St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-05
SUNDAY RAMBLES.

SUNDAY RAMBLES.
| Yesterday was the famous Fourth o.
July, but as the Fourth is to celebrate BIZ
| proxy this year. not a single fire cracker
was allowed to pop by the preservers of the
peace and the majesty of the law. But the
| pyrotechnics went on just the same through
the otherwise quiet day and night, and the
police might as well have tried to choke of
the Mississippi river. They We're able tc
catch very few, who will pay for their fur
| in the municipal court this morning. Bic
cannon" fire crackers. with long fuses,
were stealthily dropped at the heels OF
policemen as they leaned up against
| telegraph poles, and when they
! jumped and looked around for the
offenders the latter were enjoying the
| success of their joke in the uncertain dis
| lance. One was dropped within few feet
| of Chief Clark and Captain Bresette as they
| stood talking on the corner at the police
station last evening, but they could only
look and think justice to the offenders.
After midnight the fusilade was increased
and is still going. No increase has been
made in the police force for to-day, but a
part of the force will be detailed to the diff
ferent picnic grounds i'll the city.
happened in on a curious reunion at
| one of the hotels last night. Five young
men met who had been born in the same
town, little New Hampshire village and
they all attended the same district school
as long as they lived in their native place.
The five well illustrate how the young men
of New England scatter to the
cities, and most of them to the West
ern cities at that. One of them
koN ocated in San Francisco. and has
an interest in the largest book publishing
house in that city. Another is a young
lawyers, who has lived for some years in
Florida. One is a travelling man for a
Minneapolis firm, another lives in ST. Paul
and the youngest in the crowd, who used
to be one of the small boys at the school, is
first assistant engineer on the Old Colony
railroad, with headquarters in Boston. The
five men had not been together since the
days when they were at school together.
They got in corner and talked over old
times for an hour, and then broke up, pos
sibly never to come together again.
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believe it's all farce to talk about the
summer dress of ladies being so much more
comfortable than that of the men. Yester-
day afternoon any number of young gen.
tlemen and ladieswere on the shadysides of
the street. The men had their coats and
vests unbuttoned, and their hats tipped on
the back of their heads, looking pretty
comfortable in spite of the heat.
But the although they
had visionary sleeves and white
dresses. they looked tired and
of course they had to be proper and digni-
fed, and they looked very uncomfortable.
Of course pretty woman looks sweet and
pretty anywhere, but take woman with a
wart on her chin and enough hair on her
upper lip to hold perspiration, and is so
tieshy that her walk becomes waddIe. and
let her get exercise under such weather as
yesterday and the sight is not calculated to
lure the heart Of any well-balanced man
from his first love.
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And speaking of clothes, the Windsor
Toboggan club summer suits are beginning
to come out haven't seen any of the la
dies, so l can't tell how they will look. but
the effect on the gentlemen is immense.
They are the most comfortable-looking
suits imaginable. It's as refreshing as a
claret lemonade to have Col. Monfort pass
by you with his suit on.
~
Charley Scheffer of the Clarendon, is
trying to comb his hair down, but it won't
stay. Charley's hair has stood up since
last Friday night when he was sitting in the
doorway of the Clarendon smoking an
after-supper cigar. Charley sat there
dreamily looking up to the sky through the
little clouds of smoke, enjoying the fresh
evening breeze. Just as he was falling into
doze somebody yelled mad dog!' Charley
awOke and just in front of him on the side
walk stood a young dog frothing at the
mouth and growing sullenly. Charley
teeth moved uneasily in their sockets and
his eyes chartered as he saw hydrophobia
staring him in the face, and for minute he
sat paralyzed, but fit of desperation seized
him and with yell that startled the police
man at Seven corners he shot through the
door and up the stairs and he never stopped
until he reached his room and locked the
door when ne stuck his head out of the
window and yelled at the boys below,
''send up a ladder. The dogs trying to
eat through my door and can't get out. "
The boys explained to Charley that they
had filed the mouth of the dog with soft
! soap and let him loose near him just for a
little fun, but Charley says nay, he heard
the Infatuated animal gnawing at his door
until he was killed by the porter, and now
when he goes out on the street. he takes
along two Colts nayies for protection.
THE RAMBLER.
Some shops Were Open.
People who wanted shave yesterday be-
fore going to the lakes didn't have to hunt
around for an open shop as long as the
previous Sunday. Several opened because
they knew they could, others because they
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