St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-19
GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE.

The marriage of Senator Walcott was
q surprise to nearly all Of his friends,
says the New York World. although his
brother, Henry Waleott, who has S9,0O0,-
600, clean-shaven face and a winning
smile, bad been in New York several
days before the ceremony explaining
the sudden move Oh the part of Brother
Ed s'Brother Ed" is the Youngest
member of the senate, and the handsome
est man of that body of rich men. He is
of robust physique, with dark-blue eyes,
q k-andwhite complexion and
blond Q hair, which is parted in
the middle and allowed to grow rather
long, Chamberlain, who knows nearly
all of the public men of this and the
past generation. is fond of remarking
that Ed Walcott can last longer than
any of them. Before his marriage he
was anxious to sit up and tell stories
long after everybody else was thinking
of going to bed, and he considers six
hours as entirely too much for any man
in this age to devote to sleep. The pres
ent Mrs. Walcott, who was formerly the
wife of Congressman Bass, belongs to
the well-known Metcalfe family, of
Buffalo. She is rather petite in stature
and notably pretty.
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The Baroness de Fontenilliat, the
sister of Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt and
the latest candidate which society has
putforward for histrionic trtumphs, has
a charming apartment near Central
park, and lives here all alone with her
maid, French cook and an unusually
accomplished pug dog. This unique
animal is so given to athletic diver
sions that he has escaped the COM
mon fate of his kind, and with
increasing years has not put on
the layers of fat which lead to apo
| pleXy and Suffocaton. Although he is
now verging on seven, which CORE
spends to the three score and ten of hui
man kind, his body is still 1.-THE and
muscular and his coat still has the soft
| and silky character characteristic of
pugs which have not outgrown the
charms of extreme youth. In response
! to the injunctlons of his mistress,
| liSped as they are in musical French,
| the pug rises OH his hind legs and
waltzes about the room with a grace
| that would command the admiration of
| over riding whip held four or five
feet from the floor with all the prompt
| ness and address Of d greyhound.
Attention was some time ago drawn
in this country, says the London Truth,
| to some silly personal attacks made
| against Nine. Patti in a Mexican paper.
| Apropos to these iibels, Mr.. Ruben. the
| well-knoWn American artists agent,
| who accompanied Nine. Patti to Mexico,
has told the true, and a good story.
The libels consisted in the fact that
Nine. Patti was accused of calling Mrs.
| Diaz, the wife of the Mexican presi-
| dent, "washerwoman." The state
| ment was grotesquely untrue, for Mrs.
| Diaz is personal friend Of Nine. Patti,
and the falsehood was presumably only
uttered in order to damage the great
seems, settled the matter in his own
| fashion. He sent message asking the
| editor of the paper to call upon him.
The fattered Mexican journalist
came, and was then invited to take a
stroll in the garden. Duly arrived
there, the president, removing his coat.
| gave the libeler sound thraShlng of
| the good old-fashioned sort. So, at any
rate, says Mr.. Ruben. and if he speaks
truly congratulate President Diaz.
~
A story is told, says the Chicago
News, illustrating the natural coarse
ness of the young German emperor.
For a number of years he has suffered
from almost constant earache, and to
protect himself against exposure to cold
he is in the habit of wearing cotton in
his ears. You recollect that he visited
was RECALLED with naval reviews, mill
tary parades and other dis
plays calculated and likely to
please him. On one of these occa-
sions the weather was particularly
nasty. and the young emperor noticed
that the English officer specially de-
tailed to attend upon him kept putting
his hand to his jaw as if he were in
| pain. Presently the emperor asked:
''Are you ill? You seem to be in pain"
MAY it please your majesty said
the officer, Il am suffering greatly. At
breakfast to-day a filling came out of
one of my back teeth, and, having been
detailed to attend upon you, have not
yet had an opportunity to secure relief
from the pain which the uncoverlng OF
the nerve has precipitated."
"My dear fellow" cried the emperor
cordially, ''yOu shall suffer no longer.
81 ere, take this and stuff it into the
tooth at once" With which words the
emperor pulled the plug of cotton out of
one of his ears and handed part of it to
the officer.
There was but one thing for the Off
Ger TODD; the mere suggestion of royalty
admits of no alternative.
~
A group of gentlemen at the Fifth
Avenue last evening, says the New
York Star, were deplOring the failure
of the rapid transit bill, and lamenting
that compromise of some kind could
not have been reached. "Well, the
trouble was. as near as can find out"
said one, ga good deal like the trouble
between two deacons in Congrega
tional church, about whom Henry
Ward Beecher used to tell"
''Give us the Story" exclaimed every
body.
'Well, the two deacons had dispute
and neither would recede. The quarrel
got so sharp that the minister became
scandaliZed and called the deacons be-
fore him. After lecturing them. he adj
vised that each go off by himself and
pray, and then see if they could not
meet IN a more conciliatOry spirit. They
took his advice. After prayers they
came together in the presence of the
minister.
"'What tidings, brothers.? asked he.
''I have petitioned for grace said
one, and am willing to COMPROMISED
"'Heaven be praised! cried the
other. my prayers are answered. |
prayed for this. Brother Jones, you
must give way, for can't
THAT has been the trouble with these
rapid transit companies. One side
hn 9th fa do oil IaI