St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-10

one of Verdi's romantic operas-like the
Count di Luna in 'sIi TravatOre"-or
like the man who always carries a
green baize bag i'm Irish melodrapa. An
amusing story is told of the mistake
made few years ago by Mr.. Lincoln'S
Oldest boy. The precocious boy was at
Gunther's one afternoon examining the
wealth of curiosities in which that con-
fectiO-muSeum atOundS, and suddenly
he cried out in great gtee: ''See,
mamma. here's picture of papa"
ION, no; Think not" said Mrs. Lin
coin, gently.
But it is" insisted the child; 81
know it is! And see how funny he
LOOKS with the sword in his hand"
Inc 1ond mother, impelled by natu-
RAJ curiosity to see what had SO excited
her petted darling, bent down to scruti-
niZe the rare old cOpperpIate print. 1t
was portrait of Captain Kidd!
Governor Beavers Graphophone.
From the Electrical Review.
Private Secretary Pearson, of Gov.
Beavers Office, Harrisburg. Pa, had a
curious and somewhat startling ex-.
peiience with the graphOphone. He be-
gan to turn the crank and supposed
that he was about to cause the machine
to give out to the young lady type
writer message which the governor had
talked into it the evening previous.
Inc young lady was all attention and
the private secretary began solemnly
10 urn the crank, which works by a
treadle. To his horror and the intense
embarrassment of the young lady the
Iollowiug amorOuS tumble was given
out with decided emphasis:
stNOuy don,t Ero,,1~
somebody will come. Of course I love
you. There, somebody is really com.
ing and you have mussed nv hair all
up. Please, love, Pm so afraid
that some one will come in. and. be-
sides can't work this crank if Won in
slsI upon kissing me all the time"
ne asterlSks represent sounds too
familiar to be mistaken.
IL was some little while before the
matter could be satisfactorily explained.
1t was finally Strengthened out. how
ever, when the executive clerk came
around. He had the evening before
been showing bride and groom about
the executive department.. and being
called away for few minutes had left
them In the private secretary's room to
amuse themselves with the graphophone
while he attended to the business which
had called him away.
Hannibal Hamlin's Lone Hand.
From the San Francisco Call.
In the course of recent address the
venerable eX-vlce president told the fol-
lowing story OF his nomination: s.AlIOw
me 10 state That the first intimation that
l nad that was to he placed upon the
ticket with Abraham Lincoln came TO
me through the lips of SCHUYLER Colfax
| was playing a pleasant game of euehre
in my room. My colleague. Senator
Fessenden. Senator Grimes, of the state
OF Iowa, and a member of the house
from Maine constituted the party, aud
we were smoking our cigars as I was
just now when you deprived me of
smoking mine quietly, when there was a
tramplng OF feet in the corridors of the
washington Hotel, where l was tarry-
Ing. a loud rap at the door and the
abrupt entrance OF Schuyler Colfax at
the head of the procession, who adj
dressed me as the vice president of the
United States Well. now, my friends.
held in my hands at that instant the
most magnificent lone hand that Won
ever saw. [Applause.l l held the best
cards-both bowers and ace and another
ace. lGreat laughter And don't YOU
tnlnK tnat DarbarOus crowd burst in
upon me, and l lost my lone hand.
[!Iaughter.l Well. l seized upon INV
chair in an uplifted position, and said
to Schuyler Colfax: .Clear ont of this
room! You have despoiled a lone hand
in euchre, and you have brought me no
fitting return" Why, 1 had no more
idea of having the nomination to that
office than l had of being struck by
lightning.