St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-28
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

l am told the United States senate
finance committee has shelved Secre-
tary WINDOWS silver bill, and that a
sufficient number of senators have al
ready declared against it to insure its
defeat, even if it is made an admins
tration measure, which it is not yet. A
new proposition is on foot with refer
ence to silver which, senator told me
during the week, was more likely to be-
come law. 1t is to SUSPEND silver coin
age by arbitrary rule, buy bullion
monthly to the amount of S4.Ov0,00J and
issue silver certificates on it, redeema-
BILE in lawful money. The bullion is to
be coined at the discretion of the secre-
tary of the treasury, but cannot be sold
at his option. The silver men want to
have 1t provided that half the amount
shall be coined, but the opponents of
silver insist that they are concedng
enough when they accede to the propo-
sition to buy S4,0O0, 900 per month. The
original suggestion of the Window bill
before he worked it out i'm his annual
report was to make the bullion certifi-
Gates payable In lawful money, and it
was warmly pressed upon the secretary
and Gen. HARRISON by s. b. Elkins, but
was rejected through fear that congress
would not listen favorably to it. The
present movement in the senate indi-
Gates that 1t is more acceptable than
some of the other provisions in his bill.
1t is the clause which gives him abso-
Lutte power to buy and sell to which the
sena tors most strenu0usly object. SEN
ator Teller, of Colorado. told me the
other y that he believed that I'M
aninous vote could be had in the senate
against c0nferring such power on the
head of the treasury department.
A curious incident occurred a few
Sundays ago at Old Trinity, says the
New York Star. The actors were two
very well-known and wealthy society
ladies. lt-waS at a morning service and
the church was crowded. During the
early part of the service-the pSalter
and responses-they had maintained an
attitude of rapt devotion, with pro-
foundry solemn faces and bowed heads.
The TIE Deum was arranged to a long
and unusually elaborate musical accom-
paniment, and these ladies had re-
manned seated. The lines, "Let US
never be confOunded," were sung with
flourish and all Operatic staccato
which came to sudden and pronounced
close. The silence was heightened by
the loud burst of harmony which had
preceded; there was no gradual dying
away, but quick. petrifl ing stop. And
in the solemn hush came the sound of
small, shrill. but painfully clean voice,
and the words:
'But, my dear, we fry ours in
butter"
DR.. Dix raised his hand in a quick
gesture of horror; an acolyte laughed
aloud, the faces of the congregation
variOuSly expressed amusement chagrin
and anger. and amidst the cOmmotIOn
which ensued the very charming Mrs.
- was borne, faint and sick, from the
church.
'That capital cook and all-round ath-
lete, Herman 0elrichs, told me a night
OR two ago. said an old steamship trav-
eler to New York World reporter,
why it is that so many of the magnifi-
cent vessels of the North German Lloyd
company bear names either compare
lively insignificant or abSurdly out of
proportion. When the North German
Lloyd company, which now has more
than sixty steamers, began building its
boats transatlantic travel was very light,
and the boats very small, according to
our ideas to-day. The first built were
given the names of the greatest German
rivers. like the Rhine, the Elbe. the
Neckar-names as large as the vessels
were small. As craft after craft was
added to the fleet, river after river was
called upon to lend its name. none but
German streams, of course, being used,
until at last some of the biggest and
finest ships bore names like the Trave,
the Saale, the Ems and the Lain, which
to the average New Yorker conveyed
no meaning at all, for the rivers them
selves are small enough for you to have
to look we'll for them on the map. To
cap the climax. the newest and biggest
and finest ship in the feet, which is to
be thesNorth German Lioyd's crack, is
to be called the Spree. Now. everybody
who was ever in Berlin knows what an
insignificant, dead-and-alive sort of a
steam the Spree is. 1t looks more like
a little canal than anything else, walled
in as it is on both sides, and it bears no
distant resemblance to the famous Chi
cage river, except, perhaps, that it is
neither so big nor so loud. When the
Spree begins her trips the festive man.
abOut-tOwn who takes passage on her
will have great chance for joke.
See?'
"Farmer" Edmunds, of the Virginia
delegation, says a New York Tribune
correspondent, is by long odds the best
Joker among the congressman of the
Oio bOthfiiiOlls Liz COilCNS otC -
ualiy finding out that the Halifax
county man is generally loaded when
an attempt is made to have g little fun
at his expense. One day last week Mr..
Edmunds found it necessary to go to
Richmond on business, and just before
his departure he said to Ii. st. George
Tucker. his colleague:
IL expect ought to get par with
some Republican member during my
absence"
"Why don't you learn to pronounce
the word as it should be pronounced"
said "Harry" Tucker, as he is famil-
iarly known in Virginia, land say pair
instead of 'p'ar?' You are i'm congress
now, and your Halifax way of talking
might not be understood by the MEM
beers of congress who are unacquainted
with your STYLE"
The criticism momentarIly stunned
"Farmer" Edmunds, but he closed one
eye presently, looked pltyingly upon his
handsome young colleague from the
Staunton district, and then said:
''If it hadn't been for your pa Hon.
J. Randolph Tucker, my friend, you
wouldn't sing SO high in this congress"
Young Tucker accepted the thrust of
his colleague graciously. They both
laughed heartily, and Farmer Edmunds
then said it was impossible to resist the
temptation when his Halifax pronuncia-
ton had been criticised.