St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-05
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.


GOSSIP OF THE DAY.
Stories about Bismarck are in order
now. says the New York Sun, and here
is one which goes back TO the days
when he was a student in the unIyer-
sity. He was invited to an evening
party, where there was chance to
dance with the prettiest girls Of the
town. He ordered pair of patent
leather boots for the occasion. and gave
the shoemaker to understand that they
should be promptly done. The latter
was very busy, and, although he prom
Used, like all sons of Crispin he intended
TO refer the job to future period. The
evening before the party Bismarck
came to him. "Well, how about my
boots?" said he. ''Can't possibly have
them done, sir" was the answer. "Ah,
k by thunder, have something to say
about that!" roared Bismarck, and he
left the shop. Iu about half an hour he
returned with two enormous dogs. do
YOU see these d0gS?' he asked.
. Eyes, SIR"
a swell, swear now that if you haven't
my boots ready tomorrow evening L
make them tear you to pieces
Every hour afterward hired meSSen-
ger came to the bo0tmaker and warned
him to have the boots done, telling him
that his life was really in danger be-
cause the student was crazy, and would
surely set the dogs on him if he failed.
Bismarck got his boots.
1t seems that Hon. Ed Lane, of the
Seventeenth Illinois district, has been
considerably worried about his recent
vote to suspend the rules for the consld-
Grafton OF the dependent pension Dill.
After clearly explaining his reason for
the vote. which, by the way, was good
one, he grew impatient at repeated IN
ouiry, When Hon. A. M. YaEcey, one
of his constituents, was in Washington
the other day, he was inqulSltlye as to
| the reason, and inclined to exercise his
skill as cr0ss-queStioner.
''I'll tell you, Yancey," said Lane at
last, 'sif you were here in my place, as
you want to be, and had to work under
these - Republican rules of Reeds,
you'd vote to suspend them every
chance you got"
Jim Hosford, the railroad man, has
recently returned from Southern trip.
and his many friends have noticed
| that he invariably crosses the street
| now when he sees woman with baby
carriage approaching him. 1t seems
| that he attended baby show down in
| one of the Southern cities. and, after
| the prizes had been awarded, there was
| a cane presented to prominent c!tlZen
| by few Of his friends. Hosford was
| one of his friends. and he went upon
| the stage of the hall with the presenta-
| ton committee to lend dignity to the
affair. The report spread through the
hall that the committee was composed
of the baby-show judges. who had
been incOgnito for obvious rea-
sons, and the next morning, while
| Hosford was walking the street, he was
greatly astonished to be accoSted by a
| lady, who trundled a baby-carriage up
to him and fiercely demanded to know
whether he had been a Judge at the
baby show. mo, madame" he hastily
! replied, as he lodged. The lady APP
peared incredulous, but finally passed
| on without doing any harm. For a
week Hosford's life was made mlsera-
bic by the onslaughts of disappointed
! females who owned children, and he at
| last was forced to leave the place In
disgust and Pullman Car.
| writes a New York correspondent OF
the Philadelphia Record, who was a
/ pedagogue for twenty years before get
/ ting into his present $4,000 a year posi-
| tion-in fact. he has always lived at the
/ public expense. He delights in being
| called the "IIlttle judge" and in firing
of speeches and jokes at the expense OF
| any unfortunate who may be arralgned
| before him. In the morning, when
he takes his seat, he is about
! half full; at the afternoon court he has
reached the three-quarter stretch, and
after that. in the early evening, you Will
4 find him in front of the bar OF the Astor
! house, roaring and rollicklng with boon
| companions. | sat for half an hour in
his court the other day-led there by
curiosity-and at the end of that time
my only wonder was that ne was not
4 horsewhipped every week OF MS il1e.
! The liberty of men and women, their
| homes and their children are jugglers'
| balls in his coarse hands, and their most
sacred rights are his playthings. And
this little beast receives the salary OF a
cabinet munster, $1,000 a year, with four
hours of work a day, for acting the
| mOuntebank on the bench.
| ~
T never see William NJ. Dunlevy. the
| theatrical manager, says a New YORK
| Star reporter, but what [ think of the
| terrible experience his mother had few
wears ago. His father was a Maine
| man who commanded one OF the
| finest clipper ships that ever sailed
| the seas. He had made a hand
some competence, and intended to
retire after two or three more
/ voyages. One summer day he weighed
| anchor in an African port and
set sail for New York. On board were
| his wife and two children. The second
day of the voyage yellow fever broke
| out. and within week had killed him,
the officers and half of the crew. Those
who ylyed were illiterate seamen
who had no knowledge of navigation
They proposed to drift until they met
some ship and then obtain relief. lie
| their surprise Mrs. Dunlevy took COM
| mand, laid the course and brought the
| ship in safety to the port OF New YORK
| The chamber of commerce voted ner
medal and vote of thanks, and the I'M
| derwriters gave her a handsome amount
as kind of salvage. The event is for
! gotten: but to my mind it is hard to
| match the young widows standing al
| the wheel, through sunlight and storm
with her little ones at her knee, steering
| the almost helpless ship across the AT
lantic.
WELL-KNOWN WOMEN.