this to re-
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igneous indications, however, that throw
some light on its origin. During some of
the awful commissions of nature, when the
mountains were thrown up and the valleys
depressed, in the chaotic confusion this
hurled away from it's native bed
| That is one theory. From it's summit the
eye takes in a wide scope of country, and
the view in the clear calm of the early morn
| ing is sublimely grand. The scattering
trees that fringe the winding river, the fields
of growing grain, the bright farm houses the
thrifty village three miles distant, the iron
| highway with it's cuts and bridges and cause
ways marking the earth like ray of light,
the river glistening in the sunshine like a
chain of silver, while away out along the
blue line of the horizon Iowa and Dakota
kiss hands to Minnesota and exchange
friendly greetings, combine to form pan
oramic scene that cannot be equaled from
any other point in all this vast expanse of
country.
Luverne is cultivating prodigy. 1t is a
chunk of a boy eight years old, weighing 100
pounds. He comes out of his nest when the
weather is pleasant, and sits in large chair,
where all the folks passing can see him.
Men, women and children fill his pockets
with nickels, get him to stand up, turn
around a few times, walk off little, come
back, sit down again, and go through with
all manner of maneuvres. They pinch HIM
to test his nervous system, pull him around
as If he was boy of straw, instead of a
live lump of fat in human form, with few
bones supposed to be somewhere in the in
terror. He is the largest boy of his age in
Luverne, and is still growing. If nothing
happens him, and providence favors the
measure, by the time he becomes
voter he will weigh not far from two
thousand pounds, with upward tendencies.
The boy appears to know what he is about.
and seems to enjoy his marvellous dimen-
sions. Some of the incredulous thought
perhaps he might be stuffed boy, but when
| they got hold of him they were made aware
not adapted to rapid locomotion, but man
ages to waddle around very like mud
turtle. It is expected Barnum will be after
him as soon as he becomes satisfied of his
ponderosity. It can't be said of the boy
that he is bony, muscular fellow: that
would be a libel on the face of it, he is pure
ly a Emphatic chap, with phlegmatic ten
tendencies. The young lad will be
on exhibition at the State fair
the coming fall, and will be entered
for the sweepstakes in the fat boys club.
Few eight-year-old boys in this world or the
world to cpme, weigh one hundred and
eighty poundA apiece. It takes smart boy
half life time to accumulate that amount
of tissue under highly favorable circum-
stances. It has not yet been determined
whether the parents are responsible for this
peculiar freak of nature, or whether it may
not be accredited to the Minnesota climate.
Mankato beat the world with the largest pig,
but Luverne can score her fifty pounds on
an eight-year-old boy and then discount the
State. c. Il. HALL.
4 Human Skeleton Inside Of Horse.
Virginia City Enterprise.
A miner in the Black Hills, writing to a
friend in this city, tells of horrible remind
er of the fearful snow storms of last winter,
and of the perils of those who we're caught
out and lost their way on the plains. He
says that recently, while he and two others
were crossing the country, they came upon
the skeleton of horse, within which was
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