St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-21


THE ice crop had few good growing
days the past week, and will no doubt
mature sufficiently yet for the needs of
the coming. summer.
THE Iowa editors have taken in Mex
lea, and now the Illinois craft want to
go there next month and find occasion
to abhor bull fights and pulque.
GRAY spent seven years in compos-
ing that elegy that will outlive monu-
ments of stone. Young poets will do
well to adopt his chronology.
TUE latest device in the nickel-in-the-
slot business is where you get two post
age stamps for 5 cents. The odd cent
makes a liberal commission.
UNITED States paper money passes
more readily in Canada than much of
the Canadian currency. In most all
civilized countries people like it.
AFTER casting their vote the Ohio
electors took straight line for Indian
apolis, and filed over 800 applications
for Office. Perhaps they had better
taken in indianapolis first.
MoULToN, the mutual FRIEND" once
spoke of Plymouth church as q club
house with predominating female
membership" Are there any churches
in which the men are a majority?
THE fact that INGALLS, talks about
the snub given him at the presidential
dinner party shows that any attempt at
Indifference is a pretense. The popu-
lar view Is that he was rightly treated
SOME eloquent friend of sauer kraut
lately urged before senate committee
that it be given protection. 1t was i'll
timated that tie German vote was be-
hind it. Still it is not taken from the
free list.
WHEN SPRINGER means business he
is said to wear Il fresh buttonhOle bou-
quet each morning. The decoration
was on duty the past week, and the ON
nibus went through with almost phe-
n0menal integrity.
IT Is denied that Mrs. BLAINE
snubbed Mrs. HARRISON in Washing
ton some years ago. If she had, how
could she know that HARRISON would
ever be president and want cabinet
minister from Maine?
An ONO paper says that reports of
White Cap outrages in that state are as
numerous as ever, and will only be eff
fectualy suppressed by the substitution
of the black cap. 1t doesn't seem to be
aware that Gov. FORAKER has eXtermi-
mated them.
IT Is stated that 100000 barrels of
apples have been shipped from this
country to Europe the past season, and
even at Glasgow they sell for less than
they can be had for in ST. Paul. The
water transit makes the difference, as
there is too little fruit grown in the
Northwest.
THE merchants of st. Louis are try
ing to build second bridge over the
Mississippi in order not to have to pay
tribute to JAY GOULD, who owns the
old one. 1t is difficult to bridge the
river there and costs several million
dollars, but they are very tired OF the
GOULD monopoly.
A BROTHER of Senator INGALLS, was
recently elected a justice of the peace
by the Democrats in Arkansas, and no
howls about the Southern outrage have
been heard. Some are unkind enough
to remember when even the vitupera-
tive senator himself was claSSed with
Democrats and wanted their votes.
ACCORDING to the most recent Bos-
ton papers at hand, JOHN l.. SULLIVAN,
the pride of Boston culture and champ
ion pugilist of the world, was lying
dead drunk in room over BILLY MA
HoNEY's saloon. He had promised his
hackers not to drink. as his appetite is
good deal stronger than his will or
muscle.
A WOMAN was recently sentenced in
Pennsylvania to he hung March "a. She
made pitiful exhibition over the SEN
tence, and will be likely TO secure a
change tn life Imprisonment, simply on
account of her sex. All the mawkiSh
sentimentality of tie state will besiege