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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
THE LAST OF THE rurANs.
Three Railroad Magnates who's
Works Will Long OutIEVe Them.

Three Railroad Magnates Whose
Works WiII Long OutIiVe Them.
Chicago Mail.
Mr.. Vanderbilt was the last of the three
greatest railroad men of the Eastern states.
who, in their time. were Titanic competi-
tors. and built up the three principal rail-
road lines between the East and the West
Tom Scott, the principal figure for many
years in the management of the Pennsyl-
vania Central, was the first to go. He
brought that great line well up to its
present greatness and pushed its contrbut-
ing lines in every direction until he had
built up railroad system second to none
in the world. John w. Garrett put the
Baltimore d. Ohio through the rough
est country that anybody had ever tried or
dared to think of building a railroad
through. Taking hold Of it when II was
bankrupt, and when its tracks had not vet
been extended to Harper's Ferry, he built
it on over the mountains to Grafton, and
thence to Parkersburg and Cincinnati by
one line and Sandusky and Chicago by an
other. He lived to see il one of the richest
corporations in the world. and at his death
owned almost enough of its stock to con-
troll it in spite of the other stockholders il
he had SO wished. Commodore Vanderbilt
was the first TO unite the separate and dis
jointed lines which now compose the New
York Central into one grand trunk line.
but William II. had much to do even with
that, and it was he who brought it up to its
present perfection of management and ex-
tended its arteries of supply by purchasing
the control of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Central lines, which furnish vast amount
Of its business.
Scott, Garrett and Vanderbilt were al
ways in sharp competition for the business
OF the great West and Northwest. and In
their time were the central figures in the
great railroad wars which that competition
engendered. 1t is not little strange that
the last should have died In the presence of
the son of one of the others. and that the
business which brought them together was
the arrangement of the details of a matter
which should bring their great interests
into sharper competition in the East.
Unlike the others, Scott held
"a barren sceptre in his gripe,
Thence to be wrenched by an unlineal
hand
No son of his succeeding.
His mantle fell upon the shoulders of one
of his old co-workers. Unlike them also he
died comparatively poor. In his later years
his fortune failed with his failing health,
and he retired temporarily from railroad
management and went to Europe. On his
return, with health partially restored. he
sought to borrow from men whose fortunes
he had made enough 10 repair his own. but
by most of them he was refused. He,
however, succeeded in gathering enough TO
leave his family in fair circumstances.
Carrot left two sons and daughter, among
whom he divided his wealth equally. many
times millionaires and his eldest son,
Robert, suceeeeed him as president of the
Baltimore q Ohio.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
OFFICIAL VETERANS.
Grand Army Elections from vnriou,
Parts OF the State.


The following credentials of posts have
been received by Asst. Adjt. Gen. Norton.
G. A. R.:
@. C. Parker Post, No. 11s, verndale-P. p.
T., John E. Butler, G. E. Bullard: Com. G. f.
nui I,i,, .. v. T.. Mr. Chaplin; J. V. c., John
X. Williams; delegates, Thomas Myers, James
Wilson. '''-'S'
Col Gotham Post, No. 90, Crookston-P. p.
G., w. IL. Topping, T. A Harris; Com. @. II.
Mix; 5. V. O., B. +. Zaracher; j. V. c., G. A.
S SIi delegates, G. A. Chiniquy, c. H.
Mix. w. II. Zwickey.
Alex. wilkin Post, No. 10. Mankato-P. p.
e, james Cannon, William Thomas; Com, II.
Nj. Pope; s. V. O., w. w. P Mcdonnell: I "
e, +. X. Kennedy; delegates, J. H. LAWS, L.
}. Davis, j. NJ. Browne.
Won Minden Post No. los. Jordan-P. p. G..
george b. Read. r. IL. AcCleland, George G.
Schmidt; commander, ID. II. Coates; S. v c..
George q. Schmidt; J. v. c., Jacob Panty:
delegate, ID. ii. Coates.
George Mckinley Post No. OF, Cannon Falls
-. r. q, w. +. Define; commander. w. +.
Define; 5. v. O., j. L. Grant; j. v. c..
Pollard; delegate, J. L. Schofeld.
Lincoln Post No. 20, New Richland-P. p.
u, Cnris wagner, ID. VI. Sutliff, Il. NJ. Part
ridge commander, Y. NJ. Partridge; 8. v. c.,
}. W. Pierce; J.V. c., o. II Sutliff
underwood Post, No. l22, Preston-P. P. c.,
n. ;. bassett, K. V. Harrington; commander
4. '. harrington; s, v. c., d. ]. Bright
witt; J. V c., C. NJ. Foote; delegate, II. s.
Bassett.
James Garfield Post, No. So, Glenwood-P.
r. q. Ole Peterson. George w. Tharksr; COM
mander, Tory Thorson; 5. v. c., Il. H. Thomp-
son; }. V. G., John letters; delegates, John
Jetfers, Il. II. Thompson.
George Il. Thomas Post. No. Q, Montevideo
p. p. G. john f. Kent, John Kohn; COM
mander, j. +. Kent; S. v. c., Henry An
derson; j. V. c., Walter S. Merceran; del
egates, Henry Anderson. Henry W. CrandalL
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
.R Gm,NIscENcE OF BAR HARBoR

Three maids went sailing, all daintily dressed,
One bright summer day as the sun went
down;
And for rich yachtsman each angled her
best,
While their mothers stood watching them
out of the town;
For maiders must marry, aud mothers are
deep,
And men to escape them strict watches
Where the Harbor Bar is moaning.
Three mothers stood anxIously out on the
sand,
That afternoon as the sun went down,
And their words were sweetened and their
smile was bland
AS they covertly watched for the yachts
men brown;
For mothers must work and mothers must
scheme,
And ali men are wary and not what thsy
seem
Where the Harbor Bar is moaning.
Three maidens all sea-sick and III as can be
CTwas evening then and the sun had
gone DOWN
Three yachtsmen, all laughing with fll-sup-
pressed glee,
Were bringing those maidens right back
to the town;
For men will laugh, and women must weep,
And maneuvering mothers must sometimes
feel cheap
So good-by to the Bar and its moaning.
Life.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
A SOFT DECEMBER.
A Month Away Above the Averages
Years Temperature.


December was very soft month. and
goes on record as altogether unreasonable.
Signal Officer Cheney says it was more than
q degrees warmer than the average of De-
cemoer for the last 81 years. and during
that period we have had but three as warm
DEFENDERS, viz: 1875. 1877 and 1881.
The mercury fell below zero on only four
days, the 5th. 9th, 7th and 18th. The Iirst
three days OF the month were warm and
pleasant, but the last half of the month was
much warmer than the first half. Tha
snow OF the 4th gave US our first sleighing,
ont It could not be called good until replen-
lsned oy the storm of the Sth, which depos.
tied two and one-half inches of snow. An.
other unusual feature OF the month was the
frequency Of rain and the amount of the
rainfall. also the number of foggy DAYS.
The lowest temperature at tho 2 D. m. OBJ
Servatlon during the last II days was 81 ..
RAIN Tell on four successive days, the Goth.
9th, 2Sth and 29th, accompanied by a
dense fog. The sleighing entirely disap-
peared soon after the middle of the month.
The mean temperature of the month was
20.47o; maximum (22d), 4se; minimum
(6th), -i5o.
The mean temperature of the year 1885
was 40. "a >; maximum July 81. 81 .; min
imum (Jan. p, -SS .; total water deposit.
20. 665 inches
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

Burlesques and pieces of lighter texture
are becoming very popular nowadays. and
the theaters which play them are drawing
much larger audiences than those which pre-
sent more legitimate attractions of a higher
grade of merit. ''Evangeline" is and has
always been a very popular piece, as alb
surdities will always be, which have anus
ing features, capable actors and young
women with shapely forms, scanty attire
and pretty faces. The above portrait pre-
sents the handsome features of Mr. Berrie
jarrett, Mr.. Rice's chief aid in all his en-
terprises. Mr.. jarrett is the son of Mr..
Jarrett Of the old. well-known firm of the
atrical managers, Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer.
whose enterprises will be remembered by
old theater-goers throughout the country.
That Mr.. Rice has succeeded in securing
young women with very handsome figures,
for the present production of ''Evangeline''
is shown In the following cut. which pre-
sents one of the most important and inter-
esting features of the piece. the Amazonian
march. 1t receives several encores every
night.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

I'VE HEERN WHAT HAS BEEN SAID.
Your idees are good, but it seems ter me
tibet emmy feller with the sense ov er ten
vear-old bull cud tell tibet tibet ere cuss had
been knocked out by er large hole, fired by
sum party tew this ere body unknown.
Thars thet hole. thet proves thet such er
thing as er hole do exist, an emmy hole er
tibet size, taken he'd first, would paralyze
envy one o. us. Now, it don't make emmy
diffurunce who fired tibet ar hole, all tibet
we've got ter dew is ter prove thet ther
man is dead an draw our money" This
was new idea to the most of the jurymen
and they agreed at once, rendered a verdict
accordingly and adjourned to q neighbor-
ing saloon to deposit their fee in advance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

One of the peculiarities Of this man of
millions is his willingness TO invest in ev-
erything but buildings. He has slice i'm
nearly everything desirable in the line of
enterprise, holds in his name some of the
most valuable of the unimproved gilt edge
property of the city and his wealth is esti-
mated away up into seven figures, but he
don't like buildings. 1t is his little pecu-
liarity. He has lands in the Saskatchewan
valley, timber slopes in British Columbia
and pineries in Minnesota, but no buildings
stand upon them. One building he has
his elegant home on Tenth street, In which
his wealth has been used 70 best advantage,
for the senator Is happy, contented man
In bis domestic relations. He occupies a
box at the Grand on all leading occasions,
and while not demonstrative gives evidence
of full enjoyment of the play. Like
Cesar. he Is ambitious. ana II Is even said
his lofty gaze is fixed upon the gubernato-
rial chair. If he should get that the eIeva-
ton would give him view of the earth,
but he does not want everything in sight.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

main, having been secured by paying for
felt to the Boston museum. and Saberf the
white moor. will give wonderful PERFORM
ances in his casket On the stages. RoItaIr.
the parlor magician; Somers and Walters,
In sketches; Heifernan and Mcdonald
Irish comedians; Baby Ewing. vocalist:
Annie Queen and Bert Queen. the yentriIo-
GUSTS, and Charles and Annie Whiting in a
sketch entitled The Professor introduce
ing trombone solos, will make the program.
Ladies and children are requested to visit
the museum in the afternoon and avoid the
crowds at night
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

John Crosby has not been in Minneapo-
lis ten years, and yet the city in that time
has had whole lifetime of history. He
came here in 1876 from the pine woods of
Maine, and was the mainstay of the late
G. G. Washburn in making the Washburn
mills famous. He is shrewd, long-headed
and exceedingly leyel-hea6ed Scotchman,
and is now the chief of the milling system
named. Almost UNANIMOUSLY he was called
out for the presidency of the chamber of
commerce in October, but his business in
terests were too important and pressing to
afford him the time to accept. He lives
handsomely on Second avenue south, at
the corner of Seventh street, and discreetly
flavors his business career with the spice of
society life.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

known amateurs in fashionable society.
played the Russian HONEYMOON a dra-
matisatiOn Of La Lune Du Mel. BY Mrs.
Harrison. Ii was given for the benefit Of
the Boys club connected with St Georges
church. Mrs. Potter Is an actress of great
popularity and she drew an audience on
both days which completely filled the house.
The play was acted two years ago by a
strong east OF amateurs which included
Mrs. Potter, and was subsequently per
formed at the Madison Square theater by
the company regularly engaged there when
the adaptation enjoyed long run. Mrs.
Harrison's pen has frequently been en-
ployed In the service Of amateurs and many
OF her adaptations from the German and
French have been performed by them. On
the occasion above mentioned. Mr.. A. N.
Palmer gave the theater free OF cost. with
all attendants as the performance was given
for a charity, the Boys club attached 10 81.
Georges church this city. Mrs Potter will
be seen again this season on the amateur
stage.
Mr.. David PeySer. manager for Nine
Janish, writes me that false report has
been spread through the country 10 the
effect that Nine. Janish has succumbed and
closed her season. owing TO the adverse de-
cisions in the injunction suit brought by
Miss Agnes Ethel TO restrain her from play
ing SardOas Andrea" an adaptation Of
which play was made by Mr.. Leander Rich
ardsOn. under the title Of .'Anselma. {"
Nine. Janish has already appealed the case
to higher court, but. in the meantime, she
will reopen her season In Montreal on Jan.
4. when she will produce new play by a
well-knOwn author From Montreal she
goes 10 Ottawa, then, via Philadelphia,
through the South 70 New Orleans. and in
the spring 10 San Francisco, closing her
season at the Boston museum. when she
will play a round of characters supported
by the celebrated company Of that tlseater
q. WoTBERsPooN, JR.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
HAIR LINES.

My life puts forth to sea alone:
The skies are dark above,
All round hear gray waters moan,
Alas for vanished Lowell
OIL lonely life that presseth on
Across these wastes of years.
Where are the pilots swiftly gone?
Whose is the hand that steers?
The pilots they are left behind
Upon yon golden strand;
we orlIt before or with the wind;
We cannot miss the land
That land TO which we hurry ON.
Across the angry years;
Hope being dead and sweet love rone.
There is no hand that steers.
Philip Bourke Marston.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

n NOIONEh july SAT UPON HIM.
he being too dead to object. and got YER
DICT and g apiece. The deliberation of
the jury was cool and remarkable for its
snrewdness: one man who had been ac-
ainted with the deceased and remembered
that he once refused TO give poor widow
some Of his old back number undershirts to
m manufacture dish rags from. thought he
d'ed OF osslficatiOn of the heart
After wrestling about twenty minutes
with his thoughts. one gentleman with a
large head and consumptive complexion
boldly announced that il was his opinion.
formed after much consideration. that the
man was dead because he had died. Several
OF the jury seemed to be Of the same MIND.
but one man shook his head wisely and
said he knew the deceased intimately. and
he had every reason TO believe he had been
killed by selfish motive He knew that
he owed several dollars around town and it
was his candid opinion that he had died TO
cheat his creditors. He was more firmly
convinced in this belief, as the man had
long been deacon in the church Of which
he was member. A lawyer who formed
part OF the august body. said he had
often read of people dying with their boots
on, Ind as the deceased in this Csc was
found with an extra large pair of unre-
moved boots attached TO him. it seemed
very plain that that was the course of his
abrupt demise.
large man, who wore q three-and-a
quarter hat and vest that measured ninty-
two inches around, arose and. looking hard
at the foreman. advanced the idea that
some dssOlute person had given the dead
man stiff. The exceedingly stiff condi.
ton in which he was found satisfied him
that his
THEORY WAS CORRECT.
A muscular chap. that smelt like a cow
boy. believed, from the very pronounced
manner in which he was found dead. that
he had refused TO pay an election bet.
There was physician i'm the gang who
had remained silent up 10 this point. when
he arose and, thrusting his left hand down
into his pocket and running his remaining
bread winner through his long, shaggy hair.
said, in deep, determined voice: Gen
tlemen
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

WHILE HE LAY AND QUIETLY GAZED
up the sleeve of the fair murderess. who
was trying to pull his boots off over his
head. The only objections to female dem
lists are that, they are liable to render the
male portion of the population of the
United States toothless eventually, and
that the laughng-gas, ether and chloro-
form traffic would suffer. When a man
goes to female dentist who carries fair
amount of sweet lips, pearly teeth, azure
eye. peachy cheek and sylph-like form. it
is hardly safe for friend to suggest to him
that it would be a good idea for him to
hide behind an an@Sthetic. Let the
! woman place her arm around fellows
head and peculiar feeling is Immediately
bvouaced along his spine; she bends low
down, her eye-lashes tickle the cheeks of
her patient; the forceps steal into his
yawning abyss, and in the excitement of
the moment he don't know whether she
has kissed HIM or pulled his tooth. There
isn't fellow in Christendom who has got
common sense that will say that there is
anything about laughing gas that will
knock fellows makeup as girls sleeve
around his neck and her breath playing
over his face. Woman NAV usurp mans
prerogatives, but she is doing much to sup
plant misery with pleasure"
Here is a short poem that the editor
composed, thinking it appropriate for the
season:
Out he started, fresh and fair,
Bran new clothes and scented hair:
Happy in the thought that he
Would start the year with iollity.
When the shades of nightd drew round
The ''coppers'' this young caller found
UNFOLDING glass OF sparkling wine,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
Send H TO the Cardiff Giant.

Norristown Herald.
During the recent explorations at Nineveh
petrifed umbrella was found in one of
the temples. A petrided umbrella ought to
last many centuries. 1t can't be used up
and closed umbrella is not worth much
during rain storm.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

A new buriesque has just been written,
called ''Ariadne" on the neurological sub
ject of Theseus and Medea. The libretto
has been written by young lady promi-
nent in New York society. who for the
present wishes 20 remain incognito, and
the music has been written by Mr.. Rollins
Cottinet. who has composed several songs
which have an exceedingly large sale. The
burlesque contains many striking novelties
which have never been introduced be-
fore on the stage. and the songs are as
clever as any have yet heard. Several
managers are now negotiating for its pur-
chase, and in all probability 1t will be pro-
duced during the coming spring and sum-
mer or, at the latest, next fall
-
The first public performance by amateurs
this season took place at the Madison Square
theater on Tuesday and Wednesday after
noon of this week. when Mrs James Brown
Potter supported by q company Of we'll
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
Gone un An smoke.

B1SeHAMToN. n. Y. Jan. 2.-Fire
early this morning burned the Sheldon
block. consisting of four three-story frame
buildings. A two-story frame adjoining and
a three story brick were also burned. The
loss Is SIS, 900.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

The parliament Of Ireland that Is to be
will occupy the house Of the parliament OF
Ireland that was. How will the new men
compare with the old? Will there be such
scenes in the new as there were in the old?
How will the dress, the social usages, the
elOquence, aye. the conflicting ambitions OF
the new compare with those OF the old?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
THE TRAMP'S LYCEUM.
Long Plea Produces the First Copy of the
Occasional Josh" the Society Paper
deliberately Illustrated.
kilograms are Received From President
Gazewell Ferret Stating That he Is
sCiOurning in Chicago.
The Editor Takes UP the Woman
Question and Writes Feelingly OF
the Female Tooth Fuller.
He Also Throws Sarcasm on Kansas
Jur1es and POLITICALLY Writes of
the New Year Caller.

When it was discovered at the address Of
Long Plea on The Ethics of Journalism
that there was newspaper man in the
Tramps' lyceum, vote was taken which
decided that the lyceum should publish a
a paper to be read at different intervals.
and that Long Plea should be made editor.
Last Wednesday evening the first number
was read. 1t had been named the Occa-
sional Josh, and the editor had brought his
artistic ability into play and illustrated it.
On the first page was portrait of the ed
itor
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

IL
the lyceum a talk on the sights in that city
After the usual salutatOry. Long | "a read
the following article, which was o. of the
best in the paper. 1t was headed and read
as follows:
FEMALE DENT SITS.
''The country seems TO be slowly but
surely drifting into womanhoOd; if things
continue to go as they have been going for
the past two years, future gramarians will
have a license for swearing that the earth
belonged to the feminine gender. Every
body is getting to be female government
officers. stenographic writers, attorneys.
physicians, barbers-and woman, the
glorious creation and embodiment of all
that costs money, has at last step
ped boldly into the dentists Office
and offered to trade off 500, 900 worth of
pain for so cents spot cash. If more wo-
men adopt the practice of dentistry there
will be less howl floating around the home
of the brave and land of the free than there
is just at present. 1t is a very strong
willed man, indeed, who refrains from let
ting off a concentration of wall from the
time he strikes the bottom stair of tooth
pulling factory until the dentist stands over
his senseless remains, fourishing his Jaw
and fragment Of the tooth in the air. de-
manding dollar and half for his kind
ness for not pulling the whole front of his
head Off People who live next door to a
dentist and are obliged to 90 down to a
boiler factory when they want to enjoy
some sleep can testify to this.
Woman will put more bravery into the
frame Of man than any other negotiable
article in the country, excepting, perhaps,
poor whisky. Man in the presence of man
is weak, but beneath the soul
full and belladonnaful eyes of a
woman he's stronger than a ninety-foot
drink. From this argument then, it will be
readily seen that where a man would howl
loud enough TO hail ship in the
Adriatic sea, when he was having a tooth
pulled in Kalamazoo put woman with a
forcep attachment on to the same tooth and
the fellow would hire deaf-and-dumb man
= do the talking for him,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
THIS SIZE.

The paper was
read by the editor,
and some of the con-
tents. including the
original drawings,
are given be-
low. Before the
reading began a tele-
gram was read from
Gazewell Ferret, sta
ling that he had s,
Tar recovered from a
recent indisposition
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

A man had been found dead in the streets
OF Topeka. and with hole in his head. In
accordance with the law
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

As 70 De aDI6 70 leave 10 -nlcag0, Where
he would probably reMa two weeks to
Fecuperate. On his return he would give
the lyceum talk on the sights in that city.
After the usual salutatOry. Long / "a read
the following article, which was OF G of the
best in the paper. 1t was headed and read
as follows: