St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-24
CURIOUS FANCIEs.
Prominent Wen Who Have Pet Ideas
on Various Topics.

on OPICSs
New York Sun.
James G. Blaine is said to have an idea
that he would have made good tragedian,
and has confessed to his friends that there
were moments when he almost wished that
fate had led him to the stage. When he is
in the city he is very fond of going to the
theater. and will steal away II he can to
some athletic exhibition. When RoWell
and Hazael were walking at the Madison
Avenue garden Blaine was in the city, and
one evening was missed from the Filth
Avenue hotel. No one knew where he was,
but he had slipped away with young i'm TO
the garden, where he remained two OF three
hours most enthusiastic spectator. Blaine
enjoys farce comedy. and has declared That
the man who invented these diversions was
a benefactor of mankind. Nearly all the
great actors are personal friends OF his.
Billy Florence, on the other hand. has
always had secret regrets that he did not
start out with the Big Six tiremen to make
political career instead of mimicking the
festive Irish youth with shillelah. When
Florence is here he finds his most congepial
companions among the politicians, and he
never ceases to wonder at and admire their
skill in manipulation. 1t was great sor-
row to Florence that he was unable to OBJ
tain the foreign mission for which he APP
piled to President Arthur. He had some
ideas respecting diplomatic service which
he thought would meet with great favor.
Tom Reed of Maine. revels in the works
of the Elizabethan era. and says that next
to the joy Of domestic life. the only thing
really worth living for is the companionship
of men of w.t. learning and cultivated
manners. He thinks the men who freQuented
Wills coffee house the most favored Of NOR
tails, and knows that he should have been
one of them had he not been born hun
dred wears or so too late. He often asserts
that there is greater fame to be won by the
man who can write of the house OF repre-
sentatives with wit. graphic pictlring and
shrewd mOralizing than by any one who
shares it's blOOdlesS battles; but he insists
that it will take genius to do 1t well.
Sometimes Reed jots down notes in the
house, and there are suspicious that he may
have some idea of winning literary repute
in this way.
Senator ingalls, believes that his son, if
he lives, will see railway running from
Chicago, or perhaps Duluth, straight south
| through the Mississippi valley, then tt Trough
Mexico. Central America and South Amer
lea, branching in the southern continent to
Rio Janero on the east and Valparaiso on
the west, and that passengers can be ticketed
and freight billed through.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, fancies that
there will be discoveries of gold and silver
that will eclipse the richness of the Cali
fornia and Australian mines. and looks for
these new fields somewhere in the region OF
the Rockies in northwestern America. The
metals know no zones, he asserts, and the
gold and silver Of Siberia or Alaska is as
precious and probably as plentiful as that OF
the tropical Andes. The senator insisted
to a party of friends at the ST. James when
he was last here that what the country
needed more than fresh mines of precious
metals was tin. which. very curiously, is
not found here in any quantity.