The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-23
WHERE ODD PEOPLE LIVE.
Some of the Very Peculiar Homes
of Eccentric individuals.

some OF the very Peculiar Home s
of Eccentric individuals.
London Tit-Bits.
In County Westmeath, Ireland. is a
house whereof an the windows resemble
in outline the back of an armchair. This
sfmilitude is the effect of purpose, not of
chance, us the eccentric owner mad them
thus shaped to match the backs Of his
dining room chairs.
Triangular lodge at Rushton near Ket-
tering, was built by Sir Thomas fresh
am to typify the fundamental doctrine Of
the Trinity. Each side of the lodge Is
thirty-three feet long There are three
stories, with three trefotl windows on
each side. The three gables, which rise
on each side, meet in the center in a tri-
angular chimney. Other details such as
inscriptions, allegorical figures, etc. bear
out the original idea. Tradition saya
that beer, not water, was used in mixing
the mortar employed in this whimsical
dwelling
The Rev. H S. Hawker, the author of
the we'll known poem of And Shall IRE
lawney DIE" when rector of Morwens-
stow, Cornwall, embodied his taste for
ecclesiastical architecture in the plan of
his rectory, of which all the chimneys are
built to represent the steeples Of his
favorite churches, mostly those In the
west of England
At Tattingstone, near Ipswich, there is
to be seen structure that at first view
one would take for a church. 1t was
erected by certain neighboring landlord,
who, thinking that the landscape, as
viewed from the windows of his house
was incomplete without q church. and
seeing no likelihood of one being built,
put up row of cottages so designed as
to completely resemble on his side the
sacred edifice he desired. On going
round however, to the front of the
dwellings, the sham is at once apparent
In a village in the south of England
stands lofty tower, 220 feet IN height
and ID feet square, when is said to have
been built by its present occupant as
mausoleum to contain his urned ashes
after death. Being still In the flesh, how
ever, he uses it as his abode
Hampshire possesses a unique construc-
ticn in the home of an ingenious man
VINO has placed one of the disused mar
row-gauge carriages of the Great West
ern railway upon one-storied cottage,
which he has thus, by the judicious en-
ploymept of paint, tiles, ETC., converted
into an imposing-looking residence.
At Gibralter Point, near Skegness, an
ingenious couple have converted an old
boat lying high and dry upon the shore
into comfortable dwelling Here they
have lived for over thirty years, and
here all their sixteen children have been
born.
That Henry Halsall, coach builder
had no other home but a four-wheeled
cab was proved at an inquest held on his
body in December, 1897. There he dwelt
for ten years, sleeping nightly with a
piece of board for his pillow and a few
old sacks for bedclothes.
For over three years a man made his
home beneath church in the neighbor-
hood of Adelaide. During that period
an unknown and eccentric stranger bad
been at times met and accosted by the in
habitants of the district, which would
| doubtless have still remained a mystery
had he not gone to sleep while service
was being held, and with his snores
alarmed the congregation, who, on search
being made, at last discovered his strange
| dwelling place.