St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-05
SUNDAY SILHOUETTES.


falls on is a picture of the lice Palace at
st. Paul, MIMI" st. Paul is now as dis
tinctively known to the whole world as
the Carnival City as New Orleans is for
its Mardi Gras, or st. Louis for its
Yelled Prophet show. This fact is en-
couraging for those who favor making
the Ice Carnival permanent feature.
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If it should be decided to make our
Winter CarnivalS permanent, there are
two things that ought to be done. The
first is to establish the Carnival on a
purely business basis, just as the New
Orleans Mardi GraS is done. 1t will not
do to depend year after year on volun-
tary efforts to make our CarnivalS sue
cessful. In the second place, it is neces-
sary to have only distinctively Carnival
features. The street masquerade last
Monday evening was the first effort in
this direction. 1t was successful be-
ginning, but can be vastly improved
upon. The industrial parade was the
second effort, and it could only be i'm
proved upon in making the line of
march long enough to accommodate the
procession.
1.-THE idea that being a member of the
Legislature gives person opportunity
to make money is only INDUCED in by
those who have never been in the legis-
lature," remarked the Hon. ALBERT
SCHEFFER at the Ice Kings banquet
Thursday night. MY friend Mr..
MOVES, over there, has insinuated that
the almighty dollar was an important
factor in legislation. Now Mr.. MOVES
talks that way because he wanted to go
to the legislature himself, but the boys
wouldn't have it. His temperance prin-
cipleS are too strict to suit the FrOgtOwn
constituency. If any of you want tG
know how l got into the legislature [
will tell YOU" At this the gentlemen
seated around the royal banquet board
relighted their cigars, settled themselves
back in their chairs and prepared to
laugh, for they knew good story was
coming.
''My wife told me onc~day that she
wanted sealskin sacque. You gentle
men who are husbands know what that
MEANS" continued MI. SCHEFFER. ST
Informed her that the state of my ex-
chequer would not permit the expensive
luxury" "Why don't you get into the
legislature, then, and make money like
ED DURANT and Bob SMITH?" she
asked. PUT me on the track. my dear,
and l will try" With that she imme-
diately organized a sewing society, and
when the ladies of our neighborhood got
together my wife told them what smart
man Mr.. SCHEFFER was, and that he
ought to be in the legislature. That is
how got to be talked about as proper
candidate for the legislature l took
my gun and went off up to the northern
part OF the state duck hunting, and when
| came back the Republican convention
had nominated me and the Democratic
convention had Endorsed me. Thought
I was going to get off without campaign
expenses. What a mistake! By the
time the two committees got through as
sesSing me my wife's sealskin was
gone"
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"When 1 got into the legislature I
asked SMITH and DURANT how people
made money in the legislature. They
said that was just what they were trying
to find out. So we agreed to organize a
league and stand together in our endeav-
ors to make our legislative positions
mOney-making concerns. Senator HICK-
son over, there, my friend on my right
here, Senator NACHBAR, HENRY KEEL
LER and the other granger members all
came into the league. We started out
by voting for all tie railroad bills that
came up, under the impression that JIM
HILL and the other magnates would be
so well pleased with our conduct that
they would flood us with checks for
large amounts. But they didn't. They
said to themselves Those fellows are all
right. They are with us and don't need
fixing Then we got mad and voted
against their railroad bills. But that
didn't work. The railroad magnates got
mad, too, and wouldn't have loaned one
of lis quarter of a dollar if we had
offered a mortgage on the best business
block in the city for security. No, sir:
this thing of making money out of the
position of state legislator IS barren
ideality."
A Washl ngton correspondent, who re-
Gently attended DR.. SUNDERLAND's
church, and sat in pew directly in
front of the president, says: Il sat
near Mrs. CLEVELAND, and during the
singing | could hear her pure, fresh
voice joining in every hymn that was
sung. She has a trained soprano, which
she uses without affectatiOn and appar-
entity with real enjoyment, uttering each
word distinctly, so that the song be-
comes recital"
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The path of glory only leads to the
grave. The late President JOHN TYLER
sleeps in an unmarked grave in Holly
wood cemetery at Richmond, Va, with
out line above it or any token to dis
tinguiSh it from the graves of hundreds
of others who were never known to
fame. Not only that, but Mr.. TYLER's
surviving daughter, Mrs. LETITIA
TYLER SEMPLE, is almost entirely
blind and is an object of charity.
Through the kindness of the venerable
W. w. CORCORAN she was recently adj
mitted as an inmate of the Louise Home
at Washington. A correspondent de-
ScrlbeS Mrs. SEMPLE as a handsome,
MISUNDERSTANDING woman, in man
ncrs and speech of the old school. Her
profile is an exact reproduction of that
of her famous father. Her finely cut
features show no marks of age. Her
snowwhite hair is worn. according to
the traditions of her youth, in soft curls
about her shapely head. Mrs. SEMpLE
was the first woman to enter hospital
during the war as a nurse.