St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-14
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.
st. Paul Stock What a long, disma

| OF money galore was organized to put
the stock to so. and so Sanguine were
they that they told all their friends
| quite ON the quiet this meaneth soto
voce point over the tape or the bottle,
as the case may beg to get in and be
quick about it. The price was then u,
and many gudgeons swallowed the bait
It's the old story of the manipulation
OF Armour, Ream. Plankington and
Falrborn with host of their gambling
following. The props were taken out,
! and these traitOrous bulls literally
knocked the ''stuffin" out of the stock.
| in days march you would scarcely
encounter so many rabid bears as there
| are in st. Paul, many hopeful of wear
ing the traditional diamonds on their
shirt fronts. It's strange, but it's true,
even some paSty reSembla nee is now
and then worn to signify the winner.
II Dame RumOr is credible the Onus
OF the recent bear movement which has
made so many once fat margins look
spectral is laid Oh the managers of the
granger roads. Cable Hughitt, Miller
Forbes and Strong gave the tip to
their friends to short 'em, and then
kicked that high kicker Alton right out
OF the gentlemen'S agreement. At first
it looked as if the scheme would not
work, for the market was stubborn and
often played mulish tricks. Butt by and
by long stocks began to dribble out,
prices began to peter out, selling got to
be all the go, and down they went. l
am told that the Chicago clique of stock
gamblers in st. Paul hold these manni-
kin railroad managers, a 'twere in the
hollow of their hands. All the great
bankers who make up the big syndl-
cate, like Kidder Peabody, Drex, Nor
gan, etc, are powerless when pitted
against Chicago trickery, for this would
put to blush the very devil himself.
Heavy Tax 1t is roughly esti-
mated by the state
Dodgers. officials that S4.OO0, 900
belonging to residents
of Connecticut wholly escapes the as
SCISSORS of taxes. 1t represents thd saw
ings of prudent people, who invest their
funds in such ways that it is impossible
to follow them for purposes of taxation.
The last grand list of the state shows
only about S11 100000 of bonds, notes
and money at interest returned for tax
| alton in all the towns of the state. The
other millions are concealed by invest
ments IN bonds, ETC., and very largely
i'll the mortgage securities OF investment
companies engaged in loaning money
on Western farm lands. These securi-
ties are almost universally concealed,
because generally for small amounts
and taken by frugal people of small
means, who are tempted by the high
rate of interest, and find the den omina-
tions of the bonds small enough to be
quite within their means.
Connecticut has been trying for years
to reach the tax dodgers. A special
tax commission, a few years ago, gave
up the problem in despair, and finally
recommended to the legislature that
all bonds. notes. and other intangible
property be exempted from taxation.
The theory was that it would be better
for the state to abandon the attempt to
tax this kind of property than to con-
tlnue it to the disadvantage of the COM
paratively few who were honest enough
to come forward and pay their taxes.
But the legislature could not be in
duced to accept this somewhat Quixotic
view of things.
Listen to This Francis Wilson and
| Marie Jansen respond
Tale Of Woe. to something like nine
or ten encoreS every
evening in singing their version of
Listen to This Tale of Vice." says the
| New York World. These encores take
the shape OF repetitions for the most
part of the last verse, which describes
how, under the grass where the daisies
grew, they planted John and his sister
| Sue, and their little souls to the angels
| flew. Adieu. Wilson makes quite a hit
| by interfering casual remarks about
"the same angels, of course" and this
| never fails to touch the disabilities of the
audience. The first time Wilson did it
| Marie Jansen was all broken up, and
the audience laughed all the louder
when they noticed the merriment of the
| actress. In fact, the commedian found
that the audience did a good deal of
laughing because Jansen laughed, and
| naturally he told her to keep it up. and
she has kept it up ever since, with the
| result of giving Mr.. Wilson's gags an
apparently impromptu character that
| couldn't be given to them in any other
way, and now everybody who hears the
| intersections about ''the same daisies"
| and ''the same angels" and hears Miss
Jansen laugh as though she had never
heard them before, travels around and
| tells an interesting story about the new
| gags Mr.. Wilson stumbled into the
! other evening, and how they were OBJ
viously unprecedented.
A Clever Wall A Wall street man
| gave the other day
Street Deal. brief account of
| typical Wall street
| deal. A railroad man came into his
| office and wanted to know whether he
| would form pool in the stock of rail-
road which has been kicking around
| Wall street for several years and fuc-
tuating in price from ID to 40. The man
who made the proposition said that S.
100000 of the stock was in very strong
hands, and there would only be about
| $4,000, 600 to manipulate, the entire CAPT.
tai stock being less than $4,000, 900.
| The operator who was approached said
that if the owners of the S.
100000 of stock would lock it up
| and give him the key and then would
go into the pool he would undertake the
formation of it. They didn't want to
| form the pool on this basis, however.
| What they wanted to do was to get
| somebody to buy in to the S4.000,00O and
put the the price so that they might un-
! load a part of their 5000, 900 The
idea, therefore, that this $4,000, 900
should be locked up was not acceptable,
and the proposition for pool was not
| pressed.
Later on the operator who had been
! approached offered to take 100000 of
| the bonds of the same railroad and pay
| so for them. Those who held the bonds,
| however, wanted higher price, and,
| thinking that the operator wanted them
| very badly, put the price up to 50 and
So. whereupon the operator unloaded
$500, 900 of bonds which he had Oh hand
and Immediately went short. Then the
| price dropped about Is points, and he
covered his contracts at very big
profit.
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How to Coax An elderly man was
telling a group of
the Boys On. gIddy young girls the
other day how he pro-
posed to his wife when he was young
man. She was sewing at the time, he
said, or he never would have had the
courage to do it. If girls would sew
more he thinks they wonld have more
matrimonial chances. Sewing he con-
siders the best accomplishment that
woman can have. A woman engaged
with needle has domestic, homelike
air that is Irresistible to the man that