St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-19
SYMPOSIUM OF SMILES.
Flashes of Sheet Tightening and Pleasant
Personalities Concerning Well
Known Citizens.
Current Comment and Brief Annota-
tons Regarding Men and
Things.
People You Are Apt to Meet,
and Some of Their Pecult-
aritieS.
Cut Out With an Axe.

on the river.
They do say the way W. R Merriam played
short stop of the Merchants National Bank
base ball nine was corker, and that 1t would
be compliment to the Chicago club for him
to fill the same position if there was a
vacancy.
Frank Seymour's new nag is speedy-some-
thing under 2:30. Frank sparS no longer,
but gives the dust to his opponent on the
fashionable boulevard. 80
Heber Horton made great record in his
defense of Kinkaid in the embezzlement case
of Dyer Bros. Old attorneys say there is q
place reserved for him among the shining
legal lights of the Minnesota bar.
For good travelling companion and genial
fellow Col. Rugg has no equal in st. Paul. AS
a partner for a trip to Europe the colonel
is considered au fait.
Well, say, they tell me Lynn Powers is the
Edwin Booth of the American amatuer stage.
A rather amusing incident occurred at the
Clarendon hotel the other evening. In the
liquid refreshment department, presided over
by Mr.. LOOMS, couple of country mer-
chants stepped up to the rail, when one of
rhem-who was evidently a Presbyterian
deacon-drew back, and extending his hand
towards LOOMS, said: swell, declare. Mr..
Noyes, how-de-do. 1 just got to town, and
was going down to see you. l was taken with
a collie on the cars and just stepped in to get
little Jamaica ginger to relieve my pain.
Explanations were in order, and the rural
visitor 'set em up
Prof. Wood, the veteran musician, had it
played on him recently by Louis Reinhard.
The professor cannot see how spaniel pups
can attain mastiffian proportions in two days.
DR.. Sweeny has been called on at least
twenty times to explain his Oshkosh"
speech at the recent convention in Mime
apolis.
Donnellv, Jr., the rising young funeral
director, looks picturesque in a cardinal tie
that shows symptoms of mounting to his
esthetic ears.
Harry Potts, the surveyor and real estate
dealer, drives a very snowy team, and judg-
ing by the perpetual smile of joy that iumin-
ates his countenance, he enjoys the sport.
Col. George Samson can tell some very
amusing stories of his experiences as civil
engineer and steamboat captain in his earlier
days, when he sailed on the raging Lake
Michigan.
DIR. Wedelstaedt, the Bridge square dentist,
is in bad fix these days. He got bill OF
sale on an important article of sanitary ac-
commodation, and then found that the article
had been thrown over the bluff.
J. w. Stevens has an aversion to plumbers.
He says he wonders how the bosses make any
money; the time taken by the men to do work
always overlaps one-half the time estimated
upon by architects.
John Langton says he has lost his mascot,
and waggish friend inquiries if he means
Col. Welz.
Sam De Camp would like to have someone
post him up as to the kind of song warbled
by the nightingale. On returning from the
been ravshed by the dlilcet notes of some
bird of song, apparently ensconced in the
shrubbery on Summit, near the intersection
of Nelson avenue. Sweeter music. he VOWS,
he never heard, and he is in q quandary as to
the kind of singer it is. In relating the pleas
al RI q
suggested that the stately mansion of his
girls progenitor was in that locality. and that
the songs might have emanated fromsher fair
throat, particularly as her voice always takes
the velvet at every exhibition. However this
may be, the songs were heard, as matter of
fact.
Mr.. W. J. Freaney is great friend Of the
newspaper man, and he has written a number
of valuable papers on sanitary subjects. In
connection with the Press club rooms he has
generously offered to put in the pipes free of
charge and furnish the fixtures at cost.
NJ. A. Frost wears his whiskers al a. SYan
Dyke :, zoof7a "a =
Assistant Secretary of State Nordin' looks
comfortable in gauZe vest of blue and white
satin.
The manly form of Commissioner Hazard
is becomingly arrayed in the classic linen
duster. This only goes when the mercury is
about 900.
J. J. Parker is the best judge Of aquatic
events in st. Paul.
P. r. L. Hardenbergh is one Of the cleanest
cut men in st. Paul. His snowy shirt front
is adorned by three sparks of purest ray
serene, the only extravaganza he permits by
way of dress.
Judge Gribble carries an umbrella that has
skylight in it, and itnever leaks.
Col. Robertson wears distingue air since
his foreign trip, and he looks delightfully."- cool
in a broad-brimmed hat.
Maj. Clifford, the ex-sporting editor, bears
striking resemblance to Col. Bob Ingersoll.
w. ii. Hopson is better, thank you, and he
looks more distingue than ever.
Col. Clason, of the Milwaukee g. st. Paul
road, is once more On his feet. He looks bet
ter than ever, and his friends predict that
the roses will soon bloom again in his face.
Commodore Cummins witnessed the recent
race at Pullman, Illinois, and he says it was
dandy.
Hub Schurmeier, the youngest man in the
school board, is above the average height,
and he wears white plug hat.
a. M. ?. Cowley, the genial paying teller of
the Second National bank. has some of the
best electric light apparatuses of his own in
Fentlon In operation at the bank. His sys-
tenn of lighting is unique, and Edison might
get some pointers by examining Mr.. Cowley's
plant.
Capt. Markoe rides his fiery, untamed steed
his company are very hands ome and they
never fail to catch the adori ng gaze of the
ladies.
The Turco-Japanese rug sale, under the
auspices of that distinguished connossieur,
skinner Bey, was largely attended by the
elite OF st. Paul. The sale developed an as
tonishing demand for smoke-colored rugs and
tapestry, which looked as though they had
reposed IN a garnet for a thousand years or
so, and there was hardly enough to go around
Next week sale of pure, saffron-colored
Turkish smoke will be sold under the ham
mer for the benefit of those who got left
During the rug sale this week an aesthetic
and skeptic was heard to remark that the dis
tlnguished parsonage advertised as ISkinner
Bey was none other than a well-known So
ciety man of St. Paul disguised in q bernoose
and an Afghan rug. Probably his presence
accounted for the swell crowd in attendance
Tom OBrien is becoming a great athlete
and now pulls one of the best strokes in the
Minnesota club.
Lane K. Stone attunes his mental system
and strings his nerves by driving one Of the
swiftest roadsters ic St. Paul.
p. Hogan is looking very proud since he
has removed into his new quarters. He is
one OF the men who never takes the horse
shoe from the door, just for luck.
Lou Roberts looks very contented during
the hot weather, and his 220 pounds of manly
form is SO nicely grOomed that he doesn't look
at running race or playing base ball. 6Ee
Clerk Mcdonald of the Ryan used to flash
his diamond from the Palmer house desk in
Chicago. Mack is one of the most genial
gentlemen in the business.
McKinzie, the swell restaurant man of Chi
cago, and Johnny Ford of the Ryan used to
change watches few years ago at the same
hotel in the Garden city. Mckenzie has won
fame and pot OF money since then and Mr..
Ford has held his own as being one of the
most accomplished men in the business.
And besides he is the father of twins, which
should be joy enough for one man.
LOUIS George and P. Eckelmann went I'D to
Osceola Mills the other day on Il trout fishing
excursion and to see how the latter's kennel
OF imported tiger mastiffs was getting along,
Mr.. Eckelmann imported the dogs himself
and has the only kennel Of this breed in the
state.
The cerulian smile that adorned the hand
some face Of Ed Whitaker the other day en-
titles him to take the prize bolt of blue rib
bon. 1t was all because of the advent of an
heir apparent, and as it tipped the beam at
an even twelve it is TO be presumed that he
does not favor cut rates. He will be chris
tianed Albert Lea Whitaker and some dav
the country will have railroad president by
that name