St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-12
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

Mr. Cleveland, by the way. has re-
fused several offers to connect himself
with great enterprises, says New York
writer. was told yesterday that he
was recently offered the presidency of a
S20,000,000 company, organized by En-
glishmen to operate in this country.
Guggenheimer & Untemeyer were the
attorneys for the syndicate. Through
them $4,000 salary was temptingly
placed before the eX-preSident, but de-
clined. Mr.. Cleveland's friends, who
know of his declining all such offers, re-
gard it as indicative of his set purpose
to go back to the White house.
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FL. D. Cooke, the nephew of Jay
Cooke, who has an Office in lower
Broadway as we'll as in Washington,
said to New York Press man: "Paris
has just taken step which is hint to
New Workers who are agitated over the
deadly electric light wires. There are
companies in Paris which deal in COM
pressed air for motive power, just as
the big steam company and the gas COM
panieS deal in steam and gas in New
York. One of these companies has just
been awarded contract for street light
ING on novel plan. The company dis
tributes power through its condensed
air system to a vast number of small
dynamos, each arc Of which furnishes
the electric light for small number of
lamps. The electricity generated in
this small way is not at all dangerous.
The lighting is perfect. The cheapness
is said to have been the determinate
feature in the letting of the contract.
Now, isn't that something for New York
to ponder oyer?"
AS it is, says the New York World,
there are here many public men who
have coined and are coming money out
of their Washington real estate Specu-
said, several hundred thousand dollars
out of the farm which he and others
bought at the head of Fourteenth street.
They bought it by the acre about six
years ago, and sold it at from cents to
IS cents foot. 1t is now a part of
Washington. and its best lots will
bring $3.50 foot at auction. Gardiner
Hubbard, Telephone Bells father-in-
law, made a fortune out of less
than 100 acres of hill and hol-
low, which he bought three years
ago, opposite the Georgetown
cemetery, on the line. of the Massachu-
settS avenue extension, ana ne ala THIS
by grading and filling and selling off
the property in lots of 80 feet wide
and 100 feet deep. and the same has
been the record Of the Philadelphia
capitalists who bought Kalorama. Mr..
Hubbard owns large amount of land
near Oak View, and he has one of the
finest country seats about Washing
ton, in sight of the house in which eX
President Cleveland lived.
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.'Have you got S. in your veSt? asked
a constituent of a congressman.
mo. must confess that haven't"
and he turned away and felt happy that
he always carries his money in his
trousers pocket, says the Washington
Post.
Eugene Field is making thorough
study of Europe. He writes: Il have
found out why the English are such
famous walkers. 1t is because it costs
them money to sit down. l found this
out the other day as / sat on bench in
Hyde park. A man in uniform came
along and demanded twopence. what
forP' / asked. For occupying a seat
said he. we are authorized to collect
tu'pence from everybody who sits
down."