St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-21
4 REPORTERS NOTE BOOK.
Humorous Scenes, as Well as News,
Are Entered.
"JINE DE BOO GANG. -
SeIah Matthew'S SGhsme---A Mans
Servant Tr0ubie---Go1a to
the Devil.

"Do YOU want to get some new close,
Obercoat, hat, or umbrellah?" asked
fiy colored boy of a man about town.
mot unless can get 'em for moth
Ing" answered the sport, as he contem-
plated himself in a show window.
"YO' kin get 'em for next TO notfin eff
yo' wants 'em," replied the sable inter
rogator.
sharply.
"Yo' wants to get on to de boo gang?"
1.-THE boo gang?"
"Yes. de boo gang. Dey's kids.yOung
fellahs got a captain, and dey meets in
alleys. He says shoe dah, get out an
go to work. an yO' bets deY do. Dey
Skins into front doors, SnatcheS ODER
coats an what comes handy. Do yo'
See?"
'Oh, catch. TheyEdo the sneak act.
Steal 'em.''
"WeI. dats about the size oh it. YO'
can give the size yO' wears. and dey'H
look up ben or muSh fer yo'."
whats ben, and what's mush?''
"Why. an ObercOat an umbrellah.
Dey'll get yO' what yo' want. and leave
it at any number, an yo' kin glib 'em
what yO' likes"
1t was a new way TO get clothes, and
although a cheap way, it did not seem
TO strike the man-about town favorably,
for he walked away, saying he'd think
it over.
Selah Mathews hoveTs about the city
hall a good deal. and his figure Is al
most as familiar there as it was when
he was clerk. Selah is the victim of a
hallucinatiOn that the Republicans will
capture the next council. and then he
will be clerk again in that event. In
the meantime he is consOling himself
with the reflection that ''all
things come TO him who knows
how to wait" His presence
on the curbstone in front of the office,
however, drives City Clerk Carnman
wild with nervousness. There is some
thing in Selah's patient look akin to
that Of the undertaken who waits i'll
front of the house for his victim to die,
that makes him appear to Carnman like
the deep shadow of some approaching
calamity.
Mike Colwell thinks he has solved
grave problem in domestic economy.
Having experienced difficulty in
getting a hired girl, and declining to
SDend the greater portion of his time
an intelligence office in Segelbaum's
block. After half a dozen failures to
secure a hired girl, he became disguised,
but his resolution did not falter. He
bought the establishment out on the
spot, and is running it SO he can be as
sured that his family will be supplied
with hired help the year around.
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The proprietor of a NicOllet avenue
laundry recently needed a new awning,
and not considering his own judgment
good prevailed upon Doc Noble to make
the selection for him. The result is
that the front of his place of business is
now decorated with yellow awning of
such a deep yellow that it tintS the at
mOsphere, hOOdOoS gamblers, eXaS-
perates the Irish. and makes the sales
ladies in the dry goods store on the
opposite side of the street look as though
they were jaundiced.
People who are sufficiently interested
In the identity of newspaper writer's to
keep track of the changes that occur on
the editorial and repertOrial forces of
the dailies may have possibly wondered
what has become of Jimmy Gray, who
occasionally furnished some of those
gems of WitticiSm that appeared over
the nom plume of "Gym Gray" in
the Tribune'S puzzle department The
dime museum this week furnishes
kew to the mystery. One of the stellar
attractions advertised is Jimmy Gray,
the white AlbinO." Mr.. Gray is to be
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