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

had performed a public service and conf
dent that the dog stationed in the next
block will do his share. The worst dog
now in the business has his beat on Third
street. from Wabasha to Robert. His
voice is shrill tenor and of volume be-
fore which his corporal size sinks into in
significance. Some day there'll be a bad
runaway occasioned by this sort of thing,
but nothing could suit the dogs better.
49,
The street car company has removed its
track from Wabasha street, between Fourth
and Third streets, and has replaced the
pavement according to law. This is to be
deplored as this track was fruitful subject
for growing, and the improvement of the
street will partially deprive those who do
business along the street of one of the
greatest luxuries of life.
49,
There is still that pile of brick, how
ever, standing in the street in front of the
old opera house. 1t has stood there for
many month in defiance of the law against
such trespass on the rights of the public.
AS long as that stays there the business
men in that block will have still sufficient
cause for grumbling.
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A prominent st. Paul gentleman had the
pleasure of meeting Mr.. Thomas Lowry for
the first time day or two ago. In course
of fifteen-minute chat they fell TO talking
of the street railway system in st. Paul, and
the st. Paul man said jokingly. 'You got
pretty good thing on this business when the
franchise was given you exclusively"
YES" said Mr.. Lowry, Il did, and 1
belong to the II. +. A. Y. G. (hold fast all
you get society,""
1 cl 81 Of
that society,"" said the st. Pa>i man.
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Heretofore the sawdUst that is thrown
into the river by the people above us, has
always fioated along in the channel on the
north side Of the river, in front of the city,
close to the shore. This has always been
regarded as indicating the deepest water, or,
in other words, the channel of the river.
Since the government engineers have been
at work rip-rapping the banks of the islands
in front of the city, dredging on the south
side and building the wing dams, this saw
dust has wholly changed its course, so that
now as it comes around the point above
Chestnut street, it floats along near the cen
ter of the water, between the islands and
the city. This is regarded as an indication
that the channel of the river has changed.
This may be the fact, but it does not seem
as though the work done by the government
engineers thus far had been of such a char
acter, or that it had progressed so far, as TO
cause such q marked change of the channel
in so short a space of time. Experienced
river men are of the opinion that when the
work laid out by the government has been
completed, the channel will be changed
very materially from what it has heretofore
been. As this work is understood, it will
have the effect of causing most of the water
to flow this side of the islands, which will
naturally cause the channel to change and
also become deeper.
One of st. Paurs pretty society ladies is
somewhat literary in her tastes, and, in
cultivation of this, has, among other books,
a nicely-bound Scrap-book. 1t is full of
choice bits of poetry and romance, Selec-
tons from modern novels, funny clippings
from newspapers and countless trifieS that
delight the feminine mind. The young
lady has brother also, somewhat younger
than herself, whose especial delight is to
raise mild form of sheol in the family cir
Gle. The other day the lady was showing
her scrap-book to gentleman caller, and
he was reading some of the selections aloud.
He turned page containing one of Ella
Wheeler's Sultry screeds and his eye fell
upon long clipping from newspaper. 1t
was selection not pasted there by the
owner of the book. 1t was not one of the
standard literary efforts of the century,
though it had been in its day mighty inter
esting reading. In short it was Col. Aliens
famous speech before the city council on
Ordinance No. TO-" The caller stopped
reading before he reached the peroration.
There is one page missing from the pretty
scrap-book now and the small boy recog-
nizes the fact that he has once again got in
his work.