St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-09

aoouAS i the II 3puDlcon natter, VINO, IN tue
sudden spCrt of business, forgets that his
party is politically bankrupt.
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Tho habit OF betting hats on an election Is
of uncertain origin. The first recorded case
took place years and years ago, when Clara
Louise Kellogg was still a young woman. think
ing OF making her operate debut. In those
early days the eandidat o. for any particular
Office We're wont to bet with many of their
! consIituents-the bet being that If the partic-
ular candidate was elected he would pay
unto certain of his faithful followers a hat.
In this way did the ofice-seeker inculcate
business ideas into the voters, for he virtu-
ally said. 81 will not pay for your votes un-
less they elect me-" In other words he paid
only for the delivered goods and thus evaded
the law relating TO the corruption OF the bal
OF box. In those go Cd old times the winners
of an election and an election bet needed q
new hat. Their heads had doubled onto
themselves. The custom continues.
So
An aged female occupied one of the seats
at the Union depot Yesterday noon. she
wept bitterly. Her shriveled-up appearance,
her bony hands and sunken face. ind icated
that she had Travelled her three score years
and ten of this earthly pilgrimage. She
looked up, and catching sight OF the Napole-
Onic face of w. II. Foster, manager of the Bos-
ton Ideals rs he walked through the depot sur
rounded by the members of his troupe,
ceased crying. Moving rapidly up to him, a
brief conversation ensued, at the end of
which she returned TO her seat and sobbed as
If her heart would break
"Haye you lost a SOM" quoth MAJ, adj
dressing the weeping representative OF by
gone ages.
''No. sirI' she said.
''Conflde in me, ancient maiden! and tell
me thy sorrows."
'Alasl' soDbed the maiden of many years
ago, II am a chorus singer and am out Of an
engagement"
"The most successful April fool ever played
on newspaper" remarked Chicago news
paper man, Twas played by the editorial
writers of the Chicago Daily News on the
Chicago Tribune. The latter had made a
great TODD about its special cablegrams from
the other side of the ocean, although every
newspaper man felt pretty certain that the
stun was made up in New York or in the
home Office, out of late English and CONT
mental papers. The Tribune announced edi-
torially that il had the most perfect tele-
graphic connection with Europe, not except
ing the New York Herald, which is an Anglo
maniac sheet.
So
matthew Arnold, the English savant. had
just returned from his American tour, and it
was generally expected that he would write
an article giving his views on the United
States and the people whom he
had met. Playing on this expectation
fafn hn
together, and, in imitation of Arnold's pecu-
liar style of composition, wrote an article
purporting to give his views on Chicago. 1t
was anything but complimentary to the Gar
den city or its society. as it made light OF its
claims to n metropolitan city and was espe-
cially severe on the society people whom he
met and by whom he had boon entertained
while in Chicago. 1t was completed about
April 1, 1883, but was not published until
some days after that date, as it was feared
that it would fail to deceiveif given publicity,
as was at first intended, on that day. 1t orig
Inaly appeared in the New York Times as
copied from some London paper of fictitious
name and existence.
1.-The next day the Chicago Tribune con-
tanned the entire article. 1t did not appear,
however, as a piece OF reprint taken from the
London paper. No credit was given 1t
flashed up under display head as a special
cableZram TO the Chicago Tribune from Lon
don.
1.-The next day the Chicago News gave the
full particulars of the bogus cablegram, show
ing how it had appeared in the New York
Times as credited 10 fictitious paper. The
Tribune people were saddest when they saw
the words special cablegram' for many
months thereafter. The ma ,nifcent foreign
telegraph service disappeared with the dis
closure. Slason Thompson, the author of
Robson s. Cranes 'Sharps and Flats is be-
lieved to be the writer of the article imitat-
ing Arnolds peculiar styles of composition. -
The 0NLooKER.