St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-26
MINNEAPOLIS
MEN AND MEASURES.

In the late summer. when E. NJ. Will
son was chosen as the candidate of the
Democracy for the highest Office in the
state, the remark was frequently
heard: "Well, Pm glad we'll have
clear, impersonal campaign. They can
not throw mud at Eugene Wilson,"
When the campaign opened. IL
was amusing to see the Ell
forts of the Republican papers
TO find some avenue of at
tack upon Wilson. All they could
say was silk stockings" but it was Il
little singular that these papers could
never bring themselves to admit any
thing good of the brilliant lawyer and
perfect gentleman at the head of the
ticket, and even though he was their
townsman. But now the campaign is
over, and one of these papers has the
boldness to say ''E. NJ. Wilson is a gen
tieman and an honest man."
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The spectators at the chamber OF
commerce say they can never tell where
to place Col. e. ID. Rogers, the veteran
editor of the Market Record, but lately
he has developed into quite bear. Or
Saturdays business he says: Receipts
from farmers granarieS have been very
free in the North since the cold weather
began, and they promise to continue
yet several DAYS at least. 1t is to be re-
membered that wheat will continue TO
arrive here with more or less OF free
dom for some time after the farmers
movement shrinkS to smaller pro-
portions. The price of May
wheat was only &c = below the
closing of yesterday, in the face OF fuil
cent at other places. The nope was evl-
IDENTIFY entertained that prices at DINER
points would react, when the home sails
would stand already squared TO the
breeze that should drift prices up 10
their old position. There has been SO
much talk of that mysterious danger OF
getting on the short side of the market,
that an imaginary fear had paralyZed all
attempts to get local prices down, where
they would not stand SO prominently
out of all proportion with prices any
where else in the universe"
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The South Minneapolis News tells a
pretty good, though a rather severe
story on Joe Jepson, the hero of the
latest Algonquin club episode: "Joe
Jepson, who by the way is out of pol
itics, has a four-year-oid son. Unlike
his paternal parent, he very seldom
speaks, is most attentive listener, and
appears to keep up deuce of think
ing. His father and mother were dis
cuSSing the merits of very handsome
gold watch, which the former had given
to the latter as present. In the course
of the discussion it was suggested that 1t
had better be adjusted to heat and cold,
etc, etc. Joe Junior, who was drink
ing in with great aVidity the peculiar
qualities of watch that was lmper-
ViouS to thermometrlcal changes OF how
ever wide range Of temperature, de-
termined to test himself Of the qualities
of the timepiece. Taking it out last
Sunday into the Show. he deposited it
there while, and on removing fonnd
it ticking with its wanton regularity.
So far, then, as the cold was concerned,
young Joe felt assured that his moth
cr's watch was a decided success. Car
rying it up to the front room fire rever-
emily and carefully, he put it into
the hottest part. Watching it
through the mica, he easily
learned it was not adjusted to any such
caloric temperature. The glass broke
into fragments, the face cracked. the
hands parted company, the back doubled
itself up as if it were suffering from
spinal meningitis, few convulSive
movements of the main spring and the
dlsintegration was complete. The i'll
terview between Joe and his father,
when the result of the boys inveStiga-
lions was made known, was pathetic Ill
the extreme. Joe, it is said, wept Bit
terly when his father demonstrated that
at least one part of his anatomy, like
his mothers watch, was not adjusted to
heat"