St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
SAINT PAUL.
HOTEL HOMELESS.

HOTEL HOMlLIES.
The Clarendon hotel lobby was yes
terday the scene of somewhat anus
Ing colloquy between one of the guests
of the house and a hackman who had
hauled the new arrival from the depot.
Bv curious coincidence both the guest
and the iehu were afflicted with hare
lips, and though all outward appearance
of the defect in the former was hidden
beneath dropping mustache, there re-
manned to tell the tale the peculiar
nasal accent and inability to pronounce
q, orr, always accompanying the thus
afflicted. The driver asked where he
should carry the trunk he had on the
box. The guest glanced at him for
moment, and replied in the same queer
style as that of his questioner. The
hickman thought he was being made
sport of, and dropped the trunk TO the
sidewalk with a crash. This aroused
the ire of his late fare, who SW0re as
vigorously as his defective palate would
allow. while the hackman Swore equally
forciby in return. The TWO worthless
were rapidly getting to the stage at
which blows would have been in order,
when the arrival of policeman put an
end to the scence. and the cabman drove
off, while the guest entered the house,
saving he'd be ''hamned if he ever rode
In hanhum hab ahen."
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William B. Heard, who came in from
Montana Yesterday and was at the
Windsor during the afternoon and
evening, is an amateur photographer or
no mean skill. While on his way
through Montana. which he trayerSed
with several friends by wagon. Mr..
Heard took snap Judgment with his
ever-ready camera upon every charm
ing bit of scenery upon which his eve
CHANGED to light. The result is col
lection of wonderfully beautiful views,
which were exhibited to dozens of ad-
miring st. Paul people i'll the hotel
lobby Yesterday. Mr. Heard is en- route
to his home in Terra Haute, Ind, and
also has with him the horns and pelts
of numerous animals shot by the party
I'm their travels, and large collection
of ore-bearing rock gathered in the
Black Hills. The gentleman from In
diana is confident of the existence OF
gold in tremendous quantities in the
Hills, and says that as to tin there is no
limit.
A tall, slightly built young man, clad
as is the tourist, sat smoking i'll the
RYAN rotunda yesterday afternoon. His
from Hull, England, and is making
tour of the world prior to becoming a
partner in his fathers mercantile house
at Yokohama.
"Dooced queeah country this, don't
you know" said Mr.. HenslOw to a
GLOBE reporter, as he ignited green
cigar. which article he characterized as
one of the denominations of the republic.
"My valet is utterly useless" contin-
ued the scion of an ancient house, as he
looked anXiously round for the worthy
mathematical 'When engaged him in
Hull, he said he was familiar with rail-
road methods, etc, in the States, onto
the country as he expressed it. Well,
the first evidence he gave Of his knoWl-
edge was shipping my baggage through
from New York to San Francisco, say
ing we could get it set off where we
liked to stop. Now that baggage went
straight through like shot, and is now
in San Francisco, and have had to buy
innumerable shirts, necktieS and f1imsy
garments of all sorts ever since. Phi
make away with that valet when | get
to the coast, and engage Chinaman.
Fine town this; I'm surprised at It's ap-
pearance."
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Thomas G. Hough, of Perry. Idaho,
was the center of an admiring circle at
the Merchants hotel yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Hough has just arrived from
the territory, and brought one of his
home pets along with him, an Idaho
rabbit, which he said. as he exhibited
the queer little animal to a number of
gentlemen. was one of millions upon
millions which swarm in the territory,
and are beginning to cause the farmers
there as much anxiety as are their
relatives, the cOttontailS, to the farm
ers of Australia. ''The popularity of
the Idaho rabbit" said Mr.. Hough, sis
his long tail. Now, all the rabbits l
ever saw before l went out there,
only little stub tails, and 1 was
firmly impressed with the idea that
that was all the tail allowed the rabbit
genus. Now you see the tail on this
fellow" pulling, as he spoke, tail as
long as that of an ordinary house cat
out to its full length. "Well, every
rabbit in the territory has tail as long
as that, and bushy. This one is tame,
and good deal of the fur has fallen off
its tail. They are pretty little crea-
lures, but a terrible pest. Rabbit
there every little while. They form a
big circle. drive the rabbits to the cen
ter, and kill them with clubs. PVe seen
millions killed that way"
Mr.. Hough left for Chicago last even
Ing, taking his queer pet, which is in
tended for a friend in that city, with
him.
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At the union depot, yesterday morn
ing, there stood in line awaiting the ar
rival of a train for the South half a
dozen of the worst, most cOnSumptive-
looking specimens of the Indian race
who ever went through the gyratiOns
of a war dance, or drew longface at a
pOw-woW. They are from the Winnie
bago reservation in Nebraska, and are
returning there in charge of Col. Ed
Kemp, of Chicago, after having played a
three months engagement as dime
museum stars in that city. Speaking
about his measly-looking charges, the
colonel said they had kept him in a
perpetual ferment all the way from
Chicago, as they insisted on riding on
the platforms of the cars instead of in
side. They did not want to return to
the reservation, and he is responsible
for getting them there. He counted
heads every five minutes all the way
out, to make sure that none had got
away.
W.B. Ordway, of Lexington, KY,
was among the guests at the Merchants
yesterday, being in st. Paul for the first
time Regarding his impressions of St.
Paul and Minnesota generally, so far as
he had seen them, the portly and some
what choleric Kentuckian said that he
liked the country immensely, and
thought st. Paul a fine town, but won-
dered that there were so many mig
gers'' here. why" said he, 81 took a
walk this morning up one of your prin-
cipal streets, and counted no less than
thirty regular old plantation coons, by
the looks of them, in a twenty minutes
walk" Being informed, in reply to a
query, that the mayor of the city was a
white man, and that none of the alder
men were colored, Mr.: Ordway ex-
pressed surprise, and said that from the
way "niggers'' dressed up here he
4bouph+ thay ran the town