St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-18
MINNEAPOLIS. N
PHASES OF LIFE.

One of the sprinkling cart drivers
who wet pedestrians at the crosswalks
for fun found out yesterday that there
was a serious side to the joke. He
literally besprinkled clerical individ-
ual who wore glasses, and then gave
him the laugh. The clerical individual,
instead of turning out to be broken
down minister, with a meek ard lOwly
disposition, happened to be manager
of sporting events. and the way he
lammeG that Sprinkling cart driver over
the sidewalk and blacked his eyes was
IA caution. 1t is matter OF doubt
as to whether the driver will recover
from his surprise or his injuries first.
The way of the prominent citizen,"
whereby he attainS prominence, was
quite well illustrated by the foregoing
incident. After the clerical individual
and the sprinkling cart driver had SET
tied their differences the prominent
citizen appeared on the scene. tie de-
manded in a loud tone to be Informed
of the facts in the case. He demanded
of the two men their names and ad.
dresses. He deemed the affair dis
grace. sir. He hunted up po-
Iiceman and wanted to know why
he had not been there to stop
the fight and what his number was. He
intended to report him at once, sir. 1t
didn't matter that the fight did not
occur on that particular policeman's
beat. He meant to see that the matter
was reported. sir. BY this vehemance
he soon rttracted attention, and people
began to ask: "Who is hep" rs that
Mayor Babb?" etc. Apparently he had
no authority to act upon, but 1t was
clear that he was a prominent cltl-
zen. Anybody could see that, and
he probably went away convinced that
he had asserted his prominence in a
way that had impressed itself. And he
was not altogether wrong, for there are
many prominent citizens in MinneapO-
lis who have attained local glory and
distinction by forcing themselves upon
attention whenever and wherever they
have found people assembled-at
political discussion, an improvement
associations meeting. or even at a
street fight, as this particular promi-
nent citizen did yesterday.
Col. Pat Sullivan is the possessor of
COW that is an animal of staid domestic
habits. which had never exhibited any
signs of frivolity until the other day,
when she broke out of the barn and
wandered from home. The firemen at
No. 5 engine house cOrralled her and
tied her up until she should be claimed
by her owner Along about evening
they concluded that it would be a good
thing to have little fresh milk to drink.
The cow was accordingly MIXED and the
boys for once in their lives had all the
milk to drink they wanted, and little
more, too, according to subsequent de-
velopments; for the next morning it
was found the cow had given birth
to calf during the night. As milk
taken from cow in the stages of
incipient maternity is net generally rel
ished as beverage, the firemen have not
evinced any hankering for milk since.
Even tox of choice cigars and a pro-
fuse card of thanks from Col. Sullivan,
expressing his sense of obligation of
their kindness to his COW and apprecia-
ton of the efficiency their service in
the capacity of wet nurses, has not
reconciled them, and Invitations over
the telephone to partake of milk shakes
are declined without thanks.