Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-15
Nuggets OF News.

A correspondent of the Boston Journal
calls sleeping car berth sarcophagus
lermetically sealed, and prays for sum-
ner screens of painted wire gauze in
stead of the heavy curtains which
smother summer travellers.
A Georgia negro, while fishing, fast
aned his line to bis leg for safety. He
was soon seen to 60 overheard, and when
his body and the fish werc recovered it
took the coroner two days to determine
whether the negro drowned the fish or
the fish drowned the negro.
Milford, Mass, has fat boy named
Eldric Chepdclaine, who is five feet
eleven inches high, II years old, holds
out fifty pounds, raises l,50O pounds on
a lifting machine, and weighs $50
pounds.
Oysters are said to be the cheapest
food in the New York market, and the
number consumed averages half dozen
daily to each inhabitant. The quality
this season is reported to be finer than
usual, and the supply is immense.
In Bayou Chicot. La, a full-grown
wildcat leaped upon Mrs. Griffith
Thompson. fastening his teeth In her
arm. She grasped the savage by the
throat and held it until it was choked to
death, althoughit was biting andscratch-
ing her all the time.
Asmau red squirrel attempted to Jump
from one tree to another as William
Miles, of New Chester, Pa, drew on him.
The squirrel fell into the Brandy wine.
It hardly touched the water when sew
eral bass came to the surface, and, pull
ing the squirrel under, drowned it.
The Manitoba Mennonites are all torn
up with religious discussions over the
momentous question of dress fastening.
The radicals persist in using buttons.
while the conservatives insist that no
member can retain his good standing
who does not restrict himself to hooks
and eyes.
A Pittsburg man cast some very
productive bread upon the waters two
years ago, when he loaned young
friend $500 to go West. He received
by express the other day five one
dollar notes and a gold brick worth
81, 900. This is the story the Pittsburg
papers tell, but it is not accompanied
by the afidavits usually required in
such cases.
It's NOT generally known, says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mr.. Joseph
Sailer, who has recently retired from
the financial editorship Of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, was not only the oldest
editor In that position in this country,
but the first to write a regular money
article for any daily paper, as the Led
ger was the first in this country to print
money article.
Silas Hutchinson, Of Pocopsin Town
ship, Pa, relates as fact that he saw
one Of bis COWS come up suddenly out of
the Brandywine, where she had gone to
cool, and as she assembled the river bank
black bass about eighteen inches long
hung to one Of her teats. Finding it.
self out of water it let go and wiggled
back into the stream.
A big pickeral. hooked by T. T. Win
throp, OF Hydetown, Pa, lay so queit
that it was query with him whether
he had fish or snag. After trying
to worry it without success happy
thought struch him. Taking the fish
line In his teeth, he established tele.
phonic communication, and yelling
s'Hellop' at the top Of his lungs, the
fish darted like shot, and was SO active
that it was with difficulty secured. II
weighed five pounds.
A Wyoming man saw Texas steer
standing on the railroad track, and
knowing that the express train was due
tried to induce the beast to move. Sew.
eral pieces of board thrown at the feroc.
ious monster failed to move 1t, until al
last, as the train rushed down the track
at lightning speed, he seized the steer
by the tail and twisted 1t like a wei
towel. At this moment the train struck
them both and the result was stupeedous.
The steer was found two days afterwards
browsing peacefully in a corn field,
with two driving wheels hung on its
horns. No trace of either the man OF
the engine has been heard of since
The bossest snake story ever heard Of
has just come to light in Twiggs, as
follows: A few days since, while a Ger
tain farmer was cleaning out his fence
corners, huge rattlesnake struck al
MIN, but, missing the intended victim
sunk its poisonous fangs deep into the
hoe-handle which the man held in his
hands. In less time than it takes te
write it, the handle was swollen to such
an extent that it burst the eye of the
hoe and split into a thousand pieces
With the aid of two crowbars and an ole
army musket the snake was killed. The
farmer skinned land now uses the hide
for a wallet, in which he carries corn tx
the>hogs. The "waIlet" will hold three
pecks and two quarts of shelled corn
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