St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Hon. II. F. Stevens, OF st. Paul, is talked of
as the next speaker of the Minnesota house
of representatives. The members of the
legislature could go further and fare worse
than in electing Mr.. Stevens
Gen. r. w. johnson is man who never
says die. He admits the election of Harrison,
but he denies that the Democrats have been
licked. They have only retired to rest up for
the next race.
In New York they speak OF Gov. Hill as
Jack the Ripper lie is so handy with a
knife.
Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, has
started fund Tor memorial to Christopher
Marlowe.
george F. Pentecost, the Evangelist, is
preaching in England. His children are being
educated in that country.
At Vienna the German emperor noticed at
court lady with extraordinary long and
beautiful hair, and asked her: Iron whence
have you it, 1T is'the gift Of God, your
majesty she replied.
seminary for the discussion of economic
questions has been organized at the Univers-
ity of Pennsylvania under the direction of
Prof. Simon Patton, recently elected to the
chair of political economy at that insti:u
ton.
henry George thinks that the result of the
local elections has proved his wisdom IN cut
ting loose from the United Labor party. DR..
McGlynn. on the other hand, is just as nope
full as ever of the ultimate success of the
United Labor party.
Charles Reynolds, the star catcher of the
Western Base Ball association, is teaching
the village school at Sheffield, suburb OF
Kansas City, ON the Kansas City, Independ-
ence d PARK railway. He is great favurite
with the children, and seems to have an es-
pecial knack of interesting the little folks,
and of making them tell what they KNOW.
Mrs George Hirscb, of Texas, who lately
gave birth at one time to four boys and two
girls, is wasting her energies. She should
move into doubtful state.
Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania is
SAID to have lost $40, 600 in bets on the late
election. Mr.. SCOTS poorly paid coal miners
are not likely to secure any advance in wages
this year.
Private Dalzell announces himself candi
date for postmaster of the house at the orgafi-
ization of the new congress. This is the
drop of bitter in the huge Republican cup of
sweet.
Levi P. Morton is the wealthiest man ever
called to the vice presidential chair. Repre-
senting 500 il0, O0D he should be able to
make himself reasonably comfortable, even
i'll Washington.
Gov. Church, of Dakota, and the postmas-
ter OF Finkley, o.. have setan example which
q good many other Democratic ohicehoiders
might judcousy follow. They have re-
signed, to take effect March 4, 1889.
King Milan is remarkably thilf-skinned. lie
has called upon the EN- peror Francis Joseph
to protect hiil from the caricaturists in
Austria. and the latter has complied. Mr.
Milan would have an interesting picnic
in this country.
John Mizzle, Of Jersey City, bet that
Cleveland would he elected The majority
was against John, and as a penalty for his
deficiency in Judgment he sat for two hours
on sharp-pointed iron picket fence. Then
he mizzed.
"Gen. Harrison's pastor, Rev. DR.. Haines,"
says the Presbyterian Observer, Of Balti-
more, lis not only an able preacher and
efficient pastor, but Presbyterian bred in
the bone. His church is strong in men of
the professions and of cultured minds. In
the eldership The welI-known face of Gen.
Harrison appears, being one of 4 half-dozen
OF faithful men who have stood through
more than half their years by the altar of the
house of God
The New York World, which has just re-
ceived manuscript from ''Ouida, says of
it: Her handwriting is peculiar. The let
tiers arc enormous and decorated in gigantic
loops. space of fully an inch is left be-
tween each line. She would not get more
than seventy five words on a page Of fools
cap. A manuscript novel by Ouida must
be about as clumsy an affair as ever annoyed
a publisher"
W. j. Barnwell. mathematician and
organist, of Berkshire, England, claims to
have squared the circle. He has been at
work on the me-honored problem for fifteen
years. His solution consists of eight figures,
| which, in concrete shape, form a, perfect
cycometer. Mr.. Barnwell has laid his
formula before the French Academy of Sci
enees. If he has really squared the clrcle ne
should now devote himself to the effort to
discover perpetual motion, and also settle
the historic question as to who filliped the
late lamented Billy Patterson.