St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-24

Have employees of the police depart
ment been mentioned as extensively
partisan political workers? Yet there
are men connected with that branch of
the political government who not only
did partisan work, but work of the
most offensive kind. 1t consisted of
secret conspiracy ana villiilcatiOn.
And not word has been said about them
in the Republican papers. 1t makes a
difference whose OK is gored. Now the
city employees WHO took such part III
the recent campaign as to worry the
Republican press nightly were not
occupants of positions for which there
Is general scramble. They hold subor-
iinate places at the will OF the heads of
departments. They are chosen because
Of their special fitness for the work on
which they have been employed. In
their diatribcS about offensive PARTISAN
ship the Republican papers seem to
have been engaged in the pleasant but
protitlGSS task of making mountain
out of a molehill.
Frank J. JunCen, the reformed COM
mercal traveller who runs the Brunswick
lOtel cigar store, has laugh which he
occasionally turns loose Tor exercise and
recreation, and when he does people on
Hennepin avenue for block either
way invOluntarilY turn around to see
where that load OF coal is being emptied.
MIR. Jungen has been finally induced to
laugh into monograph, and specimens
Of his Silvery exclamation can be OBJ
tanned by inserting nickel in the slot
ana pushing the lever.
"Mr. Blethcn." of the Tribune, is
fast becoming rival of {. j. Maben in
The way of making himself prominent
in the columns Of his own paper.
The suggestion that the name of Cen
.ral park be changed to LOring park in
lOnOr of G. NJ. LUring does not meet
with much favor. There seems to be
no especial reason for rearranging the
city Just because Mr.. Loring happened
TO run on the Republican ticket and
got defeated for Office.
Tom O'Connor, the weli-known archi-
lect of two-st0ry milk punches, and
cOmpOunder OF other refreshing admiX-
lures calculated to eXhilarate and slim
uIate, has become proprietor of the
thirst factory at 326 Nicollet avenue. 1t
is suspected that Thomas bet the right
way on election this year.
1t was in connection with Miss Agnes
Hunting ton's appearance at the Grand
opera house next month as a star that
Col. W. Ii. Foster, of the Boston Ideals,
remarked yesterday that there was no
money in grand opera in this
country. Il had the best grand
opera company ever organized IN
this country said he, 'but /
never made dollar out OF it. | had
Zelie de Lussan, Agnes. Huntington
and Pauline L'Allemand III my COM
pany at one time, yet rumor that
was in financial straits was sufficient
to cause the public to conclude that the
organization was inferior. Funny, isn't
IT? L mean serious"
De LusSan now receives $3.50 night
and her carriage in London. Agnes
Huntington, with a London indorse-
ment, is creating furOre III New York,
and L'Allemand is star that will some
day become brilliant in the operate
constellation.
Football is becoming popular in Min
neapoliS. 1t will be noticed that the
boz m in the kicking game was greatly
accelerated by the beginning of the in
termIttent operation of the electric
lines.
Eating as Fine Art" was the title
of an article in Sunday morning
paper. 1t was published not so much
for the benefit of the public as for the
instruction of the papers own employees.
who. long ago, got beyond ''eating as a
science"
1t has been suggested that the name
OF Prospect park was changed because
the residents on its borders considered
IL Il mlSnOmer in view of the outlook tor
electrical transit Oh to st. Paul. There
was no prospect.
The scarcity of prominent Republic
ans on the street is attributed to their
still hunt after something for which to
render thanks next Thursday.
Judging from the perceptive powers
exhibited in his letters from New York,
poor Charles ALT Williams must have
suffered the loss of his other eye.
''Speak of all well-known personages
by their familiars, or ncknames." (The
Tribune's Office Rule No. 70. entitled,
allow to Write Humorous Matter."0
"Who robbed the little tin box?''
seems destined TO reverbrate along the
corridors of time in company with "Who
struck Billy Patterson" Perhaps the
same man did both foul deeds.
Officer Fred Johnson, wearing one of
the new uniform caps, crossed Wash
ington avenue last night as an electric
car was approaching. The car jumped
the track. 1t had sufficient provoca-
ton.
Contrary to custom, the lusty bawl-
ing of a child settled a lawsuit at the
court house Saturday without the in
terventlon of the court. After case
has gone through court is when the
children usually cry-for bread.
Minneapolis has a population OF
nearly 10000 people, mostly humorists.
The list of candidates in the Times
voting contest for manager OF the expo.
sition proves the assertion.
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