St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-15
POINT And COMMENT,
Gossip Waited In by YesteP-'
DAYS Cold Wave at Min
neapolis.
Roland Reed 0deliS Claim
to Have Originated "ln
the Soup"
". K. Hicks Telephone Ex-
perienee and the Reward
of PoliteneSS.
ctopies on Men and Comment
on Local Matters Of an
Airy Nature.


To those who haven't plost too much
time or money in it to look at things
with ar unprejudiced eye, there is one
lovely feature about the late lamented
tournament at the driving park which
should be gratifying TO every one VINO
is proud of Minneapolis. That is the
rather small attendance and lack of en-
thusiasm. When town gets large
enough so that hose race and coup
ling contest do not constitute general
holiday. it is a sure sign that the town
is becoming city, and the people OF
Minneapolis showed that they could
find recreation and entertainment with
out wasting an hour or two in going
four OF five miles on badly managed
narrow gauge road.
The fact that Judge Rea has been
'mentiOned'' for the pension commits
sionership causes no surprise. Inc
surprise would have come III If he had
not been mentioned.
John s. McLain's speech at the EX-
position banquet was mistaken tor an
extract from the constitution of the
non-partisan W. c. I. L.
Mai. Camp has gone out of the weather
business and left the field clear TO Col
Cheney, who takes the conservative
course of predicting the weather after II
has happened. His monthly reports,
which have always had the cordial ap-
proval of the board of trade, are all the
city now has to depend upon.
The ice cream shop Is out Of date,
Its cold for moonlight drives,
But still to keep your pocket Tat
Your angel sweet cGHtriYeS.
No sooner is the summer gone
Than a fatal -R" appears,
The merry oyster shOweth up
As be has IL other years.
A pretty and plump married woman
of South Minneapolis. whose husband is
doctor. has not got along well with
EsculapiuS: that is. not until she began
proceedings for divorce. Then she
anticipated the court by resuming her
ante-nuptial name. She was in Frank
lin avenue store one day making some
purchases when the proprietor addressed
LEI DOlllC4A. uSAA- AA4O hbtNoA -@eNAiN-N'
Mrs. -. if you please" she said,
correcting him.
What has become of the dOctor?"
asked the grocer in an astonished voice.
"Oh. l am dispOsing of him." she re-
torted. picking up her parcels and walk
Ing out.
The doctor has since been disposed of.
Brown-Hello, Where are you going
with that bulls-eye and magnltylng
Modern Diogenes-Tm looking for the
man who didn't e. taken in on the fire
mans tournament. Ia-ta."
Robert Roland Reed Odell, the gutta
percha statesman. who. two weeks ago.
came home from Washington with the
custody of the government building in
the hollow of his hand, now acknOwl-
edges that he is in the soup; and, by the
way. Odell mOdeStly claims to have
originated the famous expression I'm
the SOUP As he tells it. there was a
family of six brothers in New York
named Case. one of whom was a head
and shoulders taller than his fellows.
Somebody asked him how he happened
to grow so much above his brothers.
and the old man snarled in reply, "By
being left-handed."
How was that?' he was asked to ex-
plain.
well, you knyw, my father had so
many children he had to feed them on
bean soup to get along. 1t was put on
the table in large bOwl.a all the boys
dipped in with piece of bread. When
the other i've dipped in right-handed
and chased the beans TO the side of the
bowl. and l came in left-handed,
stemmed the current and got all the
beans. and that's how l happened to
grow so tall"
This yarn was told by Odell to
Washington newspaper correspondent
with an application TO the Democratic
campaign. and il was not long before
every paper in the country had CleVe-
land in the soup"
Three small boys were arrested the
other day for larceny from school
house and LycurguS \. Dunn. the new
second assistant city attorney, who is
prosecuting attorney at the municipal
court. says he thinks they ought TO be
sent to states prison for lie and he
shall take great delight in prosecuting
them. "ThOse boys" said he. ARE
charged with the heinOus otfenSe Of
breaking into a school house, and l
THINK tneN DESERVE SEVERE puulSuulcul.
The idea OF breaking into with the
accent on the 'into) such place as
that They are too ambitious for boys
of that age. Now. if they had have
broken out could forgive them without
getting cent for it,
Politeness Is one of the distinguishing
marks. though not the only one, of the
DersOuafitv of ". Il. Hicks, the Frank
lin avenue chestnut" Hicks has a
telephone. and calls doctors. hires seTV-
ants. makes contracts. orders groceries,
hay. wood. coal. -four and feed for his
neighbOrS over il. and never makes any
kick about the trouble. The other day
q countryman who had a wagon load Of
watermelODs went into the store and
said:
Got a telephone?"
Yes"
kin We talk through it?'
tS0metimes-"
.WeU. will We ask the market what
the price Of milvuns is to-day? If kin
do as well. and I'm a-gOing 20 sell down
we're std of going up town."
Hicks did as he was requested, and
gave the farmer the ruling price in
'MilYuns," whereup0n the eOuntryman
pulled out his pOcketboOk and asked:
How much IS that there talk?'
'-Oh," said Hicks, suaYely, I'VE never
make any charge for such services"
We'll l vum," said the agriculturist,
eff We can't get g0l darned cheap talk in
this store"
Hicks friends, who understand his