St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-31
SHORT STORIES.

An Indianapolis girl, while suffering
from la grippe, sneezed almost steadily
for forty-eight hours.
What are supposed to be the first
playing cards used were recently found
in the Pompeiian excavations, and are
now IN the possession of collector in
Philadelphia. The cards are perfectly
square.
1t pays to be subsidized enthusiast
in France. NJ. Fournier. the chief
claquer at the Opera and sundry other
Partisan theaters, has just passed away,
after bequeathing to his heirs upward
of $500, 900.
A well-dressed young man asked at a
Detroit theater box Office for two tickets.
Upon being informed that there was
''nothing left except standing room,"
he replied: ''All right; gimme two
together"
The Wiudham county, Conn.,, court
house is owned by Chicago man, who
inherited the building and site. His
ancestors bequeathed the property to
the town on conditions that have not
been lived up to. But the Chicagoan
doesn't propose to be mean and take
the bu ding away from the town OF
which he was native.
served by the BraZllians. Funerals are
notable in that for a young unmarried
lady coffin, hearse and the livery of the
driver must be bright scarlet, the four
white horses drawing the hearSe must
be covered with scarlet nets and scarlet
plumes must deck the horses heads.
No women go to the cemeteries. The
mother, the widow must not exhibit her
grief in public.
Judge Thomas T. Bouldin, of Char
Iotte county, Virginia, owns the planta-
ton Oh which his grandfather and great
grandfather are buried, and which has
been in the family 146 years, and al
though he is seventy-seven years of age
he sleeps in the same room he was born
in, and upon the same bedstead he was
born on. Judge Bouldin showed the
correspondent the spot where stood the
cabin which his anceStreSS. who came
from Maryland, had erected in 1744, and
the tradition is that she Wept because
she found no place for her gold lace hat.
The height of an olive tree is usually
twenty feet, but it is sometimes as high
as fifty feet, and it reaches an almost
fabulous age. One lately destroyed at
Beaulieu had recorded age of five
centuries, and was thirty-six feet In cir
cumference. The olive tree is exceed
ingly prolific under cultivation; the
fruit yields about 20 per cent of its
weight exclusive of kerneD in Oil. Italy
is said to produce 100000 and France
100000 gallons of oil annually. The
tree does not vegetate readily beyond
1000 feet altitude, or forty-fve degrees
of latitude.
A Missouri farmer, with a turn for
statistics, has furnished communica-
ton to his county paper on the subject
of official salaries, in which ne states
that an official who receives $4,000 per
year salary absorbs the price OF 26.666
bushels of corn at Is cents per bushel, or
of 6,666 bushels of wheat at 60 cents per
bushel, or 50, 533 bushels of oats at IL
cents, or the price of fifty good farm
horses. He also estimates that farm
hand at S13 per month would have to
work the year round for a quarter of
century to earn the same amount, and
adds that in 1S66-7-6S. about 5000 to 5000
bushels of corn would have footed the
bill, or 5000 bushels of wheat.