St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
ALL SORTS.

W. G. Edgar of the Miller is not large but
he is filled with nerve from the end of his ci-
garet to the tip of his patent leather shoe.
George p. Wailahan was witness to a thrill
ing, yea, blood-curdling encounter he had
with a rat night before last. Edgar discov-
cred the rodent leisurely crossing the street
and, having no weapon, threw his hat at it.
The little animal considered this caster
SHE'D into the ring and made a charge at Ed
gar. He then threw newspaper at it, and
ton was uppermOst when it struck.
1t soft it merely
angered the rat, which twisted his whiskers
savageiy and made charge at Edgar. The
latter's blood was up, but the vicious kick he
made overbalanced him and down he came,
sitting squarely on the animal. The insult
made the rat furious, and it wheeled about
and charged again, when Edgar seized the
nearest telegraph pole and dispatche ed it at a
blow. The savage little beast was examined
and measured four inches from its nose to
the tip Of its tail
w. B. Wheeler is the Jonah of the Mime
apolis base ball team and it never wins a
game when he is present. On Friday Mime
apolis led Duluth until the ball caught sight
Of Wheeler sitting in the front row, laying
low for foul flies. and after that the game
was hopeless. Yesterday he went to st.
Paul. but kept dark until the seventh inning,
when his rotund proportions appeared i'll the
right foul field. That settled it, and the game
was lost. W. 3. Wheeler is the Jonah and
Lew Harrison is the mascot.
The past week has been unusually quiet in
Minneapolis, so far as events are concerned,
though everything has been hustling and
busting along in characteristic style, bust
ness, Exposition crooks and blind pigs, with
the rest. / am curious to know the result of
the annual recapituation of Minneapolis
statistics, to know and compare how the Cit
progresses under an alleged wide-open and
an alleged high moral administration and
will swallow every ballot cast for mayor Ames
last spring if the result is not largely in favor
Of the former. All statistics gathered to this
date go to bear this out, and the best part of
the year remains. 1t might naturally have
been supposed that building was seriously
| checked by the labor troubles incident to the
1st of May, but if this s:so, it is equally true
the reaction came and the building record
will not suffer thereby. Everything has been
swimming along, unimpeded, carrying the
city rapidly forward to its destiny It is a
wide open city, perhaps, but that term, wide
open,' is subject to misconstruction. 1t is
wide open in the sense that New York. Chi
cago, San Francisco and Cincinnati, New Or
leans and St. Louis are wide open, but the
wide openness is merely one of the elements
of its greatness and is not to be dispersed
with. Leaving out the sunday question, the
crowd of crooks and fakirs alleged to be here
are one of the unavoidable ana unpleasant
concomitants of every large city.
Col. C. w. Johnson pines in his seat in the
senate and wants to be in the political fray
at Minneapolis. He writes: II am hot. busy
and bilious. No prospect that congress will
adjourn before August 5. My tongue Tolls
out for Minneapolis.
Dr. Collins who is a chronic candidate for
health officer, spells diphthera without the
first 'h.''
Judge Rand would not throw over his skoul-