St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-16
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News on the Str Page.
WALKS AND TALKS.

Senator Durant was talking yester-
day about the prospects for st. PauFs
future. Said he: Judging by the
past, st. Paul fifty years hence will be
east of the financial center of the
Northwest. 1t may be the center, but is
more likely to be east of 1T. What
mean by that is that new cities are liza
bic to spring up west OF us which Will
draw capital with them, and while they
will in some extent be tributary to st,
Paul. to as great extent will they be IN
dependent"
F.. Whitney, of the Manitoba, sat in
his office yestetday afternoon with a
magnificent, roaring coal fire blazing Ill
the open CRATE. 'Do you know what
coal, that is?" asked he; lit is Montana
coal and burns magnificently, leaving
nothing but fine gray ash. The near
future will see Montana coal come into
very general use, as it is of the finest
quality" Certainly that in the CRATE
i'm the room was burning i'll the most
glorious way, making brilliant red
glow which suffused the whole room
and Illuminated Mr.. Whitney's collec-
ton of paintings and Indian relics with
warm, cosy light.
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Ancient Indian idols are the latest
thing in paperweights. Whether they
are the genuine article or good imita-
ton is doubtful, but they are sent to
prominent railroad and other men by
an editor at Denver. Little did these
at one time omnipOtent gods think,
when they were worShiped with weird
incantatiOns by naked SayageS, that one
day they would sit and cape blandly
upon such magnateS as j. &. POnd, and
wear an advertising sticller as plaster
on their rotund stomachs.
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1t is an astonishing thing that the
chefs of the finest hotels in the North
west fail utterly when they start out to
make curries or mulligatawny soup.
The reason they fail is that they do not
realize that Il lover OF currieS wants
them first as hot as they can be made,
while those who cannot eat them hot
are not lovers of the palate-tickling
East Indian dish. The best time to eat
curry is in the morning after You have
gone to bed with fearfully long jag on
the night before. 1t tones the stomach
up-beats cocktail all to pieces.
N~
w tllldul III MuIldy linuiiCHiAe oChS
root)-It seems they are determined to
dethrOne me, and when they go at it by
blowing up my Office with gas, am in
clined to think | had better go to Rus
sia. Nihilism should not be tolerated
in ST. Paul, and l will confer with DR..
Day about the conspiracy to blow me
Skyward this afternoon. When | heard
the terrific noise in the vault, !!
thought my opponent Holman had
arrived with his commission. After
the explosion, which was louder than
the report of the park commission. !
learned the cause to be the escape OF
gas between the ceiling aud floor.
When the workman applied the torch
in searching for the leak, the explosion
took place with great shock to Ine and
my clerks and almost fatal results to
the plumber
."Well, won't there be another eXplo-
sion in your vicinity when the supreme
court decides who the city attorney is?"
''Oh, pshaw! 1t will be argued OH the
9th of this month. and instead Of being
Holman it will be ''HOPme."
"How's your health?''
"Oh, go on, haven't any,"