St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-05
SAINT PAUL.
CHIT CHAT CORNER.

Editors of Minnesota will make lively
music at Harmonic hall in Minneapolis
THURSDAY at noon, and the following
morning they will inaugurate pleasure
trip over the 500 road. Maj. L. Nj
Newson, chairman of the excursion
committee, has announced the pro
gramme, which will include visit tc
Merriam Park Friday, the 18th inst,
when luncheon will be partaken OF. Al
9 O'Clock the party will board the train
al Minneapolis for Sault Ste. Marie, and
are expected to reach that the morning
of the Sth. A cordial reception is guar
anteed the visitors. and their stay will
be made pleaSanter with a grand BAN
quet in the evening. After eXhausting
the beauties of the 500, Gladstone and
Rhinelander will be the objective points
of the tourists, and the special train,
after traversing 9SS miles, will return to
Minneapolis some time during the 10th
inst.
Two ladies who were passengers in
an East Seventh street car yesterday
afternoon attracted considerable atten-
ton by assuming side-saddle attitudes
and occupying space enough for three
persons. 1t was an hour, too, when sew
eral tired day laborers were in the car,
and while the two ladies' discussed
neighborhoOd topics the horny-fSted
sons of toll hung on by the straps, at
tentive but Disguised listeners. One
indignant passenger could not restrain
his Impotence and contempt, and
blurted out: 1.-The railway company
has o right to allow so many to ride
in the cars. 1t should furnish separate
compartment for each passenger, up
holster the seat with silk plush and sur
round it with a glass case. By such an
arrangement The space to be occupied
will be definitely determined, and the
range of persons feet circumscribed
when they sit Side-saddle fashion"
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An opportunity will be offered visitors
TO the state fair to express their prefer
ences for presidential candidates
through the medium of the new ballot
recording machine recently invented
by John W. Rhines, of this city. The
machine will be on exhibition in
machinery hall, where space for its
workings have been donated by the fair
managers, and thousands will be en-
abled thereby to test practically a con-
trIvance which the inventor claims will
etfectually prevent ballot box stuffing.
The voter, after the lid of square ma
hogOny box is raised, merely touches a
button which contains the name of the
candidate for whom he desires to vote.
and this button cannot be removed
until the lid is replaced, thereby re-
hevivg the ratchet which detainS the
button. Figures are recorded on small
slips of paper, and without collision
between all the judges and voters fraud
will be absolutely impossible.
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The agricultural exhibits at the State
Fair give promise to excel anything of
the kind yet seen in Minnesota, or even
the great Northwest. There were
twenty-five carloads of machinery on
the track yesterday morning en- route
for the fair grounds, and five carloads
Of buggies and carriages. The latter
will be found replete with all the latest
improvements for comfort and ease in
road travelling. William NJ. Bushnell,
superintendent of the department of
agricultural machinery and motive
power at the fair, will be at the
grounds this afternoon and tomorrow
and the whole of Friday and
Saturday, to complete all arrangements
with exhibitors. He will also arrange
the placing of goods for the opening of
the exhibition at o'clock Monday morn
Ing. The engine which will supply the
whole of the motive power for working
the exhibits will be started by electric
ity, and the ceremony will be performed
by William NJ. Bushnell, Jr., a mite of
less than twelve months old.
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The stage of water in the Mississippi
river is at present so low that it is i'm
possible for the larger steamers to run
up to st. Paul. Managers of the st.
Paul Packet and Diamond 10 lines have
made arrangements with the steamer
CleOn to transfer their passengers and
freight from Hastings to st. Paul, Hast
ings being the highest point now reached
by their boats, The owners of the
CleOn report that the st. CroiX river is
very low, and they are no longer able to
make their customary trips with lumber
and wood from above Saltwater. The
steamer Pittsburg came up as far as
Hastings yesterday. her cargo being
transferred to st. Paul by the Cleon,
while the passengers finished their jour
ney by rail.
The state capitol was almost totally
deserted yesterday, as from Gov. Nc
Sill downwards the cry was Hes at
the Merchants" Auditor Braden, In
Surance Commissioner Shandrew and
Railroad Commissioners Becker and
Austin were among the notable excep-
tiOnS SO far as the heads of departments
were concerned. The rest might have
been seen, lust in promiscuous way,
yOu know" putting III some quiet work
among the delegates to to-day's Repub-
lican convention.
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