St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-28
THE BANQUET.
Large Doses of Good Things Taken
3. nv the PHYSICIANS.

by the Physicians.
The physicians had done little in the
afternoon-tha is, they had done but
little work. The greater number Of
them went to Minneapolis, where they
were driven about the city by the loca
doctors, and shown the principal point:
of interest. They returned to the hote
at $50 and prepared themselves fol
the banquet. 1t was very enjoyable
banquet, and 425 people ate the good
things that had been prepared. The
tables were arranged in long rows. and
besides the customary "gOod cheer
were laden with tropical flowers. There
wasn't any head nor any foot to the
table. Dr. Bowling, the toast mas.
ter, sat about half way up the
north side. About him were
DR.. Talbot, DR.. TalcOt, DR.. Kinne, DR..
Smith, DR.. Sawyer, Rev. DR.. Tuttle, w.
M. Bushnell, of st. Paul; Sol Smith
Russell, and others of note. 1t was ex.
pected that the menu would be finished
by 8 O'Clock, but it was after 9 when
Dr.: Bowling raped on the table and
intimated that the feast 0f-etc., was
about to commence. But before he did
this song was sung. it was written
by DR.. T. p. Roberts, Of Detroit, and
copies were distributed among the
guests. This is one of the verses of that
song:
Let towards shrink, and traitors flee;
Similia! Similial
Let Envy curl her lips with scorn
Si-mil-ia!
On Every land and every sea,
Similia Slmilia!
Similia brings the light Of morn,
Si-mil-iai
Before the POSTMASTER could get In
his s.prOfane work" as DR.. Talbot called
it, that gentleman thought fit to intro
duce the postmaster, who would con-
duct season of '.hysterical hilarity."
He said that DR.. Bowling was
funny. When he arose every
one would laugh-and they did.
DR.. Bowling made happy opening and
his heavy rhetorical heaviness of his
voice" was funny contrast to the
lightness of his utterances. He told
how the custom of after dinner speeches
had been dropped, that was, that they
had come West, the doctors could use
their old speeches. Still they wouldn't
let him speak. In order to cut him off
he had been made POSTMASTER. DR..
Bowling kept his auditors in room
and managed to get even with DR.. TAI
colt.
When he took up the regular toasts,
DR.. Bowling commenced "Our Hosts
st. Paul and Minnesota" And then
they roared. ''Oh. that's all right" an
'nounced DR.. Bowling, composedly, I
learned long ago that Minneapolis
claimed the whole state. Then DIR.
Bowling went OH to say that the fnsti-
tute never visited more charming spot
or had been more royalty entertained.
Gen. Bishop responded for the St.
Paul end of the toast. He said although
St. Paul had more physicians than there
were janitOrs in the new court house,
yet the death rate was the smallest of
any city In the world, which went to
show that the doctors did not confine
themselves to practice. They believed
in live and let live. Gen. Bishop con-
cluded with statistics of st. Paul and
her wooing in Minneapolis. Mayor
Babb responded to the Minneapolis end
of the toast. w. NJ. Bushnell. president
of the Minnesota Agricultural society,
responded to the toast, ''Minne-
sofa" President Nortnrop was not
present to respond to the
toast Education in the West" SO
William Henry Eustis responded, and it
was an eloquent effort. The next toast
was the feature of the evening. DIR.
Bowling Introduce the speaker as one
who was known to every one on the
contineDt-SOl Smith Russell. He
spoke the name after a little
intermission between the names
that was very funny. Mr..
Russell rose with that preternaturally
solemn expression, and announced That
he had addressed everything from a
fish fry to the old school physicians.
Then he started in with running fire
of satire, wit and anecdote that kept
the auditors in a roar. DR.. Tai
colt made a bright response to
"The American Institute of Home
Opathy." DR.. d. Lerdlem, of
Chicago, talked about '.Our Western