St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-05
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.

At fancy dress batl held recently in
Paris, lady appeared with miniature
Eiffel tower on her head, yard high,
set with diamonds.
When the German emperor visits Os-
borne he will find in the garden splen
did myrtle, which was originally tiny
twig nlucked from his mothers wedding
bouquet.
At the top of the Eiffel tower, for a
fee, specially prepared note paper, dated
from the summit of the tower, is pro-
vided, and the writer can have the let
ter posted on the spot.
A Scotchman, who evidently does not
despise small things, claims that he has
detected 10000 dust notes in the thou
sandth part of a cubic inch of the air of
room.
The Bethlehem, Penn, young man
who went to hotel in that town the
other day and registered John Smith
and sweetheart" certainly hadth cour-
age of his convictions.
Fire in lady's hustle, started by
spark from the motor, was the excite
ment in a Dallas, Tex, street car the
other day. 1t was extinguished by what
a local paper calls "a gracelol tWlse
from a gentleman"
A Cincinnati saloonkeeper the other
dav paid 81 for a sealed envelope con-
tanning directions that would enable
him to sell more beer. When he opened
# he found on small card the words,
Don't sell so much froth."
resident of Morgantown, W. Va,
has a dog that is trained to act as cash
how. and with a written order and the
money in his mouth he will do the mar
keting properly. his only fault being
that if he meets another dog he will
swallow the money to have fight. The
master has lost $3.50 in this manner.
William ]. Hilton, wealthy and
miserly merchant of Franklyn, KY.
placed a nail heg containing $4,000 In
greenbacks and per cent government
bonds upon a fire few days ago, and
laughed ioyfully as he saw the flames
deyour the paper. Finally troubles and
business cares had turned his head.
An Alabama woman heard a ghost in
the house. Her husband heard nothing
bnt rats. She stuck to ghosts and he to
rats. and they began suit for divorce
the next day on the ground OF lncom-
patability of TEN
He is a scintlllatlon Of UNCONSCIOUS hui
NOR from a crowded street In London.
A little girl of two or three years had
been lost, and was crying most bitterly,
and would not tell any OF those who
asked her what was her name or address.
Seeing the position of affairs. bepeyo-
lent old gentleman said to her: MY
dear. won't you tell me your name? Do
trv and recollect. 1t can't be so long
since you were baptized"
A once superstitious Albanian, who
consulted ''dream book" for every
dream he had for period fifteen
wears, sys that if they had all been veri-
fed, according to the book" he would
have met with six violent deaths; mar
ried eleven blonde-baired and six dark
dressed girls; inherited nine fortunes
and made fourteen trips to foreign
lands. He is still living an old bachelor,
has never been more than ten miles
from the town in which he was born,
and hasn't got shilling laid up for in
clement weather. But he has lost all
faith in dreams and dream books.
A curious discovery has just been :
made at Vimoutiers, France, by peas
ant living in the village OF CuteSSOn.
He was digging in his field when the
Ground suddenly gave way, and he fell
into hole ten feet in depth. The peas
ant had ae lentaly lighted upon
Subterraneau chamber, the existence Of
which was not even suspected by the
country people. Oh examination a
number of human bones partially petri-
led were found in an adjoining vault
constructed in the form of circle. The
bones are of exceptionally large dmen-
sions, and appear to have belonged to a
race of gigantic stature and great
breadth of frame. In fact, the persons
who have studied the case on the spot
are of opinion that the bodies must have
been inferred in this burial place at a
cry rene te period.