St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-11

A Maypole luncheon was what the
entertainment given by Mrs. Daniel
Butterield on Thursday in honor of
Mrs. u. s. Grant was called. 1t was
served in Sherry's ball room.
Mrs. Eliza E. Poole, of Chelsea, Mass.
has been appointed as pilot on board
the steam yacht Isis. Boston harbor.
Annie Dooley, aged thirteen years,
died at her home, No. $50 Second ave-
nue., New York, on Thursday, from the
effects of excessive rope jumping. On
Tuesday afternoon companion Of the
girl remarked that she could not Jump
the rope 200 times without stopping.
Annie accomplished this feat, but
shortly afterWard began to feel ILL.,
New York World.
Mrs. Garfield has returned to her
home in Mentor after visit to her
daughter. Mrs. j. Stanley Brown, in
Washington. Mrs. Harrison called
upon Mrs. Garfield Immediately upon
hearing of her presence in the capital,
the ex-presldent's widow returning the
call with her daughter the next day.
Seven young New York ladies, gym.
nastic pupils, gave an exhibition OF
skill Thursday. The work consisted OF
bar-jnmping. ring-swingng aud low
parallel turning. In vaulting over a
bar with pole Miss rockingham and
Miss Jones showed the greatest prof.
cheney, clearing the crossbar when it
was five feet two inches from the
ground.
Mrs. Lynn Linton says in the London
Musical World that the performances
provided in London drawing rooms by
| hostesses will never be worth listening
to so long as ''girlS with voices no
louder than reed, and shrlll and
twanging as jew's-harp, clip the
words of an abSurdly sentimental song
to an audience whose present pleasure
they destroy, and who have to feign a
satisfaction they do not feel"
Capt. McCalla. United States navy,
married as beautiful Boston belle as
ever touched dainty foot to the Bea-
con street sidewalk.
Partisan authorities have been debat-
ing whether the host or the guest should
enter carriage first, says the Chicago
News. After much argument the fol-
lowing conclusions have been reached !:
Ii the host be a woman she should enter
first, and should seat herself so that her
guest shall sit at her right, but she
should not neglect to explain to her
guest that she wishes her to occupy the
seat OF honor at her right. If the host
be a man the guest enters the carriage
first and takes the seat to the right of
where the host is to sit. In entering a
carriage gentleman should never pass
In front of a lady seated within; he
should rather walk around to the
farther side of the carriage and enter
by the outside door.
Sir William Gull, celebrated London
specialist. said that tight lacing was
productive of bad compilations and red
noses. This ought to do away with the
evil at once.
Women inventors appear very often
On the patent office records. and one of
them who succeeded in pushing through
an improvement in an eye-glass spring
is said to have made very comfortable
fortune by the crystallization of her
ideas in practical form.
In a Maine school the other day the
teacher was giving out masculine nouns
for the pupils to write down the femi-
nine corresponding. The teacher asked
the feminine of hart" which is ''hihd."
One little girl misunderstood the word
and wrote sharp" feminine ''fiddle."