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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
THE TRAMPS' LYCEUM.
The Members ofthe Tramps Lyceum Catch
the Craze and Organize Snow
shoe Club.
Highforehead Mike Proposes the Scheme to
Them and Introduces Himself IN
Full Uniform,
Which is Claimed to be Original,
Cheap and Durable, and VIII
Stand Fireworks.
Mike, in Giving an Exhibition Kun,
Gets in a Specially That Don't
Suit Razoo Bilks.

s1 understand" said the president of the
Tramps lyceum Wednesday night, that
Highforehead Mike is in the ante-room
anxious to come in and organize snow
shoe club among the members of this So
cietv. You see this ice palace carnival is
creating great furore-
What's that?'' inquired Slim Jim, 81
didn't quite catch that last word"
"FurOre," repeated the president, casting
a disdainful look at Jim. "a furore is kind
of roar that stirs up all the folks and makes
them want some of it. As l was about to
say, this carnival business is creating great
Surore among the people and they want to
see just as many clubs in line on the OPEN
ing night as it is possible to get there and
HighfOrehead Mike wants this society rep
resented and has brought with him a sam
pie uniform, which he claims is cheap and
endurable, and is now waiting outside for
me to ascertain if it is the wish of the So
ciety to consider the matter of organizing a
club. What do you think about it Brother
Bilks?"
''Fm very favorably stricken with the
suggestion" replied Bilks. II think it is
for the peoples interest that we honor the
carnival festivities with our presence. If
we refuse to do so. they may take it to heart
and consider themselves sighted. What's
your opinion, Brother BlatZ?'
Il think yer dead right. We don't want
ter give Their citizens er st. Paul ther cold
shoulder, but eff we're goin' inter ther thing,
we don't want ter be too da- er, er too
dOggon proud, and kick eff they don't happen
ter let us lead Their percession. | suppose
they'll want us ter walk along with Their
chamber O commerce, members Ov ther
board Ov trade an organizations like that,
an if they don't say er word l don't see
why in he er, er. why in Helena we
should. Of course it will hurt our personal
pride more or less, but we must
try an overlook it. Eff Their people ov St.
Paul must hev us; eff it is er dead sure case,
why it becomes US as gentlemen Ov ther
first part ter confistercate ourselves ter the
cause"
II amt jest on ter tibet word cOnfister-
cate" said Omaha Bob; but | think
Brother BlatZ has got Their right idea, an
understand tibet ther clubs are allowed ther
privilege Of visitin' various cities an towns
around here without walkin' an free
lunches are thrown in on ther side. / sug-
gest that we lose no time in maxim prepura-
tiOns to cOniiSteTcaJe ourselves"
Here, here" cried the men all over
The room.
''I'm pleased with your sentiments" re-
marked the president. land the sergeant-at-
arms viii please conduct the organizer into
the room"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
Street Silhouettes Made by a Report
er's Hurried Pencil.

Just at this time c. NJ. Loring is looking
with satisfaction on the good work he has
done in representing Minneapolis on the
national board of trade. Doubtless in that
body he was distinguished by his refinement
and by that easy air of wealth which marks
him as he poses on the veranda of the
Judd house on balmy summer evening.
He has made record in Minneapolis in
various senses, but particularly in the past
three years, as chairman of the board Of
park commissioners. Elegant is a good
word TO apply TO Mr.. LOring and it is APP
piled in its best sense. He is one of those
few men, however, who do not look their
best in dress suit and yet he frequently
wears one.
1t might be difficult matter to select
man better known or more frequently seen
on the streets of Minneapolis than the
county auditor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
CHICAGO CONQUERED BY OHIO
o Fanny Mnlsl o Fanny MiIlsl

Fanny Mills o Fanny Millsl
D Buckeye girl of monstrous feet!
Each glance nv heart more deeply thrills
And makes your triumph more complete
You've stormed and won Chicago's fort,
Where ladies common and elite,
Rejoice in spreading the report
OF their divine, great-hearted feet.
Some ladies deem their fortune lies
Within face well formed and sweet;
But, Fanny, with haste arise
To say your fortunes In your feet.
And to the proverbs would add
This one to make the list completes;
A knowledge of ones purse is had
By such god-ike growth of feet.
Columbus Dispatch,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
SECRETARY OF THE CHAMBER
A Man OF Few Words and Many Fig
ures f. Mr.. Sturtevant.
Chamber OF Commerce Reports
Value and Method of Keeping.

At sidelong view, sitting at his desk by
the window and brought into sharp relief,
like Silhouette. against the northwestern
sky. he would scarcely be recognized. The
silk hat of summer. or the big rur cap of
winter has been laid aside and his large
head is nearly covered by small silk Office
cap. Yet the features are familiar and the
genial eyes and cloSeiy-erOpped mutton
chop whiskers. now silvered with the frost
of years. proclaim his identity and you will
know him as
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
CONTRACT WORK.
Grading Prairie Street.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD oFPUBL1C WORKS

OFFICE OF THE BOARD oFPUBLIC WORKS, }
CITY OF ST. PAUL. Mimi, Jan. 20, 1885,
Sealed bids viii be received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the corporation of
the City of st. Paul, Minnesota, at their office
in sal city, until II IN. on the LIST day Of
February, A. d. 1885, for the grading of
Prairie street from Western Avenue to Good
rich Avenue. in said city, according to plans
and specifications on file in the office of said
Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties in
sum of at least twenty (20) per cent of the
gross amount bid must accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
WILLIAM BARRETT, President.
Oficial:
R. L. GoRAAN, Clerk Board OF Public Works.
2l-3I
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

attention no matter how large the crowd is.
Every man can make his own uniform.
There are plenty of -four barrels, scores
of st0vepipe and discarded coal hods to be-
found in the alleys after dark. ] think we
had better organize as a Snowshoe club.
first. because there are already large num-
Der OF tobOggan clubs; second, because we
can get our style Of snOwshoes great deal
cheaper than we could tobogganS. have
here sample pair of shoes which / will
show you" With these words Mike held
up two barrel slaves. and after he had al
lowed the crowd to size them up. he bent
over and with pieces of rope tied them to
his feet and stood up clad from head TO foot
i'll full Snowshoer's rig. His appearance,
ready for the race course. was signal for
wild outburSt of applause, and the men
jumped up and danced while they loudly
clapped their hands and yelled, Amt he
er corkeT %
President Ferrett finally was obliged 10
check the wild demonstrations with the
loud pounding of his axe handle and the
men sank into Quietude on the floor.
Highfirehead Mike continued: IT will
give an exhibition run across the room if il
is the wish of the society to see how the
shoes work"
go ahead! Let 'er flicker! Try UNI
OuC6. MClc Tie dllSNeIS lie r6CeINeU.
''All right, clear a line down through
there and I'll show YOU"
The men fell back on either side of the
room and left an open space from one end
to the other. Going to the end of the line
Mike started and walked rapidly between
the rows of eager-faced men to the further
side of the room, then turning he started
back on run. He managed his long shoes
all right for half the distance, when by a
miscalculatiOn the tips of his shoes got
tangled and after terrible struggle to
preserve his dignity he went down in an
unsghtly mass on the floor. He tried to
get up, but his shoes were so long that he
couldn't set his feet on the floor
and Fireum Nose had to unlash
the shoes and take them off before Mike
could rise. He came up smiling with the
skin from one-half his nose missing, but he
quietly remarked that he didn't care about a
little thing like that. it was what every ac-
robat had to get used to.
us tibet whut we've got ter learn ter
dO?" inquired Razoo Bilks.
''What?" asked Mike.
''Why, that last trick you did there"
Certainly replied Nike. THAT will
be a speciality of our club"
''Is tibet SOP" said Bilks. ''Waal, I guess
tobogganin' is good enough fur me- l
think | can git erlong with less spechultv."
We'll boys" said Mike, what | want
to know is, do you want to organize a
snowshoe club?"
Yes. yes, you betp came from the men.
''All right, We'll now proceed to organ
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
WORK.
Grading Drake Street.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC woaxs. ,

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS \
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. II, 1885.
Sealed bids will be received by the Board OF
Public Works in and for the corporation Of
the City of st Paul. Minnesota at their office
In said city. until IL m. on the 18th day of Ian.
uary, A. d. 1856, for the grading of Drake
street, from Randolph street 10 Lee Avenue in
said city, according to plans and specification
on file In the Office of said Board.
A bond with AT least two 10Y e,y,S..tos A.,
sum OF at least twenty (2O) per cent. Of tha
gross amount DID must accompany each bid.
me SAID Board reserves the right 70 reject
any or all bids.
WILLIAM BARRETT, President.
r L. GoRMAN, Clerk Board ofPubllc Works.
81
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

very extensive business; removed to Fort
Atkinson. Ia. the buildings of which he
bought: visited in St Paul in 1s54-5, and
came here permanently to live in 1851, but
engaged in no business. He has left a
widow and several married daughters. He
died in 1885.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
Small Damages.

KEoKUK, Ia, Jan. 23.-Miss Maggie
HaTison's suit against Lawrence Reiner for
breach of promise, which has been on
trial for six days and attracted much atten-
ton, has been decided. The Jury
awarded the plaintiff $500 damages, an
amount much below the general expecta-
ton.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

CLOTHEsLINE WILLIAMS
was elected president, Highforehead Mike
vice president and captain, and John Liver
pool secretary and treasurer. All ladies
who wish to become members of the club
are requested to send their names to the
secretary and they will be enrolled free of
charge.
The following rules were adopted: No
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

The owing misunderstanding as to terms Of
dissolution of and partner
Mr. T. WEISS to solely manufacturing business
Knowing all the circumstances safely Ladies OF
the City oft Paul that the sale article
offered will be positively sold the highest op
portuny that neglect is offered
in good faith.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

1t took Mike
about two hours
to get the names
of the members.
settle the pernla-
nent organization
and get the club to
adopt the uniform
that he had sug-
gested TO the as
Sou1blV
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
SILHOUETTE SKETCHES.
Pertinent Remarks of Prominent Men TO
Be Seen About the City.
People You Meet on Minneapolis Streets
and in the Public Places.

Leading Traits of Character ant
Points on Personnel.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
MIGHFoREHEAD MIKE

was brought in
and took his
stand near the
preside MT in
full view of
the men. He
wore the uni
form which he
pro posed to
the men TO
adopt.
The suit he
W ore W a S
unique and at
trac tive. A
-four barrel
covered the up
per part of his
body. while his
limbs, both
lower and up
per were clad
in stovepipe.
On his head
rested a back
number coal
hod. II chose
this uniform,
said Mike, be
cause it is sim
pie. cheap and
durable, and
SyOu can bet
your life that
IL will attract
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
is taught

member Of the club. while on dress parade,
shall firt with ladies on the street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

ANY member of the club
entering the saloon without
inviting the other members 4
TO accompany him will be
bounced. 4
ANY member who re-
fuses to take a cigar or a
drink when offered to him
by the governor of the state
or a city official, will be
promptly fired.
The name of the club Il
will be the "Tramps' Snow
shoe Club"
The meeting adjourned
for one week, when a run tn
will be taken in uniform.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

RAGUETs
kept liquor store. Their father was there
before them. They were all very large men
ana apparently booked for the good old age
of so years each. and vet they are all dead.
and the writer. who at hiatt time weighed
about 100 pounds ''still lives" AS the
German says. You can't most almost tell
what is going to happen sometimes" The
RaguetS We're generally liked and one of
them married the daughter of w. c. Nor
TisOn, and only one out OF the whole family
is now living.
d. c. GREENLEAF
was among the first jewellers in the city, and
kept store on the bluff on Third street.
near where the elevator now IS After being
burned out he moved further up the street
on the opposite side. and then took the store
on lower Third street where Egan. the
jeweler. now is. He appeared to be pros
porous in his business, for he erected sew
eral buildings and built up good trade.
He was deaf. but was an energetic, honest,
good man and died some fifteen years ago.
Came TO st. Paul in 1855.
DIR. SAMUEL WILEY
was handsome young physician, with ele-
CANT manners. and was always dressed in
the neatest manner He was once a part
ner Of DR.. Brisbine. but dissolved and dur
ing the latter years of his life practiced
alone. He had remarkably small feet and
hands and was general favorite with the
ladies. he must have come here in 1858,
and died about ten years ago. He was a
good physician. pleasant, affable gentle
man. and married one of John r Irvine's
sweetest and prettiest daughters.
THOMAS W. COLEMAN
was an Englishman of the true type, ex-
cept that in physical development he was
more American than English. having
slight frame and being very quick in his
movements. He was English in his ways
of thinking and was especially English in
his punning propensities. and yet outwardly
he was an American. The last time met
him he said: Il intend to write history
of your life" and yet, like everything else
personal to myself. he died, and am again
out in the cold. He was full Of life and
good cheer; full of fun; full of good ideas,
and possessed reservoir of common sense.
he was born in England about 1904; emf
grated TO Canada, where he carried on
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

is tall gentleman. who for years has been
familiar TO the older residents Of the city.
He came to ST. Paul in the year 1854, and
was for a time cashier in Marshall & Co.'s
bank, then became bank examiner for the
United States, and has occupied this Office
ever since. He IS very quiet man. outside
of the noise and hustle of life and OF the
perplexing cares of politics. Indeed, ne is
a pool raliahia steady citizen
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-01
An Engraver and Hi, Garden.

There is wood engraver who for many
years lived down in q cheap fiat TIVE
years ago he got a five years lease of q
cottage in Harlem. 1t Is little place, but
with quite an extensive yard behind It
He took me through it the other day, and
was emased at the luxuriance Of his gar
den II was symmetrically planted,
and only with useful growth. No
space was wasted on the merely beautiful
Cabbages and peas and beans there were
and half of it was filled with growing
corn, but there was not flower In sight.
In the plats around the fences grew to-
matoes, and the door yard was planted
with turnips and radishes He gets, he
tells me, all the vegetables he needs, ex-
cept potatoes, out of this plot Potatoes
are too cheap and potato bugs too common
to be worth the risk. He pays a little
more rent for his cottage than he did for
his fiat, but he takes another engraver to
hoard, and that more than makes up the
difference. Ii he has luck with his plan
tation, he expects, by the time his lease Is
out, to be able to buy his cottage with the
savings on his grocery bills.-New YORK
News -Babbien
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-01
sAsTERN AND wEoTEaN sloeas.
Totally Different Styles ~ tsc cevs~ys
and the cross-Country lzep.

Totally Different Styles of tsc ce~s~ys
| and the Cross-Country Jsep.
/ Last spring bnd 10 leave the cast IN the
midst of the hunting season to Join q
roundup in the cattle country of western
Dakota, and It was curious to compare tho
totally different styles of riding of the
cowboys and the cross-colntry men. A
stock saddle weighs thirty OF forty
pounds, instead Of ten or fifteen, and
needs an utterly different seat from thai
adopted in the east. A cowboy rides with
very long stirrups, sitting forked well
down between his high pommel and can
tie, and depends greatly upon mere bal
ance. In cutting out a steer from a herd,
In sitting bucking broncho, in stopping
night stampede of many hundred mad
dened animals, or in the performance of q
hundred other feats Of reckless and dar-
ing horsemanship, the cowboy Is abso-
lutely unequaled; and when he has his
own horse gear he sits his animal with the
ease Of centaur, and yet he Is curiously
helpless the first time he gets sstride cne
of the small eastern saddles
Last summer, while purchasing cattle
In Iowa, one of my ranch foremen had to
get on an ordinary saddle to ride out of
town and see a bunch of steers. He il
perhaps the best rider on the ranch, and
will without hesitation mount and master
beasts that doubt if the boldest rider in
one Of our eastern hunts would care to
tackle; yet his uneasiness on the new sad
die was fairly comical At first he did not
dare to s:Ot, and the least plunge of the
horse bid fair to unseat MIN. nor did he
begin to get accustomed to the situation
until the very end of the journey In fact,
the two kinds of riding are so very differ
ent that man only accustomed to one
feels almost as Ill at ease when be first
tries the other as if he had never sat on q
horses back before II is rather funny to
see man who knows only one kind, and
Is corceited enough to think that that IL
really the only kind worth knowing, when
first he is brought into contact with the
other.
Two or three times have known men
try TO follow hounds on stock-saddles,
which are about as ill-suited for the pur-
pose as they well can be; while it is even
more laughable 10 see some young fellow
from the east or from England, who thinks
he knows entirely too much abou. horses
to be taught by barbarians, attempt to do
with his ordinary riding or
hunting rig. Each kind is best in its own
place; and the man only accustomed to
one will at first find himself at a disad-
vantage when he tries the other. 1t must
be said, however, that in all probability
cowboys would learn to ride well across
country much sooner than the average
cross-cOuntry rider would master the dash
ing and peculiar style of horsemanship
shown by those whose life business it is to
l.. \ = u
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-01

How dreadful He must be rescued.
There are two Of you! Help M to devise
some means Of escape. Father have Inot
heard you say that there were secret pas
sages leading 20 the toweri"
yes. You can pass from the terrace Of
the chateau TO that of the towers, where q
trap door, closed on the outside with q
hook, opens into the ceiling OF the room. .
Therese made no reply"
/ returned in the evening after dinner-
About 10 O'Clock the comte and I climbed
up on the terrace and raised the trap. The
room was empty.
We in pitiable state of perplex-
ity- Could his place of confinement have
been changed2 As we returned to the
apartments in the first story Therese's
maid gave her father this letter:
DEAR FATHER: DO not give yourself
any anxiety if am absent until to-mor-
row night | have borrowed from the
cure one of his caSsocks and made NJ de
Brissac put it on after cutting of his
beard
! Il have also had the pheton brought out
and started with the little groom, Jean
Bridant. am taking the unhappy man
through the woods to my nurses, five
leagues from here on the Aubury farm
Il shall wait for nightfall to return
with Jean. Do not expect me, therefore,
antil tomorrow evening. They would
have noticed a mans absence A young
girl who Is not often seen will not be
missed May God protect US.
~THEREsE"
At early dawn heavy connonading was
heard and the entire squadron took horse
and set off at the top Of their speed, to-
tally forgetting their prisoner.
The comte and started q quarter Of an
hour later in search Of his daughter On
arriving at the Aubury's she informed US
that Pierre mad hardly taken time to rid
himself of the cassock when he bade her
goodbye.
And what did he say to your"
That he was carrying information and
orders to French corps stationed four
leagues from here, and when asked him,
If you are the bearer of dispatches, what
have you done with themi he replied.
laughing: According to custom, learned
them BY heart and then swallowed them.
have eaten nothing else to-day The
poor young man would not take anything
but piece OF bread and glass Of wine,
and set out"
smiled
as ths: all9"
NO, l told him that / would pray to
God with all my soul to watch over
himr"
And them"
Then, he replied, J." and here she blushed
and looked down Thanks, pray earn
estly, for to die without seeing you again
would be to die twice.
The comte glanced at me-
Would you like TO bet," said to him
In low tone when / was leaving him
after we had reached the chateau again,
that the overpowering inclination for q
life has not been driven from
your daughters heart by my rogue Of .
nephew and made to take a second
placer
Il can only hope you are right"
And was right" exclaimed the doc
tor, ending his story. you met the
Did Comte de Brassy this morning riding
IN the forest with his three grandsons on
their ponies. They are the children Of
rherese and of the Commandant Pierre
orissac, my god sonl-New York Graphic.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-01

wealthy bachelor has just died in st.
Petersburg. bequeatSing his property In
St Petersburg and Moscow, as well as his
stock and investments, to his nephew,
though with curious proyisos. Before he
inherits he must give his word Of honor
that he will not smoke any longer either
cigar, cigarette or pipe; that he will never
again play cards; and that within six
months Of the proving of the will he will
marry, so that he will not die an old bach
elor like the testator. Three executors
have been appointed, and in case the heir
refuses to comply with the conditions they
have the right to appropriate the property
and divide it among their children. The
first two engagements have already been
entered into by the heir, though with I'M
willingness, but the third proviso threat
ems to be insuperable.-Chi Tribune.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-01
BIne. Gray and Green Ewes.

The New York Commercial Advertiser
devotes an editorial to the relative merits
of the blue eye, the gray eye and the
green eye, citing well-known literary
works as authorities. While 1t tries to bt
ncu-committal and wavers between gray
and blue as the desirable color, it does moi
hesitate to declare that "as q rule tbs
green eye is not admired. Anthony
Trollope does not appear among the su
thors cited, for If he did the green eye
would have found decided champion
In his novel, "The Eustace Diamonds,
false, tricky, and unpriRcipled Lizzie
Eustace has "eyes blue and clear, bright
as cerulean waters" while the author
adds: @How few there are among
women, few perhaps also among men,
who know that the sweetest, softest,
tenderest, truest eyes a women can carry
in her head are green in color. Buffalo
Courier