St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-06
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.

An Omaha man has a hens egg he
claims he has kept for ten years.
Aaron Trexler won $40 and the pie
eating belt OF Schuylkill county, Penn
sylvania, by eating four and one half
unsweetened squash pies at Ringtown a
few nights ago.
cigarettes for laGies' smoking" arc
sold in London, provided with specially
prepared mouth-pieces. They are per
fumed with musk and violet, and they
are enjoying a very extensive sale.
A Chicago lady gathered some Spanish
moss in Florida and brought it North
with her. She hung it on u chandelier
in her parlOr, and it bloOmed in the
for over year.
An eighty-year- bride, near Laurel,
Del, was so bashtui that she refused to
be married until the lights were turned
down. The groom. who is only twenty
five. darkened the room, and the minis
ter then tied the knot.
Michigan alone turns 1,000,0 clothes
pins loose on this country every week.
while other manufacturers bring the
figures up to l4,000.000. The product
per year gives every man. woman and
child big basket of pins, and where
they all go 10 is what no Teller can find
out.-DetrOit Free Press.
Out in Cleveland, o., Judge adopted
a novel means of deciding suit over
the ownership of carrier pigeon. He
asked disintereSted persons to take the
bird outside the city and release it. The
pigeon flew to the loft Of the plaintiff,
and the judge decided that that was suf-
ficient proof that the bird belonged to
the former.
A remarkable verdict was rendered
in the court of queens bench in London
short time since. A man sued for
damages for personal injuries, and the
jury awarded him 92.50O although lie
only claimed e200. He stepped upon
some cottonseed in front of a mercantile
establishment, which caused him to fall
and injure his spine and eyesight.
Rosa Bona, New York girl who
hasn't a second dress to her back. told
her sweetheart, who was earning So per
week. that she expected him to buy her
gold watch on Christmas eve. He
couldn't get trusted, found no chance to
steal one, and so hung himself rather
than face the music and carry her two
shilling apron.-Detroit Free Press.
The biggest edible oysters in the world
are found at Port Lincoln, in south
Australia. They are as large as a din
ner plate and the same shape. They
are sometimes more than foot across
the shell, ana the oyster fits his she'll so
we'll he does not leave much margin. Ii
is new sensation, when friend asks
you to lunch at Adelaide, to have one
oyster set before you fried in butter or
eggs and bread crumbs. But it is a
very pleasant sensation, for the flavor
and deiicacy of the Port Lincoln mann
moths are proverbial in that land of
luXuries.
The latest and most unique invention
is a machine for buttering bread. 1t is
used in connection with Il great patent
bread cutter, and is intended for use in
prisons. warehouses and other reforma-
tory institutions. There is a cylindrical
shaped brush which is fed with butter.
and lays thin layer On the bread as it
comes from the cutter. The machine
can be worked by hand, steam or cleo
tricity. and has a capacity of cutting and
buttering $50 loaves of bread an hour
The saving of butter and of bread and
the decrease in the quantity of crumbs
is said TO be very large.