St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
SHORT SHOTS.

A club in Philadelphia has the sug-
gestive name OF the IS. N. o. b. 5"
The town of Orlando, Fla, has an Or
dinance forbidding saloons to be less
than 200 feet apart.
A ninety-year-old drummer boy of
the war OF 1872 was married in Iowa to
a siXty-five year-Old widow.
A Philadelphia school teacher has
been forced to resign her position for
alternating the affections OF MIS-. Sallle
Smiths husband"
A sixteen-year-old girl has been ar
rested In New York for the atroci0us
crime of stealing her fathers trousers
while he slept and pawning them.
Elder Punkum, all Etna, Me-, Advent
ist, heard boy blowing one OF the new
tangled whistles Oh Friday and thought
it was the signal for the cOnSunmaJl0n
OF earthly things.
j. E. Brown, of Delta. Ont, received
package by express, which was found
TO contain gold watch and chain,
gold ring and $50 in money, stolen from
him five years ago.
An elephant recently died in Ceylon
which had served the public works de-
partment for over siXty-tive years and
had previously worked III various parts
OF the island for an unknown period.
A gOurd three and one-half feet long
is one of the products of Annie Lowe
(colOred). OF Marietta, Ca, raised in her
garden this year. She has fifteen OF
these gourdS, some OF them four feet
long.
Room-mates quarreled in Salem, N.
j., and one drew all the bedclOtheS
away from the other. The other then
dropped mis- hand carelessly Oh the ones
nose and there followed suit IL court
over the broken member.
A conscience wave is sweeping over
the land. the secretary of the treas
urer has just received letter contain
ing four 2-cent stamps, which the writer
says is the amount, with interest, of two
stamps which he used twice.
Princess Sophie's chief wedding gift
is a magnificent parure OF tnrquoiSeS
and diamonds. consisting of stomacher,
earrings, necklace and bracelets, which
is the joint gift of the Kaiser, Kaiserin,
Queen Victoria and the Prince Of Wales.
The Chinese titles for California rail-
way stations are many of them striking
if not ineligible. Lamanda Park is
for them Lemon Park; Azusa is trans
formed into SwiSha; San BernardinO in
the Monaghan pidgin vernacular be-
!. An Indian boy was wading in the
Feather river, in California, near the
Golden Gate mine, Thursday. when
large Fish carried off the great toe on
his lett foot, The little boy wants to
die, just because his companions will
call him ''NiEe-tOed Jimmy"
Hypnotism is to be elevated into
science. Already a society is being
formed in London to Investigate its
merits, and has promise OF influential
support. So much encouragement has,
in fact, been given TO the movement
that semi-public gathering has been
held in Westminster Tower hall to take
it into still further consideration.
a swindler sold Clinton county, Mich,
farmer a recipe for making his wheat
weigh twice as much IS it ought to-, and
signed a contract to divide the money
gained by the extra weight with the sci
entitic swindler. The contract even
tually turned up as prOmlssOry note,
and the farmer paid 500 for it-and
didn't advertise the matter with brass
band either.
There used to be singular custom at
Holland house in London. The last
Lord Holland shot himself. 1t was the
tradition of the family that he had been
shot and every night for years, punetu-
ally at IL O'Clock, a gun was fired from
behind the house for the purpose, as the
vulgar said, of soaring the conscienceof
the murderer. The gun has Dot been
heard for some years now.
The growth of the organization known
as the Christian Endeaver society is
phenomenal. Three years ago last July
there were !. AGO members in New York
state, and about $1,000 in the world;
year ago there were in all 100000 mem
bers, of whom 81, 900 lived In New York;
to-day there are 100000 Christian En-
deavorers, and New York heads the list
with $4,000 names, three-f0urths of
whom are church members.
A few evenings since Rev. DR.. Sharp
married Perceville b. Heath, of CaIifor-
mia, to Miss Anna E. Young, a hand
some young lady of Alexandria, Va.
MIR. Heath advertised for wife, and
the advertisement lea to q correspond
eBce with Miss Young. and he came
from California to see her. He met her
last Sunday. They became mutually
interested, were married Thursday
evening, and have gone on marriage
trip to New Hampshire, where Air.
Heath's parents reside.
The most profitable book ever printed,
at least in this country. was Webster'S
Spelling Book. More than $4,000, 600
copies of this production have been
issued, and could DR.. Webster and his
heirs have enjoyed the royalties from it
they woGld have found 1t more valuable
than the cave of Monte Cristo. Yet
DIR. Webster wrote it that he might pro-
cure means to support himself while
engaged In other work, notably his
dictionary, which was really an elabOra-
ton of the spelling book.
One popularity Of the dinner that
William w. Astor gave at Delmonico's
the other night to his co-workers in the
movement for the worlds fair was that
powers were tabOoed and the staples of
the kitchen garden were utilized in
their stead. The great mound in the
center of Delmonico's largest table was
covered with pumpkins, beets, cueum-
bers. tomatoes, and the vines and leaues
of those vegetables, while above all,
from the heart of the display, rose
sheaf of corn.
Prof. Fresenius, Of Wiesbaden. after
long series of chemical analysis de-
elares that an egg contains as much
nourishment as a pound and an ounce
of cherries, pound and a quarter of
grapes, a pound and half of russell
apples, two pounds of gooseberries and
four pounds of pears, and that La
pounds of grapes, 1877 pounds of russell
apples, 1e2 pounds of pears and 80
pounds pounds Of plums are equal in
nourishment to 100 pounds of potatoes.
An Illinois stranger at Toledo hotel,
unfamiliar with the electric light. tried
to blow it out. No use. Next he tied
knots in the string by which it was sus-
pended. hoping to choke off the light.
That failed, and then he wound towel |
around the bulb and went to bed. After
he was asleep the towel ignited and set
the room on fire. The house was saved |
from confederation by the timely dis
covery by the night Waterman.
The CORYPHEE.