St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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West Virginia, is over twenty years of
age and scarcely three feet high.
The lima bean crop of Ventura county,
California, this year will amount to 5000
tons, worth $500, 600.
county, West Virginia, has been fined
for selling whisky unlawfully.
A Middleton, DEL. duck mingles with
chickens and endeavOrS to conceal its
Identity by making attempts at Growing.
A charter has been granted for a rail-
road in Liberia. 1t will be the first in
that country. Its length will be 656
miles.
A pair of screens wrought in the fin
est OF gold lacquer by japanese work
men have been sold to a merchant of
Shanghai for s14, 900.
California fruit growers, who used to
throw away their peach pits, are now
worth this for fuel. They make a hot
and aromatic fire.
Mrs. Mary E. Kingnorth, of Marion,
n. Y. a widow %ifty-seven years of age,
advertised for a husband. A wealthy
Chicago man replied, and after CORE
spending for a time they met and were
married.
Capt. Haskell, of San Francisco, re-
Gently witnessed a terrific battle be-
tween a swordtish and a whale in the
harbOr at San Francisco. The sword
fish was finally victorious. killing the
whale.
w. M. Branch, of Paw Paw, Mich, IS
honest anyhow. He published a card
in the local papers setting forth that he
is a specimen of what whisky can do for
a man, and pledging himself to stick to
water for the future. rex
Mrs. Jacob Pearce, of Hawkinsville,
Ga. bought a hen from a chicken trader.
The hen was killed for dinner Sunday,
and in the gizzard of the fowl were
found twenty-seven brass pistol cart
ridge hullS, six buttons and a piece of
lead.
Rev. Frank Peterson, the representa-
tive of the American-Swedish Baptist
church, at the late international Sunday
school convention in London. reports
that there are $4,000, 900 teachers and
scholars in the Sunday schools of the
world.
Charles Foster, an Albany lad, fell
into the river while fishing and sank to
the bottom. He was dragged out with
graphing irons after he had been under
water for eight or ten minutes. The
doctor revived him by artificial reSpira-
The case is considered most remark
able.
Vlncennes, Ind, has just produced an
original judge. A saloonkeeper was to
be tried before him for selling liquor
without a license, and the case had cX-
cited so much interest that a crowd was
expected to be present. Accordingly
the judge hired a hall and charged all
spectators 10 cents admission.
The Union Elevated railroad in Brook
Ign is haunted. The sound of blows on
the rails, as if some n were striking
them with a hammer, is frequently
heard at night when nobody is at work
on the road. The mysterious noise
seems to come from a place where a
workman was killed some time ago.
j. E. Hutchinson, a freight conductor
ON the Mobile & Ohio road, was en-
gagged to marry Miss Bette McDaniels,
of jackson, Tenn, and went there to
consummate their vows. A friend adj
yiSed him not to marry the girl, but he
insisted. The pair stood up to be mar
ried, when the friend spoke to Hutchin-
son again, and the bridegroom abruptly
left the house.
New Haven police recently detected
a saloonkeeper who was selling liquor
on Sunday in a curious way. An officer
assembled East Rock, having first Sc
cured a good spy-glass. He took a po-
Sition where he could see the saloon aud
watch it. Presently he saw some men
enter and he thereupon gave a signal by
waving a handkerchief to a squad of Of
fcers stationed in a house near the sa-
loon. They also had a glass, and when
the signal was given descended upon
the saloon. The proprietor was arrested
and fined $50 and costs the next day.
A Kingston, N. Y, man by will left a
life interest to his widow in a little es-
tate valued at 1900, the property after
her death to be divided between twelve
heirs. There being a small mortgage on
this property, foreclosure followed, and
the costs of court, lawyers fees. etc.,
made the judgment foot up to 81, 999.
During her life the widow will be enui-
tied to the interest of the remaining
dollar. and at her death two of the heirs
will receive 20 cents each, five of them
will be given 4 cents each, four of them
will be entitled to 5 cents each, and one
will receive the annual interest on 20
ooptc Auripu life