St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-16
SAINT PAUL.
CHIT CHAT CORNER.

newspapers anu OtueI Dulky pdChdScS
on top of the mail boxes attached to the
lamp posts on the street corners. There
is no guarantee that such matter will
ever reach its destination, and there is
nothing to prevent miSchievously in
clined urchinS from using such parcels
= in sham battles OH the principal thor
oughfares. Such scene was witnessed
on Sixth street yesterday afternoon.and
- a conveniently located letter box was
quickly relieved of numerous packages
on the outside, as ammunition by the
youthful contestants. To insure de-
livery of newspapers and similar pack
ages they should be taken direct to the
poStoffice, where there is ample provis-
ion for their reception and trans m s.
sion. Under the existing condition of
affairs the elements may conspire
against the sender; and then, too, letter
carriers are not obliged to take pack
ages except those which they find in
side the boxes.
"Hebrew forethought was strikingly
illustrated at Long Branch recently"
remarked Clerk O'Connor while dis
cuSsing his Eastern trip. land | was an
eye witness to the occurrence. When a
man goes into the surf he usually leaves
his valuableS in an envelope at safety
deposit vault, first writing his name on
the envelope. A small key is given
him attached to string, and this he
hangs around his neck when he goes
into the water. When the depoSitor re-
turns for his valuables he is required to
sign in small book again, and his sig
nature must correspond with that
on the envelope. The Hebrew to
whom l refer was New Yorker,
and he wrote one address on the
envelope and another on the book.
Consequently the clerk refused to give
his articles up. That's not what you
wrote on the envelope said the clerk.
The Jew studied moment, and remem-
bering that he had written the number
and name of the street where he stopped
added that to the address on the card.
'Now you're all right said the clerk;
but tell me why you put the address on
the envelope i put that on replied
the Hebrew, so that in case | was
NLO0iiNu lOu hOuIu hllON NllIlC W OCllu
my vaIuables and my friends could get
tlem.'n
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There may be nothing new under the
sun, but there are some very strange
beings. One of these is quartered at
the Windsor. He is called Prof. Bert
Reese, and claims to be Hebrew sight
r. seer. The professor is a thick-set
German of thirty-five or forty
years, but there is nothing pc
culiar about his appearance. unless
his eyes are unusually keen.
AS-easily as another man would tell the
time of day by looking at the clock he
can tell you the name of anybody or
anything written on piece of paper
that has never left the writer's possess
sion. you have exactly 316 cents in
your purse" he said to a GLOBE re-
porter, and on being asked to tell what
the reporter had for breakfast he re-
piled: 'YOu did not have anything.
You failed to get up to breakfast He
foresees the future; whether he sees
correctly the future alone can tell. But
he is certainly wonder.
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Basil W. ArmStrong-It is not every
day that we have good square field
fight in politics here in st. Paul, but
when we do it is picnic. Its good
thing to have one once in while. 1t
lets out a good deal of bad political
blood. and brings about new combina-
tons and warmer friendships. A polit-
lcai fight in party, like the national
debt, is national blessing" 1t was
lively little fracas yesterday. and all
day the instruments in the orchestra
were played to their utmost capacity.
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The officers of the ST. Paul & Duluth
road in st. Paul are very much graft
fled that the president of the road has
sustained the past policy of
the road to stand by st. Paul
and Minneapolis in the freight war
as against Chicago. They are now. and
always have been, of the opinion that it
was the only policy for the road to pur-
sue. Another thing is certain, and that
is, the president IN adhering to such a
policy has afforded much satisfaction to
the business men of the twin cities.
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The cable car company is endeavor-
ing to rearrange the track at the lower
end of Fourth street so that there will
be less trouble in coupling and uncOup-
ling the cars and arranging them for
the return trip. Heretofore this work
has been necessarily rather bunglingly
done. When the change is completed
there will be more expedition in hand
ling the cars.
He was politician, and had drunk
not too wisely but too well. The magic
words, kelly and Doran'' caught his
ears, and Instantly he picked himself
together, opened his mouth, and the
following was heard to fall from his
lips: kelly and Doran, eh!-hic-
who's Kelly and Doran-hic-to the
great-hic- Democracy-hi this
state? Isn't-hic-one mans vote as
good as another ?-hic-We want no
observation-disclosures can't we please
ourselves ?-hie-The rank and file-hic
of the party can settle with Kelly and
Doran-hic-and what l say to them
is" But the effort was too much
for him, the words chung to his lips, and
he slowly and without grace resumed a
recumbent position.
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James F. Cowing, the belIicose alder.
man of Fergus Falls, who was attend
ing the convention, called upon Attor.
ney General Clapp yesterday He and
Jim Austin always fight when. they
meet, and it is said that Aid. Cowing is
the only man who can beard ex-Mavol
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