St. Paul daily globe., 1886-07-01
CITY CHAT.

DullUluS HAS CuuSuG dIC. Sdio eO1O VI tAO
firm of johnson, Smith & Harrison, Monday
evening, as he watched the smoke leave the
basement. tNone of the fires have yet been
serious, and I hope none will ever be.
Speaking of fire reminds me Of the time
when Fred Smith was burned out, some
years ago. He was running paper at the
time, and was doing good business. One
night, after he had gone home, the building
took fire and was burned down, together with
ali the contents. About the time the fire was
over and everything destroyed, some one
rushed franticaly over to Fred's house and
excitedly informed him, and told him of the
occurrence. $50 the building is gone?'
inquired Fred in resigned tone. "Yes, it's
burned down and all the things in the store,
too," shouted his informant. "Well, in that
case answered Fred, turning over and closing
his eyes, 81 see no use of my going down.
Good night
A good story is told about the first journal
istic efforts OF young man in Minneapolis
who reported the real estate transfers Tor
week, during the absence of the regular re-
porter. One day brother reporter filed deed
amounting to $700 which he asked the other
boys not to publish. All of them agreed not
to use it, but when the paper upon which the
the fresh young man worked appeared in the
morning there was the deed, in among about
fifty others. When asked what he had used
it for he replied in very serious tone; Il
would not fail to do my duty toward the
public to accommodate any one. The city
editor told me not to neglect anything, and
even one small deed like that is important. ;"
The young man is not now reporting for any
paper.
'',There is a history connected with that
woman" remarked an old resident last even
ing, as beggar-woman, perhaps 50 years OF
age, bent almost double beneath the weight
of a pack she carried on her back, passed.
''She was once handsome young womau,"
1o Ssar, fn
young fellow named Holmes. The
young man went East to seek his fortune,
and while there was taken sick. He was too
proud to write to his friends here for assist
ance and finally died. When the young woman
was informed of his death she became in
sane, but finally calmed down trihe and
settled down into steady rut of melancholy,
from which nothing can move her. She is not
Just right in her head now, and imagineS that
she must raise sum OF money large enough
to bring her sweetheart home and have him
cared for. She does not appear to remember
that he is dead, and has accumulated a hand
some fortune by begging. She lives in q
tumble-down house on the East side, and
those who claim to know say she has over
$4,000 in money buried in different parts of
the cellar. No one refuses to answer to her
appeal, and suppose she will continue to
beg until she dies from old age. Then her
heirs will step in and divide the money"
The city is pronounced free and wholesome
again. That one case of smallpox which ac
cidentally strayed in has recovered, and the
quarantine is raised.
The Swedes are organizing society known
as the Gustayus Adolphus society, to which
any Swede above 16 years of age, and not
connected with the selling of liquor, is eli
gible.
A man who has had long course of news
paper training acquires fund of practical
experience that becomes valuable in any
other pursuit, and ]. n. Mind will make
great success as manager Of the panorama.
1t looks very much as though Minneapolis
would have a three-days celebration of the
Fourth of July this year.
When it comes to Sunday, with twenty
thousand workingmen at liberty, in Minneap-
oils, what would the city do without the
motor line and the means it furnishes of pass
ing harmlessly pleasant day
On a rainy day, when the moisture uightens
up the rail connections, the electric motor is
irreproachable and slides up grade readily.
Half the time when the electric motor is laid
Off, the fault is with the power at the dynamo.
Two hundred and thirty vehicles passed the
intersection of Lake street and Nicollet
avenue within an hour, Sunday afternoon.
Great thoroughfare.
Frank S. Moore, of this city, formerly of
Little Missouri, has been appointed post
trader at Fort Meade, D. T., the secretary of
war having approved the. selection of the
council at the fort. An interesting contest
has been in progress for this position for
about three months, no less than forty appli-
cations having been made. This is the post
at which the charges were brought against
Mai. Reno. who was dismissed from the
army, and the appointment is the more inter-
esting from that fact.
"When you get hold of something hot, drop
| it-as we do.''-Evening Journal.
The New York Graphic, speaking of the
! career of Will E. Haskell, the brilliant young
advertisement says: "Charlestown was
! young Haskell's home until he reached the
| age of six months, when his parents removed
| to Chelsea and he consented to accompany
them.'' Maj. Haskell evidently began his
| career very young.
DR.. Chase preached sermon on the social
| evil at the First Baptist church, on Sunday
| evening, that has been ringing through the
| city ever since. The reverend gentleman
called spade spade and bushes and litter
J ing alternated through the church all evening
During the trial of Mary E. Prentiss
charged with keeping house for immoral
purposes. Mr.. Robinson, the woman's coun-
sci, lost no opportunity to cast a slur upon
the newspaper men in the city, and as often as
he did so was snapped up by County Attorney
Davis, who several times administered severe
but fitting rebukes.
sits the hardest thing in the world to con-
vict one of those keepers remarked County
charged with keeping house for immoral
purposes. 1.-THE reason isl he continued
''that those who want them punished cannot
give evidence enough to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt that she is a keeper, and the
| persons who frequent the place are not going
to get themselves into trouble by telling what
| they do know. It's one Of the hardest things
we have to put up with at present.
The unsighty signs that have for several
years disfgured the architectural appearance
of the city hall building have at last been re-
| moved. One result is. to have filled the ordi-
narily silent Except on meeting nights)
| council chamber with the shrill chirups and
cries of sparrows. Indeed one would think
| that Janitor Runge had become afflicted with
| q bird fanciers's craze
| But he has not. His has been onlythe act of
humanity. Behind the signs were several
| sparrows' nests, some of which were tlled
with young, callow birds, not large enough
to fly or take care of themselves. All the
nests save one were so securely fastened that
| the removal of the signs did not interfere
with the domestic happiness and convenience
of the birds and birdlets, but one broke
away. This latter nest with its family of four
little ones was removed to the west window,
| and thera the helnless things are fed and