St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-18
PHASES OF LIFE.

They were respondent in full dress,
and there was an odOr of cloves sur
rounding them that made the sporting
editor hastily close the drawer in his
desk. which contained a brand new bot
tie of first shot" which one of his adj
mirers had sent in with guarantee
that would knock the Stuffin' out of
rheumatism in one round" They
stopped in front of the man who writes
obituary notices and inquired if he was
the college man."
Verify, Bshould say not" was the re-
ply, while his hand quietly slid towards
The base ball bat he keeps on hand to con-
vince the people who write poetry about
the Tribune fire, gentle spring. the
beautiful snow, the failure OF the Della
ware peach crop, ard other celebrating
topics, that the paper was not paying
top prices now for their mastery eff
forts. The university man is big
fellov-Weighs over 200. Quite an ath-
lete. too. He's up in the fire house
PLAYING with the 100-pOund dumb bell.
Better see him. He's great at argu-
ment I only write death notices. Per-
haps I may be able to do something for
you after you meet HIM..
''Well, YOU see we want college man.
you know he would be the only one
who would understand the Importance
OF the OccaSiOn-tO come to the annual
meeting and banquet of the alumni of
the - college which is to be held to-
night. Now. don't send anybody else,
please. Their presence may not be
agreeable to some of the gentlemen"
SIS that all?'' inquired the obituary
man, while the sporting editor started
in resigned way to roll up his sleeves,
and the Office boy went out to get a
stick of eOrdwood, which might come in
handy in case of fight.
Come, Clarence, we must hurry and
see the other papers" exclaimed his
mothers pet, as he put fresh Glove in
his mouth and started for the door.
Before the pencil showers could re-
cover from their establishment as the
colossal nerve displayed by such youth
ful leaders Of fashion, the dress coats
and cloves had gone.
Ibid you ever?" inquired the obituary
man,
Damned If did," replied the sport
Ing editor. as he produced the bottle Of
the first shot, liberal application of
which enabled both men to continue
their work.
There was big rushin the Office that
night and the city editor sent Tom, the
office boy, to the hotel where the ban
quet was to be held. Tom knew the
clerk, and the clerk wrote on card:
eMr. Thomas Nee. r. Seldom, repre-
senting the GLOBE" and sent one of the
bell boys to the supper room with it.
"Mr. Thomas Nc. r. Seldom" was, of
course, invited to ''come up'' by one of
the dress coats which only short time
before had waited into the editorial
rooms. Toms appearance created con-
siderable surprise, but when he boldly
marched up to the one he had seen i'll
the office and exclaimed:
''De city editor sent me up yere to get
bill of fare; see? He's in hurry
see?'' There was CONSERVATION at that
table. Tom succeeded in getting copy
of the menu from one of the walters,
and the next morning the following i'm
portant item was duly chronicled:
1.-The third annual banquet of the -
alumni association was held at the West
hotel last night. Nine members were
present, and, according to their own ac-
counts. they had royal good time.