St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
PHASES OF LIFE.

"Did you say you wanted story,
young man? Well, | can tell you one OF
an old settler of st. Anthony that hap
pened before you were born. The old
gentleman is well known in North Min
neapolis now, too. lie lives at 110l Bry-
ant avenue north and he's getting close
onto Seventy-fOur years old. he came
out West from New Hampshire 10
Albion. Mich. when he was young
man. He was a SchOOlteacher, and
taught for SIX or seven years there,
principal part of the time. lie came TO
ST. Anthony i'm the fall of '5l-just a
little over thirty-eight years ago. lie
was a teacher in the first university
school. After he had been here year
this notice, by some ineXplicable means.
was published about him in the North
western Christian Advocate, Of Chicago:
DEATH OF PROF. f. y. MERRILL.
We learn by private correspondence suffl-
GENTLY direct to be entirely reliable that
Prof Z. \. Merrill, of st. Anthony Falls,
Mimi. territory. late of Wesleyan seminary
at Albion Mich. was drowned in endeavor-
ing to cross the Mi: sissippi river. Particulars
not known
Well, before he could get word to AL
biOn, or his old home in New Halnp-
shire. his friends in both places had
uGlu iullEl al NiSNC III
ton of his death. So you see the old
man is yet to have his third funeral.
Early Yesterday morning an old gray
headed man Shambled into an uptown
coffee house, weak and tOttering from
lack of food, and from his inlirmlteS.
Picking out a gOod-natured looking
waiter he begged that he would give
him work to earn his breakfast.
There's no work about here that you
can do. old man." began the white
RprOned hasher. then catching the plte-
Gus look of the OLD man, he continued:
But you set down here and eat your
breakfast. and I'll find something for
you to do" At first the poor fellow was
quite taken back with the kind treat
ment. He seemed half inclined rot TO
believe it. Finally he scrambled upon
the stool. and taking his SpectacleS from
his nose he wiped them, looked at them
fOndly, and handing them over to the
hasher, said:
Take 'em. young man, SOS to be sure
Tn all right. and when Eve done the
)rk I'll get 'em back again"
Nothing else would satisfy him, so he
ate his breakfast and went out TO pile
some wood. and the glasses still staid to
show he Was ''all right"
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Last evening. Just after dark, as the
motor was pulling. past Sixth street,
young man and lady quite distance up
the street signaled fOTit to stop. Street
cars blocked their way, and the motor
had steamed on fully half a block before
the stop was made. A number of the
passengers, who had observed the sig
nal. were still watching them. They
were the kind of people who would at
tract attention. Good looking, full of
life. and evidently prepared for some
social OCCASION, as they bore that unmiS-
taxable appearance of being fixed up"
Roses completed the neat attire of both
of them.
Evidently they thought they were
left. Then as the train slackened they
looked all about. 1t was dark, nobody
near, and they unconscious of the spec
tatOrs, broke into a run. No delicate
Niggle ordinary to young ladies. but
genuine run, and the young lady
reached the car first, not bit ruffled or
ont of breath. She was slightly
abashed on stepping into the car to find
dozen pair of eyes on her.
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Some of the large retail houses of
Minneapolis are even growing educa
tiOnal in their show window exhibits.
Visitors coming to the city from other
places notice the first thing on passing
through the business part of the city
the novelty and elaborateneSS of the
displays. 1.-The Plymouth this week
has on exhibition an unusually fine
painting that should have been part of
the exposition art gallery had it not
been allowed to lay in the st. Paul Gus
tom house uncalled for during six
weeks. The work is entitled the BOAR
Hunt" 1t was executed by Henry
Biegel, brother of William Biegel, of
Minneapolis. The young man is study
Ing art in Germany.
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There are probably half dozen Min
neapOliS mothers who dress their little
ones so as to leave the little calves bare,
with as good as no stockings at all above
the shoe tops. 1t is a style often pic
tured in books, but in reality is quite
novelty. The hOrror-stricken faces of
all the other mothers of Minneapolis as
they see child dressed in such a cos
tune is amusing.