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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
A SOCIAL SYMPOSIUM.
What the st. Paul Boys and Girls Did
| Last Week.


Last Week.
But one more week before lent.
On Friday evening a progressive euchre
arty was given by Mrs. Hopping at her resi-
dence.
The ladies Of the First Methodist Episcopal
church held a social in the church parlors on
Friday evening.
Miss Conautz, Of Pleasant avenue, gave a
dancing party to a number Of friends on
Thursday evening.
On Thursday evening the Young People
Social union, of Jackson street church met
in the church parlors.
DR.. and Mrs. Hutchinson received about
eighty friends at their residence on West
Third street on Friday evening.
On Monday evening a progressive euchre
party was given by Mrs. Glenuy to the par
Elephants in the Greek stage at the carnival.
The Lower Town Whist club was enter
tanned BY the Misses Belote. at their resi-
dence on Eighth street, on Wednesday even
ing.
On Friday afternoon Mrs. c. B. Thurston.
of Summit avenue, entertained 4 large num-
Der Of friends at a reception. About 200
were present.
\ social meeting with music aud recita-
tons was held at the rooms Of the Gospel
Temperance union, on Seventh street, on
Friday evening.
The Young Ladies club, Of No. go st.
Peter street, held one OF their sociables on
Tuesday evening. Music aud dancing were
the order Of the evening.
Messrs Charles Wright and William sosu-
Ger gave progressive euchre party at the
residence Of Mrs. ". A. Spencer. Irvine
park, on Friday evening.
On Thursday evening Miss Marie Geist
made a few hours pleasant to a number Of
people by one OF her enjoyable chamber con-
certs st the music store OF Dyer & Howard
Last Monday evening = very delightful
musicale was given at the residence Of Jo-
seph Mickey, No. s95 Summit avenue. many
OF the ladies' Of s.. John, the Evangelist, par
ticipatiug.
On Thursday evening Mrs. z. G. Rogers
held an informal reunion al her residence on
Dayton avenue in honor OF Mr.. and Ms.
Ed. ". Johnston. None but old friends we're
present, and very enjoyable time is re-
ported.
Miss Williams Of No. As, PARK Place. gaze
a progressive euchre party on Friday evening
in honor 81 her sister, who is visiting :,
Paul f0r Few weeks from New York Hand
painted score cards. executed by the hostess.
were q feature Of the occasion.
TIE Upper Town Whist club met on Sat-
urday evening al the residence Of Miss
Rachael Rice SIX tables Sere played All
winters practice has developed high degree
g proficiency among the members Of the
club. and the periodical contests are aurses-
pAted With great interest
Mr. George Bigelow. Of College avenue.
gave costing party on Thursday eFeniur.
in which AoOut = dozen couples participated
As,sr intulg.ng in tie exhns-ztinx Sport
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08

years old. The younger males, from three
to six years old, they DO not permit to land
where the families are located, or to have
anything to do with family affairs. They are
therefore forced to
FLOCK BY THEMSELVES
in another section, not far away. All that
they DO, in the meantime. is to ramble about
the island go in or out Of the water as they
may choose, and have q good time
generally. These are the "baehelors" as
they are known, and it is they who furnish
the sealskiu cloaks Of commerce. The popu-
lation of the harems soon nearly doubles, by
the appearance of as many little fat, barking
pups" as there are females. The little fell
lows are as frisky as puppies, and grow as
rapidly on their diet of rich milk, the moth
erS dividing their time between the cares of
their babies and swimming off shorel i'm search
OF fish. The papas stay at home, taking care
Of the babies so long as the little rascals do
not wander of the spot claimed as home by
them, but becoming utterly Indifferent TO
their interests the moment they get off this
spot This occupies the time from May to
August, when the pups begin to learn to
swim, and By October they are able to go to
sea for the long swim and float of the win
ter. Meanwhile the natives, under the di-'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
The Hofher Instinct.

From the Sau Francisco Chronicle.
1t is curious to see how girl children cling
to dolls. l was at Christmas tree ON We'd
nesday evening. The child, girl three
three years old, had dozen or fifteen
little presents. She had nothing to say. She
looked kind Of helplessly around, as If the
rapid rush Of beautiful things dazed her. She
took each new one and grasped it closely for
a minute, but laid 1t aside carelessly as the
next came. About the third thing she got,
however, was doll, female DOLL with
bright eyes, profusion Of blonde hair,
blue silk dress, and pair of blue stockings.
That she never released for rings or pictures
or anything. And she went to bed with the
doll in her arms. 1t was the only thing, her
mother said, she seemed to remember next
morning. for she came across her In the
nursery with the doll entirely stripped OF the
dress, which she had carefully put into q
basin 10 be washed, and on Christmas night
she was com bing the dolls hair, explaining
that she could not put on the dress until it
had dried. suppose it was the budding OF
that mothers instinct which makes all wo-
men so much dearer TO the world than men.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
THE SOCK AND BUSKlN.
The Week in the Dramatic World at Home
and Abroad-Gossip About Actors
and Actresses.
Interesting Melange for the Pastime anel
Edi6cation of Patrons of the Two
Play Houses.

Variety, it has been justly said, is the spice
of life, and looking at theatrical matters In
St. Paul from this standpoint, the admirers
and patrons ofThespis have had but little
spice in the pabulum presented last week.
Comparisons, as Dogberry remarked, are
odorous, but if we had the mind to cavil, the
possibility would he precluded from the TACT
that in order to compare there must be con-
trast, while in this instance but one attrac-
ton has held the boards during the past
week. This consisted in the presentation of
BARLEY Campbell's melodrama of 'Siberia,"
which has been played to a smaller
business than the really excellent
character Of the attraction deserved.
The play has rich villain who in the job lot
and good old stock way axes it his business
to thwart honesty and badger virtue, and for
wonder the clmaxes are so cleverly con-
structed as to occasion surprise; after
dozen good people are made to undergo ter
rible suffering just for the benefit Of the
heavy villain, the latter is brought to time
with round turn, while virtue receives the
reward it but rarely meets with off the en-
chanted scene. The galleries howl as do
even the more genteel circles in the par
quette and everybody goes home happy and
delighted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08

the home Of the fur seal. There are, he
says, numerous places in the southern hemi
sphere where the fur seal thrived half cent
ury or a century ago, notably along the west
ern coast Of Patagonia and in the vicinity Of
the Cape Of Good Hope and among the isl
ands in the vicinity Of New Zealane. There
they existed in great numbers,
but they were ruthlessly slaugh-
tered By millions and hundreds Of millions
by the fleets OF seal hunting vessels which
slaughtered them indiscrimnately and drove
them fairly out OF existence. So that there
are practically none left in all the Antarctic
hemisphere now, where there are thousands
of times the quantities OF breeding grounds
that there are in the northern hemis phere,
where they now exist. There are, all told
only four little islands in the entire northern
hemisphere Of a quality OF climate and sur
rouudngs 10 make them the home Of the fur
seal Two Of these, St &c orge and St. Paul,
ere in the heart of Behring's sea, and are in
cluGcd In the limits OF our Alaska
purchase. The other two are the Commander
islands, lying 700 miles west Of these, in the
dominions Of the Car. Happily for us our
two Islands are much more popular with the
seals than those of the Gar, and may be
counted the
ONLY FUR SEAL GROUNDS
Of any importance in the world. And yet
the larger OF these, st. Paul, is but about
thirteen miles long and six miles wide, while
the other is II little over half this size. They
are mere sand banks formed about some
volcanic uphcavals, with a very little vege-
table life The warmer stream Of water
flowing up from the south in summer makes
dense fog here all the sum
mcr months, aud in this the
fur seals thrive. They come swim
ming in from the ocean, which lies south of
these islands about the months Of May and
June. They seem to have spent the winter
in the water, in which they swim and eat and
sleep with entire ease, much greater, indeed,
than on dry land. Indeed they eat nothing
ou.N, H. Turir sole food Is Gsh, and these
they drvUur as soon rs caught, in the water.
Their sole purpose OF coming on shore seems
TO have reference solely TO their young. The
fur seals, exclusive Of their infants, are
divided into three classes, the old males. who
are heads OF polygamous families, the young
males termed bachelors" hy the natives.
who seem 20 be gentlemen OF elegant leisure,
but who suffer for u in the end, as will be
seen further on, and the females. The old
males, the heads Of the polygamous families
10 be-, come in first from the sea about MAY L,
posting themselves upon the rocks, each pre-
smp,ing spot of ground say six or eight
feet square. Then they sit AMI watch, dsy
after day. for the coming Of the females, cat
NJ nothing aud
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
"In the Ranlls.|


Commencing tomorrow evening will be
presented at the Grand for the first time in
st. Paul, the drama I'm the Ranks" the
scenery and mechanical effects of which
have won the unqualified commentator
OF both the eastern press and public.
A beautiful feature of the drama consists
in its revolving scenery, nothing to equal
which has ever been witnessed on the St.
Paul stage. The effect is said to be caprivat-
ing in the extreme, and nc doubt the drama
will receive generous recognition.
THE PLOT oF THE PLAY
is about as follows: Ned Drayton is the
adopted son of Col. Wynter, wealthy old
misanthrope, who has spent the greater part
of his life in India. He incurs the colunel's
displeasure by marrying Ruth Herrick,
daughter of Farmer Herrick, one Of the
colonePs tenants, and is cast adrft to look
after himself. One of the people mainly re-
sponsible for this state of affairs is Gideon
Blake, Col. Wynter's superintendent, who
hates Drayton, and who is himself
infatuated with the charms Of Ruth,
the farmers daughter. The night be-
fore the wedding of Ned and Ruth, the colo
mel is mysterously shot in Dingley wood,
and Drayton is arrested for the crime i'm
mediately after the wedding service and just
as the happy pair emerge from the quaint
old English chapel. Blake is Drayton's ac
cuser, and the latter is confined in prison.
This concludes the third act. The begin
ming of the fourth act sees Diayton a free
man again, and the second scene witnesses
his return to Holmhurst, the scene of the
play, an outcast and thoroughly broken
down man. Gideon Blake has given warm
ing to all the tenants that Dravton must not
be tolerated in the community, and the de-
spised outcast, after sad parting scene with
his wife, enlists in the army, recruiting
sergeant putting in timely appearance and
affording a splendid opportunity for
strong dramatic climax. The fifth
act is barracks scene, where
Drayton appears as a private SIN the
Ranks He resents the bullying utterances
of an officer, and is placed under arrest. He
learns of the restitution, suffering and seri-
Gus illness of Ruth. and crazed with grief
and rendered desperate by persecution, he
escapes from prison-a transformation scene
lending strong melodramatic light to the
picture. The hero aud heroine meet in the
latter's humble home-a garnet in a low
street in London. The soldiers come to ar
rest him, when Colonel Wynter, recovered
from his wounds, makes his appearance and
announces that he has purchased Drayton IS
discharge and secured his Justification, and
the play closes on scene Of bliss for the
good people while the villains receive merited
and delayed punishment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
Footlirht and Foyer Notes.

John T. Raymond is in Texas.
Nat Goodwin is in Philadelphia.
Aimee is performing in Georgia.
Margaret Mather is billed for Boston.
Ristori plays in Philadelphia this week.
Madame Janauschek is PLAYING in Iowa.
Clara Morris plays in Denver this week.
Madame Theo is giving opera in Mexico.
Lizzie Evans played in Helena last week.
Roland Reed has taken his gall to Texas.
Henry Irving opens in Philadelphia this
| week.
Edwin Booth is still performing In New
York.
Neil Burgess, the female impersonator, is
in st. Louis.
Frank Mayo closes his season in New Or
leans Feb. 10.
Dion Boucicault is doing the towns Of the
Keystone state.
Maggie Mitchell performed in Scranton,
Pa, last night.
"sieba' was played in Chicago last week
to packed houses.
Mapleson's Italian Opera company opens
in Chicago April 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. Florence are delIghting
Quaker City audiences.
Lawrence Barrett is meeting with fine re-
ceptions in New York.
Kate Castleton is billed for Omaha, and
the price Of fancy hose has gone up in that
city.
''Falka" was given by McCaull's opera
company in Chicago last week to paying
business.
Alice Oates opens in Chicago this week
and the bald-headed men of that wicked
city are in high glee.
The St. Paul Dramatic club have in re-
hearsal the comedy Of "sweethearts," to be
given on Monday evening, the 18th inst.
Miss Laura Schirmer, golden haired tur-
quoise eyed Boston beauty, aud fairly eff
Gent soprano, has been engaged by Col.
John A. McCsull. Miss schirmcr will be an
| interesting addition to the gallant colonePs
forces. She viii appear at Wallack's theater
May l, in La Belle Helene.
It has been announced that Mr.. Maurice
Barrymore viii be Madame Modjeka's lead
lug man during her farewell tour Of America
next season, but it is by no means certain
that this will be the case. Madame Modjeska
win not play Nadjezda in this country again,
and it is likely that Mr.. Barrymore will re-
main in England next season.
Madame Modjeska is at present playing in
Russian Poland. On Monday night this
week she appeared at Posen. At the latter
end Of March she will go 70 the Lyceuu the
alter, IN London, and with Mr. Maurice
Barrymore be seen in the latter's play, Mad
jezd2. Madame Modjeska viii begin her
farewell tour Of America at Chicago in Sep
TENDER uext.
George Kunkel, the vell-knoEn impeson-
ator of Uncle Tom, died Of aIDplexy at
Baltimore Jan. %. Robert Mack, the
coIored minstrel, died at Elmira, " Y. JAM &.
Mack was best known for bis rooster act
IL the Calender Minstrel company. He was
born slave at Stamford, Ky. Sames b.
Lord, OF the Lord Dramatic company, died al
Denver, Colo. ,Jsn.le. The company has been
disb4nded.
Mr.. Irving is suspected Of initiating Mr..
Flockton, Mr.. Dixey, Mr.. Nat Goodwin, Mr..
Henley, and several other people As a mat
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
LITER Thread Wa~ Snapped.

From the Chico (Cal.) Chronicle.
In the early part Of last fall John Wendall
with his wife and little boy OF three years,
moved from Chico to Helltown, where he OBJ
tanned steady employment in the jute mill.
On Monday afternoon, while Mr.. Wendal
was at the mills his wife was in the pallor at
work on the sewing machine, while her
child. Willie, was seated hear the window,
directly in front Of her, looking at one Of the
large children's picture books. Mrs. Wen
dali was sewing busily on the machine, a
large and heavy one, when suddenly the
needle snapped. She replaced the broken
needle and bad again taken Der seat when
she noticed her child's head leaning upon
the book. Going over to him, she was hor-
rifed TO observe tiny stream Of blood trick
ling down from the bright golden hair.
Little Willie was dead. The fatal needle,
breaking, had been hurled through the air
and had pierced the child's medulia oblong-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
R.aT. r. Gofng Ont of fashion.
From &c New York sun.

From the New Il rk sun.
ssTbe letters n. s. V. p " said blonde
young man in fashionable stationery shop
up town, (which means in English" he
said, with kind and indulgent glance, ire
spond II you please are not put on cards Of
the very best entertainers in New York now
adays. The assumption is that cultured
lady or gentleman will answer an invitation
without oeing requested 10 do 50. About the
only new thing in the way Of invitation cards
are some that we engraved q few days ago
with the words IAN early answer is request
ed'' at the bottom Of the cards. That was,
Of course, however. thoroughly unusual. The
prevailing style to-day for all invitation cards
and notes AZ well as IN writing paper and
business blanks, is severely simple. Pain
white and black, without fancy lettering, ID
TIE only correct tning.'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08

from the time OF coming % shore about May
/ 10 August /, eating absolutely nothing in
al thst time, aud crawling back into the
water az The ead 90 toe family season abso-
lutte skeletons. T0ey he on the rocSs after
taking their positions, waiting for the females
90 coJng 60, Which occurs week or two later.
IS Srv come up TIE old males t-v. esch. u
cox many as UosSibir iuto his b4iExick. the
one 10 whose location the Eynt.e aud graceful
ar nal comes. ruiyiy seizinc her bv iae neck
sud ysuSing her cato bis prc-empiiou. Taeu
dc D. gins l0okiug Tor another. AID before he
Knows il some fellow adjoining hss stolen
biz bride from him. Tasu a terrific a-h,
occurs. Ia which the males bite and cash
each otarr terribly aud almost pull the would
b, bride ia pieces, suatchinE her about from
one "hoIdiux" % another. Meantime others
cone in. aud the tght thus SCes on for DAYS
sud weeks. until esch q TIE old polygsmis;s
has supplied himself Eith from thuee " four
70 turutr wives These ambitious heads OF
families ara always as nUeh as SIX or eli ;;
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08
The OlYlnDlc

A good variety bill has been presented to
the patrons of this popular resort, and the
company has played to an increased business.
An especially attractive programme is an
noupced for the ensuing week.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08

A Colorado woman wears six kummiDg
birds Six humming bridesmaid as they are,
nav cover half dozen bald spots--Louis-
Vile Courier Journal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-08

vile, Fla Mr.. Clarke expects to return
from the South, but the others of the party
will remain there for some time.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-05
THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME.
Foreigners Take Lessons I'm 1t at Con
siderable Expense.

siderable Expense.
From the Cincinnati Commercial -Gazette]
1t is wonderful what fascination the great
American game of poker has for the foreign
er The chief, and about the only business
of the American secretaries of the foreign
diplomatic delegations is to teach them poker
and play with them. Turks, Franks, Span
iards, Indians, Ethiopians, Dutch, Italians,
Muscovites, Mongolians, all yield to the fas-
cinations of the American game, and the
poker-playing among the foreign legations is
high and fast and furious. They are made
to pay pretty dearly for their experience, and
some of the smart American officials pluck
the gentle foreigners most numerically. The
head of government bureau showed me
big roll of bills the other night and said:
ssThere's three hundred dollars [ won to-
night from 'So-and-So,'" naming a moon
faced Monaghan minister who goes about
the streets in flowing robes of peacock blue
and royal purple
may say here that it is proper in poker
talk to say 'I win, /" instead of 81 won, :" and
when you cease playing you 'draw out.
The terrible thing about this soul-destroylng
game for the unsophisticated foreigners is
the "bluff"
Baron De Struve who, like all the others,
is a tireless devotee of the game, went on for
some months in happy ignorance of the bluff,
and supposing himself to be a pretty expert
poker player. But one evening in little
game with mischievous young Cabinet Off
Ger he went his whole heart soul and pocket
on three aces and was bluffed by his oppo-
nent with pair of trays. 1t was a new de-
velopment of the great American game, and
its sublime possibilities dazed and bewildered
the baron, and, as he expressed it in good
"United States" language, ''broke him all
up"
He said: ''Oh, dis fearful, fearful Ameri-
can came and dot terrible bluff. / did not
know dot bluff and what do with it"
The baron concentrated all his time and in
Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-05
SKIM Y.

A million and a quarter cats are annually
killed for their seal skin.-Philadelphi
Call.
A Chicago policeman has the smallpox,
and everybody is wondering how he caught
it.-Boston Post.
1t is alleged that there is messenger boy
in this city slow that his shadow falls
asleep while he is walkipg.-Boston Post.
If YOU have moved fecently you Will know
that the easier a chair is the harder it is to
carry up four flights of stairs.-Drake's
Travellers Magazine.
No, my dear child, the Czar does not be-
long to the Peace society. He will never be
satisfied with a piece; ne wants the whole
earth.-Boston Transcript.
Yellow is the popular color at present. We
have it in every form almost and down South
preparations are being made to receive it in
the shape Of fever.-Boston Post.
''Why do they charge to cross the bridge
heres" asked stranger in the town of McSwil
ligen. sfAttempt to cross and you will be
tolled, was the reply.-Oil City Derrick.
There are numerous selfish people who
never take the trouble to come where you
are unless they want something; but even
that is worth being thankful for.-New Or
leans Picayune.
Not light matter. GLOW did you get
its" asked Gimlet. 'tI rang the bell, re-
piled Auguf. ''1t must have been very dark
Did you strike light?' 'sNo," replied Au-
CUR, 'tit felt more like door. Puck.
A: ssLook at old Pfennisfuchser the bank
er. How queer he walks; what long strides
he takes!" B: s'That's his stinginess." A:
Stinginessa Nonsense!" B: ''It is nothing
else He does it to save his shoe leather. y
De Sobrenesa.
"G'mawnin, Eph What am you doin' fur
libin' desc days2' 'tMes Wy Use 'sistant
sup'intendent OBJ de bigges' railroad in dis
country "G1ong! You doan' told me!
Golly, Eph What does de 'sistant sup'in-
teden' haf to dos'' "'Nuthin' but 'sist de
sup'intenden' when he wants to put on his
obercoat an sich."
Two gentlemen met on State street this
morning. Said one to the other, Chow is
business!' "Poor," was the reply. ''I met
with little accident. Night before last
burglars broke into my store, but left with
out taking anything. Everything was marked
so low they came around next morning and
made purchases. Albany Journal.
A Galveston mendicant was in the habit of
calling at the Office of local lawyer and re-
ceiving small sum account of former ac-
quaintanee. Last week the mendicant called
as usual, but the lawyer said, 81 can't assist
you any longer, as I've got wife now, and
need all the money 1 can lay my hands on. p"
'tWell, now, that's just coming it little too
strong. Here you actually go and get mar
ried at my expense. Texas Siftings.