Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


permit students to attend dancing school.
A farmer drove fourteen hundred
turkeys into Concordia, Neb., the other
day, to be shipped to Chicago
The number of persons of nearly all
nationalities, who have this year taken
part in the pilgrimage to Mecca is 1922
$50.
The Michigan Southern railway pays
Mrs. John Wentlautt, of ,Coldwater,
Mich, $3.50 for having killed that lady's
husband.
Mrs. Hannah Graham, of Paw Paw,
Mich, aged IS, has just recovered ST ,246
pension for the loss of son killed in the
late war.
1t is charged that the genuine Kansas
grasshopper = millions of them - have
Matched out at Dundee, Mich, and other
places Whereabouts. e
The Missouri papers are mourning
that their State gets so little of the vast
tide of immigration which is sweeping
through it and filling up Kansas.
Mrs. Alex. Laroche, of West Bay City,
Mich, has valuable dog. She dropped
roll of bills containing $3.50, and the
dog picked it up and took it home-in
his stomach. Only $50 of it is redeem
able.
A pedestrian named Davis is at Des
Moines, Iowa, trying to arrange for
walk across the continent from San
Francisco to New York in eighty days.
This would be ar average of over forty
miles per day.
Eo+o, Do,,;JS Mich olo;n,e +o no +I,o
banner town in the temperance business.
Out of total population of twenty-five
hundred fully one thousand persons are
enrolled as members of the temperance
organization.
A Newton county, Georgia, negro
carried three two hundred pound sacks
distance of six hundred yards He
took sack in each hand, and took the
third sack between his teeth. The same
negro can hold any mule in the county
by the hind legs.
A tramp has been practicing a new
dodge at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He takes
an envelope, and placing in it piece of
folded paper, enters the business houses
asking for stamp to put on it. He sue
ceeded in getting quite number before
he was arrested.
"A young woman can have no excuse
for thinking her lover wiser than he is,
for If there's any nonsense in him, he Is
sure to talk it to her.
1t is proposed to build one hundred
and seventeen miles of the Black Hills
railroad this season, and the stopping
point will be at Fort Laramie.
Hartford's greatest income is from il
surance stock. The residents of that
Connecticut city hold S7,474,051 of such
capital, as against only ST. 729, 1926 of bank
stock.
Parties from Cheyenne are taking to
the Hills machine for working dry dig
gings, and expect to. commence opera.
tons on ground in the vicinity of Rock
erville.
The contract for the construction of
the track of the Rochester and Northern
Minnesota railroad, ready for the rolling
stock as far as Pine Island, Mimi, has
been let
The Pioneer Oil company, Of Salem,
Oregon, has failed for $4,000. The
assets will fall considerably short of that
amount. A failure in flax and decline
in prices was the cause.
The Bismarck Stage company is buying
in St. Louis one hundred and twenty
large horses to stock the road for the
daily. Twenty-Five half-bred horses
Lave been also purchased for the outrl-
ders.
Half mile of steel rails per day re-
place the iron ones on the river division
of the Chicago Milwaukee and st. Paul
road. The entire distance to Chicago is
to be so relayed, after which the sched-
ule time is to be materially reduced.
An intelligent man in Bruce, Ontario,
went to shoot crows and placed his left
hand over the muzzle of his gun so as
ito keep the crows from smelling the
powder" till the last moment. He has
more sense now, but less hands.
Doctor X. is man Of superior ability
and poor shot. But every year he
takes his vacation, and tramps over hill
and dale with his gun on his shoulder.
One of his professional friends says it is
the only season of the year when he
kills nothing.
"What is this?" said fond mother in
Kentucky to her four-year-old son, with
whose wisdom she was DESTROYS of
charming the company assembled at
dinner, as she pointed to a nicely
Drowned sucking pig. ga bow-wow-
WOW, ma" replied the dear child.
The champion nose lives at Sacrament
to. Its owner was at breakfast when a
friend seated On the opposite side Of the
table, knowing him to be little near
sighted, remarked, There's fly on the
end of your nose. "Is there% respond
ed the owner of the horn of plenty. 81
didn't know it. Just please scare him
off you're nearer to him than I am"
The five year old son of family the
other day stood watching his baby
brother, who was making great noise
over having his face washed. The little
fellow at length lost his patience, and
stamping his tiny foot, said, "You think
you have lots of trouble, but you don't
know anything about it. Wait till
you're big enough to get lickin', and
then you'll see-won't he, mamma !"
"Whats the woman charged with ?"
said the court. "She's dead-beat and
vagrant, your honor said the officer
who arrested her. Then the woman
spoke up and said: eff can prove that
Pm all right, will your honor let me
go?" 'Of course I WILL" said the court.
"Then," said the prisoner, "here's the
family bible, by which you'll see that
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