St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-13
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snowshoe costumes. He says they are adj
mirably adapted to show off harmonious
proportions of shape. By the bye, the sig
nor is nothing if not consistent, and he
wears very handsome suit himself.
The swell toboggan suits worn by Messrs.
A. Z. Patton, E. w. Buckley and A. Is.
Van Berger have so captivated the many
friends of the gentlemen that they are IAN
to eat and sleep in them. Among their
MANY admirers is John Langton OF the
Clarendon, who says they are taking big
chances in running amuck of the other
diners The boys should not be enviOus.
Louie Reinhard is the proud pOsSessor OF
one of the nattiest cutters in st. Paul.
Prof Willis states that business is so
rushing that he is compelled TO take his
MONDAY lunch down town.
Lieut.. RObertsOn's arch has attracted
very favorable comment, both on account
of its symmetry and good staying qualities.
Ed Whitaker of the Albert Lea route has
bl0Ssomed forth in a broad-brimmed felt
hat. He says that style muscbe kept up
even though the bottom should fall out OF
rates.
Ami Eaton is carrying his left arm IN
sling. He was coming down the tOboggan
slide Thursday when his steed collided with
a team, painfully wOunding his arm and
damaging his ulster.
Richard Lehman says there is no let-up
in the boom, and that anything in sight
goes off with the celebrity Of hot cakes.
Mai. Watson is good deal of a pedes-
trian, and when night unfoldS her dusky
curtain he loves TO Tamble forth under the
starlit canopy on West Seventh street and
commune with silent nature.
Louis George states that since the advent
of the tObOggan craze the visible supply of
court plaster has materially decreased.
Joe Emmett, the German dialect come
dian, telegraphed Manager Lou Scott that
he would be in ST. Paul next week, pro-
vidlng the latter could insure him against
the billiards that might be loafing around
loose and Mr.. Scott wired him that he had
squared Borealis, and the matchless
comedian will be on deck about Thursday
OF next week.
Jim Ahern, clerk of the police court, says
that wearing snowshOes makes fellow
feel as if he were on his uppers. With
couple of moons practice he will be ready
to challenge the world.
Col Tom Teasdale of the Royal Route is
one of the most genial gentlemen in the
business. He don't put on many Tugs but
it is a shady day when the colonel or his
road gets left.
That gentleman, my son, with the portly
Mai. Bracket the United States deputy
marshal. The major has managed to keep
OH the windward side of all the political
changes for 10, these many years. and he is
a slayer from away back. He owns fine
block in Minneapolis and lots of other
things to protect him on a rainy day."
j. ii. Highland paid his st. Panl friends
a visit Thursday. He wears the same old
bland and pleasing smile, and submits to
the Establishments of the interviewer just
as gracefully as ever.
Commodore Cummins escorted the ladies
of the Duluth delegation in the Nightingale
band wagon from the depot last Thursday,
and he looked quite nifty as seated on his
high perch.
Dick states he has got the carnival calum-
niatOr down fine and that he is ali attache
of paper printed not a thousand miles
away. He also affirms that the man who
Il led to get up the smallpox scare about
st. Paul. and the fellow who circulated the
alse report of the decay of the ice palace,
is one and the same person.
When Col. Cross is not too busy he en-
joys telling and hearing good story, and
he is always loaded with a stock of the
newest yarns.
Sam Dawson is out in a brand new silk
hat which fits him like the paper on the
wall.
Manager Pugh of the st. Paul & Pacific
Coal and Iron company says that this is
glorious weather for the ice palace, but
that it is rather rocky Oh the coal lines.
BY the way, Mr.. Pugh is to be commended
for his enterprise in helping to establish
the Dayton's bluff toboggan slide.
Judge Egan has got new one on the ia
nous lawyer. Rufus Choate. which is re-
lated in the inimitaOle style peculiar only
to the judge. According to the story a
couple of expert burglars called on Choate
one day, and showing him the di-
agram OF a great mansion, they
explained the modus operandi of
a burglary and then asked him if he could
acquit in case certain parties were arraigned
charged with the crime of burglariZing the
house in question.
Surprising that the residence had been
already burglarZed, the distinguished
pleader said that with liberal retainer he
thought he could. The men went away
and a short time afterwards the services of
Mr. Choate were solicited in behalf of a
couple of prisoners who had burglarized the
house described to the great lawyer. After
he had given the advice and which they had
taken the trouble TO procure before COM
hitting the crime true to his word he
appeared for the defense and they were ac-
quilted.
Charley Hickson had a cannon con-
structed of ice in front of his place of bust
ness and he tried to make it sun proof by
loading it with snow balls. The scheme
didn't work and it only took a handful of
shafts from the ardent culver of old Sol to
knock it silly.
Papa Giesen says that it is impossible to
get up a successful masquerade without
beer. We know good Elany fellows into
whose costumes the frisky lager entered as
conspicuously component part and their
masquerade wasn't very successful either
DR.. w. W. Day, secretary of st. Georges
club, went over TO witness the base ball
game the other day, and he borrowed the
fast tilley belonging to DR.. Quinn for the
occasion. On the way home the nag got
the bit between her teeth and in less time
than it takes to tell it there was just enough
left of that cutter to make bonfire. The
doctor says it comes high, but he must
have it,
George Walsh feels very much elated over
the acquisition to his handsome family, but
nothing goes now but cigars.
Judge Cory is quite noted athlete. ''Do
you KNOW" he said the other day, ''that
when the carnival sports began tried to
arrange to transact all my business in the
forenoon, but the rush has been so great
that L have had only one afternoon off, -"
Big-hearted, athletic and fine-looking
Hon. j. j. Crowley, special agent of the
treasury department, was in the city this
week. having just returned from a visit of
Inspection over his big district We re-
member Jerry when he was rustling for
news on morning paper in Chicago some
ten years ago, and indeed we were playing
a star engagement at that time on the same
paper ourselves. Jerry was one of the