St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-12
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Evening Journal gleefully points
to the fact that the proprietors OF two
of the leading saloons i'll the city nave
been forced to make an assignment,and
that only ffty-nine saloonkeepers nave
succeeded in taking out $1,000 licenses
as against 165 at this time last
year; although there have been
272 applications of parties VINO
are anxious TO run saloons
if they can raise the required amount:
The Journal thinks this indication OF
business depression, for no one can
argue that a change in sentiment has
brought about this remarkable result, is
a great triumph for high license and
Sunday closing. 1t joyfully asks,
"What other system would have done
as much toward suppresSing the liquor
traffic in Minneapolis"
But the liquor traffic has not Deen
Suppressed" and as the saloon Dusi-
ness, like any other business. thrlVes
with good times, it would seem that the
Journals congratulations are about as
much out of place as applause would be
at funeral; so the Journals Jubilatlon
under the circumstances is decldedly
ghoulish in character.
A man climbed to the top of the flag
pole Oil the tower of the Guarantee
building yesterday for S., and the man
who offered the money paid 1t when ne
saw the climber descend in safety after
accomplishing the feat. All the fools
are not dead yet.
The cholly boys who have gone into
mourning on account of the exodus of
the chorus girls can take heart again.
1.-The Last Days of Pompeii," with its
grand ballet, will SOON be in Minneapolis,
and champagne suppers will again be
on tap.
A certain newspaper man who
hwrites heads' for an evening sheet re-
turned from fishing trip yesterday.
That accounts for his headline,
Caught on the Belt" Why didn't he
tell the truth and say "caught in metz"
Some members of the city council last
night asserted at the Benton market
matter was beng railroaded through,
after it had been under consideration
for seven months. This confirms the
suspicion that those aldermen rode on
the first railroad in America and never
on one since.
President johnson, of the council,
has little sense of humOr. Last night he
spoiled one of the best opportunities
which the council ever had for the en-
joyment of little fun. Sterling had
been asleep or in prayer, and failed to
get in his protest to the changing of the
name of Harrison street until the roll
call had been announced. President
johnson told Sterling that he could talk
when his name was called for his vote.
Rradish jumped up and pleaded, nay,
even besought, the president to
allow Sterling to speak. The rea-
son was this: Bradish has to vote
before Sterling does and could not,
therefore, reply in this case. His sor
row because of this fact was pitiable,
1t was evident that he was loaded, and
had the president favored him it is safe
to say that the Eighth ward would, this
morning, have abrownwhiskereda alder
man instead of red-bearded repre-
sentative. But johnson was inexer-
able, and Bradish was nearly incinerated
by the smothered heat.
There is no longer a Harrison street
in Minneapolis. This city is getting too
big to have even the streets named after
hat, when they should be named for
prominent and worthy men.