Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-28

at the police court yesterday morning there
was an air of brisk dispatch in his move
ments that seemed to argue business. The
clerk, too, occupied his customary seat, look
ing as fresh and chirpy as daisy, while the
spruce-looking bailjffs smiled as blandly as
though they had suddenly been enriched by
vast patrimony.
There was, in short, suspicion of cram
berry sauce and turkey brooding over every
thing, which was materially strengthened
by the unmistakabIe odor of basted turkey,
which hoated into the room from an adjoin-
ing domicile presided over by busy house
wives, intent upon the preparation of bird
for the coming banquet
Business was opened promptly at 8 o'clock,
an hour earlier than usual when the SINNERS
of the night previous were hustled into court
for judgment. August Hasker first had the
honor of an audience. August plead guilty
to drunkenness, and as the kind hearted
court was disposed to bo lenient, the prisoner
was discharged on payment of IS.
Patrick Flaherty and Joseph Graham
were then arraigned, charged with disorder
~ conduct. They commenced Thanksgiy-
ing by getting fearfully drunk, and while in
this condition they endeavered to clean out
William O'Connor's saloon on lower Third
street, where they shattered the glass, insult
ed his wife and held high carnival generally.
Flaherty was most in fault, and he was COM
mitted for thirty days, losing thereby the
trinity of great dinners. Graham's offense
was more trivial and he was only committed
for week. No other business coming up
the court adjourned until this morning.
Thanksgiving and the Free Lunch Fteud.
In the long list of institutions, peculiar to
America and her holidays, the toothsome
''racket" known as the free lunch" system
has been unwittingly sighted by the in
genious but super-sensitive and aesthetic
pencil of the ephemeral historian.
Notwithstanding that it has been repudi-
ated and ignored by men of naughty stom-
achs-with money to back them-the free
| lunch system las taken on all the proportions
of benefcent and healthy institution, and
to-day its devotees may be numbered by the
| millions.
The festal or red letter days of our glo-
rious republic are noted for some popularity
of observance. The Fourth of July is great
| in saltpeter, percussion caps, bunco mbe
speeches on independence and the consti-
tuition; Washington's birthday is prolific in
immortal stories about mythical Ratchet;
| CuIlStludS IL OAFAUely LeuOer Will 1tS Happy
custom of gift making, but Thanksgiving
day is prominently noted for the universal
observance of the illustrious institution
known to hungry millions as the "free lunch
SYSTEM"
The pedigree of the first free lunch is in
volved in doubt, and life is too short for any
attempt at solution of its origin. doc
tor of divinity attached to the GLOBE com.
posing room, and commonly known as the
devil, has hazarded the opinion that the first
"fake'' of this description took place about
1900 years ago, on the banks of the Gallilee,
and it consisted of fish, but as this party s
head is abnormally developed, the chances
are that his Partially for fish will result in
his early demise, and the assertion should be
drowned in several schooners of allowance,
To return to our chestnuts, no where in
the United States has the system of free
lunches reached higher or more fourishine
stage of development than in st. Paul.
The generous practice was observed yes
terday to an extent never known before, and
the sumptuous spreads encountered at many
of the public resorts would have tantalized
the palate of the daintiest epicure.
It is unfair to suppose that the keepers Of
hotels, restaurants and saloons tempt theil
customers with such toothsoms provende1
for the sole purpose of extracting lucre
which on day like yesterday is with mos
landlords secondary consideration.
i The fact is, that the high system of free