St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-01
THE FESTIVE COWBOY,
The Smart Trick of a Maverick
sAauler at Theater.

Hauler at Theater.
Strangers visiting this city. after viewinl
the many wonderful things to be seen, in.
variably express themselves as surprised al
our large and costly buildings, the enter
prise of our merchants and the magnitude
and wealth of our Mines There is one
thing, however. that people seem to over
look while expressing themselves about
Butte, that the ''Bute City Cowboy"
There are more cowboys to be found in
this city than in any section on the face Of
Gods earth. The cowboy of any other
place in the world can only be seen in the
country, but our cowboy" likes to take up
his residence in the city. He is at home
everywhere, and he never seems to be out
OF place wherever you find him, although we
do not remember ever to have found him
IN church. The reason so many cowboys
are seen in Butte is that there are so many
of them in this part of the country that the
larger portion OF them can always find it
convenient to visit the city, while the
work which they are supposed to do can
be done by the few. The Butte cowboy
can generally be found in variety theater,
hid under a large hat and always making
love to the waiter girls, hooting at the per-
formers and drinking straight whisky. Very
often he can be found Oh the street corner,
abusing everybody he doesn't happen to see,
from the mayor to the special policeman,
with
PROFUsE AND ROBUST PROFANITY
that gives the air sulphurouS odor for
blocks around. The reason the cowboy
wears so large hat, is because no larger
ones are made. The Butte cowboy seems
to be on chronic Fourth of July celebra-
ton.
If the cowboys were to cease celebrating
so much, his breath would be much weaker
than it is. 1t is so strong occasionally that
if he could only tie slip-knot to the end of
it, he could rope and hold steer with it.
There is considerable humor in many of the
cowboys of Butte, and little incident oc-
Cured in one Of the variety theaters of thig
city last night that caused considerable
amusement for the crowd in attendance.
Two of the performers, a lady and gentle
man, have been in the habit during the
week of passing tin can tied to,a string
among the audience and asking some one
to place it to their ear, when the lady would
take up cOrnet and pretend to play soma
notes in the mouth of a can tied at the end.
The man on the stage explains that the eff
feet to the person holding the can to his ear
would be very pleasing. When everything
is ready the lady commences to laugh, and
when asked the reason, she points to the
dupe in the audience and says. 81 am
laughing at the sucker at the other end of
the string" The entire audience then show
their appreciation by loud applause. When
the can was passed around the hail last
night it was grabbed by a cowboy, who had
evidently seen the thing worked" before,
When the lady said, Il AIN laughing at
flln rotf 9TH Of +lN
the crowd as usual laughed. but not at the
cowboy, for that festive individual was
perched on table, and the can so arranged
to his person that he appeared in the light
of anything but sucker" Indeed, the
joke was entirely on the lady. The effect
was highly amusing to any one in the thea
ter except the actress.