St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-23
MEN OF MINNEAPOLIS.
Distorted Images of Some Prominent
and Popular Citizens of the
Flour City.
Incidents, Anecdotes, Episodes and
Roasts Jumbled Without Rhyme
or Reason.
millionaire Capitalists and Dude
Clerks, Officials aad Private
Citizens Touched Up.
A Column of W1tless jest, Pointless
Sarcasm, Stingless Satire, All
for Fun.

lissliHl NEsSIX I'M manager and field
t(RlkIfIINl HlhI captain of base ball
We 81 team might be sue
WIAEE cessfully accom-
plished by an Arson,
- WV but is a little steep
NJ for Whitcomb.
! w Col. r. S. Innes
heartily enjoys ball
game and can sit on hard seat, eat pea
nuts and applaud good stops all day long.
Arthur n. Jordan is candidate for pro-
bate judge, if the same is pleasing to the
political destiny lords of the county.
The rumor that Al Schafer is anxious to
go TO the legislature is denied on authority.
Col. Sam Hill has returned from Europe,
and meeting Col. r. G. Evans on the street
exclaimed, WHO'S been here since I've
been gomez" Evans passed.
NOW that the Remington suit is on
AGAIN Col. II. G. o. Morrison comes Sc
renely to the front as prominent citizen.
County Attorney Davis path in prosecut-
ing real or suspected criminals is not always
AS pleasant as it might be. Some DAYS ago
he was engaged in fowery speech, dwell
Ing upon the blackneSs of crime, etc., when
Judge Young, weary look coming into
his face, remarked: II guess we don't
care to hear the rest of your story, Mr.
Davis; we will now go on with this case"
Judge Young is the only judge I have
ever come in contact with" said promin-
ent attorney, who can look as though he
were asleep, and at the same time take in
every point III the case ON trial before him."
Rev. DIR. Crosby of New York. now in
attendance at the Presbyterian conference,
thinks Sunday newspapers the next thing
to the theaterS on the road to hi. Some of
them have evidently been printing patent
med icine cut and calling it his picture.
The Rev. Mr.. Sample has one popularity
which is somewhat apt to impress a stranger
unfavorably. 1t is that of always wearing
eyeglasses of peculiar pattern, which re-
fleet the light and when he looks at you.
you do not find it hard to begin comparing
the glasses with big diamond, so brightly
do they shine.
Col. Ripley is quoted as saying ''the so
cialists found they couldn't kill the king in
this country" This is supposed to be a
witty allusion to the recent stand assumed
by his friend and client, Col. w. S., in re-
gard to brcklaYing on the exposition.
Mark Hayne has returned from Chicago
and reports that the backbone of the labor
troubles is broken.
Wesley Neill was anxious to get off that
coroner's jury before he was called on to
vindicate the entire city government.
Why hasn't young Mr.. Baily come to the
front in the settlement of them terrible
labor troubles" as G. NJ. LOring calls them
Frank Hartman Of the West hotel is alb
sent on trip to Omaha, the object of his
visit being to secure a catcher for the base
ball nine Of which he is president.
| w. S. Pardee now rides his bicycle of an
evening, in the highest kind of spirits.
That Col. Hibbard, the new general man
ager of the exposition, is the right man for
| the place is attested by the fact that his
| first question to the board of directors was
(which price of admission will YOU
charger"
1t is expected that Frank Carleton will
now demand a ''vindication."
| The champion" checker players are get
ting up tournament. Bill GripishaW will
probably be barred as professional.
ii. w. S. Cleveland, the landscape archi-
tect. has committed the same fatal error
which led to the downfall of Prof. Fair
mamie has allowed the Journal to boom
him.
just as W. H. Simpson. telegraph editor
OF the Hotel Gazette, has returned from the
East with span OF thoroughbred mares
the police have made up their minds to en-
| WV
| 1t is reported that Col W. A. Tanner is
thinking of buying East Minneapolis as
soon as he gets in his bets on the bicycle
race, and gets down to business.
Capt. Terrill is a man who has never been
| known to ask reporter not to print any
remarks which he may have made during a
conversation. For this he is loved.
NO one has ever yet been able to tell why
! Sheriff Bracket will only wear a soft
| SLOUGH hat Some say it is habit, but the
real reason is that it sets his handsome face
| off to better advantage.
Deputy Register Plummer, who has as
pirations for higher office next fall, will
never reach the goal unless he ceases crack
ing jokes around the Office. Some of them
| are simply terrible.
| Capt. Babb is man who votes according
to his own convictions, even if he loses
SIS, 900 year in the operation. sit is bet
ter to be doorkeeper in the house of the
! Lord" etc.
A. j. Blethen says if he were to put a
| non-union man in his composing room the
| rest OF the printers would walk out. That
they would, for the Kansas City gentleman
knows it from experience, as he tried if
| there with disastrous results.
Roger Vail. always a gentleman. has
PAO'Oe' Ai'hiooAA ~ PAAAOoOpuCl ny putting III
good word for morning paper which had
stopped abusing Gladstone and the Irish
cause. and the home rule bill.
Patsy Cardiff will let his moustache grow
again after he has defeated Dempsey
June z.
Col. Percy Weadon says he makes it a
point to always wear borrowed silk hat
when he attends pedestrian contest. Then.
if the hat is ruined, he's nothing out of
pocket.
There is considerable speculation among
the friends of Lew Harrison as to why he
hides behind the name of Murphy when
making big score at shooting match It
must be his innate modesty.
Ed Stevens, always at the front, gives it
out as his conviction that any man who has
done wrong will hang himself if he is only
given rope enough. There are some people
who are willing to give Ed considerably
more rope than he has now