St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-10
CURRENT CoMMENT.

81 have decided to give my annual lecture
| to the police force on Saturday night at
| o'clock" said Mayor AmeS to GLOBE re-
porter last evening. 81 propose to give rigid
| instructions, and I shall insist that all in
| structions be strictly and implicitly obeyed
l want to show the world, at the Exposition,
the finest and best disciplined force in America
this fall. Come up Saturday night and you
| will get an idea of my proposed system. Po-
| licemen will then understand that they are in
| the employ of the city, and also that they
| must earn the money paid them. They can
| not loaf around the streets as though they
thought the office q mere sinecure. They
| will not be allowed to stop and talk with
| friends. / caught one officer talking
| with a friend on one of the principal avenues
! the other night iand stopped and watched them
| He was so intent that he did not notice me-
| Finally tapped him on the shoulder and re-
minded him of his duty. He was crestfallen
and profuse in his apologies, but that didn't
count. 1 disliked to be severe, but discipline
must and will be preserved
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ssWithin ten days, Minneapolis, St Paul and
| Duluth will be connected by the North Amer
lean telegraph lines, which will be open to
| business said w. H. EustiS. within
| month the connection will include Chicago
and the East. No, l can say nothing about
rates, yet, as we have not fixed the tariff.
However, we have promised reduction and
| that, at least, will come. When the Western
| Union cut down our wires they cut rates,
! eh?''
| -
81 cannot see how the river affair could bt
in any better shape" said Capt. ]. C. Reno,
yesterday. 'H the president does not veto
| the bill there will be 100000 appropriated for
| surveys in the Northwest, including the river
| between Minneapolis and St. Paul. When
| that is done we are ready to move for an ap-
preparation to carry on the work. l think it
| is safe to say, if there is no drawback, we
will get an appropriation through next win
ter and have the most OF the work done next
| summer That is about as much as we can
| hope for now"
The Head Mlers' association has excelled
| itself this year in the invitations to the
annual picnic at Lafayette on June 10. Last
| year the invitations were printed on boiling
| silk and enclosed in miniature barrels. This
| years are engraved upon celluloid .'slicks"
Or flour testers, upon the handle being an
| engraving of the parable of the sower. The
| idea is unique and novel and the work ex-
! quisite. The head millers keep up their repu-
tation for doing well whatever they under
take.
The board of education is open to the
| charge of insincerity. Some time ago it put
| itself upon record as weary OF the methods
| and domination Of Supt o. V. Tousley, vir-
| tually saying it did not want him any longer.
| NOW ne mas reSlgQcQ as was expected, and
| the board goes to work and adopts resolu-
| lions OF regret, giving him fine Endorsement
| This is insincerty of the worst kind, or else
the board is trying to coax the gentle Tous-
| ley back.
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Entertaining civic and military stats is no
| small affair, as the Exposition board knows.
| The entertainment of Gov. Hubbard and
| staff and Col Van Horn and staff at the West
hotel cost, including ''iquors,'' good round
| sum. 1t CHANGED that one of the bylaws 'spro-
| hibits the payment of meals and meal
| tickets" so the finance committee was I'M
/ able to audit this bill and had to submit it to
| the board. OF course it was promptly ordered
| paid, though with q smile.
| ~
| A little story is told about one Of Sheriff
| Brackets deputies, which shows how neces-
| sary it is for those officials to have plenty of
| nerve. A short time ago one of them went
| to the top story of the lumberman's exchange
| to levy on a table there. Arriving in the
| room he found there a big, square-shouldered
| slx-footer, who glared at him In an unpleas-
ant manner. $50 you want that table, do
you exclaimed he, when the deputy sheriff
explained the object of his visit "Well, you
just try to take it and will throw you from
the window" The deputy sheriff went to
the window, opened it, looked out, and then
came back '"That would be great distance
to fall, coolly said he looking the six-footer
square in the face. sit would be long dis
| lance, but before you throw me you had
! better give me that table," he got it without
| another word.