St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-14
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News on Page s.
BY THE WAY.

trolled by the Booths. However eccen-
trio the methods of the army have been,
there is no doubt but that great deal
of good has been done by the disciples
of David, who the Bible tells us
danced and sang before the multitude.
In all countries there is certain class
whom established churches and Or
dained ministers cannot reach, and it
was this very class that the Booths
looked after ana drew into their ranks.
The organization to-day Is one of the
most powerful kind, and, besides con-
trolling large stores and owning news
paper whose circulation throughout the
world is enormous, it possesses many
valuable tracts of land.
The burning of the telephone box and
a number of wires on Sunday caused
great inconvenience TO the many per-
sons who use the mysterious force as an
adjunct in their everyday affairs. A
theory was propounded some months
ago by an English scientist that some
cOmmotion i'll space or disturbance of
the gravity of certain planets which re-
volye round the earth might destroy not
only the electric fluid on our planet,
but also prevent the possibility of pro-
ducing the electric current by mechani-
cal ar chemical power. The effect of
such thing upon our present civiliza-
ton would be awful to contemplate.
The marvellous inventions of the tele-
graph and telephone nave done more to
develop commerce than even steam has
done. While steam has bridged dis
lance, electricity has annihilated space
and time. If our telephones, telegraphs
and submarine cables were suddenly
rendered useless, the world would be
thrown back over 100 years. Should such
thing ever happen. no doubt another
Franklin and Edison will discover and
utilize someiforce at present unknown to
scientists. The theosophits, who, by
their advocate. Nine. BlaVatSky. startled
scientists some years ago by claiming to
possess power or occult force by
which they could convey matter and
thought through space, may Fave been
the forerunnerS Of the successor OF the
subtle and dangerous electric fluid.
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Yesterday gave us the first taste of
winter, and the ''oldest inhabitant,"
who has been grumbling during the
past two years because he has not had a
forty-belOw winter, rubbed his hands
Snd proclaimed to all that the cold day
and falling thermometer were surely a
sign of an early and severe winter.
The police officers in England derived
the names of ''bobbieS" and "peelers"
from the great statesman. Sir Robert
Peel, who introduced trained and Or
ganiZed force for the protection of life
and properly. in place of the watchmen
employed by individuals, and who, in
the majority OF cases, generally got the
worst of an encounter with the mob.
For many years the new officers were
known as Roberts" and "Peelers,"
until to-day the terms Bobby" and
"Peeler" are in general use among the
masses to designate any members OF the
force who guard the modern Babylon.
PHASES OF LIFE.
There was a breath of winter yeSter-
day. 1t whistled drearilv through the
avenue elms, which are fast becoming
leatlesS, and made lots of people cast
about them in an effort to remember
what they had done with their sum-
mer'S wages. In police parlance, the
bum season has opened. AS soon as
the nights get frosty the American aris-
tocrat. otherwise the warrant, fOrsakes
the al fresco rOoSts, which have served
him well enough in summer months,
and becomes the nightly guest of the
city. 1t is no uncommon thing for the
city hall to shelter as many as forty or
fifty of these fair-weather gentry in a
single night, and there are some curious
characters among them.
One of the most distinguished of the
cosmopolitan crowd who come under
the term of 'known to the police" was
old John O'Keefe. For q long time
John was regular patron of the Hotel
Central. He would come in SILVER
ing with cold and without a word
creep to his own particular corner
of the tramp room. He is good story
teller and has certain honesty of man
ner which makes him an object of inter,
est to every one. Lieut.. Murphy used
to stand good for Johns meals when
work was scarce and the old man had
one of his chronic shortages. Here is q
man whose career might furnish the
plot of a novel. That he is Irish goes
without saying. In addition he was at the
time that the Fenian movement in Ire
land was at its height, one of the most
radical of all the Fenian host. The in
eyitable occurred. John was captured
while engaged in disregardiag the law
of the country IN playful attempt to
blow up certain governments Struc-
lures. and into Jail he went. The
charge against him was high
treason. He was confined in the
same Jail and at the same period as
that which marked the incarceration
of O'Donovan Rosa. lie was eventu-
ally tried, and permitted to leave the
country on the condition that he should
never more set eyes on the green slopes
of Erin. John accepted the terms, and
so came to America. His career here
has been varied. He worked on the
streets when work was to be had,
and drank like a she whale whenever
he had the necessary. Any one who
met o 'Keefe now wouldn't know him.
He wears boiled shirt, high collar,
black frOck coat and whole lot OF
other highly respectable accessories. He
doesn't drink drop, and is as steady as
rock all around. Some time ago, over
year probably, John was taken
in hand by the good Sisters of the Poor
They gave him a position at the home
paid him fairly for his work, and gen
orally speaking made man of him.
He might be president of bank now
Then there is old man Dolphin
"Uncle Billy. every one calls him. He
sleeps at the station through the winter
and seems perfectly satisfied with {
plank for a bed. He used to live
with Mrs. Casey when that lady
kept a boarding house at Fourth an6
Minnesota, but since her death he has
been like chicken in the dark-unablt
to find roost. And old John German
There's another old-timer 1.-The Cobb
Ter Poet is his title. and, in all truth
he is genius at versifying. John cam
be called tramp, but he gets drunk 81
often as to be regarded at the station a:
a regular guest.
These are only a few of the queer
lot of people who make theil
headquarters at the police station. A
real live count, an Italian, was there fol
bed not long ago. and kicked because
there were no sheets. A beardless
youth, with an English accent, strolled
in late week or two ago and asked
for a shakedown. He was the
younger son of British peer and
was getting Il taste of the younger
sons luck. A German baron with
pronounced tendency to embonpoint
came up IN the wagon. having refused
TO walk, and when conducted to the