St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-02
BOOMING BILL NYE
Starts Out Travelling With a Cyclone, and
Finds the Breeze too Slow
For Him.
accompanied by Two Episodes -
Walla Walla and Two Lunatics
as Far as Seattle.
now Practical Joker Made a Big
sensation--The Way He Left
ST. Paul.

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st. Paul.
| SEATTLE. w. T., Jan. IS. 1851 am
Just making tour over the Northern Pa
| cine railway for a few weeks and lecturing
LOT the benefit of a cyclone sufferer, In
whom take great intere
On the 5th / started OUT of st. Paul In
company with one of those Rise-up- Will
iam- iley-and-eome- along-wlth- biz
Yards. We travelled together as far as Bis
marck, OAK. 1t was more or less that way
/ I'LL got to Walla Walla. where the barber
who shaved me had to keep the flies off my
broad and desolate sweep of brow with a
ran. Here the apples were still on the
trees. lawns are green and the balmy
CHINOOK wind would melt a stonier heart
/ than mine.
People said, ''Nye, you are a fool to
strlAe out on two-thousand-mile trip in
the dead of winter over the mountains, and
so far away from Oshkosh did not
mind that | have been called fool be-
fore by people who are now where the
worm dleth not and the fire is un-
squenched.. So L proceeded toward the
/ setting sun.
During the summer have gently worked
my way from Portland, Me-, to Portland
/ Or.. and am free to say that am greatly
impressed with the wealth and unbonnced
resources of our great republic. In that
1 little space of time | have examined the
slate quarries of Maine, the coal and kero-
sene OF PENNSYLVANIA, the iron and lumber
Oh Northern Wisconsin, the -four, the lum-,
Der and the census of Minneapolis and st.
4 Paul, the boundless farms of Dakota. the
countless herds and rich mines of Montana
and Idaho, and the almost unlimited re-
sources OF the northwest coast of the Pa
citc.
AM GREATLY PLEASED
and gratified with this growth, and take
this public method of expressing my entire
| satisfaction,
This country from which / am now writ
ing is to me an enigma. Here, within few
days OF Christmas, in the northwest part of
the Union. regardless of the customs of the
country, these people are picking roses In
thelr gardens and setting Hy-paper around
IN the windows. l have seen winter linger
In the lap OF spring. but never before saw
summer remain in the lap of winter until
1t seemed to demand an explanation.
On the way over here had very pleas
ant trip, with one or two exceptions, and
they were little episodes that might occur to
any one, presume. One of them was an
episode about two months old. On every
car that engaged passage, found young
|
and howled nights and rehearsed days.
That is the reason why am now pale and
emaeiated
There was one little cub about wears
old whose hand seemed to be raised against
all humanity, including his mother. For
days he snorted and rebelled and howled
and repudiated the action of the convention.
Still he was kind-hearted and generous dur
ing his lucid moments. He would give his
little brothers or the other little friends I'm
the car anything he had, after he had tasted
1t to see that it was ali right. He would
divide his last dose of medicine with the
other children or give them anything he
happened to have.
HE GAVE THEM THE MEASLES
just before he got Off From Portland up to
Seattle we had the pleasure of riding with
two lunaticS who were in charge of the
Walla Walla sheriff. Those lunatcs were
social In their natures. and one of them
called me m. Could" This showed that
his mind was hOpelessly wrecked. l do not
resemble Mr.. Gould in any way. except
that understand he intends to keep out
of Wall street hereafter and so do /.
A friend of mine made his advent into
Seattle under rather odd circumstances. He
had never been here, but was on his way
here by stage some years ago. He had let
tiers OF Introduction to leading business men,
and he Intended to go into journalism. On
the stage he Iuet an old friend in the sheriff
of a neighboring county, who was going
over 10 Seattle and had intended to take q
lunatic over, but his man had evaded him.
He had the shackles and handouts. how
ever, and my friend-we will call him
James. so that his family may be spared
said it would be good idea for him to put
on the cuffs and things and when they met
I 10 hax INN Il. he.
7 rattle his chains. gnash his teeth and yell.
This would scare everyone most to death
and be very amusing. So the sheriff agreed
to IL aud they ironed James amid great
mirth and hilarity. When the stage met
anyone, especially party containing la
dies. James would jump up, clank his
chairs and emit long drawn yell, such as
a hEella might use when he got his tail shut
in the door.
1t was fun.
James played his part first rate. and the
sheriff played his we'll also. James thought
he rather over-played, though, for when
they got TO town he refused to
UNcHAIN THE AMATEUR LUNATIC,
and asked the clerk for strong room, with
double lock, in which to put him. Peo-
pie came from all over town to see the
maniac. He begged and entreated tho
sheriff TO take his irons off, and
every little while he would allude
to his letters of introduction, and peo-
pie would laugh and say that was
pretty good. and ask the sheriff if the in
trOductcry letter seemed to be his favorite
, weakness.
, When James got down from his room in
the morning, the clerk having been in
, structed to release him, he found that his
: valse was ''in soak" at the bar, and his
friends had gone away permanently.
. James is still here, and the best news
| paper man in the country. l believe, but
when his friends want to shut him up they
ask him If he dosen't feel recurring symp-
D toms of insanity.
He is still practical joker at times. The
other day he got off the train at Ainsworth,
, the modern SOdom and GOmoTrah-if that's
I the way to spell them. My Bible is at the
bottom of my trunk as / write, and can
not consult it. James had about five min
utes at AinswOrth in which to have short
session with the demon rum. He stepped
, across the track, and. going into little
alcoholic den and laying down dollar.
asked for a drink of deadly pizen that
would knock man out in four seconds. :"
The bartender was retired pugilist and he
felt offended. so he took the bung-starter
and filling the air with large, three-cor-
nered, navy blue swear words, he chased
James into the baggage car, where he re-
q manned behind large trunk till the train
. pulled out. He said he never invested a
dollar in any entertainment that seemed to
yield so little genuine JOY. BILL NYE.
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