Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Orlando Fla.) Reporter says
that some orange packers of that place
have begun to use the stem of the pal
metto leaf for hoops for orange boxes,
in place of the imported hickory hoops.
Minister to Rory: "Why weren't
you at the kirk on SundayP" Rory:
II was at Mr.. Dunlop kirk Minister:
81 don't like your running about the
strange kinks in that way. Not that I
object tae yer hearing Mr.. Dunlop; but
I'm shure ye wadna like yer ain sheep
straying away into strange pastures"
Rory: Il wadna care grain, sir, if it
were better grass"
In forty years the imports of British
India have risen from the value of eight
millions sterling to that of ffty-three
millions. The exports have advanced
from twelve to sixty-seven millions
sterling. The imports from the United
Kingdom are valued at thirty millions
sterling per annum. The exports
amount to twenty-eight millions.
In the Lipp-Schaumburg forest at
Turbs, in Hungary, peculiar animal
was recently shot, which was at first
supposed to be very powerful fox.
The Vienna biologists, however, have
shown that it is cross between wolf
and fox. Its form is that Of fox,
but it has the color of a wolf.
A woman died in the medical college
hospital at Nashville, Tenn, recently,
who is said to have twice enlisted in the
regular army during the war, and to
have served for some months each time
before her sex was discovered. Her
name was Jennie Robinson, but she was
more familiarly known as Soldiers
Charley"
The following are the principal items
in the permanent property in the city
of Paris: Churches. synagogues and
other places of worship, POP, 178, 134f.;
cemeteries, 1860, 846f.; theatres, H.
$50, 064f.; parks, squares, and nurser-
les, 272, 303, 031f.; statues and foun-
tains, 1928, 705f The total value of
the property of the city is 1,059, $685.
879f,
Stillmann B. Allen, of Boston, has
Just distributed $500 in prizes to Maine
boys under 10 years of age who have
raised the most Indian corn on one
eighth of an acre in the past season.
More than six hundred boys in all parts
of the State competed, and the first
prize, 5000, was awarded to Frank E.
Small, of Stockton, who raised 2,246
pounds.
Three islands in the Hudson, near
Albany, known as Hillhouse island,
Draker island, and Island Park. and
containing an aggregate Of 260 acres,
have recently been purchased by Mr..
Erastus Corning, for the purpose, it is
said, of dumping ground for the i'm
mense quantities of cinders, scale, Stag
and ashes coming from the Albany and
Rensselaer, steel and iron works.
There are in the United States, &C
cording to the census report, IS, 500, 5S2
males and "a, 642, 2S4 females. The ma
tives number 43, Ats, 500 and the foreign
born 6,677, $50. There are SO, 304, S77
whites, GAIT, Isl colored, 105, 463 Chi
nese, and 255 other Asiatics. There
are Is, 158 colored persons to each 100,-
600 whites, against 14,52S in 1870, and
96,519 females to every 10O,0O males,
against (,ou1 In 1SlU.
A queer old lady, Just dead in Berlin,
used to lie abed all day, rising Just at
dusk, and spent the night in preparing
sumptuous meals for herself and her
female servant. She was surrounded
by dogs, cats and birds, and she caused
every new work on animals to be pur-
chased for her as soon as it was pub
Ech
that she had left q handsome legacy
to her servant, and all the rest of her
property to grand-niece in England,
to revert, after the latter's death, to an
asylum for dogs. For many years she
wore no body garment except q mans
dressing gown, On one foot she wore
boot and on the other q shoe, and her
hands were encased in gloves day and
night.
One of the best attested cases of ex-
IRENE longevity is that of Mrs. Eliza
beth Treadwell Weston, of Peterboro',
N. H., who celebrated her one hundred
and third birthday at Greenfield, Febru-
ary Is. 1t has been maintained with
much pains and ingenuity that there Is
no proof that any person in modern
times has lived to the age of 100 years;
but most persons believe that over
whelming evidence exists to upset this
| theory. In the case of Mrs. Weston the
family records are very clear. Accord
ing to these, she was born February 10,
ITS, in Peterboro', and married Abel
Weston in 1896. Five of her twelve
children are now. living, the eldest of
them, Deacon Samuel Weston, being in
bis eighty-ffth year.