St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-09

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The COuncilmen, accused and all,
We 1t o., junket To II. Paul
or various reasons, but the most
Important was the iron rost
That holds the overhauging wiIes-
Some say delay in fighting fires
'Tis probable the men Will gaze
IL solemn mien and much amaze,
While each one sagely argues U or
Electric cars and current lore.
There are some people who suppose
That each dear city father knows
About live questions of the times;
Bu. il is dollars unto dimes
That when the aldermen come back,
They'll nos know wires from q track.
No f0sslGted bOOy can
Know what is best for living man.
In the annual report of the park COM
misSioners just issued, Tom Downs is
reported as an eX-0f1iciO member of the
board on account of his beng the chair
man of the council committee on public
grounds and bridges. Tom is very
often said to be Oh the fence, but no
one but w. G. Nye ever accused him OF
being on bridge,
There is considerable opposition not
only in the council, but among the ppO-
pie to the clause in the South Mime
apolis market franchise prohibiting
the sale of vegetables anywhere ex-
cept in the market house before 10
o'clock a, m. each day, and it is velY
probable that the section will be strick-
pn out.
T. w. Mortimer, who has just re-
turned from California, says he found
the flowers in bloom out there. He also
discovered more rheumatism in that
climate in one inch than can be found
in Minnesota in mile, and he has adj
Yised his friends who are seeking health
to stay at home. Mr.. Mortimer is per-
fectlV satisfied with the atmoShere of
this great ana Or1OuSNOrthWest.
The new wire ordinance which is be-
ing prepared by the city attorney will,
il is said, be closely modelled after the
one now in force in Boston, and pre-
vents the concealment of high tension
wires in all buildings. No wires will
be allowed to come into contact with
wood or other inflammable material.
Aid. Sterling is making quite repu-
tation for himself as a reader, and Aid.
adams. who is the elocutionist of the
Council, is said TO be getting jealous.
The city council is said to be fully
converted to the scheme for placing
the poles on which the trolley wires are
TO be run in the center of the street.
The trip TO st. Paul settled the queS-
tion.
Now that Kennan, the Siberian lect-
urer, has been properly wined and
dined, some one should invite him to
sake Russian bath.
The Surprises of Divorce" was given
much more realistic production yes
terday at the district court than at the
Grand opera house.
If the poles are replaced between the
tracks the electric lines will fail. The
support of more than one prosperous
business has been ruined between the
tracks-the grand stand.
Hubert Putnam has had boys arrested
for making noise near the library.
This does not, however, apply to within
the library, else Mr.. Putnam'S self-eS-
teen would have been in limbo long
ago.
The exposition purposes paying the
Strauss orchestra $4,000 a day for its
services, and yet there are musicians"
in Minneapolis who are willing to mu-
Ssh for 50 day bat go without engage
ments.
Judge Wilkin, of st. Paul, has rem
dered a decision on what constitutes a
newspaper which seriously impairS the
claim of the Morning Sewing Society
Record to the name Of newspaper.
Judge Wilkin says a newspaper must
publish the news OF the day.
The council proposes to investigate
the charges that it has been giving
peculiar performances, hut it will
not have far to look. Nearly every
performance" in the city council cham
Der.
Elk Gov. Pillsbury says that the -four
manufacturing business is over done,
which is real mean of the ex-governor,
now that he has sold his mills to those
EngiiShmen. But the Republican party
is out to do up England, SO they say In
campaign times.
Commissioner Guile emphatically
denies having anything to do with the
saloon bars on Sunday, while Commits
sioner Giertscn smiled and said moth
ing. 1t is not so surprising that Guile
should deny, but it is comforting to
know that Giertsen is feeling so we'll
that he can smile But then Babb is
out of town.
J, Terence ManniX has become as
gistant city editor Of the Pioneer Press
and hereafter all of his communications
over the signature of "VeritaS," PRO
Bono Publico," "Oid Subscriber" ETC.,
will be run in the columns of his own
paper Monday morning.
If you see Minneapolis men on the
street to-day whose faces have taken on
a greenish shade, do not be surprised.
They are enVious of the man whose
wife said in the divOrce court that he had
been drunk for twenty-five years.
1t is announced that sLevi Butler
post, g. A. r., has donated flag for
the new North side high school. Some
people will be sure to inquire what the
Patriotic Order Of Sons OF America has
done with all the money raised a short
time ago.
There are certain aspiring politicians
who declare that they will be unalLera-
bly, opposed to the new wire ordinance
unless it embOdy clause leaving wires
for Offices entirely ont of the question.
The trades and labor assembly should
remember that "bOycottS'' are illegal.
They might change the name of such
schemes to game Of freeZe-Out.
7 e eight-hour movement is now at
tracing about as much attention as the
South side market ordinance. The par
tisans Of both enterprises should pool
Issues.
The council went TO st. Paul yester-
day, ostensibly to look at the electric
line, but some people have been nm
charitable enough to suggest that the
members went to secure pointers which
will stand them in hand during the com
Ing hot, dry Sundays.
II was Lathrop who was elected sec.
rotary of the Farmers alliance as a
compromise. which proves that the
farmers are going into stock raising.
They seem TO want neither Fisk nor
Haigh.
If, instead Of lecturing on Alaska,
DR.. Sperry had given Gen. NettIeton a
few hints on the ways of the Alaska
Fur company he would have made more
money.
They Will Celebrate.
A meeting Of all the members of the
q q Z. has been chilled for 3 O'clock