St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25

Finds he might as well be dead.
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The following letter from John N.
Cannon, who is in advance for Tom
Eck's Beauty Show on Wheels, was re-
celved last week:
LIVERPOOL, Eng, Aug IA
Fellow Members of the Tally-Ho Club.
Our party arrived here four days ago, and
as Eek thought it would be a good thing TO
test the drawing powers of the aggregation
before starting out to fill our dates, we ar
ranged a small race here for yesterday, and
/ haven't seen anything of the receipts as
yet. Eek says the expenses for advertising,
etc, were large. Tom took care that
our arrival i'll the bloomin' country
should be properly announced in the
Sporting Life, but so far we have not been
presented at court, and, in fact. have had no
trouble with the hobbies at all. Beauty
seems to feel quite at home here, and don't
think he intends to get any the worst OF it in
a business way, but when we go to Paris
intend to go ahead and make all the arrange
ments, and may wear few sparklers nv
self before we get away from there. You see
parle vous q little myself, and Beauty isn't
up to it, SO I'll have rather the long end of
the bet. Tom wants me to engage some
space on the Eiffei tower for advertising. and
/ shall make the attempt, although l under
stand they are rather exclusive. The ladies
are all well, and send regards to such members
of the club as they met before leaving.
Please tell Lac Stafford that like it very well
over here, and intend to remain some time.
l know it will please him. Yours at present,
j. n. CANNON.
A new organization called the Wood
pecker club has recently sprung into
existence in Minneapolis and is rapidly
increasing in membership and influence.
The primary object of the association is
the amelioratiOn of the condition of au
burn-haired citizens, and hence it is
named after that perniciously active
biped which has top tuft of red feath-
erS just over the bump of Self-respect.
Assistant City Attorney A. H. Hail is
one of the charter members. and one of
the board of managers. The late la
mented A. n. Jordan, who is now paw
ing up the earth and sucking oranges
Oh the Pacific slope, was the first sec
rotary, and John II. Steele was
cancy. EX-Capt. Reddy Hanrahan, of
the Minneapolis ball team, has been re-
Gently appointed grand worthy outside
guard. The other officers are grand
worthy chief woodpecker, Col. William
McCrOry; worthy chief lecturing wood
pecker, Maj. J. Thomas Wall, alias
freddy the Tip" grand worthy chief
scribe, E. A. Poe Sumner. There was
considerable dispute as to whether Sum-
ner should be admitted to membership
or not, as the hue of his hair was little
too far removed from real crimson to
be in line, but his friends urged that
the dark red hue of his voice would
eQualiZe matters. and he is now one of
the main guys of the organization.
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81 do just believe that if it wasn't hor-
rid, and everything like that, l would
just like to see prize-fight. The pict-
ures of Mr.. Sullivan and those other
men that are pugilists always look so
big and strong. just know it would be
too lovely for anything. only, of course,
l couldn't go to see it. think it's awful
mean that young ladies can't go any
where or see anything. Now, my
brother always goes. | know he does,
but mamma doesn't. Papa didn't either
one evening, and Cousin Jack, who was
with Will, says that they both
tried to get behind themselves
when they saw each other" 1t
was pretty little black-eyed Mime
apOlis girl of about nineteen summers
who gave expression to her scandalous
desire to see brutal prize fight in the
above words day or two ago. She was
talking to party Of girl friends, and
never expected any one to know of her
wicked wish; and her parents, who are
well known and highly respected among
the good people of rather swell por-
ton of the city, would be simply hor-
rified to know that it was their daugh-
ter who said these things; and vet three
out Of the four daughters of equally re-
spectacle parents who listened to the
outburst of feeling concluded, after the
usual "Oh, you awful creature!" and
''aren't you ashamed" that they, too,
would like to see strong men battle in
the ring. "What are we coming tO?'
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Patrick Seventy-Five Per Cent Fitz-
gibbons, the noted Irish orator and eX-
CrOnin suspect, hasn't been heard of
organization of the Sons of Rest, which
was fastened by the lamented depart
ure of z. Percy Weadon and f. A.
Bright's sudden frenzy for work, he is
said to be engaged in writing book,
entitled Dead to the World"
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Distinguished and dyspeptic Euro
peaus who visit America for the purpose
of finding fault with people and institu-
tons in the books or papers on America
which they write on their return to the
other side of the moiStneSs, are always
prating of the extravaganza of the
American people and prophesying poy-
erty will be made unanimous in this
country In the course of few years,
but i'll spite of this there
are Americans, and some of them
born outside of New England,
who il they are not actually close are, at
the very least. rather contiguous in
their habits. One of them, for instance,
is all oldish man, who is believed. to be
wealthy. and who is known to own $780,
900 worth of ''inside property" in Min
neapolis, who is actually so mean that
If ba l,ant a rrooarv store he yyould hita