St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-20
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
Accidents and Incidents of Every.
Day Life-Things That Are Hard
to Believe, Yet They Are True,
NnunrfhoIacc

Nevertheless.
A citizen of Auburn, Me-, has a dog
which he sends regularly to news
depot for the evening paper. The dog
knows exactly what time the paper is
due, and is on hand promptly at 80
each afternoon without orders from any
one.
A Charlotte Harbor, Fla, lady has a
small green frog with its home in the
calyX of lily in her room. The little
fellow is quite a pet, and perches high
on the pistil of the flower to receive his
dinner, consisting of flies fed to him on
the point of pin.
Peter Stoner is an employe in plan
| ingmill at Altoona, and he never knew
| that he was a SomnambuliSt until the
other morning, when he got out of bed,
went to the mill, began doing his GUS
| tomary work. and woke up to find that
it was not yet daylight.
A California tramp has a novel way
| of getting money. He fixes up his arm
with CASTLE soap and caustic to repre-
sent a scald, and begS for aid on the
| ground that he just met with an acct
| dent. He is said to have worked this
| game successfully for four years in
various parts of the state.
A big tree was felled recently on the
| land of John ~McClOSkey, on MoccaSin
river, Clinton county, Pennsylvania.
There were cut from it five siXteen-foot
| logs and seven twelve-fOot logs, and
still there remained twenty-siX feet of
| the but, which measured four feet. The
| end of the smallest log cut measured
| thirteen inches.
Farmer Griffith smelled something
burning and heard the crackle of flames
as he drove home from Whitewater
Wis, the other day, ana, turning
around, saw that the straw in the bot
tom of his sleigh was all on fire. He
thinks that the rays of the sun were
focused by bright new tin milk can
that he was taking home and set the
straw a-burning.
A monster toad weighing sixty-six
pounds and measuring nearly three feet
around the body, is said to have been
found at Juilac, France, and sold for
$3.50 to manufacturer at st. Etienne.
Its crOaking bears close resemblance
to the barking of dog. The inhabit-
ants of all the country round have been
pouring into Juillac to see the phenom-
| email animal.
Twenty years ago George W. Chad
| wick left New Bedford on a whaling
ship bound for the Pacific ocean. Off
Tahiti, one of the Society islands, he
|
ship. He lay hidden in the woods until
the hunt for him was given up, and
then began life on the island. He pros
| pered, and the other day returned to
his native city with snug little prop
erty. where he hopes to end his day.
A little boy, a cripple, was being
wheeled past Center avenue store, in
Bay City, when when gentleman who
noticed the unfortunate child said:
hot 10 g Nf,,fg iC fln,
suit of kiss. When he was a baby his
sister, on coming into the house. went
up behind the high chair in which he
was seated and. catching his head snd-
denly, gave it turn and kissed him.
The shock injured his spine. and he is
going through the world a cripple for
life"
w. W. Wimont, an old man who ap-
peared on the streets of Montgomery,
Ala. few days ago begging for enough
money to buy railroad ticket to Mo-
bile, has had a romantic history. Many
years ago he invented machine for
fortune. In 1876 he lost a wager of
S75, 600 that he had OH Tilden's election
to the presidency, and since then one
misfortune has crowded closely Oh the
heels of another until he has lost his
entire fortune and his health as well.
Harry Gibson, of Punysutawney, had
been wanting a pet fox for long time,
because, he said, they are so cute. He
got one, finally, took it home and placed
it in comfortable quarters. Some time
during the night it managed to get out,
when it straightway proceeded to see
how much havoc it could create in a
given time. 1t destroyed all the house
plants within reach, Killed all the chick
ems he could find, and was looking
around for a new field of labor when
arrested in its career of desOlation. The
fox is now for sale, and there need not
be any particular higgling about the
price. The owner is not in a mercenary
frame of mind.