St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-22

question.
WHO offered Doodle for votes in the
senatorial contest? And then who took |
it?
THERE are thirteen White Caps in an
Indiana jail. The unlucky number fol-
lows all ayocations.
THE New York Tribune sees a ''ioc-
und and exuberant Northwest" That
is nearer than it usually sees.
IT is believed the German powers
would rather like little tiff with this
country. That dynamite Vesuvius may
be needed.
GUST my LUCK" said the rural editor
who secured free ticket to the Grand
for last night in connection with the
Press club.
WEST VIRGINIA Democrats broke the
legislative deadlock by electing the
Labor candidate. A Democratic senator
will be the result.
ONE of the postmasters in New York
state was appointed by the grandfather
forty-seven years ago. He thinks he
ought to be promoted by the grandson.
THERE is impertinent inquiry in the
East for the business boom that was to
follow the election of HARRISON. That
was campaign buncombe.
THE senate refused to put Bibles
printed in the English language on the
free list. Still, that is the only language
in which mOStOf the senators can read
them.
KING CAUCUS is quaint old soul,
quaint old soul is he. The man who gets
the nomination, the senator must be.
Referred to the committee on bribery
investigation.
DON'T do it. Because HELEN BARRY
happened to he booked for the day of
the opera house fire, don't let it sug
gest the name of that other famous
woman, HELEN BLAaEs.
ONE of the preachers in Philadelphia
allows smoking in his meetings. If
that could be made the rule. good
many would attend preaching who do
not now, but it might not suit the
ladies.
! Now THAT the Republicans have got
a senator from Delaware, it is expected
there will be no more shortages of the
great fruit crop of the state, and all Re-
publicans will be entitled to peaches
and cream.
THERE is wealth and enterprise
enough in this city to build theater
the city can be proud of. Out with the
Cheap John fellows who are seeking
advertisement by connecting theater-
building plans.
A YEAR or two ago prohibition was
put In the state constitution of Rhode
Island, but the attempts to operate it
are proving so unsatisfactory that they
want to get rid of it. That, however, is
not easy to do.
The legislature of Texas lately fin
ished counting the vote for governor,
and only footed up 1894 majority for
the Democratic candidate. A fusion
cut down the majority, but still no con-
test is probable.
The young German emperor has pre-
scented a special standard to the Russian
regiment of which he is honorary colo
mel, as an indication of his fraternal
feeling. Still, no movement is making
to disarm any of the vast armies that
lynYNt III of O of Se00 000 n
year.
A NEW YORK paper publishes an adj
vertisement of SIS reward offered for
the recovery of a small bottle lost on a
certain street, with ''no questions
asked" Bottles are perhaps rarity in
Maine and Iowa, but not in New York
city. 1t is probably an ingenious device
to draw people to the locality.
EASTERN papers don't credit the re-
ports of weather suitable for picnics in
Dakota. A Philadelphia journal of Sat
urday says AZ degrees below is the tenn
perature in the territory. The signal
service shows no such figures at any
time this winter, and it will be a good
deal warmer out there when the
SPRINGER bill passes the senate.
THE Ohio wheat grower who petit
tons congress to grant bounty of 20
cents bushel on wheat grown in Ohio,
as it cannot be raised there in competi-
ton with Minnesota and Dakota, evil
IDENTIFY thinks he has as much right to
bounty as the men in Kansas who want
to grow beets and sorghum for the man
ufacture of sugar. If the bounty bust
ness is to be the settled policy, why
should any improbable industry that
people want to carry on not come INTO
the list?
HOLIDAYS.
1t is commonly supposed that this
country has pretty fair stock of holt
days, and there is goodly number of
more or less festive or notable days scat
tered over the country. but there is no