St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-23
MONDAY CHIT-CHA T.

pVI6cI, TtluluUS lle VI TWO Olu uedCOuS
in an old Massachusetts town who quar-
relied. Their quarrel, which was at
first confined to themselves, grew until
the church and congregation bid fair to
split. Things went on in this way,
nothing else being talked of, and peace
never visited that town until one of the
deacons died. One day, however, about.
midway in the life of the quarrel. the
townspeople were awestruck to see the.
elder deacon enter the yard of the
younger. The cruel war is over,' they
thought. Slowly the elder approached
the house, in the doorway of which,
stood the younger, no less astonished
than the townspeople, who crowded
round to listen to the peacemaking. q
Deacon began the elder, Deacon,
we have quarreled. 1t has been seri-
GUS quarrel. It has extended to our
families, friends, congregation, and no "
the town threatens to split up because,
of it. Something must be done to stop
it, and one of us must make the first adj
vance. So called on you to ask you to
do it, for can't
Just what reply was made by the
younger, or what happened, l don't
know. l remember only that in the
rush that followed, boy though was, l
was glad to make my escape"
Berry Wall stood leaning against the
balustrade of the stairway in the st.
James corridor last night, bewailing his
hard luck, says a New York Star re-
porter 81 believe If l started across
the ocean the ship would sink" said he
20 me. 81 have not been around the races
much this year, but the other day |
thought I'd take flyer, and | backed
Brother Ban-'a dead-sure thing they
told me. He fell dead on the track, as
you know-'a dead-Sure thing for me,
ment out Of town tonight, but delayed
going until the last train that would
take me out in time, and when reached
the station found that they bad just
taken the train off for the season. To
add to my woes, some reporter has
started on its rounds again the old story
about my having won big stake at the
races, and has brought down upon me
the usual shower of duns." l hear
from one of Wallis friends that he is
writing book on his experiences, to be
published in September. 1t will have,
besides chapter written by him on how
to dress, one by Delmonico on how to
dine, and another by John Chamberlain
telling the diShes that make up gilt
edged dinner.
In discussing American plays the
other day, says the New York World.
NJ. B. Curtis made the interesting state
ment that he paid $3.50 for the manu-
script of ''Sam'l of Posen." He was
stopping at Nyack during the summer,
and met George II. Jessup there, and
one morning told him the story of the
play while they were waiting for train
at the depot. JesSup agreed to do the
work for $3.50 and Curtis notes for the
balance at six and twelve months. Cur
tbs paid him 500 down. Jessup went to
work and completed the play in five
days. Thereupon Curtis paid him $3.50
tended to do the play through the va
riety theaters of the country. Up to
that time Curtis had achieved no lead
ing position in the theatrical profession
and was doing low comedy and utility
work at S25 week or thereabO Its.
When Curtis took the play into the lead
ing theaters of the country and made a
success of it the author was of course
very much astonished, and said that if
he had known of Curtis intention he
certainly would have arranged for a
royalty. The actor paid the $500 very
shortly after he began playing the
piece, but he told Jessup at the time
that the payment of the first $3.50 had
taken nearly his last dollar.
The empress of Germany. writes a
Chicago News correspondent, is said to
be young woman of exceeding fiery
temper. She was SchleSwig-H
h ,f-tn or
verity-is thorough houSekeeper, as
bility is not her most notable character
istic. Of course she cannot quarrel with
her husband, for the etiquette of the
court is distinctly rigorous; but the en-
press is at liberty to quarrel with every
body else, and of this prerogative the
young woman availS herself. Some of
her outbursts of temper have been of a
most humiliating character, betraying a
coarseness one would hardly expect to
| meet with in royalty. The empress iu-
clines to Stoutness; her features are
rather heavy, but the expression of her
face is kindly. She is one year Older
than her husband. AS for the eX-em-
press Frederick, mother of the present
emperor, she Is a picture of her mother,
the queen of England.
In the days of the chestnut bell, says
a New York Sun writer, lot Of us
were waiting at Trenton for the Long
Branch train, and one Of the men
began telling about his experience on a
wrecked vessel in mid-Atlantic. Near
by, on passengers trunk, sat a pale
faced, weary-eyed young man of
| twenty summers, who was going down
= oh wit h ma n a
| chestnut bell, and this was perhaps the
first time he had had a chance to ring
| it. The gentleman was proceeding with
| his story when ting-a-ling! went the
bell. He stopped and looked around,
and then continued. but after half a
minute the young man belled him up
| again. The man looked annoyed, but
| went on, and during the quarter of an
| hour he was talking that bell rang
! about fifteen times. When he had fin
| ished be looked over to the weary young
man and asked:
what is that bell for?"
"Chestnuts." was the reply.
elbow do you mean%'
"Wby, you know, when you hear any
thing old you-ting-a-ling on the bell"
"Oh, you do. guess I'll try it once"
He got up, shook the young man out
of his coat and collar at the first shake,
and then whirled him around, ended
him up, and gave him toss over heap
of baggage. The bell boy got up COW
cred with dust and wreck. the bell
broken by the shock, and his collar
harging by one end. and as he disap-
peared into the ladies' room we heard
his mother eXclaim:
"Why, darling, didn't warn you to
look out for the locOmOtive?'
And the mail who had told the story
added:
''Best to take such cases at the start
and administer strong medicine. He
might have rung that bell on somebody
who'd have got mad and damaged hi m
beyond re pair" =
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