St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-05
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News on Pages and s.
GOOD SHORT STORIES.

Hon. Albert Scheffer, who is Prus-
sian by birth, and to some extentby
residence, tells story on Prince Bis
marck which his father used totell as
great Joke on Count Rechberg. The
latter one day called on the Prussian
ambassador to show him dispatch
from his government, iustructing the
count to vote with Prussia at the next
meeting of the German diet. Bismarck
read the document, and then returned
it to the count with the remark, This
must be a mistake" Rechberg looked
at the sheet and changed col
or. Instead of handing the
prince the official orders, he had by
terrible mistake given him the secret
Instructions he had received at the same
time. ordering him, while openly coun-
tenancing Prussia, to use his utmost Ell
forts to induce the other German states
toyote against the measure proposed.
For a moment the two statesmen looked
at each other in awful silence, which
was broken al last by the prince, who
said: Don't be disturbed. You did
not intend to give me this letter; ergo,
you never gave it to me: ergo: know
nothing of its contents" Bismarck
never reported the letter to Berlin, and
bV his discretion made Count Rechberg
his friend for life,. whether IN peace or
war.
During one of series of lectures
recently given on chemistry at local
college there occurred a contretempS
somewhat embarrassing for st. Paul
Young lady who was taking the course.
The lecture room was filled with stu.
dents, and the young lady referred TO
above was among the most interested
spectators of the experiments being
made by the lecturer. Suddenly she
was startled by those sitting near, each
of whom had fallen away from her VI
cinity as though she had been leper.
Good heavens, Carrie, what's the
matter with you?' said one.
You're as black as a niger" said
another: and similar Explanations, &C
companied by Mortified glanceS, Saluted
the frightened girl on every side. She
hurried from the hall, and upon looking
at her face in the glass found that she
really was a CHASTITY lead color. While
Carrie was working frantically with
soap and water to remove the ebon
hue from her skin, the lecturer
calmly explained the cause of the
TRANSPORTATION to- the rest of
the class. The lady, he said, had used
a eosmetice on her face. 1.-The salts
and acids have been using in my eX-
periments," continued the professor,
''acted on the lead in that coSmetice,
and the result was as you have seem"
A subsequent investigation showed that
many of the other students had similar
indications of the presence of lead on
their faces, and at this iuncture the
stampede became general. The profess
SOr says he has had many good laugh
over the affair.
Edward &. Sartori, junior member of
the New York firm of dry goods whole
saferS, Sartori Il Evans, was at the
Ryan yesterday, bound for the coast on
pleasure trip. Speaking OF the con-
dition of the trade, he said that there
had been a most remarkable and Salu-
tary revival in all branches of the dry
goods trade, dating from the 1st of jan
uary. Mr.. Sartori talked Interestingly
of various matters to GLOBE reporter,
and the conversation finally drifted into
the subject of holidays.
do you kuOw,' said the New I orker,
''that there are great number of bust
ness men in the East who regard a holi-
day which compelS a suspension of
Concerning hundreds of our New York
houses. there is no doubt as to the an
Swer they would give as to whether a
temporary suspension of business was
beneficial to trade orsthe reverse. AS
/ leo1 at it, on the theory that we live to
trade. holidays are a serious lnc0n-
venience and cause some considerable
loss: but on the much more sensible
hypothesis that we trade to live, there
is Il great deal to be SAID OH the other
side. With all the labor-saving appli-
ances invented during the last half-cen-
fury surely we Of this generation oughl
to-get along with less labor than did
our porefathers. The greedy ones, who
war; to make all their money at once,
MAJ kick because their neighbors want
to S,ke life easily, but they might as
well kick against stone wall. The
drift of the times is towards more holt
days rather than toward their restric-
tion."