St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-02
ALL SORTS.
It was August the first
And quite mild were the skies;

IL was august the nrSt
And quite mild were the skies;
And the inference was
The police could be likewise;
But they played it upon the base ball game
In way we despise,
Manager Barnes Lament.
W. Emerson Haskell and c. Alfred Will
lams being absent it will devolve upon J.
Modest Gray, Democrat, to roast the
administration" in to-day's Tribune.
Several men from the First ward called at
the GLOBE Office last evening and wanted to
be informed why it was they could not get
their pay from the city. They say they were
employed by Street Commissioner Lynott and
have had no pay for two months, and but
once this season; that he told them the ward
fund was exhausted and they must wait until
next June for their money. This came too
late for investigation, but if true it is worth
official looking after.
Maj. Will E. Haskell, the able editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune, has gone to Boston to
have his regular semi-annual business talk
with father. He contemplates several jour-
nallStlc innovations in the great Northwest,
and very properly he seek fathers advice
touching them. One of these innovations
concerns the elegant new house he has
erected on a lone island in Lake Minnetonka;
a Lynn manufacturing firm has submitted
plans for superb gilt weather-yane with
which to cap the dome on the top of this resi-
dence; This vane is to be in the similtude of
Dorking rooster rampant so artfully con-
structed that it will, without any apparent
effort, turn its shining head and golden wat
Ties ia what direction soever the wind blows.
But Mr.. Haskell prefers vane so constructed
that, while its superb head may f1uctuate
gracefully between other points of the COM
pass, its outrageous tail shall always be
haunted, as in imperious Scorn, at the distant
and despised city of ST. Paul. Mr. Haskell
asked US what we thought father would have
TO say about this scheme, and we told him
that our casual acquaintance with the re-
vered gentlemen's conservative methods led
US to surmise that father would decline to
commit himself to any such extensively parti-
san policy as was suggested by the rampant
rooster with the reversible head and steadfast
tail; that father would probably refer the
whole matter to Maj. Alden ]. Bethen, his
son Mentor, with power to act.-Chicago
News.
Even in this enlightened age there are
| some who cannot expunge from their minds
| the superStitions of the dark ages, when base
| ball and glove contests were unknown. For
| instance, one of the best known sporting men
lii the city, who recently engaged in new
enterprise is thoroughly Disguised because
| he cannot make 1t pay, and declares it is be-
| cause he made the purchase on Friday and
| opened it for the first time on Saturday.
At Lake Calhoun yesterday a boat was
| tipped over and four persons narrowly
escaped drowning. Some people never will
| learn that it is the height of foolishness to
| get out in the lake and then try and see how
near the boat can be tipped without going
clear over.
| If one may judge from appearances there
are people in this city who would rather re-
main in one of the most uncomfortable posi-
lions possible rather than pay so or even 25
cents to see a good exhibition.
c. NJ. Lorng spends a good portion of each
day looking after the park system, which is
now assuming tangible proportions.
A. NJ. Scott, the Republican candidate for
probate judge, sizes j. A. Giddings, Free
man P. Lanes old partner, as his most for
midable opponent.
The Tribune may have trouble to prove
that Elder Stewart is tax title sharp as
very little of the elders possessions were &C
Quired in that way.
A. j. Blethen Is not good chronologist.
He claims that Elder Stewards letter. pub
lished in the News Letter, is over a year old,
and has gone begging from one newspaper
office to another for publication. As some of
the attacks of which the elder complains are
OF recent date it can easily be seen that the
Tribune is unreliable, as usual.
First Trayeler-Where are you bound for?
Sec md Traveler-For Minneapolis, MINI.
First Traveler-Minneapolis? Let me see.
Oh, yes. that is trading post upon the river
from st. Paul.
Second Traveler-You live in St. Paul, don t
you?
First Traveler-Oh, yes. How came you to
guess!-Detroit Free Press.