St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-04
Crumbs of InteiIigence for Those
Not in Our Set TO Feed Upon.
OUR &C C C.

Not in Our Set to Feed Upon.
There is a newly married woman in
st. Paul who one day last week awak-
ened to the painful fact thai her huS-
band was brute. They were walking
down Third street together when, in
her sweet innocent way. she asked:
''Charlie, what is an eye-Opener? Eve
heard you talk SO much about eye-open-
ers | want to know what they look like
and how you use them" They were
near a hardware store and Charlie,
handing her s., said, We'll go into
IS and Won buy one.'' Suspecting
nothing. the young wife entered the
store, Charlie keeping in the back
ground, and walking up to a clerk, she
said, withthe utmost composure, I'D
like an eye-Opener-not too expensive,
a S. one. will'do."
"What?r7 the puzzled clerk replied.
"An eye opener, you know: Charlie
turning to bring him to the clerks
rescue-s.N hat are you laughing at?,'
she sharply demanded. Charles mirth
got the better of him and, as she told
afterwards, ''he fairly hOwled." She
saw she was the victim OF Joke-She
Still did not understand it-but, tiounc-
ing out of the store, she refused to let
Hill Walk uJNH StIC6b UColilC liCi anu
seeking the office of masculine friend
she told him the story and begged in
formation. Whenshe learned that she
had expressed her willingness to pay So
for cocktail, to hardware clerk she
vowed vengeance on her lord and mas
ter and Immediately went to a dry goods
store and ran him in debt for new tea
gown.
Various are the modes of expression
of feminine spite, and all are equally
neat. A gushing woman i'll the recep-
ton room of a hotel asked of friend,
SIS there somebody in this town who
looks just like me? People | don't
know are continually speaking to me.
and it must be | am the living image OF
somebody -
Another woman overhearing re-
marked soto voce to her companion,
"You don't suppose-do you?-God was
her."
1t is not generally known that young
ST Paul man, who not long ago went
East and brought back bride. is a sort
of Charlie Ross with romance In his
history. He one time stood at the altar
with another woman, and the marriage
ceremony had proceeded as far as the
inquiry if any one knew any reason
why the two should not be joined in
wedIock. Nhena voice replied. Eyes:
forbid the marriage. That man and
woman are brother and sister," The
man as a clfild4lad been abducted from
his home by falIAer lover of his mother
and was brought toeSt. Paul, where he
was reared. When he met and fell in
love with his own sister and announced
his intention to wed her, his foster
father and abductor lacked the courage
to enligbten HIN concerning his relation
ship until the last moment. There was
.eng genuine Instance when the girl
man loved could be to him nothing but
sister.
Clerks at the glove counters say sales
are very dull Most young women have
bets of gloves up on the election, and
they are getting along with the supply
they have until after Tuesday.
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One young woman in st. Paul, whose
name will be withheld until after cleo
ton, has Wagered herself on Cleveland.
The man who has the bet says it was
the cleverest thing he ever saw done in
the way OF a leap year transaction.
1DSt NClO tiloNurPiiiS eiC NoioiuulCo
for the presidency when he inadvisedly
said, ''I'll wagera silver bonbonniere
to be kept filled with vlolets for a year
Oh Harrison against anything you may
put up. WhatrIdit be?" Myself"
came the business-like reply, and the
other young man present straightway
volunteered to ''hold the stakes" No. l
objected, considering the possibility of
his winning, though he says he can not
afford to marry, and is anXiously look
ing for somebody to whom he may
transfer the bet.
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There is parrot that swings in a cage
OH North Washington street who viii
cry out to her mistress: .'Ah, there!
old girl! Polly wants her gum-poor
Polly! Polly wants her gum" and will
continue her appeal until her Chicago
girl desire is gratified. Then she will
sit and chew her gum until she gets
tired of it, when she deposits it in one
corner of her cage. She is never known
to swallow it. and seems veIy proud of
her accomplishment.