St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-10
INTERESTING ITEMS.

If Senator Blair would also Introduce
resolution limiting senators to about
two and half lines when they write
ABOUT themselves in the newspapers we
should have less of Blair, which would
be another comfort.
The largest single log of poplar ever
cut in West Virginia was cut a few
DAYS ago IN Logan county. 1t measured
93 rect IN length, 60 inches in diameter.
l,O9O cubic feet and 81 to p feet board
measure. This log alone is large CROUCH
to build good-sized frame Rouse.
A woman in Toronto, Can, was ar
rested recently on the charge of being
common scold. The charge is laid under
a very old act. This old law provides
tnat the punishment for a common scold
shall be inflicted by the ducking-stool,
ana 1t was this fact which induced the
magistrate to commit the woman for
trial by higher court to test the con-
stitutionality of the act.
The most successful catcher of spar.
rows IN the country lives in Indiahapo-
lis. He captures $4,000 of the little pests
a year In immense nets spread on the
sides OF houses. and makes good in
come by selling them in the markets.
The owners of all cabs in Paris have
been notified to supply the vehicles
with counters before April next. The
counter Is to Indicate at every moment
the distance Travelled, the hour and the
amount due. When the cab is in mo.
ton the fare will increase in proportion
to the distance gone over, and when the
vehicle is standing still it will rise as if
the cab were travelling eight kilometers
an hour.
w nile two young men were taking an
early bicycle ride in Prospect park. in
Brooklyn, morning or so ago, they
suddenly came upon young woman
lying IN the roadway beneath her over
turned wheel. She explained that her
skirts had become entangIed in the
machine, and that when thrown to the
ground the garments, which were of
the divided variety, had become so
tightly fastened to the spokes of the
wheels that she was compelled to wait
for assistance to enable her to rise. The
young men gave the necessary aid and
the thankful young woman went on her
way, stopping to give neither name nor
address,.
An albinO or white lion was born re-
Gently in john RobinSon's circus at
Deer Lodge, Mont. There is not a spot
or blemsh to mar its immaculate color.
A white lion has never before been
boosted of, though abinos among men.
women, birds and some animals are
common enough. Robinson mas re-
ceived many kilograms of congratula-
ton over his good fortune, and it is said
that Washington scientist will soon
start for the West to examine the new
conner.
Chicken thieves raided the hen-roost
of n farmpr npar RollauiIIo oo,I,,
the other morning. Just after the
thieves got to work heavy log in front
Of the coOps dropped and exploded big
torpedo. The farmer was up and after
the two thieves in a few seconds.
He chased them to the Second river.
They jumped in and started to swim
across, and he followed. In the middle
of the stream he caught one of the men.
The other swan back and hit him in
the lace. Stunned for a moment he re-
leased his man and sank. When he
came to the surface he had recovered
from the blow, but the fugitives were
beyond reach.
AT the palace of Bangkok, Siam, the
other day, performing leopard was
brought in for the amusement of one of
the young Siamese princes. In one
princes retinue was young girl of
about fourteen years OF age. The Loop
ard jumped on her breast. 1t was mere
ly in play, said the animals caretakers,
who begged her not to be frightened.
but in another moment the leopard had
seized the girl by the throat, and she
diedin sight of the Mortified spectators.
A farmer of Joanna, near Reading, in
digging an excavation the other day,
uneartned large iron plate three feet
square. bearing date April 4, 1870. Two
Indians are represented on one side of
the plate, and pair of anchors on the
reverse side. The plate also bears this
inscription in German: ''Oh, hope yet
for better time, as all troubles will
cease. Hope to see that blessed beam
of peace, when hatred, wars and strife
shall cease" Farmer Moore's barnwas
built on property secured from the
original proprietaries, Thomas and
Richard Penn, sons of old William
Penn, then governors-in-chief of Penn
sylvania. The old Quaker settlers in
the county lived side by side with re-
ligious refugees from Holland and Ger
many, and had intimate business deal
ings together, and it is believed, there
fore, that the IRON plate just found was
part of a stove made in Germany or
Holland 800 years ago.