St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-15
SIDEWALK ETCHINGS.

Side w A l.
Ehle Allen had more spirit than anybody
yesterday. Some of the visitors to the
convention showed signs of having crooked
their elbows too frequently, and on settee
in the corridor of the Merchants sat dilap-
idated looking individual who loudly de-
clared every time that he woke up, that he
was an Ames man. He fell into deep
sleep finally and card was hung on the
lapel of his coat OH which was printed:
Wanted, a chestnut bell" The gay crowd
of politicians filed by the man, read the
card and smiled. but nobody seemed dis
posed to unpin it, Two hours he slept and
furnished amusement for the gang and ut
tered not word about its being long time
between drinks.
At last one of the bell boys went over
and shook him. He slowly opened his
eyes and looked around in dazed way as
though he suspected that he was in Crook
stOn.
What's this?" asked the bell boy.
The man looked at it a minute and said:
81 lost my meal ticket and was advertising
for another, that's ALL"
Ehle looked up the mans name and in
formed his intimate friends that he didn't
get into the dining room again till he paid
for his ticket
Hello. SQuills. Where've you been for
the past two weeks? haven't seen much
of YOU"
20, I've been around. l haven't hap
pened to run across you, though. Pve been
getting married, you know"
Go on; 'Sthat SOP"
"Sure."
"Well, suppose you're happy?"
Happy! old boy. Inever was so happy
in my life. Why, feel like different
man. Happy? Well l should say was.
There's a great change come over me in
the past week.
Where are you keeping house?"
80, we are not keeping house. My wife's
forty miles out in the country visiting her
uncle. Happy? Well should say"
~
A Kandiyohi county delegate who left
the convention yesterday before the nomi-
nations were made. met friend on the
street an hour later and asked who was
nominated.
''Ames," was the reply. ''He was NOM
mated by acclamation."
by acclamatiOn, hey? What county's
he from?"
They locked arms and stole through the
entrance of Jackson street restaurant.
~
Billy Florence, the actor, started out in
early life to be a journalist. This was be-
fore he was fascinated by the glare of the
footlights. He started in on the New York
Sun, and was assigned to do the police
court. He sat around the court awhile,
and, business being dull, he thought he
would go out and work up sensation.
He went down to a secondhand
hotel and overheard a conversation
between two farmers, who were disc ussing
the advantages of a new-fangled moving
machine which had been explained to them
by an agent stopping at the hotel Billy
espied in this sensation and learning the
agents name he went up to his room and
interviewed him on the chief points of his
graSS-cutting machine.
~
Billy worked till o'clock p. m. on the
Interview and carried column of as big a
mowing-machine sensation to the manag-
ing editor as he had ever seen. Billy
awaited the verdict tremblingly, with his
hat in his hand. The managing editor
read the first page of she copy and looking
up at Billy, said: WAS this moving ma
chine tried in the municipal court?"
Billy replied that it hadn't been tried up
to the time he left, but he didn't know but
it had been since.
You'd better go over and see if the m a.
chine has had trial and if it has write it
up in full" said the editor. with curious
smile. and Billy, with heart as light as
air, went down the stairs and over to the
municipal court. When he returned
he found a note on his desk written
by the managing editor, informing him
that the directors had held meeting and
concluded that they could get along with
out his services, land left salary of IS
per week." said Billy, ito be laughed at
by the public at bigger wages"