St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30

WILLIE'S IDEA ABOUT RAIN.
Boston Budget.
At a summer resort the other day {
bright little four-year-Old child amused
the company by his continual cute
questions and answers. One of his say
ings is worthy of repeating. Looking
out of the window into a rainstorm. lit
tie Willie inquired: Mamma, where
does all the rain come from?'' 'From
the heavens" "And do people drink
all that water?" continued the little fel
low. Yes" was the reply. "Well,"
rejoined the small wit, II should think
it would be very unhealthy to drink
there are so many dead people up
therer'
APOLOGIZING TO AUNTY.
Albany Journal.
Apropos of this incident, an Albany
| lady tells Of an abnormally bright boy
in Amsterdam who called at the house
OF a neighbOr where he WIS in the habit
of going several times day, and where
he felt at liberty to do about as he
pleased. There were some beautifully
oranges in sight. The lady had evil
IDENTIFY forgotten that boys are always
hungry, and did not offer him one
probably she had forgotten that there
were any in the house; at any rate, her
young visitor concluded that something
would have to be done, so he said /:
"Auntie, please give me al orange"
She told him that she hadn't any
oranges, to which he promptly replied,
You lie!' Frightened to think how it
sounded, he ran home and told his
mother, who Immediately sent him back
to apologize. The young man improved
matters by saying, "Auntie, am very
sorry for what said to you, but-but,
auntie, you did lie."
| TRIED TO FIND THE BROAD ROAD.
| Pittsburg Dispatch.
Delinquent Tax Collector Ford thinks
the spirit of research manifested in
Young America is rather running to
extremes. He said yesterday that a
little tot from the Lincoln school was
found long way out of her latitude a
day or two ago, and when asked where
she was going by gentleman who
knew her family. artlessly replied:
Pm going to help
The establishment of the QuestiOner
struck him dumb for minute; but he
proceeded to investigate, and found
that the child bad seen two men meet a
short time before and one had told the
other to go to the region where asbestos
fans would find a ready sale.
A NATURALIST IN THE FAMILY.
Boston Transcript.
A venerable gentleman, who had made
at least national reputation in branch
of natural history, had lamented much
that none of his sons or grandsons
seemed to develop tastes for his own
speciality. They were bright men, and
all that sort of thing, but none of them
seemed to take to those interesting in
veStigatiOns which to the naturalist are
more absorbing and important than any
rIipu nlcn in ha xxrnrI1 nna
long ago, however, the old gentleman
was walking in the woods with his
grandson, a breezy, irrepressible little
fellow of six. They had gone along i'm
silence, the old naturalist musing, pos
Sibly, upon this very freak of heredity
which deprived him of offspring that
should share his own tastes, when
snake crawled across their path. The
old gentleman struck at the reptile
with his stick, but the grandson grabbed
his arm impatiently.
''HOld on!' the boy exclaimed, "that'S
valuable specimen, you old fool"
There was naturalist in the family
at last!
KEEPING A PRIME MINISTER ALIVE.
Harper's Young People.
Mammals Radical, but Pm strong
Conservative" said an eight-year-old
politician, the daughter of an English
lady of rank. ''All my dolls are Con-
servatives too; and this'' Showing a
battered and headless body lis Lord
Salisbury. My cousin, Lady Mabel
G., was here playing with me yester-
day. and she's Liberal, so she knocked
Lord Salisbury's head off,
land what's this tube fixed to the top
of his head for?' asked the visitor.
40 feed him with, of course, DOW
that he's got no mouth. Mammals tele-
graphed to London to get another head
are going to pour soup and milk into
him through that tube to keep him
alive"
JUST AS HIS PA DID.
San Francisco Chronicle.
the Western addition. The children
make nightly demonstrations, hold
meetings and go out in solemn process
sion with banners and transparencieS.
sometimes arranged with all absolute
impartiality that betokens honesty of
purpose. This story would not be
funny if it were not true, but a lady
vouches for it, and far be it from me to
impeach the veracity of any woman
about child's story, even mother.
The small kid came up to his mother
about O'CLOCK.
please, ma, may go out tonight ?"
? mo"
M But 1 have an important engage
ent."
"Oh. you have. What is it?'
Z" l have to go to my club"
"What club ?"
"My Democratic club"
i''What do you do at your club?"
"Oh, we do like pa and his club. We
swear at the Republicans"
THE GOOSE HAD GOT RELIGION.
Atlanta Constitution.
Little Maggie Trick, while attending
camp-mveting at Emerson, Barlow
county, came running in and said:
Mamma, my goose has got religious;
it's shouting" The goose was running
around, tapping its wings and taking
a general play.
HEAPING GOALS OF FIRE ON HIS HEAD.
Kansas City Times
My companion was telling me how he
had just dropped letter from his
pocket, how messenger boy had found
it and how he had rewarded the boy.
Just then the door opened and that
messenger hey entered. He was about
the size of giant firecracker, and he
was just Us full of powder. He walked
straight up to where that official sat,
ard pulling out silver quarter from
his pocket threw it on the gentlemap's
lap and said:
elf you can't afford to give any more
than that Won can't afford To- rive any