St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-26

Mr.. Fauntleroy, at
r,cz1 the recent conven-
<S\ST' ton, there will be
&%(a EA--' little beyond politics
~ I LII to interest ard eX-
| " " 1W cite the good people
>-> of Mimi apolis.
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4GEgmtI There will be six
IN M YHH1F weeks of an exciting
| IET/ oEILLAll canvass then the eli
! dlMn MWH max, with its joys
| 1lIY + A4IET and sorrows. and
! HIM ~ All then the reactive lull
| .lWETI II dH- and long winters
| iIEH II Euj rest before the
| HHSE UuMT trouble is renewed
I (WHfIl i'll the spring. But
WI'F stOp-there will be
another election in January, when the
| Democrats of Minneapolis will choose a
mayor to succeed Gov. Ames, who has no
intention of holding state office and city
office at the same time. He is no Pooh
BAH" though he does hold several places
down. His latest office. that OF director OF
| the Exposition, was obtained under rather
interesting circumstances. Col Glenn sold
him his stock. and of course resigned from
| the directorate. The question OF electing
Ames came up in the next meeting, and
luo ulSCuSSIOu hIllCH CuouOO was SShSA"A
and interesting. In view of Ames' candi-
dacy for governor, many of the Republic
cans on the board did not favor electing
him, for fear it would be construed into
a political boom. Finally, however, it was
agreed to elect him and it was then diScov-
ere there was no provision in the charter
for filling a vacancy in the board. Putting
their heads together. the directors studied
the charter and found they could make
their own bylaws, and one was accord
ingly formed, permitting them to fill vacan-
cies by election. Mayor AmeS was then
elected.
With singular and Characteristic incon-
SiStency, A. j. Blethen, of the Tribune,
voted for him. This wonderful daily,
under Mr. Blethen'S inspiration, holds Dr..
AmeS I'D to the world as the incarnation of
all that is bad, yet he cast his vote to admit
him to the sacred circle of the inner coun-
Gil. Apparently struck by this inconSist-
ency, he has directed the spiking of the
Tribune'S mud battery. and now the paper
has nothing to do but talk of itself, How
fluently it does do that. 1t reminds me of
the story of the cuckoo and the swallow.
told in one of the old school readers. The
swallow had Just returned from warmer
cIimes in the spring and Immediately met
the cuckoo. The latter started the gossip
and began disparaging the nightingale,
concluding by asking the swallow:
''What say the Georgian maids so pretty
About young Nightingale's dull ditty?
Do any praise it now? l fancy not
Excuse me-" said the swallow, much they
praise
His plaintive and melodiots lays
And call them charming and I know not
what
Charming? That's odd, indeed He! he!
And what says ali the world of me?'
"Of your exclaimed the wondering bird;
"Of you'll In truth, sir, not world!
How! What Does no one speak of me?
How strange! 1t surely cannot be
For speak of myself forever"
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The handsome rooms of the Algonquin
club are open. and members are making the
most of them socially and politically. l
am reminded by this of little incident
which occurred in one of the earlier meet
ings of the club. Z. B. Forrest, who was
really the father and founder of the club.
WAS determined on an Indian name. Just
why, | don't know, unless it was be-
cause of the IrOquoiS. Of Chicago, or
the Itaska, of st. Paul. perhaps; but at all
events the suggestion seemed popular.
Several Indian names, all pretty, were Sug-
out and adopted. Several ways of spelling
it appeared, the right way among Others
and differences of opinion arose. Erudite
members also differed as to the meaning
and derivation OF the word. and at last a
committee was appointed to report at the
next meeting the approved photography and
the historical definition of the word.
George G. Jacoby was chairman, and the
report was duly ready. [ have not copy
OF it, unfortunately. The chairman had
ranSacked history and tradition, and his re-
port was most exhaustive. Probably nine
tenths of the members never had before
such definite idea of the history of the In
dian tribes of the St. Lawrence basin. So
it was eminently satisfactory, and Jacoby
was at once elected treasurer as an ac-
acknowledgements.
tits matter of general knowledge that
the author Of Home, Sweet Home" John
Howard Payne, once was in Paris. But
it might not be 50 about the fact that
Home, Sweet Home" was composed by
Payne when there, a poor student, living
in humble lodgings near the Palais Royal.
mention this merely in connection with
another wellknOwn product OF man
at present living right amongst US; l mean
the author of Milton" in Scandinavia, for
March, Mr.. Evert Nymanover. After
leaving tie University of Minnesota i'll
1884, Mr.. NymanOver went to Paris, stud
led there under the most famous professors
of the civilized world (amOng others, Ernest
Renan, author of ''Vie de Jesus"). In the
biography of Mr.. Nymanover, now to be
read in the last issue of Scandinavia, it
is said that his essay ON Milton" was
hot tom yhoY1
in Paris living, it is said, on the very
street where John Howard Payne wrote
the immortal Home, Sweet Home" which
has thrilled so many hearts. Mr.. Nyman-
over lived on Rue st. Honore, not one block
from the Palais Royal. when he wrote
Milton, Paris Study" and which was
printed in Scandinavia for March and
April. 1t is production of deep research
in Miltonian literature. and a glowing
tribute to Milton as Man," and propa-
gator of the Gospel of Discomfort" He
characteriZeS Milton as the highest exam
pie of DEVELOPMENT, mentally as well as
morally, yet reached among people of the
Anglo-SaXon race.
KS
The boys of the Union League club had
an exciting time, not down on the bills, the
other night. President Evans had droned
through the ordinary routine business, and
the members were yawning drearily over
reports of committees when some bright,
red-headed genius moved to indorse
the Nettleton- Blair Window resolutions
adopted by the Republican brevet- Pronl-
bitionists at Chicago. 1t was about 9
o'clock. The party leaders who love tod
were at st. Paul setting up the pins to
down Doc Ames, and so the boys had it all
to themselves. For three hours they
whipped the OratOrical waters into white
foam. declared that they were not Prohibi-
tioniStS; that the g. o. p. was organized for
reform Oh theory. but was against the prac-
tice. Finally. Judge Fish and Col"
Evans and Col" johnson agreed that the
motion to indorSe the Chicago resolution
wouldn't affect the PiIlsbury-Fletcher con-