St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-24
SAINT PAUL.
CHIT CHAT CORNER.

Six or seven years ago, Wnen Hunter
was the manager of the st. Paul ball
club. Camel, now one of the catcherS of
the Detroits, made his first appearance
on the grounds of league club. 1t
was not known whether he could play
ball or not A. M. Thompson, of the
present st. Paul club, had seen Camel
. playing somewhere in scrub nine, and
marked him down as natural bali
player. One afternoon when the st.
Paul club was practicing on the south
side of the river Mr.. Thompson APP
peared on the ground with Camel, and
proposed to MIR. Hunter to try him as
catcher Thompson went up to Mime
apols that afternoon and took Camel
out of barrel factory, and brought him
to st. Paul in buggy.
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He was put behind the bat, and the
Swiftest pitchers that Hunter had
damned the ball through to him till
they got tired and gave it up. They all
fell into Cancels hands as they would
have fell into bushel basket, and made
about the same impression. He was
placed on first and the whole infield
fired away at him. The result was
the same. The balls dropped into his
hands with about the same force that a
snowflake would. Camel was fully SIX
feet in height, raw-boned and mex
perienced in tbs world, and about as
good-natured and awkward as they
make them. He was signed as the
catcher of the club on the spot, and this,
in brief, is the story of how one of the
best catchers of the national game
came to play bali.
The Farmer. a weekly agricultural
paper, published in this city, will for
mally announce the cessation of its
publication in st. Paul Aug. so, assign
ing as a reason for its discontinuance
the inability of its publishers to work
up satisfactory patronage among the
farmers of Minnesota and the North
west. The announcement will also con-
tain notice of the sale of the mechanical
effects, subscription lists and advertiS-
ing contracts to Orange Judd, one of
the founders of the American Agricult-
urist and recently an editor of the
Prairie Farmer, who will move them to
Chicago to be used in the publication of
new paper, to be known as the Orange
Judd Farmer. The sale will take effect
Sept. 1, 1888. The publication Of the
Farmer has extended over period of
two years and three months, and, it is
learned, has proved losing venture
from the start, the aggregate loss
amounting to between $4,000 and
$4,000.
The state central committee has be-
come interested in the Democratic bar
becue that is to take place at the fair
grounds the 10Th inst, and promoters
are determined to make it one of the
features of the campaign. Hon. Eugene
Wilson has written to Congressman
Wilson, of Charleston, w. Va, request
ing him if possible to be present and
deliver an address.
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Chicago must have been a pleasant
place this summer. An acquaintance
asked Pete Mack, with Haverly's min
Strels, where he spent the summer. 81
spent it in Turkish bath in Chicago,
and it was the coolest place L could
find in the city,"
Col. Bohleter returned from Brown
county yesterday, where he has been
for the past few days destroying the
festive prairie chicken. The colonel
reports that chickens are SO thick in
nat neighborhood that they can be
Knocked down with q club. This will
aoubtless account for the number of the
Seathered bipeds which the colonel
Brought home with broken necks.
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There is nothing that pleases an old
Colder so much as the martial music of
the fife and drum. A brass band may
play excellent music that will tickle the
ear of the civilian, but for the purpose
of arouSing the enthusiasm of an old
veteran the fife and drum are far ahead
of all other instruments. This was ev-
idenced last evening at the campfire al
Acker Post hall, when, at the first shrill
blast of the fife, boy in blue arose and
said: "Ah, there's the music for the sol
der. | could march to that for days"
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"Gentlemen will not spit on the floor
Others are requested not to-" This an.
nouncement occupies CONSPICUOUS
position i'll the ladies" and mems
waiting rooms at the 800" depot, cor
ner of Tenth and Broadway. No fault
can be found with the request that gen
tlemen are not to spit on the sacred pre-
cincts Of the depot waiting rooms, bu
pray what is meant by ''others?" Doe:
that mean to take in members of the
fair sex given over to the habit O.
chewing, or what does the author mean.
Perhaps he is one of those creature,
who define gentlemen by the color O
their cloth and the capacity of thei
pocket, and by "others" he means labor
ing men.
A petition was presented by voters
of Becker county to Gov. McGill abou
two months ago, asking that the White
Earth Indian reservation be favored
voting precinct this year. No abtiol
has been taken yet. There is a Demo
cratic majority of about 300 there, count
ing both Indians and the white mel
married to half breeds.
MIXED THE PAPERS
While Settling an Estate--Protes
Against Excessive Damages.
Ed Harmon, formerly janitor ant
executive messenger at the state CAPT
tol for many years, andwho died Aug
10, 1887, has become the cause of
singular suit in the district court