St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-15
CUT OUT WITH AN AXE,
Breezy Notes of Men Who are Famous,
and Of Some Others Who Don't
Seek Glory.
Peculiarities of Some of the People
You Meet on Journey Down
the street.
Sheet lightning That Shimmers but
Does Not BURMA Fancy
Job Lot.


more newspaper taffy in his.
Secretary JudSon of the S. A. S. is Jim
dandy joker.
Bye-the-bye, l see the Vidette humOrist
OF Spring Valley calls Judson a ''singed
cat. IL Jud ever opens up on the V. II.
ne Will see the wOrSt-plucked buzzard on
the fOOtstOol
l see the Videt$e fellow springs p. H.
Kelly as candidate for governor Well, why
nOt?''
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Liverpool.
Prof. Wright is becoming obese.
The Astoria has new attraction. 1t is
called the ''teaser" and is fabricated by
! Snyder.
John LangtOn of the Clarendon has
dOnned blue and white linen of the vintage
of IS. He is laying for the ''profesh, -
evidently. But John always did have an
eye TO business.
Everybody in the Northwest knows
Johnny Ford, the head quill-driver at the
Hotel Ryan. 1t was only few years ago
since John was presented with twins, and
his future greatness was fixed from that
time on. You can't keep a good man
down.
EX-Manager Merell of the base ball club
pulls his waXed mustache and reflects on
the vanity of professional mines in general
and his vanished 81 500 in particular.
John Dodge is one of the few model men
in his line in the country. Even the adj
vance agent of comic opera company can't
phase him.
George Lamb closes his dexter eye in
sizing up the crop reports, and for friendly
tip he thinks few thousand on the long
side would catch 'em.
Genial Jack Wampler has returned to his
first love.
Speaking of Jack as a friend, it was re-
marked the other day, "WhO would have
thought he was such good hustler?"
Dr. Schitfmann's friends are betting odds
that he will win tO-day's race at Lake Min
netonka. The doctor is little, but oh my.
Judge Baker, or Alphabet Baker as he is
sometimes called, looms up as fresh as a
daisy. He says he is comfortable, and he
looks it.
A. t. G.. Pierson, the veteran Mason of
Minnesota, wears buttOnhOle bouquet in
his lapel all the year round, and looks like
patriarch. If any of the boys think the
old man is slow let them give him a whirl
Manager Lou Scott was heard to remark
the other day that this thing of closing
the opera house all summer was worse than
the steamboat business at low water. Lou
was once Tustler, and knows how it is
himself.
Some one suggested the idea that Com
mOdOre Davidson have his statue placed in
one of the inches at the entrance to the
Grand. The commodore always was noted
for his mOdeSty.
Col. Crooks always wears his frOck coat
tightly buttOned. The colonel is one of the
few Old-SchOOl gentlemen in our midst who
never forget their STYLE
Speaking of the amenities of dress, it
warns fellows heart up to see John b.
Brisbin promenading down Third street
these hot days with his coat on his arm and
his Snow-white piccadiily open at the throat
as if to invite the breezes.
Gimme big glass of water" said Mr.
D., weil-kOwn livestock dealer to the
cocktail juggler ut DOnnelly's the other
day. You see," he said, | have been
reading about the animalcule in our water.
ard like it straight because it is both meat
and drink. Strange to say, get fat on it."
as The commanding form of Gen. Sibley
may be seen alighting from his buggy in
front of the gas Office every morning at 9
o'clock. The once stalwarJ figure of the
veteran Indian fighter is now bowed some
what by age.
Il am glad to see," said an old settler,
THAT Mayor Rice has been taking a rest
He enjoys trout fishing excursion with the
Zest and keenness of boy. Do you know
L think this retaining ones freshness III adj
vanced life is one OF the marks of greatness
and Edmund Rice is one of Gods noble
men,"
Ex-Mayor O'Brien has fine cottage at
White Bear lake, and, unlike many less sell
sible professional men, he may be seen en-
jOying the delights of rural life with his
family daily.
Ehle Allen has imported a seersucker coat
which he wears with customary grace at the
popular big tavern. 1t is a regular SYM
phOny in black and blue and is entirely EN-
regle.
Somebody said the other day that Fisher
of the Pioneer Press looked something like
Cleveland. l don't know about that. but
the WebSterian head looked very smooth in
a white plug hat and his black alpaca III
ster is both cool and shady.
John Smith sports butf-cOlored ''dicer."
He says it is the latest ON the Strand, you
know.
To be a successful police officer, man
should be born with the instinct for sizing
up crooked people. Chief of Police Clark.
for instance, has natural knack of telling
a rogue, and he worked his way from
patrOlman up. The writer has seen him
call the turn on visiting crooks at sight, and
he rarely ever miSjJdgeS his man.
Tom Matthews wears the NEST genial
smile in town, and he comes by it naturally.
Tom was on the grand jury while ago,
and they say ne made daisy.
When Jack Parker lets his duke out it
falls like a sledge hammer.
Johnny GrauS may be seen any fine
mornings at $50 o'clock speeding his flyer
at $50 gait.
W. T. Anderson and John Weide are
for sketching tour to Alaska.
They may also wing 4 few sealskin sacques
viii Strickland has not been writing
many policies for the past few days. He
went to the Wigwam lire the other night.
and was rash enough to get his fingers
burned. He should remember the old adage
Inspector Athey went with the Junior
Pioneers and al YOU have to do to make
him sOciable is 10 ask him how he came to
get left at the Owl.
Some OF the boys made their expenses on
the Junior Pioneer excursion by means
of ''little draw. 1t is a shady day. etc.
DIR. Murphy wears his collars decollete
these days, and says that he wouldn't have
missed the New York trip for great deal
of money.
Tom Merritt drives as pretty pair of
spankers as you can see in an evenings
spin.
The hamfat comedian will resume the
task of wrestling with the singed ''chest-
NUT next week.
Where have you been?" queried Snooks
of Jones, as the latter emerged from the
Bank Of Minnesota the other day. where
lightly falls the DUE" was the laconic re-
joinder.