St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-03
ODD ITEMS.

A girl tramp, wearing male attire, was
arrested in Cincinnati one day this
week, on suspicion of being a crook. AT
the station house she told this story OF
her life: 81 came here from Indianap-
oils on freight train; rode all the way
on the bumpers. I've been tramp for
two years, working when l had to and
begging for living when it was posi-
BILE. | never had home, and never
lived in house. Myfather was horse
trader and pedler, and travelled all over
the country in wagon with my mother
and myself. | suppose l was born in a
wagon, as | never knew what it was to
live in a house."
According to the recent computation
of German scientist, snail, in one
second. moves .0015 meter; man walk
ing, LIS meters; man on SnowShOeS,
2.95; the swlftest river, 4; balloon in
calm, GA; Splinter, IL: fly, 10; fast
steamboat, SIS; fresh breeze, 10; tor
pedO boat, 11.5; very fast skater. lie;
running race horse, 1876; mountain tors
rent, 14.3; express train, 1871; ocean
wave, 2l.S; carrier pigeon, 81; swal-
low, 81; heavy cyclone, 116; sound, 337 !;
500. In a second the moon moves one
kilometer; explosion of gun cotton. So
Kilometres; sun, re; Sirius, 1874; the
earth, 29.5: shooting star, on the aver
age, 40; Halley's comet, near the sun.
393; storm on the sun, 402; cable cur
rent, 1000; Geographic current. II 900;
induction current, 1S,400; light. 800, O90;
discharge of Leyden jar on copper wire,
IL millimeeterS through, 463, 800.
Three sisters (all under eighteen
years of age) in Missouri weigh to-
gether 500 pounds. Lydia, thirteen
years old. is the heaviest, tipping the
beam at 373 pounds. Two of the trio
have six fingers Oh each hand and the
same number of toes on each foot. Their
parents are of ordinary size.
Gen. Albert Pike, the head of all the
Masonic orders and rites in this coun-
try, is in his eightieth year. He was
born in Boston and was graduated at
Harvard, went West in 1881, served i'll
the Mexican war anC was Confederate
brIgadier in command of the Cherokee
Indians. He is ali old newspaper man,
but has been practieing law in Wash
ington for many years.
The horse attached to a buggy in
which was seated a newly married
couple of Essex county, Ontario, was
frightened by being struck by rice
thrown by friends of the pair, ran away
and the bride was so badly injured by
being thrown from the buggy that it is
feared she will die.
A brass ring was sent from Germany
TO New Yorker the other day, which
was seized by the customs officers. The
tax due to the government was three
cents, and it cost the United States
something like SIS to collect that sum.
For twenty eight years Joe McKinsey,
of Silver Greek, Mich, has owned two
mares which were half-sisters and
marked just alike. Last Thursday they
were both killed by the same stroke of
lightning, and after their twenty-eight
years of service, together rested in the
same grave.
A veracious Southern chronicler of the
marvellous tells of a Georgia ben that
had in her gizZard twentY-seven horse
pistol cartridge shells, six buttons and
piece of load.
Iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburg
iron mills that IL, 600 sheets are required
to make a single inch in thickness.
Light shines through one of these sheets
as readily as it does through creased
tissue paper,