St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-02
BOUNCING BITS.

BOUNCING Bats.
On the night of Jan. 10 the carnival
clubs. 10 the number of 500, made an ex-
cursion to Red Wing for the purpose OF
bouncing Capt. buck" Pierce He took
the medicine calmly, and cried for more.
Hon. Senator StenersOn of Polk county
Joined st. Georges SnOwshOe club JAM 10.
and the boys bounced him, after which he
paid his initiation fee and asked them out.
City Attorney Murray was bounced for
the first time Jan. 5. He has taken one
regularly every day since.
City Comptroller Roche fell into the
hands of bouncing committee Jan. 8. He
comes down to his Office now via Lake
Como.
Chief of Police Clark was bounced New
Years morning. He was so badly shaken
up that he forgot to make his usual list of
new resolutions.
City Engineer Rundlett knows what it is
to be bounced. He says it is like a realiza-
ton OF Jules Vernes trip TO the moon.
The first time Judge Cory was bounced
holding him up"
''Bazie" Armstrong was so small that
when the clubs went to bounce him they
had 10 wrap him mp in several buffalo over
coats so that they wouldn't lose sight of
him when he went up in tine air.
Diary-Jan. 10. Judge Egan was
bounced by the WakOutas. The judge
made brief speech. saying: Lets have
drink" The speech took-so did the
boys.
Mayor Howe of Red Wing was bounced
Jan. 19. Howe was that for high?
Gov. Hubbard has been spared bounc-
ing.
They say that the girls bounce each other
in their executive sessions.
A committee has been appointed TO de-
eide the question of whether or not club
members who have been bounced this win
ter will be entitled TO another dose next
winter. Some say it runs out, like Vaccin-
atom.
There would be an awful picnic if some
club would attempt to bounce Sam Nichols.
Gen. Jennison has not been bounced.
Gen. MacCarthy says that he and Gov
Hubbard are the first bOuncerS. They did
it to Col. Bend last summer.
If VIII Angel were bounced he would
come apart.
VIII Summers says clubs may bounce him
all they see fit but all the same, he is not
night clerk.
DIR. Murphy says he hasn't been bounced
yet, but he is willing TO be whenever the
boys feel like it. He weighs about 500
pounds and it will take a committee Of
pretty husky men to toss him very high.
Maj. Edwards, the 4O0-pOund editor
of the Fargo Argus is expected down in a
few days, and Judge Baker, DIR. Murphy
and Judge Chandler have been appointed a
committee to receive him at the depot and
draw him up town on toboggan. Possibly
they will bounce him.
The dates on which the aldermen were
bounced are as follows: President Smith,
Jan. 5; Aid. Long. Jan. 8; Minea, Jan. q;
Bryant Jan. II; O'COnnor, Jan. 8; San
born, Jan. 8; VanBSlyke, Dec. 2s; Kerr,
Dec. 80; Kahn, Jan. 81; Cummings, Jan.
IS; Petseh. Dec. 81; StarkeH Jan. s.
Commander Davidson says he won't be
bounced, but if the boys want anything that
he has got they can have it.
Sheriff Richter was bounced by the Ice
Bear club. but they took pains to catch him
when he didn't have his gun with him.
A squad of about twelve strong visited
one of the toboggan gates of entrance to the
palace grounds. The twelve were costumed
and apparently had been left in the march.
A policeman stood at the gate and refused
them admittance. The desperate twelve
held short consultation when the police
man was again asked to open the gate
He refused. and when he landed several
PAGES from the gate the twelve had passed
through.
Ralph Martin, a member of the Northern
Paeihc was collared by several kids and
pitched high into the atmosphere. This
action was repeated several times. and be-
ing very tired, the blood rushed to his head,
making his head so ponderous as to bring
his feet down first which came in contact
with the jaw of one of the bouncers upset.
ting several worries.
Talking about bouncing" said Charley
Fairchild last evening before the process
sion, lit is very inferior method they
have Of doing the job here. In olden times
we used 10 take freshmen first by the feet
and drag them around until they were half
immortal and then give them the bounce.
They could not kick then" At the fms of
this recitation from Orator Fairchild hasty
consultation was held when some mean per-
son Suggested the new UP DC IfleU INST
OH the author. 1t worked all right.
The ladies have got to bouncing. There
is DaytOn's Bluff club which has had a
dozen or so of its members tossed A gen.
ueman who watched one performance from
a safe distance says it was picnic to see
them. They did not know which of the IN
should be bounced first and one suggested
that the last one out" be bounced first.
so she started on ''onery. lowry. tickrey, -
ETC., and it devolved upon very modest
young maiden. She was escorted to the
blanket and was allowed time to adjust her
skirts. They tossed her three times, when
one, thinking that was all. let q corner
drop and May took a tumble"
Adjt. Gen. MacCarthy has not been
bounced.
Jack Kemp was bounced in great shape
ON the afternoon of Ian. 90.
The police station last night was a lively
scene of bouncing. Each policeman had
worked himself in condition preparatory TO
the task laid out for them. Every person
who happened by was successfully perched
at an elevation of several degrees, more or
less. with only one exception. A man of
medium build had woven in his clothes
something that very much resembled fish
hooks. They were well hidden i'm his
clothes, and the first pointer the police
men received was in their fingers.
FOUR PALACES.