St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

nave. wv ell, ne arose Sunday MORN
ing, ate his breakfast, smoked his morn-
ing cigar while he perused his Herald,
and then he thought of the frozen
would thaw outI" he exclaimed.
Then he arranged his hot water,
hot irons and other paraphernalia for
thawing. and started out. To his sur
prise, he found the pump all right
again. L he soft weather had thawed
it out. Putting aside his hot irons and
water, he said; 81 will never again
doubt the efficacy of prayer" And he
went into the house and resumed his
paper. That night he surprised the
people OF the suburb by appearing in
church the first time in years.
-
al can sympathize with those passen-
gers who are snow-bound on the West
Press mall, as he laid down his paper.
II have been right there myself"
Give us the particulars" remarked
his audience.
sit was the second year of the Union
Pacific road, and we were caught in the
Rocky mountains. 1t was a sudden
storm and no one was prepared for it.
We were six days in the drift"
''How did you keep warm?''
Burned all the wood and then the
baggage car"
''How were you off for provisions?"
Had nothing after the second day,
and we had to cut up our boot legs and
chew 'em. On the fifth day we were
going to kill and eat boy, but his
mother made such fuss that we de-
cided to wait one day more. | have al
ways been sorry"
Wiiat-fOr Waitlnp2o
eyes. My stomach has never been
right since, and it wasn't two weeks
later when the boy fell out of a window
in San Francisco and was killed. He
would have made good square meal
for twenty-five of us and been of real
benefit to his fellow man. But don't
make no simpleton of myself again."
''Some people have peculiar ideas
as to the duties of policeman" said
Sergt. Burke to Kansas City Times
reporter. ga few minutes since l was
coming down Broadway and | saw a
nicely dressed lady, carrying a child
about two months old | should think,
stop the patrolman in front of me. |
was near enough by this time to hear
her first question, which was:
How often do the horse cars pass
here9'
about every ten minutes, ma'am,'
was the reply.
"'Dear me, I have been waiting here
longer than that now,' she continued,
tnen looking up at the officer she asked
with most innocent and appealing ex-
preston, would you mind staying here
and holding baby until the car comes.
l am so tired
"When l tell you that the officer in
question was the oldest bachelor ON the
force and had never in the memory of a
man had baby in his arms, perhaps
you can imagine the look on his face as
he turned and stalked away"
80
A Chicago specuIator, whose little
corners and other games had been sew
eral times exploded by certain news
paper, says the Wall Street News, didn't
go rushing round with a club to smash
somebody. He simply said to his secre-
tary, when be could stand it no longer:
flames, ascertain who writes these
attacks on me in the Roarer."
ut is John Smith. SIR"
''Then give him sly hint that pork
is to go up next week"
''Yes, SIR"
The hint was conveyed to John
Smith, and he scraped his pockets,
mortgaged his house, and drained his
friends to put into pork.
Then pork tumbled. So did John
Smith. Then the stock reporter of the
Budget published the fact that the
stock reporter of the Roarer had bought
on falling market and been scooped.
Hence his animus. Hence the animus
of all future reports. Hence the handi-
capped Roarer. Hence the grand bounce
for John Smith. See?
a couple of young ladies who are very
we'll known in the most select social
circles of the ariStocratic North side,
says the Chicago Herald. have, in the
amending chase after novelty, hit upon
a new scheme which is liable to be
adopted extensively. They array
themselves in exact copies of
the most striking costumes seen
upon the stage, and rehearse
scenes from popular operas for
the deleetation of select circle of
friends. Their latest venture is a scene
from the last act of Francis Wilson's
"Oolah." One of the young ladies dons
the peculiar garb of the agile comedian,
while the other arrays herself
in a fac smile of Marie Jan
sens cllnging draperies, and the
two together render "Listen
TO My Tale of Woe" in a manner highly
diverting to their choice audiences, even
doing the rollicking dance which
usually accompanies the song. This is
a new idea. and the element of novelty
attaching to it will doubtless make it
popular in the first social circles.
Johann Strauss, says the New York
Sun, is about to bring out a revised
form of the waltz, because in his opin-
ion the present generation is either not
strong enough OF not inclined to the
rapid whirl of the true Vienna dance.
Strauss explanation Is interest
ing. '.Look around the ballroom,
says he, ''and you will flnd,
no matter now delicious the
waltz music that the orchestra may be
playing, that the majority of the ladies
remain seated, while the gentlemen
lounge around the pillars and doors
All real pleasure Is lost, and only the
rhythmical conversation dance still
holds its ground. l Intend to combine
the conversation dance with the waltz,
calling the new form the minuet
waltz. 1t will be composed in three
four time, and consist of three sets,
which all begin andantina gracioso, in
the style of the minuet or polonaise. It
will then develop into the real waltz,
with the present rapid whirl. Ladies
will be able to accept lazy partners for
the conversation part, while for the
faster movements they can take part
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