St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26

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been purchased elsewhere Tor Is cents,
should not blame any one in particular
if the general rule of reform and re-
trenchment of this administration
should be applied to the small expenses
of running the city as we'll as the large.
1t should be remembered that at
the first committee meeting after the
council organized, bill for butter at the
workhouse came in, and Aid. Sterling
limited rather sententiouSiy that Supt.
West should remember that Aid. Potter
sold butter as we'll as other people. Inc
superintendent took the hint, probably,
and bought his butter from. Aid. Potter.
He could hardly be blamed for that.
And if Aid, Potter values his butter at
p cents, who cali say he should not put
his price Oh his own properly? And, by
the way, aren't the aldermen struggling
rather hard to keep up retrenchment
and reform appearances when they drop
from steel arch bridges to butter?
The local story-teller is now hunting
places of secluSiOn, for IL. c. BarnaDee
is now seen at point of vantage In the
hotel corridors, and will hold the floor
for the balance OF his stay.
It must be a discouraging fact to the
members Vi GIiO w
ISOLATION that out of the two converts
they have made to the cause of Chris
tianity during the past year, 100 per cent
of them died directly afterWard.
When NJ. Durand begins to manu-
facture coal at S1.40 per ton, the Oppo-
nents of the Meeker island scheme will
have chance to crow over their more
numerous adversarieS.
And now it is reported that pickpOck-
cts are getting in their work at the IL
brary building. 1t is probable that the
Society of Fine Arts will refuse to asso-
ciate with such gentry, and will move
their quarters to place where common
people cah not enter.
The genus sucker is a class of man
kind peculiar to itself, and it is won
der that there is not an asylum endowed
for the especial benefit of its yotarles.
The one that purchased watch from
snap auction house yesterday for Sl4.
sold it for 81 and then repaired to the
police satisfaction, should be placed
in glass case and ranged on exhibition
among the other curiOsities in the dime
museum.
The Peoples Political Reform club is
announced to be non-Seclarian and nom
partisan. and still G0lightly Morrill,
heads the list of speakers at It's first
open meeting.
And besides, one R. G. Evans re-
turned from Washington yesterday
and processes to be happy mot jolly
because he thinks Minneapolis is going
to get the National Republican coI-
aLMinnnSnfo
have n0bly supported Chicag0's claims
for the worlds fair" Another evil
dence that Minnesota has representa-
tives at Washington,
The chances are that Minneapolis Is
to be made SUPPORT of entry at last,
and few more offices are to be pro-
vided. Washburn and Comstock called
on the president and asked when the
Chippewa Indian reservation will be
opened. The president appeared to be
in good health. but said he didn't
know anything about it. Snider says
after mature deliberation that sugar
should be put upon the free list. This
will be an inestimable benefit to the
country, he thinks, and should be haZ-
arded even if it makes Kansas a Dem
Ocratic state. Who says that the Mime
sofa delegation is not making itself felt
at the national capital?
What a nice lot of government and
state officials we must have. A house
with a shady name is never pulled" by
the police without one of these officials
escapes. Here is subject for the PeO-
pies Political Reform club.
Again the Minneapolis and st. Paul
street railway lines have been sold. and
Henry Willard is the alleged purchaser.
Willard is developing 2s strong oppo-
sition to Tom Lowry'S universal con-
nection with every deal of any magni-
tude.
AID. Potter has made mistake. He
has sold all of his butter instead of
prOftably employing it as lubricating
agent on the wheels of municipal gov
eminent.
City Attorney Hall is this week CIV
ing Benny Harrison pointers on how to
run government, gathered by long eX-
perience III prosecuting Vags and red
hot" vendors.
After the explanation OF the cause of
DR., Lorimer'S actions in HolyoBe, Mass,
no more Minneapolis wives will be told
that their husbands have been out with
the boys. Overdose o. quinine, M
DEAR" will be the invariable answer.
Edmund Russell, Delsartean though
he be, believes that the illustrating OF
the poetry of motion is not a pleasant
occupation unless accompanied by the
poetry OF money.
ChicagO's blowing powers. as evinced
by the papers of that town since the set
tlement of the worlds fair location,
leads many to suppose that several Min
neapolis real estate dealers have gone
to the home of the divorce court.
One man has been heard to remark
that this open mass meeting scheme
being worked by the Peoples Political
Reform club. is farce, and his friends
are now thinking of running him fol
alderman he, is SO keen Of perception,
4. ]. Blethen has finally resolved tC
become mayor of Minneapolis, so that
If the 1892 Republican convention should
by any chance come here, he could take
the delegates up on the Lumber EX
change and say: There is MY city,"
Mayor Babb is right. Maj. Norton is
not paid too much for his work. 1t is
the most severe kind of mental labor tt
write speeches in words of only ONT
syllable.
The two stalwart policemen who have
fingered near the stage entrance to the
Grand this week were not placed there
to keep the chappies away, but to pre-
vent Kohl & Middleton from stealing
the chorus girls for a beauty show or {
gum-cheWing contest.
Burglars who would steal from "Blint
John" would abstract the gold from The
teeth of their dead parents and sell il
for cigars.