St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-02
SAINT PAUL.
CHIT CHAT CORNER.

A cruel Joke was perpetrated upon
young society man the other evening.
He was in love, or affected he was, and,
dressed in the height of fashiOn-light
pants. black coat and black silk hattie
was awaiting the arrival of his beau
Ideal in front of the Astoria on Third
street. Long he waited, and as each
moment passed his heart beat faster
and his ardent spirits rose in unison.
His feelings had just reached their
highest point, when the best friend or
this gallant young salesman appeared
on the scene and at once conceived the
idea of cooling him down. Nosooner de-
cided than done. Eagerly rushing into the
Astoria, the friend secured pail filled
with water, and from an upper story
window poured the contents on the
tove-sick swain below. Words fail to
picture his discontinue and woe-begOne
appearance. Unfortunately, too, just
at the moment the long looked-fOr dam
sci arrived, and with yell of vengeance
the dark-haired young man beat a
hasty and ignominious retreat.
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The result of the labOrs of the board
of equalization has been to increase the
assessed valuation about Si,000,000 over
the assessors figures. The total valua-
lion of real estate in this city is now
fixed at $50. GAG, 535. and buildings at
SIS. S2S, POS; total, 500, Al, 80 as against
S2S, $50. O92 returned by the assessor.
The total valuation in the county cut
side OF the city is figured up at 81, 800,
007, while the assessors figures were
only 8. SS5, 254. The grand total of tax
able property thus becomes S105, 1854, 457,
being S1,O94,126 over the assessors es-
innate. The exempt property fOots up
e7,S47, G96.
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The result of the convention which
assemblies next Wednesday to nominate
u state ticket is being looked forward to
with unusual interest. There is one
one class of individuals in the city
whose anxiety over this event is painful
90 behold. These are the state house
officials, whose official stations will de-
pend on the nominee of that cOnven-
ton. They are all nervous and grasp
at every straw that blows favOrably for
the candidate of their choice. Poll
ticians and reporters who have business
at the old rOOkery are piled with queries
as to what they think the outlook is. If
the answer is as they would like to have
1t, viz: 1T looks like McGIll," a ray of
Joy and contentment sufTuses their
countenanceS. If otherwise, the gloom
becomes so thick it could be cut with q
knife.
Gov. McGill has sent a cOmmunica-
ton to the board of railroad and ware
house commissioners, asking them to
make a critical examination of the
Stacy filler and report as to its merits
and practical utility. For the past two
or three years wheat has been tested by
what is known as the brass kettle,
which does not give satisfactory results,
for the reason that the weight will vary
one, two and as high as three pounds,
according to the method of filling. On
this account good wheat is often placed
in inferior grades. The Stacy filler in
sures just weight and furnishes a sys-
tematic method of filling the tester.
The Stacy tester was adopted six years
ago by the state, but the new warehouse
laws repealed all the grain laws, which
did away with its use. If the commits
sion finds the filler as represented it
will again become the legal tester of
grain in the state.