St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-26

onsly disappeared. 1t was the family horse,
and in him repOsed the implicit confidence
of the household. he was staid and honest
apparently, in thought and deed. Fred
rode out behind him TO the lake and hitched
him TO a bush. The horse was evidently
hungry and devoured the bush, looSing his
mornings. and either went into the lake or
the country. Three days have elapsed since
the event, and the pet of the family has not
yet been heard from.
After long months of searching scrutiny
and careful deliberation, the contract be-
tween the Minneapolis Library board and
the Public Athen9um is finally to be exc
cuted. Mention of the contract was made
in these columns at the time it was drawn.
Its provisions unite the Library board and
the Athenaum, but not as one institution
however. The Athenaum in no way loses
its identity or its individuality. The man
agement of all its financial affairs is still
vested in the directors of the Atheneum.
This perpetuateS the important Spencer
fund, without which the finances of
the library would be seriously crippled.
The magnificent collection of literary and
historical works will now be thrown open TO
the public. A splendid library building will
be erected and the Minneapolis public IL
brary and the Athen9um will both be housed
therein. The act creating the
Library board authorized the is
suance of bonds for the purchase
of site and the construction
of the building contemplated. The building
will also contain the fine collection of min
eral and other curiOSities gathered and now
in the possession of the Academy of Natu-
raj Sciences. together with the works of art
to be collected and placed on public exhibit
ton by the Academy of Fine Arts, and,
again, each of these organizations, although
practically merged in one so far as the bene-
fits to be derived by the general public are
concerned, will also maintain their respect
i've Municipalities and be governed and
controlled by their respective boards of di-
rectors. The site will soon be located by
the building committee and plans and Speci-
fications adopted. 1t is expected that within
the month the work of building will COM
mence.
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Minneapolis will be deeply. darkly draped
on the day of the Grant obSequies. There
is no more patriotic city in the land than
the Queen City of the Northwest, as occa-
sion has shown. Already the attention of
strangers is attracted by some of the dis
plays of somber bunting. The West and
NicOllet hotels are taStefully draped. The
city hall, court house, police stations and
fire houses are all hung with weeds. Other
prominent displays are on the Big Boston.
Plymouth. Harrison. r. s. GOOdfellow 81
Co., Segelbaum'S and the journal and Tri-
bune Offices. Many additional buildings
will be dressed in mourning during this
week, and on the day of the obSequies the
display will be general.
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The postofllce, the only government
building in the city, is not draped. There
is about it not one sign of the sorrOwful
respect now being manifested throughout
the nation. While the departments of the
city, county and state are hung with the
badges of grief, while private business
houses wear the weed of mourning. the one
government department makes no sign. If
a Democrat held sway there, what a wall of
holy horror would go up from the truly
good Republican papers of the city.
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One of the managers of a Minnetonka
hotel was pacing blandly down NicOllet
yesterday. Every heated. perspiring pedeS-
trian who passed him. mOpped the dew
from his corrugated brow as he turned to
gaze on the cOmplaeent. smiling stranger.
The heat seemed to radiate from the solid
stone walls in every direction. Drops OF
perspiration oOzed from the cedar blocks in
the streets. Asphalt sidewalks softened
like boarding house butter. and distant
roofs shimmered i'm the intense heat, but
that cool, crisp-lOOking stranger stepped
briskly along with satisfied smile. He
kept hotel at Minnetonka.
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81 would want no better newspaper adj
vertisement than one in the GLOBE" said
he, but the weather beats all the advertis-
ing in the world. The simeon sweeps over
st. Louis and seems to murmur: Mime
tonka.' Its heat. waves lap the air of New
Orleans and its music is 'NIinnetonka.'
There's nothing like it. A little cholera
scare in the cities is the only thing wanted
to complete the story. In winter, when
the Southerner or fastener wants to pre-
dict the weather, he looks to the North
west; in summer when his native city
quivers with heat, ne looks to the North
west. What is in the Northwest? Min
netonka."