St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-28
SAINT PAUL.
ODDS AND ENDS.

The 400 has thus far failed to call a
meeting to pass resolutions of regret at
the sudden departure of the once cen
trail figure-Edward j. Cattell. This
omission is probably due to the fact
that prior to his departure Mr.. Cattell
failed to send out the usual "P. T. o."
cards. The 400 is very quick to resent
any social shortcomings of that charac-
ter. However, the story that Cattell
was about to marry ,heiress, who sud
denly refused him and drove him to
desperate stock gambling, is probably
campaign yarn: 1t is also proOaoie tIlat
no credence will be given the tale that
pair of Cattell's cuffs will be sold to
the highest bidder at coming church
Sociable.
Now that the interests of the coming
crop have been fully conserved by the
copiouS showers, for heavens sake let
us have a little pleasant weather. we
have had about ten weeks of April, and
would like little May just to know
that winter is gone. Yesterday was
gay deceiver. 1t started out as fair as
Kiefer's dream or Reese's prophecy. but
after having enticed the population out
i'll its spring attire and no umbrella,
turned and finished with a prolonged,
sleety driZZle.
Last nights weather chart issued
from the local signal office shows that
the area of low barometer that was
central north of Montana yesterday
morning dilated in a southeaSterly d.
rection, and at Z p. m. last night formed
a trough or low" of the form of an
oval, extending from Calgary, on the
Canadian Pacific railway, southeaStward
over Montana and into South Dakota.
Brisk to high winds and moderate
showers prevail over the eaSterly
quadrantsot the trough" 1t will be to
the east of us this afternoon, with clear
ing to fair weather this evening and
lower temperature Thursday morning.
The official weather prophet is having
a pretty hard row to cover Just now. lie
persists in predicting one thing. and the
weather delights in giving another.
Whether this is pure perVerslty on the
part of the weather, or whether the
official prophet stands in with the st.
Paul base ball club, is an undetermined
question, but the fact remains that the
prediction and the occurrence do not
iibe. Yesterday morning the prophet
got dose of the worst rain of the sea-
son. Last evening he promised fair,
warm weather, and we were touched
up with thunder, lightning and rain
without intermission. For to-day clear
ing weather is promised. followed by
cooler on Thursday, so it is fair to pre-
sumo it will rain this afternoon and
roast on Thursday morning.
A correspondent wants to know the
Transatlantic steamship record and by
what vessel it was made. For several
years the Cunarder Etruria wore the
spurs with a record Of days, hour
and 81 minutes, but the City OF Paris, of
the IEman line, has since reduced this
time nearly twelve hours, her record
being days, Is hours and 10 minutes.
1t is the general belief that this will be
reduced during the coming summer by
the City of New York.
The next legislature. under the new
apportiOnment act. will be composed of
81 senators and lis representatives.
These will all be elected at the Novem-
Der election. The senator's term of Of
flee will be for four years and the rep
resentatives' tenure will be only two
years, or until the next state election.
A report has been started that of the
senators to be chosen this year half
would be elected for two and half for
four year terms, but this is an error, as
all will be elected for four years. Sen
ators elected this year will participate
in the election of successor to Senator
Davis.