St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-10
The WORLD IS QUEER.
A Few Stories for Those Who
Believe It Is Common
place.
The Remarkably Heroic En-
durance Of a Delicate
Girl.
A Mammoth Hog Which Must
Be Fed With a Sppinkling
Pot.
How a Middletown, Conn.,,
Plumber Broke Three
Ribs by SneeZing.
, New York sun.

1889 are boys, fdct tlaG means
war, according to the old adage; but in
the opinion of political economists it in
dlcates a comforting but forlorn hope
endeav0r on the part of human nature
to establish numerical equilibrium be-
tween the sexes in the Nutmeg state.
Within a week the biggest hog has
been discovered. 1t belongs to Levi
Williamson, near Ansonia, is seven feet
long and weighs LOCO pounds. 1t is un-
able to get up, and its owner has to
empty liquid food into the hog from
l0ng-nosed sprinkllng pot.
John S. Bailey, veteran plumber Of
MiddeteWn. sneezed so violently the
other day that he fell down and broke
three ribs. He had the grip of a fero-
ci0us Russian type. DIR. Cleveland. who
patched up his fractures, admonshed
Bailey to be more moderate in his
sneezing in the future, for his whole
thOracic rOtunda might cave in on him.
Miss Fanny Luther made sensation
msthe same town by suddenly quitting
The Presbyterian faith of her fathers
and going over to the Catholic fold OF
Rev. Father Sheridan. who not
o My baptized her into the mother
church, but also became her god
father. Miss Luther'S relations and
fire. ndS made great ado over her act.
which they called apOstacy; but the
young woman was engaged to be mar
ried to a good-looking young Catholic
in Rev. Father Sheridan's flock, and the
only obstacle to their wedding was re-
moved when she became
a CATHOLIC, TOO.
A citizen has uSt compiled q record
of the divorces granted in this eoun ty
last year; they are Sxty-three in num-
hnr nj a NJ
rlmonial knot was done by Judge San
ford the other day. He was just four
minutes doing it. Then he tried again
on the same day, but his time was four
minutes slower.
rwenty-four years ago Nathaniel E.
Robinson mySteriOusIy appeared in
Manchester, and soon became one of its
most influential citizens. He said that
he was WidOWer. Not long ago
he was engaged to Miss Annie
Hayes, cumely young lady of
the village. and they were to be mar
ried next spring. Last week Mr.. Rob
inson killed himself. A day or two
later yelled lady, accompanied by a
that she was RObinsOn's wife. She
was the chief mourner in the
train that followed the dead man to
the village cemetery. CAT the time
we were married." said the woman after
the funeral, 'Nlr. Robinson was the
oyprseer of a mill in Rhode Island,
where still reside. He went away to
get work for higher pay, promising to
send for his wife and children as
soon as possible. He never returned. |
had no tidingS Of him until | read in the
papers a notice of his death" The
tale may he true, but it does not ac-
count, seemingly, for the woman's
youthful children, whose father. she
Says, Robinson is.
A month ago Andrew BOland, of New
Haven, cut his wife's throat and ran
away. She got we'll of her wound. So
Andrew came back a day or two ago
and tried to
CHOP HER HEAD OFF
with an AK. He chased her out OF a
seCond-Story window in her home and
one of her legs was broken. Mrs. Be-
land, who is over seventy years old, is
dow in the hospital, and Andrew in
Jail.
A beautiful but frail young lady. of
the Connecticut river valley, not long
ago fell into so serious decline that
her parents meditated taking her to
health resort, but the other night
she entreated her father to let
he consented, STIMULATING only
that she should take pednmeter along
with her. She went in close carriage,
attended by two careful servants, and,
so delicate she seemed to be, the attend
ants would not have been surprised if
she had not survived the first quadrill
she entered. But once on the floor.
she was transported by the prevailing
mood, and next day, when the old
gentleman examined the pedometer. he
found that she had danced just thirty
one miles and half, aud was ready for
another ball-the sooner it came the
better it would SUIT. He is convinced
now that things are not always what
| they seem; the health resort scheme has
| taken second place. and balls have first
| option in his hygenic calculation.
At Rockville last summer w. A.
| Crandall lost his valuable gold watch,
| Stem-Winder, Swiss movement, while in
| the hay field, and he saw it no more un-
| I'll one morning last week he heard
something jingle as he pitched ''lock
! of hay" into the manager before his
| Alderney cow. 1t was his Stem-wlnder,
Swiss movement, that Jingled, and it
was matted into the wad of hay which
the cow had first taken into her jaws.
| The dangling chain was the clue where
by Mr.. Crandall was enabled to save
| his property from precariOuS peregrI-
! nation that might have been fraught
with peril to timepiece and
DISCOMFORT TO COW.
The long exposure to weather which
| the watch had undergone in the field
had not damaged it in any way.
| Contractors who were trying to dig a
house we'll for Mr.. Doane,of Thompson,
were not in jubilant spirits the other
! day when Sun reporter called on
| them. Thew were drilling and blast
| ing and swearing, and were so busy
doing all three things they had barely
| time in which to tell what they were
| swearing about. 1t was easy to see what
| they were drilling and blasting. Mr..
| Doane, who is fine judge of what the
| underpinning of Connecticut is, and a
most appreeiative critic of the composite
terrestrial architecture of his own farm,
| had offered the contractors $500 to dig
| we'll for him, and the contractors had
| jumped at the bid. Now they regret
their contract. They have spent over
| $500 already In digging. They have
| drilled and blasted smooth round hole
| thirty feet into the bosom of the earth,
and every foot Of the shaft was cut
| through the hardest of flint. They can
| form no idea how far the ledge extends
water cannot pereolate through solid
rock, and as they have got to tap sub
terraneau water duct, according to their
business agreement, they have got
! to drill and blast a hole through that
| ledge, even if the job takes them down
! to Australia, before they can rightfully
claim their money. Therefore the con-
tractors are glum when they don't
swear; but Mr.. Doane is quietly glee-
| full, though he says little. Once in
while he remarks: "Bore away, boys;
| there's water down there some'heres.
and it don't make no difference where
yer get it; mebbe you'll couple onto tho
Gulf Stream yet, and then we kin hev
Iniun summer here all Their year
| round"
| Burglars took infinite trouble to batter
a way into the house of Uncle Levi
Whaley at Norwich Town the other
night, and looked the habitation all
over for something worth their while to