St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-03

the park systems OF other cities, Win
view OF grating useful information on our
own resting places.
AL Wilkes is accounted a pretty good
amateur musician by his friends, but when
it comes to horid singing Lon lays over the
deck.
Jack Parker is in training for running
match, and not even cigar goes.
Supt Manship OF the Gas company is en-
gagged on a couple of new jokes. the exact
nature Of which is a profound secret.
Mr. Howard, the African explorer, is the
posseSsor of new walkng-stick which
was sent him by foreign admirer.
Mr.. 2. Keigher says that not over 10 per
cent. of the property in the business por-
ton of st. Paul is occupied by those en-
gagged in mercantile pursuits. and he pre-
dic1s that 1t will not be long until the UNI
slightly dwarf-lke frame shells will give
way 10 substantial business editices.
Arthur +. Cox is a great equestrian. and
when not engaged in compromising pills he
goes horseback riding. Very few gentle
men hold down saddle more gracefully
than Arthur.
VIII Hendy (said to be in cahoots with
Jay Could insists that telegraph stock is
not monopoly. His friends desire to
know where the ''divy" comes in.
Frank Doherty has shed his mink ulster
and dOnned q spring hand-me-down and
silk nat. They are very becoming 10 modest
Frank.
DR.. Quinn delights in asserting that ''the
boys" are his friends and will stay by him
anyway.
Afable Billie Collier, the East Seventh
street pill compounder, holds nightly levees
OF his friends. He thinks human nature
demands that halt be called, but doesn't
know where to draw the line,
Joe Sansome is looking up the definition
of the word 'Canuck."
Reid, the tailor, sings softly these days,
that business will boom in the spring,
ira Ia,
Jesse Copelan, the right bower in the
Office Of General Passenger Agent LitteIl of
the Minnesota 81 Northwestern Railroad
company, takes just pride in cultivatlng a
beautiful blonde mustache of lionine pro
portions. Pretty soon he. may have it
sheared and bids will be IN order for the
clippings.
Senator William Bonniwell of Hutchin-
son was at the Merchants hotel last night
and he had reason to feel jubilant. He
said: Il have gotten my pet project
through and the railroad to Hutchinson is
an assured fact. l have been stageing it
for fifteen years, but next fall l intend to
ride to ST. Paul in a Pullman sleeper.
What's that? Yes, AIN out of politics
now"
Con Crowley, the popular cashier of the
water Office. is observing the Lenten season
with true Christian spirit. If the season of
fast should extend to eighty days instead of
forty Con would be as melancholy-looking
as Edwin Booth.
j. b. OveTtOn thinks that what he don't
know about running water company is
contained in the classic Uranium of his as
sistant, Tom McGoven.
The prettiest man about the water
works. however, is the veteran Grace
Glace's complexion is the envy of all the
ladies that call at the Office.
Col. Bend is a constant visitor atrthe
museum and the way he pipes off the freaks
is a caution.
Rudolph sRossum is another admirer of
the exhibits at the Seventh street show.
One Of the AlbinO ladies from Madagas-
car, " it Is said, has taken violent fancy to
Nr. Rossum.
A frst-class shorthand man can take
from 100 to $50 or 100 words minute.
The number who can accomplish the latter
are very few. One Of the swiftest short
hand reporters in the West is John English
OF the Chicago Tribune. He reported the
famous Beecher trial and achieved national
reputation FOR his accuracy. St. Paul has
few number one shorthand men. Per-
haps George Helman is the swiftest in the
city, while Mr. Cleveland, the attorney, is
said to be able to write 80 words minute.
There are quite a host of others who canter
along at l0O-wOTds-a-m minute gait.
Among the notable individuals now So
jouming In st. Paul, none have been more
favored, in some respects, than Mr.. George
W. Metlar Of California. Mr.. Metlar was
formerly Of Philadelphia, and for some
years he was intimately associated with
Cornelius or Commodore Vanderbilt as a
confidential agent of the latter. In his
young manhood he was on terms of friend
ship with many notable statesmen and men
of genius, aid possessing remarkably fine
memory he is a perfect compendium of in
tereSting fact and anecdote concerning the
men and times Of thirty or forty years age.
He was personal friend of the great
actor Edwin Forrest, being enc of the few
men who had access to the home of the
latter. He was also a friend of the
statesman, Henry Clay, Daniel Web
ster, and others quite as notable.
Mr.. Metlar and party of friends were
IN Washington ON the invation OF Henry
Clay, when the latter made, his great speech
IN January, lS50-the speech, indeed. which
the invented wisdom of tn 2 senate declared
was the means Of warding off the civil war
for least decade. Upon this occasion
MIR. Clay, who was then far advanced in
years was being con graduated by his
friends in one of the ant e. rooms, lone of the
gentlemen present kne1 down by his side
and attempted to assist him i'll putting on
his gum shoes, as they were then called.
On observing the Kindness, Mr.. Clay said:
II fear, my friend, that you are paying
this feeble frame too EaUch attention, but
am like an old clock. which. if wound care
July, may yet run little while longer"
THE BOYS WHO BANG.
do you know" remarked fashionably-
dressed young lady to her companion on
Third street yeste nlay, that I think Mr..
De June must do something with his hair,
it is so lovely. Did you observe how beau
hfully it was banged as he raised his hat
just now?"
Why, Of course it is banged, you silly
girl; don't you know it is quite the thing
for society young men to bang their hair
Just now," reioined her companion, and
then the swan-like beauties glided out of
hearing and sight.
The idea was quite neveS, and a few min
utes afterwards the writer entered fash
lonable Embarrassing shop with the view Of
earning more on the subject.
do men bang their lair?" was the query
put to the swell-looking proprietor of the
place.
''Weli. yes. they do; that is, some OF
them do, and it is not a very new thing,
either" was the reply.
The mere fact of banging their hair has
been going on for some time, but more re-
Gently we have been called upon to furnish
few gentlemen with false bangs. You see,
good many Of them are bald or their hair