St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-18

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POCKET. aesthetic j. l. Brad
street is terribly wrought up over the
fact that the Grand opera house is to be
opened by vulgar minstrel company,
and that his peacock decorations are to
be mixed up with the Hostetter gags of
the end men.
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The weekly papers are guying the
journal and Star for the ridiculous fuss
they make when one of them happens
to pick up an Item that had not preYi-
ously appeared in q morning paper.
The Spectator tells about bicycle
being stolen and recovered, with cut
of the bicycle, and then announces,
"this item appeared exclusively in the
Spectator
Col. Charles W. Johnson is the latest
man whom it is rumOred might be pre-
vailed upon to take the pOstotfice. The
salary is 1000 year less than he gets,
but then Col. johnson thinks he can go
to Washington as congressman when
Snider's term is up. Funny, isn't it,
what ideas some people will get?
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A. D. Smith headed a remonstrance
against the Saratoga Springs Park, and
appeared before the park commission as
an attorney TO argue the question. He
Numbered against the park while, then
some one asked, soto yoce, "Where is
Maben?"
"MabenH' was the reply, "Why, he's
Oh the petition, of course"
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F. ID. Larrabee and Howard S. Abbott
the legal advisers of the St. Louis road,
have returned, after a tour of the East
ern watering places, still unmarried and
with their hearts true to the girls of
Minneapolis. Mr.. Abbott had on pair
of russell golOsheS and chewed stick of
barley malt gum when he reached
the city, and declared he would
never 90 away from home
again to look for pretty girls. 1--WE
visited" he said, Bar Harbor, Asbury
Park, Newport, Ocean Grove and Long
Branch, and | was disappointed in the
girls. Only at Asbury Park did they
on Mr.. Blaine at Bar Harbor, and were
SO warmly received that / went out I'M
mediatcly and took surf bath. As
soon as | went out the tide began to re-
cede for the next years crop, but they
told me it was customary for it to do SO,
and that it was not afraid of me. At
Boston we saw President Harrison and
the Bunker Hill monument. The latter
is taller than Mr.. Harrison, but did not
attract so much attention. We climbed
right up on 1.-THE monument-and
could look over into the seventh
story windows of the lumber ex-
change. Then we went to New York
and visited Baxter street. where |
bought these beautiful russell shoes
from a man who said he had kept them
for me for several months. At Wash
ington we called on L. E. Byrnes, and
were given carte blanche to roam
through the treasury building. The
institution seems to be on a good finan-
cal basis, and Mr.. Byrnes is to he con-
graduated on getting into the firm.
The cash sales must be immense, judg-
Ing from the amount of change we saw
there. Larrabee talked with several
of the clerks, and particularly with one,
daisy brunette who was counting
thOusand-dolar bills. After she counted
them she put them in the fire, not be-
cause she was Indifferent to the inter-
ests of her employers, but because they
were counterfeit. We spent 81 apiece
and two or three days at each Of these
cities and had a gay time, not forgetting
that we saw Niagara and put cold spray
on our brows after arguing with the
hackmen. L have heard Larrabee make
some pretty big arguments IN some
pretty small matters iii court, but when
II came 10 the crucial test of elOqueEce,
he failed and the hackmen trlumphed.
We took great deal of interest in mat
erS at home during our outing and l
must pay the GLOBE the compliment of
saying that it was the only Minneapolis
paper we could find for sale in New
York"
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