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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
The Reasons Why the Management Of the
Musical Festival Have Cause
for Graduation.
The Financial Success not Staggering
A Week Of Enjoyable Drama
at the Grand.
The Captivating Rhea and McCaulPs
Opera Company the Cards for
This Week,
With Burlesque and a Bevy of Buxom
Beauties at the Seventh Street
House.
Close of the Festival.

When the opening bars of the Tam
h&user overture proclaimed the May must
cal festival fact on Wednesday night, the
faces of the director and management
beamed with pleasure, but it was the smile
Which comes from sense of duty well
performed and expectation 1t is pleasant
to record that the May festival was a sue
cess, but it did not result in the triumph
which the management, participants and
the few really musical souls had right to
expect. That it barely escaped financial
failure is due entirely to the efforts and la
pors OF the gentlemen having it in
charge, and had it not been
for the advanced sale of
season tickets and the earnest personal So
llcltation of the officers of the Choral society
the result would have left the society very
much on the wrong side of the ledger.
Whatever success the festival met with
financially is due to the gentlemen men
toned, for it certainly did not receive the
spontaneous and hearty support it deserved
at the hands Of the people. The box office
sales We're away below the modest esti-
mates and this more than anything else
demonstrated that as a mass the citizens of
st. Paul are not inclined to hear high
class OF music rendered by some of
the very best talent in the land.
With popular prices of so and rs cents the
side spaces and galleries of the EXPOSE
ton building should have been crowded,
whereas at no performance were they more
than half filed. AS to the neighboring
cities and state at large, the representation
was not large enough to make showing at
any one of the performances, and it is per-
haps as well, as the credit of the success of
the festival, as intimated, belongs entirely
to. the musical patrons of St. Paul. 1t was
hoped that the magnificent character of the
programs and the superb manner in
which they were rendered would
pack the building at each performance, and
had such been the case the choral society
would now have been placed on a sound,
safe and effective financial footing. OF
course, the unfavorabe weather had a great
deal to do with keeping people away, and
it was draw between snow, sleet and
slush on the one hand and indifference on
the other. However, the society came out
whole, and the decided musical and artistic
success of the festival is established beyond
| cavil, owing to the patient, studious and
skillful labors of Signor Jannotta, and not
less to the faithful and energetic work of
the orchestra and chorus at the rehearsal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
SAYINGS OF THE WITS.

The type righter-the proof reader
Boston Bulletin.
The monkeys month-Ape-ril.-W ash-
ington Ratchet.
The mosquito always makes himself to
hum.-BOstOn Star.
A close call-''Time to shut up, gentle
men. boston Times.
There is singing in the powers that bee
New Orleans Picayune.
Pig and hog are synonymous TERMS
Cincinnati Merchant Traveller.
Jonah got badly taken in when he fiirted
with the whale.-BOston Times.
Hailing cabs is common thing when it
is raining pitchforks. Times.
There are always great many cuerious
people around billiard table.-Boston
Budget.
In the household parliament this is the
season when the tack-titiOn has the floor
Yonkers Gazette.
Weld done! exclaimed the blacksmith
after skillfully joining two pieces of iron
together-Boston Courier.
The Parisians say that if any one can
dance the merry can-can an American can.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
1t is needless to remark that it was a
deaf-mute who originated the saying that
''hope deaf-heard maketh the heart sick. "
Washington Ratchet.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
ON THE RIVER.
The Orange Groves OF ST. MicElael's
in the Charming Azores.
Leisure Hours.

JI0lSure f1oufS.
Out in the Atlantic, over 1 200 miles from
Lands End and about 600 miles due west
from Lisbon, lies the beautiful island of st.
Michaefs. the largest of the nine islands
forming the archipelago of the Azores. 1t
is beautiful in its variety Of mountain, lake
and valley scenery, in the rich verdure of
its cultivated lands, its equable, mild eli
mate, and its wonderful thermal spring.
The principal commerce of st. Michael's is
the orange crop. The mode of picking and
packing remains unaltered since the early
days. The city, Ponta Delgada, the capt.
tai of the island, is set in the midst of
orange gardens, and the air in the early
mornings or late in the evenings comes
laden to-you with the fragrance of orange
blossoms.
Either in the town or suburbs you see the
gates of many orange gardens invitingly
open, and you will be politely invited to
walk in and help yourself to flowers and
fruit. 1t you are stranger the ''cabeca" or
head man of the garden will bring you
bunch of lovely camellias and branch on
which hang clusters of ripe oranges and
invite you to be seated On garden bench,
for though it is the month Of February you
can enjoy sitting out of doors. There you
can watch the juvenile toilers sorting the
fruit and dried leaves of the Indian corn.
The picker can eat as many oranges as he
pleases, and take away every evening bag
or basket full of fruit that has fallen from
the trees, which he sells at thirty or forty
for Denny
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

the consequent swing involved numerous
elbow abrasions against the ragged sides of
the tunnel. This, combined with the fire.
quent scalping movement overhead, made
the trip doubly entertaining and exple-
tive.
AS the party progressed, the smells be-
came more pronounced and vigorous, ninety
two distinct varieties being registered with
in the space of three minutes. The guide
still further enlivened the situation by tell
ing of probable encounters with gas from
leaky connections. At majority Of the
connection chambers passed were heaps Of
fresh turned sandrock which the guide said
was bored out by rats which inhabit these
underground regions and grow fat upon
the garbage. This populous city of
rats is governed by gigantic rodent,
according to legend, as large as an ordinary
house cat. He is 'of gray color and exceed
ilgly fierce and aggressive. Upon entering
one of the side passages the guide suddenly
stopped.
Peering over his shoulder the next man saw
a break in the ledge, which ran On each side
of the water. This break was filled with
water, which was gradually rising. Upon
the other side Of the break, heaped up
against the walls in almost indistinguisha-
BILE masses, were swarms of rats, their
bright eyes peering fixedly at the light borne
by the guide. Not a sGueal was heard, nor
a sound of protest against a further adj
vance, but from their general unscared ap-
pearance it was judged best to turn about
and seek another route.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
MIDNIGHT MUSICIANS.

Night keys-Key notes of cat concert
Burlington Free Press.
There is no voice which appeals to the
heart of father so much as that of his baby
boy, but that of healthy cat on the back
yard fence will move him quicker.-Fall
River Advance.
Shakespeare evidently INDUCED in fine
bit of irony when he said, ''How silver
sweet sound lovers tongues by night, like
softest music to attending ears" He was
probably thinking of the cats in the back
yard.-Boston Budget.
Brown says: GA cat on the houSetop is
like the moon, because it looks round"
McGinnis, being an Irishman, says: SIT
looks quare, and suggests that fishermen
cast adrift might think it wrecked-angler."
Lowell Courier.
Yellow is the popular color just now. We
notice that our next door neighbor has cat
that is just in style, and we further cherish
the thought that it will make splendid
mark on the back fence by moonlight
Lowell Citizen.
1t is claimed that one can tell when it is
noon by looking at cats eyes. This may
be so, but the man who should hunt around
after cat to tell him when dinner time has
arrived would be considered non compos
mentis and no good.-Lowell Citizen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
DOWN.

an average. including manholes-Wiicu
are put in every 500 feet-S6 per running
foot for construction: these condriltS Will
last. if is estimated, at least twenty years be-
fore recurring repairs. One section wnlch
was recently found to be IN need OF repairs
had been in operation eleven years. Inc
damages in this case was confined SIMPLY
10 the brick bottom. which had been worn
away by the extreme velocity OF the WATER
the grade being 81 feet to 1,OOO.
In the construction OF these sewers many
engineering difficulties had to be sur
mounted. The rock is OF varying degrees
IF hardness. and in some places 1t was
foi1nd necessary to cut through immense
bolIIders. full of shot gravel and twenty
five or thirty feet in thickness. In other
n1aces tbe rock was so soft that the con-
stant Earring of the street cars overhead
rendered work underneath them dangerous.
A cross sectional view of these tunnels
shows them to be of different outline. vary
ing from the egg shape to that OF the lrreg-
Mar oval. They are from six to elght Iee6
In height and from thirty to forty mcheS
vide at the center. The lower portion Oh
zach is lined with an inverted arch OF DrlcK:
As bnt q small portion of the readers OF
Tho SUNDAY GLOBE are familiar with the
interior of these underground passages an
EXPLORATION has been made within the pas
week for their particular benent: men
he trepidation of mind and anguish Oh Dody
endured by the members OF the eHpeoltloni
are taken into consideration, 1t
s trusted that perusal OF Its records
will inspire appreciation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

came. The answer was somewhat surpris-
ing, as it indicated, not that the fluid in
question was the refuse of the slums, but
on the contrary had its source in the aristo-
cratic quarters on the topmost hill OF the
city. Another was so clean and burst so
brightly into spray as it bounded onward
over its uneven channel that it was evil
IDENTIFY fed somewhere by a spring. For
some distance below the converging mouths
of these sewers the bottom OF the main
conduit was covered to depth of several
inches with a rich deposit OF filth. The
smell was nearly intolerable, but the lights
still burned brightly. Occasional remnants
of humanity were stumbled over
in the shape of old cast-off gar
ments. Doubtless these turgid streams
would, if closely examined, yield
many CHASTITY relic of unpleasant
nature, but there was no disposition on the
part of the expedition to explore too closely
the clammy depths. The evidences re-
vealed to one of the senses were all-suf-
ficient
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

At a quarter to o'clock in the morning
he party assembled in the office of the city
engineer descending whatever fOrebodings
Of disaster it may have entertained One
member of the expedition had taken the
precaution to provide himself with fire
arms, cutlery arb provisions to an extent
unusual in affaits of this nature. He had
read, when young, several of the produc-
lions of Victor Sue or Eugene Hugo, (the
reader can probably fix that name), and
been worried by member of the city staff,
who claimed to have once fallen into a
sewer of broad possibilities. He also bore,
concealed about his person, a spool of
thread to be used as clue in case of disas-
ter, and a copy of Smiths Ready Reckoner
for the computation of distances.
Having been introduced by Mr.. A. r.
Starkey, the city sewerage engineer, to the
young gentleman who was to conduct the
expedition, its members proceeded to divest
themselves of hat. shoes and Overcoat, and
put on, instead, rubber boots, reaching thus
far and no farther, old clay-Smeared
jackets and SLOUGH hats. The cautious
member put on his rubber coat over all,
against the advice of the guide who said it
would be found uncomfortably hot, forget
ting as he did so that his ar1nory and sup
plies were left in his overcoat pockets.
The party being drawn up in line before
him, the sewerage engineer proceeded to
point out, upon large map of the city, the
route to be travelled, indicating briefly the
points at which rescue would be possible.
should nothing be heard of the expedi-
ton for stated interval. Meanwhile
Mr.. E. P. 4SymOnds, the guide, presented
each member with two Stearine candles.
presumably to be used as food if necessary.
After being further treasured by the remark
of smiling attache of the engineers office
that he would ''hate to have to take that
trip" the party filed out of the Office down
the dripping stairway into the muddy street
and stood around while the guide removed
the perforated cover to the manhole oppo-
site the city hall.
1t was most unattractive entrance and
unpromising of anything nice. A black,
unfathomable hole in the ground, about two
feet in diameter and anywhere from 40 to
1000 feet deep. Away down in the inl1y
bowels of the earth glistened family some
thing that looked like water. Without a
moments hesitation the guide swung him
self down upon the rrngs of wet and
rusty iron ladder leading downward and
fixed to the side of the manhole by iron
braces. He disappeared into the darkness
and smothered ''all right came up shortly
afterward. The rest of the party cast a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
He Had to Begin Again.

Mrs. Speedy, in her Wanderings in the
Soudan, relates the following curious cpl
sode: After long days march she was
just settling down to sleep, when her host,
an Arab telegraph clerk, separated from her
only by thin partition, began to say his
prayers in loud sing-song chant. She re-
monstrated, for time there was silence;
she was falling asleep, when the clerk be-
gan his prayers again. Again she remon-
strated, again there was brief silence, to be
broken, alas! too soon by the indefatigable
clerk, who once more began saying his
prayers ida capo'' this time faster than
ever. 1t was like speaking by machinery;
the whirr and burr were terrific. We
learned next morning that our host belonged
to sect which obliged him to repeat his
prayers aloud, and which also enjoined as
one of its most stringent rules that the voice
of either woman, donkey or dog, if
heard at any time during the service, made
it necessary that the whole of the prayers
should be repeated.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
being forced into straws, which are ther
passed to the guests with sandwiches.
NOTRc

NOTES.
Secretary and Mrs. Manning will proba-
bly, spend most of the summer at the Ar
lington hotel.
Secretary and Mrs. EndicOtt moved last
week into ex-senator Pendleton's house.
Mr.. George Kennan has sailed from Liv-
erpool. From there he will go to Siberia
for eight months to gather material for his
forthcoming book.
The Russian minister and Madame Gle
Strive have decided not to start for Rus
STA before July. They express the greatest
desire to return to this country in the
autumn.
Senator VOORHEES, gives up his house on
Nineteenth street soon and will occupy his
old apartments at the Portland flats.
The wife of Assistant Secretary Of State
Porter is at the Riggs house.
Mr.. Chiu Chi Yeung, secretary of the
Chinese legation, has returned to China
after three years. sojourn here.
Count Casimir Won Leyden of the German
legation has returned to Berlin on leave OF
absence.
Secretary and Mrs. Whitney will be
guests during the summer of Admiral and
Mrs. Baldwin, at Newport.
Mr.. John j. Phelps, son of the Hon.
William Walter Phelps. expects to take a
two years. trip abroad, with a party OF
friends, in his new yacht, the Brunhilde.
The Window residence, now occupied by
the family of ex-Secretary Blaine, will be
vacated early in June, as they will then go
to Augusta, Me.
Count CASTOR d'Arschot and the Countess
d'Arschot left for Belgium recently, to re-
main abroad during the summer.
Nine. Yturbide and her son, Prince
Augustine Yturbide, have gone to
Mexico, there to take up their residence.
Mrs. George Bancroft is in much better
health than she has been for more than a
year. She sometimes sees those with whom
she is very well acquainted, but only in the
afternoon at her bedroom. She looks as
well as ever and talks in her usually inter-
esting style.
Miss Constance Edgar, the stepdaughter
of Col. Jerome Bonaparte and great-grand
daughter of Daniel Webster, who took the
vail of the Order of the Visitation in Balti-
more recently. took the name in religion of
Sister Mary de Sales, in honor Of ST. Francis
de Sales the founder of the order.
The president is. looking forward with
pleasurable anticipation to his sojOurn at
the Soldiers home and it is likely that he
will spend most of the summer in the cot
tage which is being prepared for the ac-
cOmmOdatiOn of himself and his sister.
Miss Cleveland has gone to New York, not
only to rest, but to select some new articles
for the adornment of the interior of the
cottage, and it is expected that it will be
ready for occupancy about the middle Of
the month.
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was to emerge. Before getting there how
ever, pleasant information was impaired to
the effect that if the proper parties had for
gotten to open it the expedition might have
some trouble in getting out, it being possible
for stranger TO wander for days in the
sewers without being able to make himself
heard outside. This looked plausible, as
the ladders at the manhoes with only one
or two exceptions were above the reach of
man below. But the right manhole was
found all right, and the guide preceding as
usual, the dirt smeared expedition got out
again into the cold and cruel world. AS
the party proceeded oficeward along the
streets there was noticeable avoidance
by pedestrians, and it was only when the
cautious man got glimpse of himself in
the mirror back Of a bar. that he realized he
looked as villianeus as he smelled. 1t was
then that he regretted not debOuching from
one of the picturesque entrances upon the
river bank, as had been suggested, in order
that he might have waded for awhile on the
brink, just for change.
ON THE RIVER
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
BILL NYE,S CARVING.
A Feast of Reason and Flow Of
Gravy.


My carving is like my dancing. 1t is not
conventional. 1t is extremely original, bold,
and audacious. l try to introduce Joints
where nature did not intend to have them,
and | seek to make short cuts across a fowl
in way that is productive of chagrin, vex-
ation and fragments of hen. Man is
weak, fallible creature and he ought not to
seek to monkey with the anatomy of a fowl
or to improvise joints and apertures where
they do not belong; for at such time as YOU
think not the knife will slip, and it will trip
over the celery glass and fill the bosom of a
warm personal friend with gravy.
To attract attention and keep up the
spirits of the company, therefore, make it
a kind of business, as it were, to fill the air
with harmless amusement at the same time
that shed stufing through the atmosphere
and mutilate the bosom of the hen. This
gives me all opportunity, occasionally. to
gather up the sage, bread crumbs and giz-
yards out of my lap and return them to the
platter without exciting remark.
A few weeks ago, on an occasion of this
kind, a cousin of mine, a young lawyer con-
nected with the Omaha road, young man
of good parts and whose business is to stand
between the Omaha road and substantial
justice, at so much year and travelling eX-
penses, was present.
| had just said something smart to keep
the company good natured, while 1 asked
young lady at the other end of the table to
please return the duck which 1 had mad
vertently presented to her with the carving
fork stuck in it. Every one was laughing
joyously and trying to conceal it by putting
their napkins to their mouths, when my
cousin turned to my little daughter, and
said:
''Bessie, haven't you got funny papa,
though %
Eyes, indeed" said the ungrateful, I'M
filial and irreverent heir apparent to great
name. 'sYou better believe he's funny
- when we have company
And yet people wonder why am not the
same genial host that used to be, and why
the children do not eat at the first table, and
why there is a sound of kicking against the
door Of an adjoining room, and the oc-
casional wall of a hungry child as the meal
progresses
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QUITE ENGLISH, YOU KNOW.

A sick native-born dude is a Yankee dude
m.-Whitehall Times.
Asses milk is the latest craze for dudes
drinking in New York. They take to it
naturally. New Orleans Picayune.
The sscrutch" cane will be the dude cane
of the season, and the ''swelr' way of car
rying it is under the arm, with handle be-
hind and the point projecting downward. 1t
ought to be applied to the dude carrier by
the butt end.-Lowell Courier.
A New York woman is the author Of
81, 500 original conundrumS." To invent
1900 coundrums was certainly mental task
of no small dimensions; but the chances are
that she got the hired girl and the coach
man to help her now and then.-Norrlstown
Herald
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
KITCHEN DARLINGs.

In Prussia the servant girl of the house
often stays with a family as long as forty
years. That indicates that they don't start
fires with kerosene over there.-Philadel-
phia Call.
Bridget, hear We ave given up roller
skatin'?"
eyes Maggie. Ye see, the missus'
daughter and all her frinds has got ter
skatin'. and the thing hez become quite too
vulgar Boston Times.
''Didn't tell you to get up the thermom-
ter in this room?" asked Mrs. Dobbs of
her new hired girl. ''And it's cold as
Greenland here"
'sWell, mum, please me lady, held the
ould thing up femist the foire till it was
way up to hundred and thirty, but the
ould thing wouldn't stay there whin hung
it up again. boston Times.
When gentleman in Troy rose few
mornings ago he discovered that his house
was filled with the odor of gas.
''What did you do to the gas last night
Bridget" said he to the maid of all work.
who had just been appointed withouta civil
service examination.
'sSure," said she, in flutter of fright
''I-I didn't touch it, sir; just bowed it
out. Exchange.
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Arriving at the bottom trife sooner
than had been expected, the guide was dis
covered with lighted candle in his hand
standing at one side knee deep in black
torrent of water. The tunnel here ran due
east and west. Although regretting the
wasting at this early stage the food supply,
it was deemed advisable to light another
candle. 1t was with difficulty, however,
that these Pickering tapers could be
kept alight, owing to the strong current OF
air rushing along with the sewage. The
procession started slowly westward, labor
ing painfully against the stream. The
sides OF the rocky passage were OF the
color Of light brown sugar overhead, While
the lower half was stained black The
high water line was thus sharply defined
about midway. The passage was high
enough to enable tall man
to walk erect, with occasional
exceptions, when grinding contact with
the irregular roof afforded a warning at
tended by somewhat peculiar sensations.
at such times shower of grit poured
briskly down the back of the explorer,
inside of his collar So far there was APP
parent no unbearable odor. The view ahead
was limited, the landscape presented con-
sisted chiefly of black human outline sur
rounded by halo of light framed by black
shadow in shape Of the tunnel. At
short intervals were passed narrower tun-
nels running at various angles to the main
passage and usually inclined sharply. At