St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
John Roche Remembered the
Holidays Way Back and
Heat Of Sixty-Four.
DR.. Vail Chats of Delsarte,
Coquelin and the Dual
Character in Acting.
Whitney Wallis Heart Bounded
With Joy When He Saw
the Black Flag Flap.
Why So Many Noses Suddenly
Began to Bleed Yes
terday Noon.

John Roche sailing along with all
canvas spread to catch the gale, blew
the snow out of his whiskerS long
enough TO say:
1.-The Christmas GLOBE was a grand
paper. don't know whether it was re-
Hgious or not for me to do so, but
spent most of Sunday reading those
thirty-two pages. Do you know that
on Christmas day, 1864, Savannah was
burned by our troops that holiday it
was so hot that no one wore an oyercoat
and citizens went around with their
vests unbuttonet. We had gentle
winds ana rain and not sign of frost
or snow. Seven days afterwards, or on
New Years, 1866, the thermometer went
down with a Z-i-i-p. and George
Refs. our present city treasurer, froze
his feet. Oh. l remember that time
well and this season resembles it very
much"
DR.. Vail was spending his afternoon
in book store, feaSting on such treas
ComelOt series, where to his evident de-
light he found Walt Whitman. The
talk drifted from books to the stage,
Delsarte, Steele. Mackaye and COGue-
lin.
Il was studying in Boston," said the
doctor. ''when Mackaye came there to
lecture on Delsarte, and while they said
that he made hit, l could not see that
there was so very much to it. l think
this M. Coquelin has much the better
idea of the matter. although l question
his wisdom in revealing to the public
his stage methodS-thiS acting part
without feeling it. Mary Anderson,
nor any other of our great American
artists. would never reveal that much,
even if it were SO with them. 1t would
seem to me that such an admission in
jures an artist before his audience. L
notice that Bouccicault in his last article
on Coquelin, published in the North
American, contradicts an, assertion
made in his first. He now admits what
he first denied, that the dual character
in comedy may be used in Tragedy"
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In the fire department quarters
number of the old-timerS, thinking of
to-day's presentation of "FatinitZa' by
the BostOnians, recalled the fact that
three years ago this date Capt. Maloney,
of Quick 2, attended that opera, aud
that it was his last holiday. Long be-
fore the Ideals returned for another
Christmas, the captain had gone down
the road that leads to death, answered
special and gone out on the first
round"
A good many loungerS about the Ryan
thought that it would not be really
bright Christmas owing to the illness
and absence of j. H. Hanson. 1t has
become so unusual thing to ever see
u. H." and the Ryan separated, that
more than one will miss to-day his
CHEEKY smile and greeting. To the
newspaper men of his generation and
the younger ones destined to be their
successors, Mr.. Hanson is one of those
beacon lights of good fellowship that
ought never to be eXtingulshed. Old
comrades and young will wish him for
his Christmas gift. renewed health.
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Whitney Wall had an eye on the
flutter of the weather service black flag,
and at every flap his face grew happier
in expression. He knew and felt that
the ice carnival weather had come at
last and the ghost of green Christmas
been banished. Reports from Sergt.
Lyons and M. n. Kellogg are for good
winter weather from now on, with
storms before Jan. Is and some modera-
ton afterwards. The carnival directors
are pushing their preparations and by
the opening of the new year will be
under full Roadway.
DR.. Day felt the old fascination of
official life stealing over him and wan
dered into the postOffice to watch the
throngs at the stamp and mailing win
dows. He found out just how mean
Uncle Sam can be in the way of public
accommodations. One window and
clerk for the sale of stamps and twenty
five people every minute awaiting their
turn. Everything was crowded, incOn-
venient and annoying. The stamp
clerk was so tired that he looked pre-
pared for instant annihilatiOn, and the
young ladies at the weighing windows
wore expressions of WEAKNESS and dis
gust that would have better become a
matron with fourteen children. The
crowd that had to wait place was cross
and snarly, and there were enough ugly
words to be heard to drive Christmas
into Botany bay.
Are Heard at Dickinson's: Cashier to
Manager-HOw did you get over here?
Manager-Oh, Pm everywhere, like
bad weather.
POOR MAN.
Madame (at candy stand-JOhn,
where did you leave that sled?
John-Bless the sled DO you take
me for dray?
Floor Walker to Seedy-LOOking
Stranger-Do you wish anything?
Stranger Gn stage whisper)-Say, boss,
gimme snide quarter for Christmas,
hey?
AFACT.
Clerk to Lady Customer-The art de-
partment is on the second floor. What
did you wish?
Customer-Thanks, awfully; l want
to get my husband one of them new
tangled Venus de Milos they talk so
much about.
People will make queer mistakes at
any time of the year. A clerk i'm one of
the large bookstores of st. Paul said
yesterday that among their holiday
buyers there had been persons who had
seriously asked for
Byron's Keats.
Macaulay's History of Rome.
Gibbons Rise and Fall of the Dutch
Republic.
Pope's Elegy.
Writers Poems of Passion.
Poe's Barriers Burnt Away.
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There was one circumstance occurring
yesterday that good many sober peo-
pie wondered at when they came to
compare notes. Quite number of citi-
zens came down town early in the morn
ing without rubbers, and. after tramp
ing in the slush and rain for an hour or
two. found their feet cold and wet. In
stead of carefully drying them. they let
them remain so, with the result that