St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-07
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Andrew Rinker is man of nerve.
With reckleSSness that is born of q
disregard for all earthly terrors, he has
dared to cast reflections upon that cher
ished institution, the water power OF
St. Anthony falls. It's good thing for
him he is not in the newspaper bust
ness or he would be impaled for the
crime OF ''belittling Minneapolis"
The gentleman was not so very old,
but he was pompous. He was self
made man, and he wanted everybody
who should chance to pass to rec
OgniZe the fact that he was
an important member of that unknown
quantity called society. As he stood
on the corner of Fourth street and Hen
nepin, his hands carelesSly grasped
magnificent gOld-handled umbrella,
while his gaze was fixed upon west
bound car. When Col. Lowry's tram"
was but a short distance away. up went
one pudgy hand as signal to the
driver, much as a one-armed preacher
would bestow a benediction. If the
driver saw /. IN. of S. he never betrayed
his knowledge. Then the umbrella was
waved at the rapidly approaching team.
The drivers eye appeared to be taking
in the off, horses beauty.
Hi, therer' came from the 1. m. of S.,
and still the jehu appeared to be seek
ing new beauty spots on that Off
horse.
Hold on therei Why don't you stop
that ear? l want to get on" calculated
i. III. of $. But still the "off'' horse was
to the eye of his driver as the magnet
to the iron.
By this time the i. m. of S. was run
ming, shouting ana putting very hard
Ir,I 4
side of the street. The conductor was
getting the first installment of a sound
berating, but he merely remarked:
I'VE never stop between the cross
walks. mister.'
Twas an amusing though senseleSS
scene. butOne which happens every day.
Edward j. Davenport is now begin
ming to acquire the prominence which a
census supervisor for the Second district
warrants, and within another month he
will probably be called Col. Davenport.
For the twenty-seventh time since it
appeared in the courts, a certain law
suit has again been continued. 1t now
bids fair to rival Jarndyce and JaTn-
dyce. In BLEAK House." Charles
Dickens severely criticised, or as
the latter-day American would putt,
roasted the English court in chancery.
His criticisms were no doubt applicable
TO many other British courts. But it is
a fact that business is, as rule, tran
sacted much more rapidly in the Eng
lish courts than in our own. 1t is a
popular American habit to call every
thing slow, cumbersome and unsatis-
factory. relic of old world old fogyiSm.
Yet not always is everything European
''old fogy." Americans can learn a
profitable lesson from England.
However swift Americans in general
may be. 1t is safe to say that in the
law courts they are the slowest people
On earth. If one OF the parties to a suit at
law chooses he can put OFF almost indeti-
nitely the trial of the case. If it be a
matter of money, when a result is
Eeached the expenses amount to more
than the amount involved; should it be
wrong to be righted, perhaps all rea-
son for righting it have disappeared be-
ever justice has been done; if it be a
crime to be punished, justice is
thWarthed until not at least faint re-
membrance Ofthe crime remains. This
twenty-Seventh continuance of the
above mentioned case is but a remainder
Of these facts.
In the interest of ''retrenchment and
reform" the aldermen of the Eighth
wald have taken an initiatory step
which will probably sooner or later be
adopted by all the wards in the city.
Aid. Sterling has found a contractor
who will do street grading for II cents
per cubic yard, and contract Sor 80, 600
yards is ready to be signed. 1t costs the
city at least Is cents yard to grade
when the street commissioners do the
work and Mr.. Sterling is of the opinion
that the council should commence TO
take some cogniZance of its prediction
promises.
Assistant City Attorney Hall yester-
day received warrant for Sl5S5, which
represented his expenses i'll taking care
OF the city's interests in the year 1889.
Wheu the comptroller handed him the
warrant he was as proud as boy with
his first pair of boots, and he wolked
out of the office whstling: "Pve got
fifteen collars in my inside pocket, do
you mOind."
A well known citizen who owns con-
siderable property on Twenty-seventh
street, between Garfield and Harriet
avenues, and who was assessed an even
500 for street Sprinkling, is after the
scalps OF the city officials because he
was compelled to pay for something he
didn't get. It's dollars to doughnuts
that his assessment will be annulIed at
the next meeting of the council.
The council committee on printing
has decided that 800 copies of the annual
reports of the city departments will be-
about enough TO go around, and to at
the same time allow Librarian Putnam
TO add another valuable book of refer
ence" to his list.