St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-16
STREET SAYINGS.

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"Are you pretty good at reading inter
lineis?" asked an inside" politician yester-
day.
chow do you mean?" inquired his list
ener.
"Why, about that boomerang business, :"
was the reply .'NOw I'll tell you all about
it, 1t was this way. You see, the Pioneer
Press never had any confidence in the man
that told the story about that meeting, but
published it as last desperate campaign
shot. 1t got pretty badly scared when the
grand jury was charged to investigate the
matter and feared an Indictment, even al
! though that body was composed largely of
| Republicans. Some of the members of the
| grand jury were members also of the Re-
| publican city committee and one of them,
am told, informed the Pioneer Press people
| that there were two alternatives, one a
complete retractiOn and the other an in
dictment. The editorial this morning
showed which horn of the dilemma was
chosen. You know the shape of a boom
| erang? It's stick bent at nearly right
angles. Well, the Pioneer Press has swal-
| lowed one without chewing it, and you will
| see the poor old lady in addition to her
other ailments will be humpbacked for the
rest of her life."
Nv
NO.4 Engine company deserves the credit
of making the best time of the season, up
to date, in getting to the scene of fire.
| When the alarm was sounded from Third
and Minnesota streets yesterday afternoon,
trio of gentlemen pulled out their watches
| for the purpose of timing the arrival of the
department. In exactly two and one-quar-
ter minutes after the box had been pulled
No. steamer reached the corner Of Fourth
and Minnesota streets, having made the
distance from its house at Tenth and
Broadway in the time named.
49,
ST pity poor Tom Howard" remarked
prominent official yesterday, ''as he is
| about the only man who bears a down-in-
the-mouth look over the result of the grand
| jury investigation. And what black eye
the Pioneer Press gave him this morning.
| The trouble with Tom is that he is too
much of a schemer, and he is the only man
ever knew who can look into milestone
and see through it where no one else but an
| idiot can see anything"
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| On Thursday evening Mr.. G. n. Bell,
who appears as the attorney for MI. Simp-
son 1--WE can call him Aid. Simpson for the
presently, appeared at the council chamber
with large number of law books, for the
purpose of calculating to an inquiring pub
| lie the ways of politics among men. He
was evidently loaded for the occasion, and
prepared to show precisely how it was
that Mr.. Simpson was elected and how MI.
| Dowlan was left out in the cold; but he did
| not have an opportunity for the reason that
| Mr., Willis, the attorney for Mr.. Dowlan,
| fba NJ
| The result was that Mr.. Bell was disap-
pointed because he did not have an oppor-
tunity to crate, aud the public was disap-
| pointed because it did not have an oppOr-
tunity of listening to him. 1t behooves MI.
Bell to keep his gun well in hand, for the
matter is coming up again, probably, when
he will have chance to display his skill
| and ingenuity before the same body. It's a
good speech and will keep.
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ST tell you what it is" said gentleman
yesterday, ''there are two big nuisances
practiced daily in the city of St. Paul that
ought to be abolished. One is the scrub
bling out of saloons and sweeping the water
| and Stops out upon the sidewalk. and the
other is the habit that is generally practiced
| throughout the city of sweeping out the
| dirt, old papers, etc., upon the streets from
| the various stores. This practice appearf
| to be universal. One cannot go through
our streets in the morning without being
compelled to dodge from one side of the
walk to the other to avoid being covered
with the refuse and sweepings of some
store. This is not something that happens
once in while, but it is continually occur
ring, and is a nuisance of the most dis
! agreeable character. In this rubbish that is
thus daily dumped into the public streets,
there is a considerable quantity of white
paper; this is blown about the streets in
little shoals, first on one side and then on
the other. Any day this can be observed
on Third street, almost from one end to the
other. The blowing of these papers
about the streets is very danger
GUS piece of business. 1t is a
wonder there are not more runaways than
there are. 1t is against the ordinance to
sweep the stuff into the street, yet, daily,
hundreds of people are doing it, but no one
has yet been arrested for the offense, and
probably no one ever will be. The public
| is great, gOod-natured, patient body that
bears everything and suffers for long
! time. The sweeping OF Stops out of
saloons ought to be stopped. My wife was
out on the street few days ago, and be-
fore she knew it she was right in the midst
of mud and soap suds shower bath. By
running right out into the middle of the
street she managed to escape most of it,
but if she had remained on the sidewalk
she would have been deluged. Now want
to say to you and to the police that this
business of sweeping the slops of saloons
and the refuse of stores into the street ought
to be stopped"
The piling on the corner of Seventh and
Cedar streets, for King & Rogers block, is
attracting a great deal of attention. From
morning till night crowds of people are
| standing around watching the long tooth
picks as they are driven into the bowels of
the earth. One day during the early part
of this week the toothpick, the pile driver
and all went down into the swamp anG bog,
and have not been seen OF heard of since.
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The grand jury was adjourned by the
| court until June IS. This was in accord
| ance with a revision of the law made by
| the late legislature for the purpose of deal
! ing with the cases held to the grand jury
during the term of the court
ADJUSTMENTS.
| Artistic Rendition of sPrince Methu-
saIem.'s
| The score of "Prince Methusalem," the
opera presented by McCaulls Opera COM
pany at the Grand last night is character
istic of its author, Johann Strauss, quite a
number of the melodies being pitched in
the favorite waltz movements for which
| This DODular cOmDOSar ia celebrated The