St. Paul daily globe., 1889-10-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

William Van, OF Nebraska City, was
burned out for the fourteenth time on
Monday.
In bingham, Mass, the fire depart
ment is called out to assist i'll searching
for lost children.
The Salvation Army at Lincoln, ILL.,,
had a wedding at the barracks the other
evening and charged an admission fee.
Camden prohibitionists the other day
swung from their headquarters a trans.
parency, on one end of which is the
legend: Local Option is TO Local and
TO Optional"
A movement is on foot in st. Peters
burg for observing Sunday as it is un-
derstood in the United States and Great
Britain. 1t is said that 1,200 st. Peters
burg merchants have already declared
themselves willing to keep their places
of business closed Oh the first day of the
week.
The managing director of big tea
dealing firm i'll London lately stated
tnat he once saw a leading broker iii
Mincing lane have sixty teas, ranging
within a penny per pound in value.
weighed up in duplicate, the 120 pots
numbered and mixed up, he then pick
ing out the sixty duplicates without a
single mistake.
Pita. the new remedy for hydrOphobia
recently discovered in Spain, seems to
be name given to the flower stalk of
the aloe, plant common in some parts
of Spain. The story goes that it's
virtues were discovered accidentally by
a man in fit of hydrophobia falling
upon an aloe plant and unconSciOuSly
biting the stem.
A h fo1 4, icfn 1,or.r icFn In 9TH
countries may be gained from their
learned brothers in France. Some of
the junior members of the legal pro-
fessiOn in Paris have placed their
services at the disposition of the man
ager of the Ambigu for the trial scene
in ''kOger lie HoDte," and their offer
has been gratefully accepted.
Green Howell. q fifty-two-year-old
negro, nYing near Gainesville, Ca, was
as black as the ace OF spades twenty-five
years ago. Then two white spots about
the size of nickel appeared upon his
skin. They continued to spread until
he is now spotted all over and appears
likely to become as white as any Cau-
caSian.
Amos Haynes, of Richmond, Ind,
died Wednesday from the effects of
humping his head in going upstairs.
This was Monday night, and nothing
was thought of it next day save to
laugh at it at the breakfast table. But
before noon he was Frustrated as by
paralysis, including his entire right
side. The skull was not fractured, but
the physicians say his blood vessels
were unnaturally weak and the jar
burst one in the brain.
A laughabe incident occurred in one
of the churches in HOlyoke, Mass,
Sunday. which was enjoyed notwith
standing the time and place. The good
pastor was trying to impress on his
hearers that the wicked stand on Slip
perry places, when suddenly seat
which held one OF the prominent MEM
bers OF the church collapsed, and he
went to the floor with loud crash.
Judge A. A. Chaplin, of the superior
court, residing in Fort Wayne, is the
victim of a peculiar mistake. The
Judge is the owner of lot, and re-
Gently he decided to build handsome
residence. Plans were made, and in
due course of time the house was fin
ished and ready for occupation, when it
was discovered that it had been built on
the wrong lot. The judge IS now nego-
tiating with house mover.
A prize of $25, 900 has been offered by
.blIC u iO1 viz NNiOiiSe
bark Freya, which capsiZed off Cape
HI enlopen while bound from Savannah
| to London with cargo of $4,000 worth
| of turpentine. In some unknown man.
| ner the Freya suddenly capsized Sept.
| IL, during the great storm, and her crew
| were rescued, after drifting about for
| twenty-four hours in small boats, by the
| bark Soridderen. and landed at Lewes.
! Del. The tug Argus has been making
! an active search for nearly week past
for the Freya.
Logan county, West Virginia, has an
area of 500 square miles. The only
town in the county is Logan G. H., with
population of 800. There is only one
| church building in the county. and that
was erected by a private individual.
| The nearest railroad station to the
| county seat is fifty-five miles. Goods
are taken to the county in push boats at
IS cents per 100 pounds. as there are no
roads throughout the county. Land
| sells at from 81 to So per acre. Dense
| forests cover the greater part of this
| hilly and mountainous county. The
| Mills are full of veins of coal varying
In thickness from four to twenty-One
| feet.
The artesian we'll in COrdele, To-. is a
wonder. After going down into the
| earth for about $50 feet the contractors
| struck what was seemingly strata rock
] of quicksand. Leaving the pipes all In