St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-03

1t has been argued that the Guinness
of the weather at the present time is
due to the banquet held at the Mime
sofa club by the Northwestern Alumni
Association Of Williams college. Others
claim that it is due to the return OF Y.
A. Nimocks from the West.
The statement recently confirmed by
Thomas l. WY that Henry Willard has
secured an interest in the Twin City
railways would excuse the average
reader in the belief that the veteran
street railway man had resolved upon
retirement from the active working OF
his so-called diamond mine.
"Woman's World" is the large three
column headline that adOrnS page IN
one of the Sunday papers. 1t would
look more natural if the date line at the
top of the page began with New York
World.''
The average ladies' aid society. or
temperance union, will get together'
scrap in a mild way for three hours, ad-
iOurn without accomplishing anything,
tell the reporter to say all the good he
can of it, and then each individual mem
Der kick the next day because the head
line, Interesting and Enthusiastic
Meeting" was inadvertently dropped
out.
The craze for quarters in the library
building seems to have about died out.
Several evenings still remain unoccu-
pied, and still the Single Tax league,
the Women's. Christian association and
the board of trade are obliged to furnish
their own quarters.
To those who propose trip to Eu-
rope next season, and are afraid OF sea-
sickness, it might be we'll to accession
themselves to the motion by travelling
over the steel arch bridge on these cold
evenings. The vibration is hrSt-rate
imitation.
The days are drawing near when the
spring poet will emerge from his hiding
place, the book agent again resume his
daily round, the street sprinkler parade
It's usefulness before an unfeellng pub
lie, and the base bail crank intilct his
suffering friends with the tale of a cy-
clone pitcher he has discovered on
visit to kOkOmO.
The report that Freeman P. Lane IS
at work upon a modern sensational
drama, in which Ben Johnson is to do
the star act. is denied by intimate
friends.
Col. W. W. ". WettlesOn, the debon-
air sporting editor of the Times, dressed
in a white silk handkerchief, plug hat,
cane and expansive smile, was one OF
the features of the McCormick-Paulsen
skating race yesterday. The tempera-
AZURE was Is deg below zero, and the
colonel wore the cane for warmth.
Whv is it that no sporting event was
ever known to begin at the advertised
time? Several hundred Minneapolitans
congregated at the union depot yester-
day for the purpose of jOurneying to
White Bear lake to see AXel PaulSen
defeated by Hugh Mccormick. The
train was advertised to start at
10 a. m. No stops were to have
been made until White Bear should
be reached, bet several pauses
did Obtrude themselves upon the
attention of the passengers. One face
tious individual suggested that the de-
lays were OccasiOned by the inability or
the man who SprInkled sand on the
track to keep ahead of the train, and he
was probably right. Arrived at the end
of the trip, everybody made grand
rush for the track, and then the crowd
stood around in the snow and fTOZe for
another hour or SO before the skaters
appeared. The hundreds of hot and
dead game sports attempted TO while
away the tedious delay by comparing
notes OF pocket TASKS, and some diver
sion was afforded by a few inciplent
riots, during one of which IA SiX-fOot po-
Iiceman was sOundly slugged by nine
ty-seven-pound boy; but these flashes
of meIriment were merely incidental.
hpuin nearly
one there was too cold to cheer. Why
cannot a sporting event be conducted
with that punctuality which is of neces-
sity a cOncOmitant of all other enter
priSeS?
The mass meeting called by the Peo-
PIES Political Reform club has come
and gone. The walls of the city h Ill
are still standing, and it is possible that
the usual grind of the municipal adj
ADMINISTRATION mill will resume its grind
this morning and the effect of the up
heaval of Saturday night will scarcely
he noticed. The chances are as ten to
one that the Minneapolis public picked
up the Sunday papers, read Of the pro-
ceedings of that mass meeting, smiled
quietly to themselves and then-for-
got all about the Peoples Political
Reform club and the object of its organ
iZatiOn. AT that meeting Goiightly
Morrill, roasted every body in general,
Judge WEIGH roasted Morrill,. NJ. Falk
Giertspn alternately scored and petted
both the Catholics and anti-CathOlics,
Comptroller CaldPrwood talked of mu-
nicipal finances, and the whole circus
wound up with the appointment of
committee of seven, which will in turn
appoint committee of fifty to manage
the campaign of the club, and. Incl
dentally, to bury it in POtter's field.
That is all the meeting amounted to,
and probably all that 1t will ever
amount 20. There was no connection
between the arguments of any two of
the speakers. 1t seemed that the meet.
ing vas called for the purpose Of giving
fe Intemen, who were pulled up
WELL .gh to the bursting point, an OPP
portuuity for relieving their Surcharged
minds. Nothing more. Of course there
is ample room for reform in the present
conduct of municipal affairs, but those
who expect to see that reform brought
about through the efforts of the mis-
guided gentlemen who spOuted at Arm
DRY hall Saturday night will be griev-
Ously disappointed.
A morning paper concludes a state
ment to the effect that the Flambeau
club held meeting with the words,
"Nothing Of Importance was accom-
pished." Those five words were wholly
unnecessary.
E. NJ. Hubbard, of the Eagle CO.
operative Barrel company, decided that