Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-04-03
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DIARY or LOCAL ITEMS.
BY OUR LOCAL lTKNlzIR.

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DIARY or LOCAL ITEMS.
BY OUR LOCAL lrxxlzxR. ~
Sunday morning, March 18th.-A murky sky
betokening rain Or something. Lots Of people ON
tho streets, going to and fro from church, and
lounging ON the rails Of the plank promenade
which overlooks the river on St. Anthony street.
Met Nancy--ogled- conscious Of blushing as we
caught her divine eye diagonally. A dainty rev.
citation of-gaiters rewarded our lingering gaze of
admiration as she crossed tho street. Heavens |!
what an ank-ahem! Charming girl, Nan |!
Our opinion is based on actual observation. Nan
is going to church, now mot to show off that
saucy bran new bonnet. Oh! no, no.
Abrupt mental transition from passion to con-
temptation. In all this odd miscellany Of human
faces and multitudinous lack lustre eyes-there
is scarcely one We know. Who are they? where
do they all live? how do they live? Hirsute,
shaggy gentlemen with consequentially foreign
air and greasy look of self complacency- smell.
ing of garlic withal--arrest our compassion
Dapper, dashing little gents in preternaturaly
tight pants and incipient whiskers-puf6ng cigars
of a malignant two-penny type. Mcagre, hungry
looking men from Maine with metallic twinkle
of the eye and diabolical appearance of whiting
all creation to a point. Clumsy Dutchmen in
queer coats, with their obese wives and plethoric
babies, oil suffering under chronic inflammation
of red cotton handkerchiefs and virulent erup-
ton of dead-eye buttons. Fossil Swedes in q
petri6ed state bearing evident marks of recent
elimination, and a generally ridiculous appear
ance-and a host of nondescrpt men and unno-
ticeable women for whose existence it is impossi-
BILE to account on any known principle. Indians,
boys, dogs, French, English, Irish, Yankees,
Hoosiers, Buckeyes-every nation and cline under
Heaven contributes to the cold collation. of noses
on which we are taking our intellectual breakfast
and swells the inundation of unknown faces
"Faces, faces, everywhere
But not face to kiss'-
very river of faces coming and going like
waves-faces of every known chronological and
phisiognomical variety-Caucassian, Monaghan,
African, &c. Very red faces putting an asthma
tic 'sgood morning" to very sallow faccs-mod-
erately handsome people, cheek by jowl with
Internally ugly people. The fat, foolish kind,
leering at the wan, cadaverous variety-and all
the grades of feline, canine, vulpine, assinine,
masculine and femenine, Sinking, smiling, SIM
pering, gaping and grinning in every possible
phase of imbeclity.
This phenomenon of social peripateticism, we
find noteworthy. The american Elemen. dress
ed in broad cloths and Haunting gay silks pre-
dominates on the side walks-fustian pcrvades
the Beershops.
Sunday night -Boreas gone mad suddenly, a
million Devils let loose at once on the midnight
air, and all the barking hounds of Erebus unleash
ed upon their track.
Young earthquakes dancing cotillion on the
the roof of the Winslow and playing ssthunder'
with the jacks and chimneys-Hark crash,
shriek-curtain rises Terror possesses the placid
Dobbs, CONSERVATION in the right eye of jenkins,
Jones tumbling in state of fantastic stupe-
faction ct purs naturalibus from the third story,
Thompkins, meanwhile, burying his agitation in
a newspaper, and affecting sardonic smile-at
Lofer, who with pale effort at presence of
mind, indulgies in anxious conjectures as to the
probable fate of Quid in the event of that indivd
ual being buried in the impending ruin Curtain
falls at this crisis.
Monday-Snow again,a cold sharp wind still blow
ing from-don't know where. Occupy the position
of tho immortalW the subject Of tho o"rd
nal points and literally know ono North, no South,
no East and no Vest" A walk along Third and St.
Anthony streets without stopping at Caldcrs or
Smells, has involved US in an inextricable confu-
sion of ideas on this matter. Was there ever such
labyrnthine snarl of streets-such.. n chaos of
fortuitous boundary lines, such a blind and head
long faulty of purpose as is exhibited in the plat
ting of Saint Paul. Plan, as far as plan implies
generalization or design, it has none. 1t is
thing of innumerable disjointed and incongruous
parts, without the slightest reference to govern
ing idea of town much less of a great city, to
which they belong as integral parts. 1t is huge
omnibus bill: which wont pass-in which there is
n constant attempt to compromise the most irrec-
oncilable propositions in topography.
The fact is st. Paul was started with too mar
row conception Of its Importance. They made
baby's jacket for Titan, and they have ever
since been patching it up with the ragged ends of
additions and piecing it out with fragmentary
town-plats. We intend to take walk over it
next week, and give the public our Impressions in
Leyden jar.
CT The GAINESVILLE City Bank, GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin, has recently commenced business I'M
der the General Banking Law of that State,
whereby the circulation is amply secured, under
the management of II. B. Bmster, President, and
Samuel Lightbody, Cashicr-mcn of acknowledge
ed experience and integrity.
From the New York Evening Post.
GyWe are authorized to say that the Ameri-
can Exchange Bank has accepted the transfer
agency for the Illinois State stocks. Governor