St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-12

After their earnest protest against the
Dakota lottery bill few Minneapolis
ministers will probably have the nerve
now to encourage the introduction of
lotteries and church fairs as means of
raking in the shekelS.
The war between the Times parrot
and the Tribune monkey is about over,
ami each agrees that we've had hi
of time"
DR.. Kilvington was forty-fve years
old yesterday, and most appropriately
party OF friends called to congratulate
him.
What game shall we play, Doc?" one
OF them asked as they gathered around
card table.
why, Forty-Five, of course" re-
spnnded the doctor. "You fellows don't
think want to play Twenty-One at my
advanced age, do yOu?''
The show bill printer is not usually
poet, but he certainly, in his treatment
of men and things, enjoys the license
which is supposed to be the exclusive
property of the woOer of the muses.. As
ali example of OYerwOrked poetic license,
take the big posters which reveal TO the
the thrilling war drama now being pre-
scented at a local theater. On the
gaily decorated billboards a supposed
daughter of the South, in crimson
dress, is saving a fallen Union officer
from the fury of the COnfederateS. An
Irish captain and Dutch lieutenant in
the federal uniform are rushing to the
rescue, while fac-simile of the tradi-
tiOnal Uncle Tom, with barred head,
Prince Albert coat and patent-leather
boots, is at the head of band of slaves
armed with pitchforhs, bOwie-knives
and convict shirts, evidently bent on
the same errand as the European feder-
alists. All this is represented as oc-
curing between the fiercely fighting
Union and Confederate lines. Secre-
tary w. ID. Hale saw the above-de-
seribed picture aud ejaculated: "BOshl
] was all through the war and nothing
like that over occurred. What boSh!"
The hotelkeepers of Minnesota are to
meet to-day to consider matters of mu-
tual interest and solve a few riddles.
the chief of which is to find out why it
is cheaper TO get out of Minnesota in
winter than it is to come here in sum-
mer.
"Music in attendance" is a line used
in the announcement that G. j. Buel is
to lecture OH the single tax theory to-
night. Yes-chin music, and in abun-
dance, you can bet.
What pity it is that the physician
found stomach pump to use on the
Iron manufacturer who took laudanum.
KilVington does not relish Contractor
Reeds suggestion. The hustlIng health
officer prefers even being worsted in
crematOry fights to tending door for
such all institution.
There is luIl in the newspaper war.
Gelatt has craWled into his ice house,
Blethen has showed his knife down into
his boot, and all is serene again for lit
tie while.
Now that the Dakota lottery bill has
been shelved, the evening papers will
again tell how genial Tom Lowry
smiled winningly'' and how 1.-The base
ball magnates are happy"
There are times when It is a good
thing TO have been an acrobat or an ath-
lete student in ones youth. and it may
have occurred so to him as he ran pant.
ing along Third street and yelled in
fOg-hOrn voice at the motor that had
just started and was about to CLIMB the
hill. He was making fair speed, and
might have succeeded in catching it
had not bonneted damsel rushed in
front of him with a War Cry
held aloft and begged him
70 purchase. Only moment
did he paused, and brushing her aside,
he rushed on ana yelled franhcally
after the now disappearing train; and
conductor
young lady in window of the post
office. saw him not, and he followed the
train up the street for nearly two
blocks and almost caught it as it got to
the top of the hill; but 1t gave sudden
start ana left him alone in the middle of
the street, while the polite conductor
waited kiss to the aforesaid young
lady and the would-be passenger tried
TO stamp hole in the pavement in the
excess of his wrath.
Sometimes man gets what he pays
for and sometimes he don't. The mad
deSt man in seven states last night, was
one who lives on Fifth and Washington
avenues south. When he got home he
found that the water department had
turned off his supply of aqua pura Just
because the fellow next door hadn't
paid his water rent. There was only
one house necesSitates turning it off
from both. Now the fellow who paid
for the water he didn't get is going to
sue Registrar Moody and the city for
heavy damages if his water isn't turned
on at once. In the meantime, his
neighbor who is the cause of ali the
trouble, is taking things easy.
Building Inspector Hazen is going
60
strength of building materials. If he
can discover machine which will SUI
persede the telephone for testing
mans patience when he is in hurry
he will not find ready market for it in
Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis base ball club has
secured all the choice dates in the
schedule. Now the managers will
make big hustle to increase the size of
their Chicago bank accounts.
1t has just dawned upon the minds of
some people that when the police com-
mission made sweeping reduction of
s. from the monthly salaries of the DO
licemen the city was not benefited.
Two new detectives at S95 per month
each, and a court Interpreter whose
services will probably not be required
uolS IIdh oHCo III year, uOIe IMAM eat
up the amount supposed to have been
saved. This is the kind of retrench-
ment that the people of Minneapolis
are accustomed to have thrust upon
them by the only retrenchment and re-
form administration in the business.
Long & KEGS, the architects Of the
Kasota block, explain tie crack in the
front of that building is due to the ex-
pansiOn of about fifty tons of steel in
a vault which was recently placed in
position.
Judge Emery denies that he has
changed the rule in regard to the men
and women who are brought before him
on the charge of illegally occupying the
sane apartments. The men will be re-
leased upon the payment of fine. as
usual. and the women will be sent to