St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-04
SAINT 5; PAUL.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

Mont, ''to appropriate $4,000 for sur
veying purposes in our territory. Half
million would not be penny in eX-
cess of our requirements, and especially
since immigrants are pouring in upon
us from every quarter. People VIII not
settle upon land, the title OF which may
be in dispute. and the government
might as well set aside sufficient money
to do this work properly. According 10
the statement in the pending bill before
congress the sum to be set apart for sur
veying the entire territory would not be
of much avail in single county. Ii we
are to be bereft of statehood and refused
other privileges, we at least might be
accorded proper survey OF the public
lands, despite the efforts of q few old
croakers in congress. These men do
not want the public lands thrown open
for settlement, and for the reason, as
they state, that the country is growing
too fast in certain directions. But so
long as people are privileged to select
these h0meSteadS when they want them,
Just so long will it be impolitic and lni-
possible to set certain metes and bounds
for progressive Americans?
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Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Morrison recently visited Cincinnati on
tour of inquiry and was accompanied
Of beer occasionally. 1--WE had a pretty
rough time of it though" said Mr..
Morrison, Sin the return trip to Wash
ington and principally from the fact
that we was compelled to be a total
abstainer. To add to this cup
of bitterness in one of his tours of eX-
ploratien through the buffet car he
espied about a dozen bottles Of scholce
Milwaukee Snugly ensconSed i'll an ice
chest. The manager of the culinary de-
partment declined to sell beer to a
stranger, and especially as the Ohio IL
cense law was too much to justify him
in taking out permit. 1t will be all
right when we get into West Virginia
thought asked my friend. Not by jug
FULL was the reply, local option pre-
walls in the counties though which we
run. and | guess you will have to wait
until you reach Washington for drink.
And he did, too chuckled Col. Morri-
son, vowing every foot of the Journey
that between high license and local op-
ton, he was well-nigh parched."
A gentleman came over from Mime
apolis yesterday, simply. as he said, to
get out of the place. All the saloons
were closed, nothing was going on, and
he might as well have spent Sunday in
Sleepy Hollow. 'tThose fellows will
kill that little town of theirs he re-
marked, Elf they don't do business On
broader gauge than they are doing
now. Where can l get drink? | have
been hunting all over Minneapolis this
morning, but everything is closed up
tighter than drum
People up the river have much to
learn yet. Here in st. Paul things are
done en- business principles. If a man
wants drink he can get it. If he
desires to go to church he can go. If he
wants 10 goto the theater, no one will
prevent him. These are the things that
make st. Paul more metropolitan city;
they simply make life less burdenseme,
and thereby attract strangers.
An ice-boat Oh the river has attracted
good deal of attention the last few
days. Why are there not more of them?
At all points Oh the Hudson river they
may be seen by the dozen, some of them
especially elaborate affairs. No sport is
more eXhiarating than ice-b0ating. and
the river is quite wide enough here to
permit ii on an extensive scale. 1t beats
tobogganing all to pieces, as the speed
attained is frequently just as great as
on the chute, and the Journey can be
prolonged at will.
Mr.. Gilfillan. brother of the Judge of
that name, arrived the other day from
Chicago, saving that he never saw any,
thing so horribly dull as business is just
now down there. He ventured to
prophesy that if something does not
happen pretty soon, there will be a
genuine panic there. "Things are dull
enough here" he said, ''but this is wild
excitement compared with the state of
affairs at Chicago
There is club at Green Bay, Wis,
bearing the euphoniouS- name of the
ePochequette club" the principal feat
IRE of which is weekly banquet to
which memters may invite their nom
resident friends. The banquetS are
not only Apician in character, but the
goddess Of reason hoyerS gently over
the heads OF the eaters, making the
flow of conversation brilliant with wit
and scintillating with repartee. The
rooms of the club are deliberately fur
niShed and It's members are all right
royal good fellows.
st. Paul streets are pretty quiet Sun
day and the hotels are eyan more so.
1t seems as though all the legislators
who live within a hundred miles 60
home to the bosom of their families Sat
urday and return to work Monday
Very few OF the members have their
wives With them apparently, and after
hard weeks work it is only natural
that they should feel disposed to take a
holiday and see that the store. farm or
law practice iii the country town from
which they hail has not been spoiled by
the rust of week. Comparatively few.
OF Miunesota'S lawmakers are bloated
bondholders; most of them have. to
make their living in business or on the
farm. and few can save any money out
of the sessions salary.