St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-03

M fH.T@- Myoung man of an
* NNsi umbrella member on
X GN5 Fourth avenue south,
EW1 the other day. Il
" VAIN don't like the looks
wv of this. It's clumsy
H and don't fit my
hand" ''Certainly,"
Excsse ne sir trades trad s''o %Pck " one one
NoGJe mode q out of those hanging
'.+x. This Oh the wall, and I'll
my ce'>e' n.y. trade with you"
tNt Nuns. The young fellow
finally picked out an oxidized
silver handle, and asked, How much
to boot?" "Oh, Is cents,' was the re-
ply, Gail at supper time and III hive
it ready for you After the customer
had gone the dealer remarked, "I'll O.
that dude stole this umbrella, and 1
wish | knew who it's owner is. There's
lots of 'em that come here with
hantl,s they want changed. You see
they watch their chance to steal good
silk umbrella and then they have the
handle changed so its owner won't re-
cognize it. They say it isn't stealing to
take an umbrella. but | think it's the
umbrella rage is responsible for il all.
These seven-up dudes must have a
flashy umbrella to carry. as they can't
afford to buy 'em they steal 'em."
The clerks in the Minneapolis post
Office object to the new law which
makes the salaries of new and mex
perienced men the same as those of old
and SkillfuI men, and gives the foreman
the same pay as the clerks under
him. The objection is we'll taken.
but the clerks should know that this is
the very plan OH which all
the government departments at
Washington are run. Take the
Ing salaries all the way from S1,200 to
$1,000 will be found doing the same
class OF work. and it is quite often the
case, if not the rule, that the clerk with
the lowest salary is the most competent.
He is depending upon the quality of
his work to hold up his place for him,
while the high Salaried man depends
upon political influence. which, under
this administration, is the safer support.
Il
The big court room at the court house
is undergoing a thorough cleaning at
the hands Of Mike and Otto, the guardi-
ans Of cleanliness in the dusty Old
building. The paper of the wall is
black and grimy and the boys are wash
ing it clean. The change they are max
ing is quite marvellous, and the dirt on
the unWaShcd paper shows very conSpic-
uously by the side of cleaned portions.
Every one going in or out of the court
house notices the operation. Most of
the observers speculate on how the
walls could have become so dusty. A
young man, who knows as well as any
one what has gone on in that court
room during the past year, gave the
most satisfactory explanation when he
Soberly announced yesterday that it was
the great number Of dirty divorce cases
that had stained the walls.
i
Ball players have a national reputa-
ton for being superstitious. and their
almost universal belief in "hoodoos"
and ''maScOtS' we'll SuStains the reputa-
ton everywhere, but it remained for a
Minneapolis player to 90 to the extreme
in the matter. When, after winning
eleven games out of thirteen, the Mill
ers dropped two to Omaha and
like humber to Sioux City,
ii was evident to the ply
ers that something was wrong.
Some of them attended dance at the
lake and there met a young lady who,
after receiving his attentions for some
time, had given him 1.-The cold shake"
DE asked her for dance, but she re-
marked that her card was full. The
balltosSer humbly replied that if she
couldn't give her a dance he would like
to; talk to her after the next num-
Der. She acquiesced, and when