St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-28

Though many will be buried meath
The SHOWS of next campaign.
\ Again ward heelers will rejoice,
\ With pockets lined with cash,
And strut about with lordly mien
Ihat nothing can abash.
And even Bahb that poor old girl
7 That every infant knows
Z 1sbut WaXen figure head,
Will hustle mp and pose
As nominee for one term more
Of mayor of the town,
Until like old historic Mac
They'll tell how he went down.
The first of May is upon us, and where
Is the press of contract work promised
the laboring man when spring opened?
Henry Willard has been here and gone,
and none of his grand schemes for benz
citing the city have yet manifested
themselves. Nor has that other brilliant
1inancier materialiZed to any extent.
And, by the way, what has become OF
George Walker Davis, whose advent
here in February WAS announced, and
who took the ShreWdeSt real estate men
among us by surprise in the purchase of
q stone quarry ana block of sand lots
at the fabulous price of 100000 spot
cash as reported in an evening paper,
one-half paid by himself and the bal
ance by an Eastern syndicate? The
same paper also stated that he Davis
was to eXpend S1,000,000 in improve
mentS this spring, oDe-half of which he
would furnish himself. Since then no
trace of him or the improvements has
been seen; his departure was as sudden
and meteor-like as his advent.
When Sergeant Kirkham. who is the
particular, bright and shining star OF
the retrenchment and reform admins
tration. appeared before the council i'll
vestigati0n committee that had met TO
lOGk into the police scandal that dis
graced another great retrencbment and
reform administration when George A.
PillSbury was. mayor, great many
laughed because he swore he didn't
know what sour mash whisky tasted
like. A gentleman who used to know
the redoubtable knight of the step lad
der long before he came TO Minneapolis
and achieved undying fame, says he
thinks Kirkham told the truth, although
it seems strange that Minneapolis p0-
iceman should not know what sour
mash is. In proof of this he tells the
following story: "Kirkham used to
keep saloon in the town of
OrOnOcO, near Rochester; in fact,
/ guess it was the first saloon the place
ever had. One day a farmer came to
town with load of rails.@ He was
offered S. for them, but he wouldn't
sell. He announced that he had come
to town for the express purpose of get
ting full, or, in other words, he meant
to become the pOssessor of what you
call now large-siZed Jag and he was
going to trade those rails to Sam Kirk
ham for enough whisky to accomplish
his design. Well, SIT, he made the
trade and got jug of booze, and started
i'll TO get drunk. He made business of
IL, and drank and drank, but all to no
purpose; the more he guZZled the more
sober he seemed to get. Along about
night time he was the most disappointed
man | ever saw. He had sQuandered
the proceeds of load of rails, wasted
day, and had not got drunk. He always
swore afterwards that Klrkham didn't
sell whisky. but | think it was because
Kirkham didn't know what whisky was.
and sold him something else"
1t is doubtful if the Mardi Gras scheme
during the exposition can be carried out
with any degree of success. North
western people are quick to take up any
business enterprise that is likely TO be
of any help to city, and will assist it
with their own hard cash. But it is
feared that they will draw the line at
carnival anything like the one from
which it takes its name. The Southern
people have become accustomed to the
thing, and think it duty to aid i'll the
festivities by dressing in outlandish
costumes and acting otherwise in a to-
tally conventional manner.
WbaO n bal fnon1 hnUiOc n lOcn fau
games there are always numerous pe0-
pie ready, at moments notice, to look
about for an excuse. The latest cry that
has been heard among the cranks is
that old alluSion to the flowing bowl,
and the kitkerS are ready at once TO ap-
point Sam Morton committee of one
to investigate. and find out who it is
that is enticlng the model young men
who wear Flour City uniforms to stay
out all night with wicked companions,
supposedly agents from some rival city,
who are overly attempting the down
fall of the local giants.
A local contemporary heads an article,
"Shall the Churches Coz" While there
is nothing significant on the face of it,
there are some who believe it is but
clOaked expression for the purpose of
being used to catch certain class of
voters at the next election. Base, i'll
sidiOus WretcheS.
Just give Mayor Babb a chance and
he will roast himself harder in five min
utes than the fires of Vesuvus could in
five years. He calls the police commits
sion an abortion, and forgets that he is
generally considered to embody abous
the whole Of that famous Institution in
his own rotundity. The Democrats of
Minneapolis could do no better than
hire Mayor Babb for the rest of the
season. He explains the faults of the
present city administration better than
any man alive. Moreover, he seems in
clined to do it. All he has to do is to
talk, and the mismanagement of mu-
nicipal affairs is patent to the world.
AS rooster of beef he can give Miss
Amy Barnes ten yards and win, hands
down.
No matter how small he may be, you
can't keep good man down. Jimmie
Fraser, of the chamber of commerce,
has won distinction by being the first
man to open the yellow shoe season.
W. Fl, AdamSon will spend the next
fifteen months in demonstrating to Cole
Younger that Coles business methods
were crude and unproductive of the
best results.
Where was the bleeding dog" who
stood on the opposite oorner and saw
Buchan shoot Anderson, when the cor
Oner was lnquesting yesterday? He
should have been there to supplement-
II. E. Parks story.
Decollete costumes are the thing in
Minneapolis society now. They will be
on exhibition all of next week at the
Harris. with the improvement that the
decollete-ing will not produce bronchial
troubles.
The secret is out that old Miles Stand
ish, of courtship fame, who valiantly
led five men and boy against the
Wampanoag Indians, is paragrapher of
the Tribune. He refers to the ten per-
sons who visited the Verestchagin exhi-
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