St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-07

The attendance at the various churches
was noticeably small yesterday morning.
for the eIoquence of the average minister.
combined with the piety of the average
pewholder, will not draw against Mime
sofa blizzard, especially when the latter
chances to be the first of the season, work.
ing for a record. In fact about the only
thing that seemed to be well attended was
an occasional motor train, with red-hot
stove in the center.
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The chain of four lakes, Harriet, Cal
houn, Cedar and Lake of the Isles, froz e
solid last night, and in the course of few
DAYS any of them could execute a contract
to furnish the st. Paul ice palace with
transparent three-foet cubes of crystal. At
10 o'clock last night the thermometer at the
water station at Calhoun registered 1So be-
Lake and Nicollet, 16o below, and at Hoff-
Inns drug store IL . below.
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A Minneapolis correspondent, probably a
tenderfoot. OF an Eastern paper says: To
newcomer in either of the twin cities" of
the Northwest the most striking thing about
the town is the quickness and facility with
which it absOrbs him. He is given a cor
dial welcome on the first day; on the second
day he is left to shift fer himself, and on
the third day he is expected to assist in
showing the town to new arrivals. In two
weeks he is an old resident. Nothing is
new" with q metropolitan or st. PauIite
unless it is made to-day or. at the earliest,
yesterday afternoon. You are taken to the
residence portion of the city and shown
what you think to be very fair houses.
''Oh, yes, so. So" you will be told; very
respectable, but out of date. They were
built two years ago. You should see the
modern houses we have been putting UP this
fall, out Observation-Disclosures way"
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The growth of both cities, the writer con-
tinues. has been phenomenal and each has
abundant reason for growing. Minneapolis
includes in its Jumbo list the largest grain
elevator in the world, the largest flour mill
in the world, the largest roller rink in the
world with skating surface 325xS5 feet),
the finest hotel in America (Col. John I.
Vests million-dollar caravansary), and
dozen other features which its citizens will
tell YOU are unparalleled on the terrestrial
ball. The town has grown SO last that 1t
looks ragged. Great eight-story buildings
tower into the air like laths on end, dwarf
ing the four and tive-story structures around
main thoroughfare that pedestrians are
kept continually zigzagging into the street
! to avoid the big piles of stone, brick and
mortar which cover the sidewalks. The
! most notable building of the present year is
! that of the Minnesota Loan and Trust
company, which is just receiving its
| finishing touches. 1t is seven stories
high, with an exterior of Ohio sandstone,
| Minnesota granite Tennessee marble and
Mexican onyx. The halls are foored and
| wainscoted with marble tiles and the banis-
| tiers and newell posts are of solid bronze and
hammered brass. The total cost of the
| building will be about $3.50. 600. Another
magnificent piece Of architecture now near
ing completion is the ten-story lumbermen's
exchange, built of red Minnesota granite
The elevators in the building will cost
| $4,000.
There is no reason in the world why a
lady should not as ably and effectuaily as a
man preach the doctrines of Christianity