St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-29
Some Brisk Comment Upon
Passing Events, Men
and Doings.
information of a Reliable
Nature as to How the
Town Is Run.
Some Suspension Bridge In
constituencies and a Couple
of Sick Reporters.

Welcome, thou genial soul. whose kindly
Weeps Tears Of sympathy for every suff' ring
wight.
No empty pity ever was thy part,
Thy helping hand made sorrows burden
light.
Some months agone when thou did take thy
Abroad. in search of that great blessing
Which is The king of blessings and holds
Der power and pomp, DER luxury and
wealth.
Full many waited anxiously TO hear
The tidings of thy voyage across the oeep.
For with the hope of health there was tear
The news might give them cause TO weep
Alone. but not lonely, your wand ring have
been,
Then let our hearts gladness be heard and
be seen.
Here's thrice hearty welcome to Albert A.
Ames.
From 'Sonnets TO Ames,' by A. B. Nettle-
ton.
Somebody once said of Oliver Gold
smith that no man was wiser when he
had a pen in his hand, nor more
foolish without one. 1t might be
said that Alden J. Blethen is in
ameasure the ant thesis in character
Of Goldsmith. In business and on the
street he passes for a man OF good Judg-
ment. good temper, good stomach and
good intentions, but lock him up in the
Tribune Sanctum i'll sight of a pen and
a cauldron of seething nonsense begins
TO tremble within him, and anon he be
gins to belch forth the most hOrrid and
inflated rhetoric on the most trivial SUBJ
jects.
Yesterday it took him twC-thlrds of a
column OF the Tribune's presumably
valuable space to deny a statement In
the Journal that he was roasted by the
Exposition board, and in the course OF
his wild whOopings he editOriallY called
the Journal men Fellows" ''liars" and
''asses," and in other and divers man
Ders gave evidence of the pain given
him by the fire, smoke and melted lava
within.
The reception given DR.. Ames recalls
the time that the city of Minneapolis
turned out and gave Mitchell w. Glenn
a welcome home. 1t was 1882 or 1888
that Col. Glenn. having bruised his
thumb with boiler hammer or contract
ed rheumatism from standing in the
draught of the fuels, retired to Xenia,
O.. or some other quiet place, to recu-
perate He was absent month, and
returned invigOrated with the balmy
breezes of Ohio, and stepped Jauntily
from the train, intending to scoOt up
Fourth avenue south, change his trav-
ing costume for his Overalls and go to
work on a big order he had brought
home with him. He got off the train,
h,,% l,od Y hpfnFp
he ran into 1000 of his fellow citizens,
who had come down to the sta
ton to receive him. They hustled
him into a carriage, formed a process
sion, marched and cOuntermarcbed,
shouted and formed columns of fOuTs,
while the colonel tried to decide in his
pwn mind whether they were vigilantS
Or peaceably inclined. At the Nicollet
house they rested. pulled him out of the
carriage. rushed him through the lobby
and up stairs to the balcony overlook
Ing Washington avenue. The colonel
thought his hour had come and was
- looking around for rope when the
chairman put his hand on his shoulder
and said: Ladies' and gentlemen,
have the honor to introduce our dis
tinguiShed and hOnOred fellow citizen
whom we are all delighted to have back
with us after his tour" Glenn saw then
the procession like the second empire
was peace and made his acknowledge
nents. A banquet followed at which
wine flowed like Republican promises
of retrenchment and reform.
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E. A. TAYLOR has come out of his como
tose condition since Boston has again
tied New York for the National leagne
pennant. The eminent Flub Dub eX-
pects vet to see the flag wave from the
roof of Faneuil hall OF the top of Bunker
hill monument.
The Non-PartiSan VIC. T.U. appears
10 he more of a literary bureau for the
purpose of giving its members practice
In writing 'pieces for the papers, than
working temperance organization. 1t
occupies columns from week to week
explaining the difference 'twiXt twee-
dledee and tweedledum, and the public
is becoming sick of the whole nom
partisanship, made up principally OF the
wives of Republican city and county
offlcehOlderS.
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Rather an amusing joke was perpe-
trated by DR.. Kilvington on couple OF
hungry evening newspaper reporters
~
office in search of an item. The doctor
had large bottle containing a reddish
fluid. for analysis, which an East side
resident claimed 10 have bought at a
drug store. and which had caused con-
siderable trouble in his family.
"Giye US an item, DOCTOR" said one.
"Can't do it." replied the doctor.
"Well, then give US a cigar or a
drink"
II might give you drink, but am
mt of cigars. a friend of mine Just
presented me with very fine bottle of
wine though, which you are welcome to
sample"
This was a bonanza which they lost
no time in examining with the result,
that the pedestrians on the walk below
thought a second deluge had struck the
town. The doctor is satisfied no further
experiments are necessary.
=I=
The action, or rather motion, of the
city council regarding the suspension
bridge is something truly remarkable.
If the bridge is unsafe, and that it is
there can be no doubt. it Should have
been closed within twenty-four hours
from the time that the council was frs
warned, now more than week ago
But no. the matter went to committee
and from the committee back to the
council and from the council back to the
city engineer, and now the bridge is tC
be closed to heavy travel, that is so fal
as G. \. X. watchmen and a few sign:
can close it. City Engineer Rinker is &
man who knows his business, and il
what he says regarding the condition Of
the wood work on the bridge be true, il
has been only the hand of Providence
that has held up the structure for some
time, and a carload Of New Boston pic