St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-08
MINNETONKA MELANGE
4 Week of Gayety and Pleasure at the
Principal Hotels and
Pavilions.
Railroad Passenger Agents, Minneapolis
Police, Sunday School Maidens
and Yachtmen.
Peculiar Story n Narrated by an Old
Diver While in a Mellow
Mood.
The Balls Last Night at the Lafayette
and Lake Park Hote1s--Other
Mention.
Odds aud Ends.

The nights have been cool, nay even cold,
and the shady hooks and Silly chambers
have been at premium for callow lovers.
The evaneScent beauX and bellies have in
dulged in dances galore, and at the ST.
Louis hotel Friday evening the climax was
reached by brilliant ball, which was voted
the most successful of the season. For the
coming week the yacht regatta Monday, the
rowing regatta, the passenger agents pic
mic. the police excursion, the Westminster
picnic and other large events are on the
tapis.
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One of the pleasantest sights at the Lake
Park hotel is the turn palanqulnS owned
by Frank Thompson. They are beauties.
and with a little care may be made to thrive
in this climate. Frank has carefully
trimmed and thinks of driving them la
tandem.
Seated on the deck of the steamer Belle
IF Minnetonka last Thursday was an
mobtrusive looking man, dressed in loose
fitting gray suit, and wearing low-cut
shoes. A casual glance showed nothing
remarkable except scar ridging across his
cheek This mark heightened the light in
The kind and twinkiing eyes. overhung with
shaggy eyebrows, but nothing serious was
apparent in his countenance. He looked
for all the world like some poor unfOr-
5unate with the most conventional history.
The man was Roger Walling Shape. an
English diver. and man whose life is a
Veritable romance, for it was Shape who
recovered the the treasure in the Bay of
Biscay; commanded the dive in the Tay
disaster and led band of freebooters into
Cochin. China, when by his submarine in
strumentS he secured a snug caSket, buried
in the fountain of the royal palace. After
some talk on curSOry matters, the CONVEX
sation reverted to the drowning of the little
bootbiack, Condor, and Mr.. Shape regretted
that his arrangements prevented him from
assisting in the search. Mr.. Shape is bound
for Frisco, and thence by Pacific Mail to
YOkOhOma.
do you know, me boy" said the diver in
that rich East London patois that is pleasant,
you know, to hear spoken By a cockney,
that the worst Scrape hiver got into was in
SO at the Falkland islands? Know where
they are? All, they be in the South seas, off
Of Brazil, about 500 leagues; dismal cloud
topped rocks, like you know, the Shetlands
and the Scots island They was named after
his grace, Lord Falkland. Penguns and sea-
gulls cover the gray stones and tell ye. lad,
when We make a landin with a SUI roIlin in
its the last place We want to be. and a party
old galleons that was supposed to have been
wrecked on the jagged rocks that run out in
the little reefs. We determined to see if we
couldn't get the treasure. After landln' and
goin' into camp, and all that, we decided to
get UP our riggin' and l was to 60 down in
about twelve fathoms O. water was lowered
over the side and soon reached the bottom.
Did the wind ever blow through your whis-
kers? well, you get in divin' suit and put on
q helmet an ave them pumpin' hair into you,
and you IL think it.
Well when [ reached the bottom, COM
menced eXplorin'. and after some work found
q ship-a true old sixteenth century Span
isher-lyin' on her beam with a big hole in
her side. Into this l goes and sees nothin',
when all of sudden [ feels some taps on my
back. / turned round and, so help me, Il
man was q standing there dressed up in laces
and leggin's, like circus rider at Astleys.
with a steel cuirass on his shirt front beck
Dnen me. Wy, at first thinks it a halucina-
ton, but when l feels them taps | knowed
that it was no halucination, but one of them
Spaniurds. History comes back in minute
and it says. "Pzzaro,' Non senor." Then
knows it was one of them. l foered him
through the water, and took it that he took
me for an hancient Crussder-a seeing my
helmet, but he didn't say anything, except
askin' me for chew terbacker and pen
knife to trim his nails, which
Ibid you ever hear of the term CHESTNUT
asked a bystander.
1.-The very name of the feller," said Mr..
Shape.
LET us adjourn for drinks" said another
Mr.. Shapes keeper said he was up airing
Mr.. Shape from ST. Peter.
PERSONAL.
The german at Hotel LafaTette. given last
evening by the young ladies of the house,
was very happy and an exceedingly brilliant
eveEt. The young ladies provided the favors,
which were very elegant. and the arrange
ments were made by Miss Mense and Mr..
Tateum. The guests were all in full evening
dress. and the costumes Of the ladies were
the perfection of beauty aud fashion. Prof.
Evans and Miss Mense Were the leaders OF
the german, and the others who danced were
as follows: Miss Mense, Miss Edwards, Misses
Cole Miss Draper Miss Beach, Miss Hancock.
Miss Moses. Miss Green, Miss Holland, Miss
Mofft. Miss Semple, Miss Jennie Whitcoml,
Miss Smith, Miss Race, Miss Caverly, Nj iss
BROKER, Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Steele, MIR. ana
Mrs. Fred Hopkins Prof. Evans, Messrs
Merriam, Chute, Tateum, Hal Watson. L.
Gordon, Holiday Cordo. Meade, Mellier, Nick
Els, g. H. Thomas, Mailer, Lou Watson, Cady,
Signor Niciolini, Van Deventer.
There were registered at the Park Lake
yesterday Richard Lehman. II. L. Williams,
st. Paul: Mrs. Mckenzie, Indianapolis; E.
Sandersou and wife, G. w. Bacon and wife.
A. L. Cary and wife, H. L. Horton and wife,
Milwaukee; William G: Northrup and
ience R. l.; J. S. Curtiss and vile, Chicago;
Mrs. Frank Aguew, Miss Agnew, Kansas City;
Charles A. Jargley, Dubuque; ]. NJ. Barclay,
0esMoines; E. a. Wright, Minneapolis; E.A.
White, Minneapolis; Miss Stella Schwart,
hinneapolis J. Fitzgerald, Chicago; G. N
smith, Portland; E. S. Shenhow, Minneapo-
is; j. c. Lows. La Crosse, H. H. Sagden,
Cincinnati; r. c. Varnell. Washington; d.
?. D. Botterbach, Mrs. James Schurtz. George
R. Monfort, st. Paul; Mr.. and Mrs. f. j.
Mackey, j. H. Elliott, Mrs. Bogton, F. W
Dean, ID. H. Dorman, Minneapolis.
At the Lafayette yesterday were registered:
3. Lowetha Hubert Anderson, Chicago; Mr..
md Mrs. George F. Appleby, Washington, D.
J.; Fred Elbett, Milwaukee; w. c. Jones,
sherman, Tex. Miss Boster, Carlisle, Pa
" H. Hill and wife, Cincinnati: James C.
Neryin, Bandress Burgess, New York; F. III.
Freeport, Ill.,; Bayard Viller, New York;
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Hayden, Chicago; John E.
Miller, Englewood, n. j.; H. S. Marcy Jack
,onville: George E. Bradford, Boston; G. G.
Goodrich, T. n. Voorhees,, New York; G.. NJ.
IckenkeI, Baltimore; j. w. Matthias, Chicago.
George D. McDaid, Wholesale druggist w
a. Crosby, conductor on the Chicago e. North
western road. E. B. Legg, a prominent young
druggist, and Commodore MedowS of Clinton
Ia. are nicely situated in camp on Sunrise
Point Lake Park. They have everything &c
make camp life enjoyable, from cob pipe to
Snotgul, anu IL any paiU 0"Joy -, &C
at the lake, they surely will. Their cook,
Commodore Medows, was 5cook Tor Cen
Robert E. Lee for some time during the war.
They are out for their health, and will prob
ably remain for two or three weeks.
The Nighthawk club put in a very enjoy
able time on Wednesday evening at Ingleside
where they were right royalty entertained by
Dr. and Mrs. S. b. Parsons and their daugh-
ter Miss Nettie. They took the Spanish
Students with them. and danced to the music
of the mandolin and guitar. Quite number
of young people from the cottages were pres
emf, and while they danced the elders occupied
the bowling alley.
N. H. Shirafji, young japanese gentleman
who has been attending the university OF
Michigan for the past four years. arrived al
Pleasant View cottage, Towards Point, or
Monday. After short stay at Miunetonka
Mr.. Shirafji expects to start for Europe, VIII Fl
ne will complete a professional education be