St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-26
SAINT PAUL.
Additional CITY News en- Page 6.
WALKS AND TALKS.

CITY from chicago yesterday II - VI
the most elaborate description and cost
s.. 500. A portion OF it was placed IN
the room in the afternoon, which in
rInded an elegant gold-lined silver
water service. FhepItcher and gOblets
are inscribed Mayors Office, and the
whole is exquisitely carved and chased
with ingenious designs. On the top Is
a Polar bear with fish in its mouth.
which'is supposed TO represent an alder
man fishing after votes. All around are
heads of dogs. supposed to eNemplitY
the watchdog of the treasury and
wise-loOKing owl stands out in bold re-
lief representing Wisdom. Alto
gether. ii is very handsome affair." ana
it is probable that il may contain some
thing besides water before 1t retlreS
from duty.
Some of the best shots in the city can
he found i'm the city hall, and most OF
them have INDUCED i'm considerable
pracrlce, too. this season. Among those
who would he eligible for positions as
exnert markSmen in time of war are
Custodian Berthiaume and Chief En-
rinepr Montgomery. These two Shoul-
dered their guns and bags the other day
and repaiFed to the shores of the Min
neSota river TO slaughter ducks. Inc
@nstodian managed 10 kill about fifty,
hlIt Iuck was against the engineer, and
he never secured even Il mud hen. In
fact. he hit nothing save the side OF an
Did barn that stood buried several nun
bred wards in the underwood. Mont
gomerv felt chagrined. and. With the
ehaff he received at the hands or the
more successful custodian, he was notlh
n very pieasant mood when he reached
.Gsx~ raiTsnf "a
commissioners Boyd among them
were making tour of the court
house. when they espied q decrepIt old
tame hen rOoSIing On a rock nursing a
sore leg. Here was 4 chance, they ar
pued. for the engineer TO retrieve bis
renutation as crack shot. The cuSto-
dian was sent for and dispatched to find
Montgomery.
"Uere is a chance to get a fine shot.
Mont" said he. Quick, get the gun!'
"What is it?' asked Montgomery,
breathleSsly.
''Oh. YOU will SOON find out" was the
reply, and Montgomery rushed and
took his gun down from the rack and
hurried out to the back Of the building
Get out of by way" he yelled ex-
citedlv. ''ShOw me the game. l want
to puIyerize it. and demonstrate that L
am the best shot this side OF the At
lantic."
Tbe commissioners pointed to the old
hen. which had not stirred an inch, but
sat there blinking and w!Hking, and
looking as fOTlOTn as a man with the
ague. When Montgomery saw the
game he nearly tainted, but said moth
ing. He turned and went into the
building again with a sad and wlstful
expression on his face, and hasn't been
seen since.
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The Dispatch. thinking that it knows
it all, stated last evening that Mr.. BOor-
fried, who has invented. or, rather, dis
covered, liquid which will dissolve all
kinds of StOne-the facts of which were
all chronieIed in the GLOBES behind
the times, as .Messrs. Ransome, Sims
and Head, of Ipswich, England. had
patented a similar dissolution process
Ten years ago. No such thing, and the
Dispatch is away off. The two processes
are as different and unlike each other
as the, ocean and the earth. The proc
ess patented in England was simply
that of glazing brick and stone, while
that of Mr.. BOOrfried is that of diss0lv-
ing the stone itself and transforming it
into beautiful transparent compost
ton, more durable than granite and
harder than flint. Now, isn't there
some difference?
w. Anderson and A. Slime, two we'll
known business men and politicians of
Dane county, wisconsin, were in the
city Yesterday, en- route for the West.
Nr. Anderson stated that the prospects
were bright for good times this winter
i'm Wisconsin. The farmers had all had
good crops, especially in tobacco, and
prices fer the same were higher than
they had been for years. POLITICALLY
everything is quiet" continued he,
land things are moving along Ill the
even tenor of their way"
There is a man in st. Paul who boasts
that he has not taken a bath for sever
years, and denOunees with a good deal
of vigor the practice OF bathing Sc
necessary to the comfort of the average
American citizen as that of eating.
This queerly-constructedi individual is q
hackman. and. to do him justice, par
ticularlv Clearly aad extremely healthy
hickman to all appearances. Instead
of bathing. which he believes to be
harmful. he rubs himself once a week
with a Turkish towel, thus opening The
pores of the skin, but he says
that no water has touched any portion
of his body but his face and hands since
he left the paternal roof, under which hi
was compelled by his father to bathe
every week, willy nilly. Certainly, the
man looks healthy enough. and doe:
not seem to be any the worse for his alb
stinence from following the custom ne
abhOrs, though the substitution of dry
rub for an old fashioned and refreshing
tub can hardly be recommended.
William p. Murray denies that he at
tributed the result Of the election o
Secretary White. of the education
board, to Mayor Smith, and adds: ''Th'
statement that Mayor Smith was re
spOnsible came from Mr.. Haas and no
from me, The morning papers got tn
statement wrong" Now, MIR. Murra!
should weigh his words little NOR
carefully. The statement which h
says the morning papers got wrong
was written by-well, by the infalGbl
William Pitt Murray.