St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-04

mere. several MlHnedpo lltdiIS HtNO
passed weeks within twenty-five feet OF
Librarian Waters, of Temple Court.
New Boston is to have a chemical fire
engine, and it will cost $500. Perhaps
the aldermen of that ward Will accept
that in lieu of the 5000 it is minated
they wanted for ward improvements.
Now that all the printers who bid for
printing the ANIMAL reports have bad
chance to look at the other lows
figures. it is hardly probably that the
jOb will be bonanza for anybody.
The Ministerial Union of Minpeapo-
lis should run no risks. Ii their meet
ings are not given the merit of beng
held in secret, the newspapers Will not
be SO anxious to publish the proceed
ingS. and consequently the ministers
will be forgotten by the public.
IT. is untrue that Rev. William Kincaid
left the Baptist church because of an
unconquerable attack of hydrophobia.
Should any person find PatrOlmen
John Corey, Simon McNuty and Paul
Mousse together and eXclaim. Sergeant
every one OF the three would be sure
the remarks were intended for him per-
sOnaly. They are all candidates for the
position vacated by Henry Krumweide,
and any one of them is competent to
hold down the job.
Manager Regain should see that Linn
burger cheese is excluded from that
proposed grocery exhibit at the EXPOSE
tiOn, else the smell will be certain to
lead some one to remark that the idea
the cheese part of it's an old one.
The feeling against Comptroller Cald-
erwood recently displayed by the alder
men is on the increase Their than dy-
ing out. Yesterday Aid. Fandewaker,
who is a member of the committee
which is to instruct the iTrepreSSlble
CaldeTwOOd in his duties, said: The
whole trouble is this. CalderwO0d APP
parrntly believes himself to be the
SchOOlmaster and the council lot of
truant schoolboys. According to the
charter. however. ne is simply q book
keeper, and he will find that the council
is the schOOlmaster and that he is the
naughty boy"
"There is no room for an American in
this country any more" SAID prominent
citizen Yesterday. 1--WE have Irish
American. SwediSh-American. German
American business enterprises, but an
American business is seldom or rarely
heard Of"
The people of Minnehaha announce
that they are getting weary of the motor
service. 1t is probable that their
fatiI lie would be intensified were they
70 discard It entirely and walk. The
street railway company thinks SO. hence
their action.
When two innocent special policemen
who are taking man to the insane
asylum are arrested as suspicious char
Rciers and locked up OIL the charge OF
stealing 50 from the till of a railroad
eating house, what can an ordinary
everyday citizen expect?
The city is to have a brand new official.
He is to be called the wire inspector,
and he will have an office In the city
hall. There are a good many wires
there, especially during council meet
ing, and somebody ought to inspect
them.
Lowry has denied that he has any in
terest in tile Mepker Island Water
Power company. Now, if he will deny
that he is about to locate an electril line
to the moon; that he is going to estab-
lish a line of air ships between Mime
apolis and Pekin. and that he intends to
dig for diamonds in the Mississippi
river, several evening papers will be
out of jobs for want of material for
news items. They have exhausted all
other schemes.
A North Dakota paper had the effront-
cry to speak of Wet HOuse-Rules Eustis
as shallow" Spirit of jim Blaine!
DID the editor never hear of Eustls' ca
pacity for holding hopeless ideas on pO-
litical matters?
Since the crematOry has been SEN
fenced to the WOrkhOuSe DR.. kilVlngtOn
has not been known to smile. Even his
dog Grover keeps out of his way now.
A movement is on foot to have the
national regatta held at MinnetOnka,
instead of at Pullman, Ill. The Lur-
lines have taken the matter under con-
SideratiOn and if they say so the North
west can have 1t.
DR.. Martha g. Ripley has begun as
though determined to do up" DR.. XII
vingtOn. The health officer might as
we'll throw up the sponge, for a
woman always has her way, no matter
what the opposition may be.
The lawyers are no friends to Tom
Lucas since he roasted them. They
prefer to do all of the roasting while
trying cases in court.
The evening mouthpiece of the man
who, more than all others, is continually
shrieking about foreign" papers iniur-
ing Minneapolis business interests and
abusing every person who so much as
dares to even think that every
thing IN Minneapolis is better than it
can be anywhere else, last evening
published an article which. if allowed
to 20 unrefuted, would work serious in
jury to legitimate business transacted
by reputable business men. There was
utterly no foundation for circulating a
story to the effect that gigantic law
suits had been instituted against we'll
krDwn MinneapOlitan and asserting
that this man had been accused of fraud.
The five actions in question combined
do not equal suits which are begun in
the courts a hundred times year. AS
for the charge of fraud, there are
actions filed every day in the Office of
the district court clerk which allege
that a certain thing has been done with
''intent to detraud," and yet nothing is
ever heard of them. Actions speak more
plainly than words.
Gen, NettletOn's connection with the
seal of Alaska was something like that
between him and the seal of Minnesota
Just after the Tribune fire. He came
near catching both, except that the lat
ter would have been attached to sheet
OF paper.
OF course Ed Davenport wants moth
ing from ''president, governor or peo-
pie" but that would not prevent his
taking whatever might be offered. Ii