St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-12
CUT OUT WITH AN AXE.
Pertinent Mention of People You Are
Apt to Meet, and Some Of Their
Peculiarities.
Chunks of Breezy Gossip Carved Out
for the Edification of Globe
Readers.
Sheet lightning That Shfmmers But
Does Not Burn--N otes About
Everything.

Everything.
E. Mulick, the very bright attorney of
the Sixth ward, is so absent-minded that he
went to tea the other evening with his
July plug hat.
George Kent wears the finest and longest
mustache in the Sixth ward. He thinks
the world of
Robert COsgrove is having tank made
for his Christmas supply of Tom and Jerry.
which is in big demand with the boys across
the creek.
AdOlph Filter is reported to have bought
a secondhand cutter to match his horse.
E. B. SomerS is an expert On roller skates
and his fancy figures delight the patrons of
the West Side rink.
Lieut. j. d. Nckerson Of Fort Totten is
visiting his old friends in st. Paul. He
says that somehow the old home amt what
it used to be.
Con McNellis captures the trade of The
ladies on his side of the river. it is attrb-
uted to his winning ways.
1t is not true that Christ Meyer is going
to fire his colossal coon-skin coat He will
make seal-skin cloak from a slice of it.
Jimmie Bell has been doing good mis-
sionary work for the Junior Pioneer asso-
citation in the Sixth ward.
Judge Jimmie O'Brien is in the city. He
says the Devils lake country is a daisy. 1t
looks natural to see him about once more.
Jack Garlough put on his moccasins yes
terday and with A. W. Coleman, also of
the Sixth ward, started for Mendoza in a
chartered rig. On the way home the horse
ran away and upset them, the result being
that they had to hoof it home. Jack says
it was hard on the moccasns.
Mr.. Mailer has been in business at Bridge
square for thirty years.
Mr.. Hager always looks fashionably
dsessed in frock overcoat.
John Barry is of the opinion that great
many young men are being presented this
season, owing to the boom in ciaw-hammer
coats and decolttte vests.
Marshall Denney has the elastic step of a
youth of Is.
Judge Burr enjoys good cigar as well
as any man in the city, but in other respects
he is strictly temperate.
Manager Scott has put new trap in his
stage floor. 1t is intended for the special
benefit of jays and chestnut manipulators,
and 1t will let them down light.
Wheat says the Christmas boom is now
due On Wabasha street.
Chief Clark is taller than any man on his
force, and Andy Call weighs the most.
Dick Bell says it is astonishing where
those three boxes Of swell wedding cigars
went to.
The only regret Opsel, of Satler Bros,
cherishes is that he didn't make the break a
half dozen years sooner. As Mr.. Pearson
would say, That's the way like to hear
the boys talk"
John Graus has got chrome which he is
going to present to the first man who
doesn't greet him with "John. when are
you going to get --. :"
A couple of ST. Paul sportsmen went deer
hunting this week and, last Thursday Joe
Dries received the finest young buck of the
season. With customary generosity he got
up a venison supper and the ''antlered
monarch of the waste" was served to the
queens taste and partaken OF with great
relish by the guests.
By all odds, the most imposing figure to
be seen Oh the streets of st. Paul now and
again is that of the Hon. Mayor Rice.
Nature endowed him with a superb ply
sique and heart as big as his body, his
courtly old-school bearing and polished
manners giving tine world assurance Of
man. of the highest type.
Joseph Fairchild is splendid hand at
progressive 6ucIlre.
Billy Wilson says that bossing billiard
tables beats prize fighting all hollow.
Secretary John Caulield of the water
office wears hyperian curls and perfect
daisy of a mustache.
John Langton can't bear to witness a jay
show, and John is posted.
Ed BAIL has discovered a freak, and as he
won't give the reporters a pointer it is
thnnUhf no iS frz-infr m raf q
Rabbi Weschler carries a gold-headed
cane and pair of very humane and intelli-
gent eyes twinkle behind his gold-rimmed
spectacles. The rabbi has been great
friend of the Russian refugees, and the
handsome temple at Tenth and Cedar
streets is monument to his personal zeal
and industry.
William Louis Kelly wears one Of the
handsOmest fur coats of the season.
Judge Gribble says still there's more
to follow.
Secretary of State Won Baumbach has
the knack of keeping his own counsel in a
way that mystifes the boys.
Secretary O'Gorman of the fire board,
John Sloan and Contractor Burris called
on a number OF citizens this week in the
interest OF the forthcoming banquet to be
given by the Junior Pioneers. 1t is their
first blowout, and John Lunkenheimer
says 1t will be a bumper.
Detective Kenally returned from Bur
lington, Ia, yesterday, and he was mighty
glad to get back to st. Paul. He says he
felt like new man on striking the glorious
climate of Minnesota again.
Lieut.. Morgan displays a pardonable van
ity in showing his handsome new gold star,
and when in replacing it on his vest he
sometimes pins it upside down. The little
oversight must be overlooked.
Aid. Dick O'Connor is signing for the
time to arrive when he will start on his an
nual winter trip to the land of alligators
and orange blossoms.
Dr.. Sweenie is after the writer on the
state board of pharmacy matters with q
loaded bludgeon.
When Mckay. the genial press agent of
Haverly's Ministries, struck St. Paul, he at
once discarded his seal-sbin cap for his
white deer. It is the same one he wore
last summer and he states that only when
attired in this airy bit of head gear is he in
spired to crack the jokes for which he is IA
nous.
When Undertaken Leigh was laying out
the dead Chinaman last Thursday couple
of friendly Celestals slipped In whilst his
back was turned, and placing a scroll of
manuscript in the grasp of the deceased.
they silently fled away. Just then MI.
Freaney entered the place, and on seeing
what had been done. Leigh was fain to ac-
cuse him of tampering with the heather.
An explanation took place and they renewed
their friendship over bowl of chopped
ice.
THEY TOOK IT STRAIGHT.
How much is beer glass; queried a