St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-07
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

At joint meeting of b ankers, law
yerS and newspaper men last evening,
says the Defiance Democrat, ex-Con-
9 ressman w. d. Hill told the following
st Dry:
Horizontal Bill Morrison, who was
strongly in favor of Douglas for presi-
dent in 1860, IN his stumping campaign
of Illinois, advised two young girls to
get their lovers to vote for the Little
Giant, and he illustrated his point by
telling them how an Illinois girl had
married a young chap who was a great
Lincoln man, and before the marriage
she had been unable to, proselyte. him.
They were married and went to Chicago
on their wedding trip. They had re-
tired to their room, and the young hus-
band went down to take a smoke"
About 1890 he retired to his room, but
found the door locked.
''Who is there?" asked the young
wife inside.
"Your husband, DEAR" was the reply.
"What's your poI.tics?' she said.
81 am Lincoln man, and don't you
forget it."
well, no Lincoln man can come in
here.''
The young man retired, went down.
stairs and took another smoke and lin
gered until about IL O'clock. Going
again to the room. he knocked.
''Who is there?" asked the wife,
In very stern and defiant tone, he
said: "Open that door; Pm your hus-
band"
Il tell you," said the wife from the
inside, that no Lincoln man can get in
this ROOM"
Provoked and mad. the young man
went downstairs again. About 10
nfalnnIy in lao h.. cd fI,n
stairs once more and knocked-thiS time
very timidly.
"Who's there?" came in a different
tone from the young wife. The reply
was given in a lowered and muffled
voice:
"Let me in; l am John, your hus-
band, and a leetle the best Douglas
man in the state of IlIinoy."
And the door opened as if by the
touch of electricity.
Frank LaWler, the Chicago congress
man, has an original way of expressing
himself, says the New York Tribune,
Some time ago paragraph was floating
around IN the papers IN which he was
made to say that the tariff question was
all right so long as the proposed reduc-
tons did not touch anybody's pocket.
He has been talking about that matter
so much that recently he has added an
Otller IDEA.
''It's just exactly like proposition to
build all elevated road in Chicago he
says. You might 90 around the CITY
from morning until night and you
wouldn't find a man, woman or child
who was not in favor OF an elevated
road, but the moment you propose to
locate it on any particular street there
is a howl and Kick from nearly every
resident of that street. It's a hard
question to settle, is that tariff matter"
-
Max Maretzek. in one of his recent
''Sharps and Flats" contributed to the
American Musician, has this good one
on Brignoli. The company were in
Havana, and at a critical iuncture in
the managers affairs Brig took it into
his mead that t would be a swell thing
to fall sick. The Marquis de Aguas
Caeras, president of the Ayuntamiento,
sent doctor to visit the distinguished
tenor and to report the result of his in
vestigations. Unable to discover any
alarming symptoms except an insati-
able appetite for macaroni and a Seuti-
mental longing for dolce far niente,
the gentlemanly young doctor ordered
Brignoli to take substantial dinner
and in the evening drive to the opera,
and to sing his part in the usual man.
ner, and predicted to him full restora-
tion of health by following the advice:
The silver-voiced tenor shared the
Doctors opinion as to the prescription
of good dinner, but demurred from
the order of singing in the evening.
The judge, upon hearing the doctors
report, sent gentle warning to Brig
noli. who, however, answered that the
doctor who had visited him seemed, like
Crispino. to be more cobbler than a
doctor and did nor understand hic i'll
ness, whereupon the magistrate dis
patched another doctor from the mill
tary hospital with two attendants.
After having felt Brignoli's pulse,
looked into his throat and examined his
eyes, the new doctor solemnlv declared,
with shake of his head, ''reaily some
precursory symptoms OF yellow fever"
but added that by employing200 leeches
Immediately on the shoulders of the pa
tient the great evil might be ayerted.
.sMana mia 70 screamed Brignoii, with
his clear hpatItifui tanor voice roach