St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-22

convinced that he was not killed out
light, which confirmed the playful Nat
in the belief that The didn't know he
was alive, anyhow"
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The Irish Standard comes CALAMITY to
the rescue of Reddy Hanrahan. the ball
PLAYER, and says he has been abused by
newspapers while doing the most bril-
liant work of any shortStOp in the West
ern association" As it is currently re-
ported that the editor of the Standard
doesn't know where second base is To-
Gated in a game of ball, this praise is
not of much value. but at the same time
it is interesting to see the nationality
question transferred from the police
force to base ball.
Il
Sammie Morton goes about his work
now singing:
Third place is good enough for US;
We care not style to fling,
And now that we have got it fast,
Well tie it with string.
i
The Journals budding dramatic ge-
MUS, in speaking of the production OF
"OthellO'' by the Keene company, men
tons in terms of the warmest praise
George LearOck's appearance IN the
part of Sage, one of the characters OF
the play, whom the critic is evidently
convinced had regular pudding with
0thello.
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Harold Hartseli, the dialect comedian
with the Dot company at the Bijou, was
a member of the Harrigan IL Hart COM
pany that was rotten-egged at the old
.F
ago. The play was "Squatter SOver-
eignty.' and the Irish did not take
kindly to what they considered an in
sulting burlesque on their nationality.
land l have never liked eggs since"
said Mr.. HarStCdl. refectively, yester-
day as he recalled the incident.
First Ex-postofice Employe-Selover
didn't make much OF showing against
Ankeny. did he?'
Second Ex-postofice e loye-Naw.
He's a chump.
"If l wanted to make trouble. think
1 could bring some charges that would
stick
80 do p
There's those two girls that worked
a whole year without being examined
at alp
Yes, and theIe's"-
"Never mind, know what you
mean"
But l amt sayin' word, am I?''
'DO you notice that l am preserving
discreet silence?''
What did they mean?
Would it be much of "coup d. etat"
for the new morning paper to hire the
I.s-4e rEn " Tlnfa
Minneapolis end of the Pioneer Press,
or wasn't it a "coup de grace" that the
Journal means?
The report that number of Mime
apOliS statesmen had been invited to
take part in the campaign i'll North Da-
kOta turns out to have been only half
true. Certain of Minneapolis trained
hackers of tue tariff have agreed to go
to Dakota and talk against time, but it
is understood they will 90 not so much
in the interest of the whole ticket as to
work up sympathy for candidate for
United States senator. Prominent
among these distinguished individuals
who have been called to the front, or,
rather. to the frontier. is Hon. Eugene
Hay, whose success as a manipulation Of
the WaShburn force last winter in the
legislature all but gave him a sinch on
the United States district attOrueyship.
But, IN the words of the hymn-WTiter
Almost cannot avail;
Almost is but fail.
And Hon. Eugene does not propose to
fail. If he does perchance slip up on
the district attOrneyship he will have
two advocates in the senate for the next
best thing in sight. 1t is thought Brig.
Gen. Huffeutt goes to Dakota with Hon.
Eugene to represent the military army
of the service. unless the adJutant gen
eral refuses him permission TO leave the
state.
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Col. Chawlev johnson Is home from
Washington. and has rushed forward to
square himself for his remarks about
Judge Rea in connection with the pen
sion commissionership. He does not
this time. as he did when the roast on
Tim Byrnes came out. say it was Joke.
but he says it was "a critical situation"
He did not oppose Judge Rea, but he
favored Mr.. Warner. and acting in his
capacity. not of clerk of the senate, but
as an old soldier, he Shouldered a mus
ket. metaphoricallY speaking, and went
up to the White house to knock Judge
Rea out of the Job. Since the colonel
began to cut out an Independent politi-
cal career for himself he has been un-
fortunate in his utterances several
times. and the situation seems to grow
more critical the more independent he
endeaYOTS TO be.
R. L. Penny. the popular young at
torney, made the best speech of the
evening at the PickWick club reception
to Thomas W. Keene, but how near he
come to not making it is known to only
a few. After revolving the subject in
his mind, he had fully decided that
he could not make a speech that would
convince the party, so he decided to
funk He arranged TO have note sent
up stairs calling him away at the time
speeches began, and this scheme
worked to charm. One of the walters
brought him the note. He went down.
He felt so good that he handed the
eolortd lad quarter for the service.
a few minutes later he missed a ten
dollar gold piece from his pocket, and
strange to say, the cOlOred boy had dis
! appeared also. Mr.. Penny was so dis
gusted that he went back to the dining
room and made witty and eloquent
speech through sheer spite.
II
c. P. Braslan intends to send Mr..
Keene a sample package of hoopen-
heimer beans to plant on his Long ISL
and farm. Mr.. Keene has had very lit
tie success with the hOopenheiDers, and
asserted IN Braslan's presence that the
Iimpenbools were superior. Braslan
took up the gloves for the defense OF