St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-09
SAINT PAUL.
CHIT CHAT CORNER.

storm. which continued with unabated
fury for several hours. After o'clock
the wind continued to blow, but it came
in gusts that did not cease until sun
down. 1t was such day as one would
expect in October. The sky bore a
cheerless aspect, being banked up with
ugly, threatening cumulus clouds. The
wind. which came mostly from the
west, was cold and billing, and made
those who appeared on the street in
thin coats and summer pants think that
they were living in Iceland. 1t whiStled
around the caves OF the houses with
dismal wall that recalled to mind just
such weather as there might have been
the night that Poe's raven came tapping
on the chamber door; it songhed
through the baggy trousers of the dude
and dailied uncermoniously with the
undergarments of the fair sex.
%x*
Fires were going in all the hotels, and
the boarders, who dared not face the
raging of the elements without, hud-
died as close to the stove as they could
and toasted their shins until they fairly
steamed.
There was only one class of men in
town whose faces did not wear look of
abject misery and general disgust: the
coal dealers. They smiled in fiendish
delight, and with every fall of one de-
gree in the temperature made corre-
spending raise of 80 cents in the price
of coal.
1t was poor day for the Italians at
the corners who sell the ''banan," and
the receipts for the twelve hours did
not net them sufficient to buy 1.-The
macaron'' for breakfast.
~
A. S. Tallmadge-The Summit ave-
nue. boulevard is the best of its kind in
this country. There is splendid road
way of two and a half miles, and when
it is embellished with trees its entire
length it will be difficult to equal it with
anything that even the old countries
can produce. | would like to see a few
more such drives in the city, as they
necessarily tend to the improved status
of ST. Paul.
There are only five drinking troughs
III lllC SllCtlS III du1 lOI lIlc IIlOuN
hundred horses which may be seen any
day of the week drawing heavy loads
within the city. 1--WE had hoped" said
NJ. l.. Hutchins, agent of the Humane
society, ''to have had a dozen more
erected this summer, but the city cOun-
Gil has not got them placed, so nothing
more can be done this season. Last
summer the society undertook to place
the drinking troughs, and erected the
five already in use, but so much opposi-
ton was raised against us erecting the
troughs in other parts of the city that
we were compelled to request the city
council. to undertake the work. The
troughs have been fairly supplied with
water, but yesterday l had to complain
to the city clerk about the supply to the
Broadway trough. 1t has lately been
quite inadequate, and the trough al
lowed to get into dirty condition. But
what is wanted are drinking fountains
placed in every part of the city which
will provide water not only for the pub
aIc, but for horses, dogs and birds"
*.*
"Gentlemen will please remove their
hats on entering the room," is a pro-
hlbltive order at the public libsary. 1t
is not insisted that gentlemen should
remove their hats while in the room,
bnt merely upon entering it. But why
remove the hat at all? How comes the
headgear of gentlemen to be source of
annoyance to freQuenterS of a public
library? 1t is not so at public libraries
in other towns on this or the European
continent. If hats are to be removed,
why, pray. should not the shoes of gen
tlemen be likewise treated? They are
certainly an annoyance, especially if
the Wearer is a Shuff1er and creates
noise so Irritating to the delicate senses
OF the readers at public libraries. Be-
sides, is it fair to request gentlemen to
remove their hats and then to further
announce that the librarian will not be
responsible if the article is stolen? This
is adding insult to injury to the gentle
men who, bareheaded, venture to5enter
the portals of the public library.
~
Mayor Smith had the mining fever at
one time, and had it bad. A few wears
ago he travelled through the Black Hills
region, and was so favorably impressed
with what he saw and heard that he in
vested a little i'll stocks. The mayor is
In receipt of letters constantly from en-
thusiasts out West, detailing the advan-
tages possessed by this or that mine and
winding up by asking him to take few
thousands or so in stock. He reads the
letters but he takes no stock.
~
Albert Scheffer received many con-
gratulations yesterday on the outcome
of the Otter Tail county convention. ga
short time ago." said he, 81 was in
formed by a Merriam man that in the
Otter Tail delegation Merriam would
get the Otter and | would get the Tail,
but it seems that the situation was re-
versed, and got the Otter while Mer-
riam and McGill otthe Tail"
~
POstmaSterS receive great many
communications of different character
from those which are signed by subor-
dinates of the postmaster general, or
which emanate from the dead-letter
Office. Ii a dead body is found in the
Mississippi river at its mouth, and the
corpse is ornamented with anything
which would indicate that the drowned
victim was from StsPaul, the postmas-
ter here is at once corresponded with.
So it is if woman in Denver, whose
husband she imagines has flown to St.
Paul, wants to find out his whereabouts.
Yesterday Mr.. Lee received the follow
Ing letter from Washington, D. c.:
claiming to come from your place. He
NnNS his nnmn ic Don A nnInto,n In