St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-17
SAINT PAUL.
THE TOWN CRIER.

s'There is little difference in the re-
ceiptS of the jewelry business from one
month to another" said w. 3. Smith
yesterday afternoon, as he showed tray
of diamonds closer to number of
Geneva watches. "December furnishes
a notable exception to this rule, for the
holiday season causes the jeWelry stores
to be filed from morning until night,
and the clerks have little time for re-
Election while the rush lasts. Many
people fancy, however, that trade is
very duh for month or two after the
first of the year, and the popular opln-
ion is that we might as well put up our
shutters until the financial calm has
spent itself. A glance at the books,
however, would speedily show the fal-
lacy of this idea"
Deputy Auditor Harroun is not dis
posed to credit statements concerning
that phase Of the senatorial fight which
involves turning over certain number
of votes from one candidate to another.
"a man can control his own vote, and
possibly those of few trusted friends,
said he: ''but when, calculations are
based upon assurances from this man
and that. to the effect that the solid
strength of a rival candidate will be
thrown to you at a certain opportunity,
make up your mind that some one is
Iaboring under delusiOn. Votes can
not be banded about like pound of
sugar or ton of hay, but if one candi-
date secures a certain following by
promising certain things, another may
emulate him more or less successfully
by a supplementary search after the
al 90; F,I nd
converts"
B. S. White. Grand Rapids, Mich,
father-in-aw of Fred Norris, was in the
city for few hours yesterday, ell route
to Duluth, in the vicinity of which city
he is the owner of large tract of pine
lands. ''This open winter will prove
disadvantageous to the loggerS," said
Mr.. White, ''for they cannot haul more
than 500 feet of timber on wheels. Ii
the weather will permit the use of rum
ners, the number of feet of logs which
can be loaded on wagon are limited
only by the capacity of the conveyance.
About 5000 feet of lumber can be easily
put on the Sleds, and so if we have no
snow lumber interests will suffer. The
price of pine lands, of course, increases
with such condition of affairs, for if
lumber exhibits an upward tendency, in
consequence of dtarth in the market,
the standing timber is the recipient of
the upward tendency in prices"
The lobby of the Merchants was alb
solutely damned yesterday afternoon
with politicians interested in the SEN
atoriaI fight. and yet John Dodge was
disposed to claim that he had seen much
larger crowds in the history of the
house, when politics had for the nonce
obtained precedence over all other mum
dane affairs. II have seen this lobby
so crowded." he remarked, "that it was
necessary to use the street for passage
way in case a guest wished to go from
the Third street to the Jackson street
door. They were packed in like sar
dimes, and the collective mum of voices
sounded like the cataract Of Niagara,
while the smoke which was thrown off
by the countless cigars reminded me of
an active volcano" In spite OF this adj
verse comment on the collective merit
of the crowd, everybody interested in
politics was in the rotunda yesterday,
and even DR.. Day came out of his re-
tirement for a while and mingled en-
Enthusiastically with his fellows, eX-
changing the latest senatorial gossip
with the most active politicians in the
corridors.
Louis Memo, late secretary of the
Fourth district Republican congress
sional committee. is being talked of as
the next commissioner of labor StatiS-
tics. In addition to his political ability,
Mr.. Memo is thorough scholar, col
lege graduate and posseSsesa knowledge
of Latin and Greek, which would en-
able him to readily solve many of the
labor riddles which are couched in for
eign languages. A thorough linguist
and speaking English, French, German,
Russian, Bohemian, Jewish and Hun
garian with fluency, many of the most
influential men of the city favor his
candidacy.
The signature of Henry George upon
the register at the. Ryan refuteS theo-
ries of persons who claim to delineate
character by handwriting. If one of
these experts should encounter the sig
nature of the champion of the one-taX
idea and knew nothing of his attain
ments, he would pronounce it to be that
of a weak, vacillating disposition, be-
sides being man on whom it was i'm
possible to produce permanent i'm
preston Oh any subject. The individ-
ual letters which are component parts
of a symmetrical whole. seem to have
been made by separate dashes of the
pen, and by the thin shading it would
seem that no depth of character could
be expected of the writer.