St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-25
CURRENT CHIT-CHAT.

Bays u w dSiiHS tOll L OSb NIltcI, NOuucl-
ing why SO learned speaker as Sena-
tor Teller should persistently say ''air'
for ''are;' why so eloquent a gentleman
as Senator Daniel should say .'cam' for
''calm,n and why Senator Moody should
say extraordinary" wondering. too,
why pretty nearly every senator, when
he has nothing to say, says it in his
most Oratorical manner, and why most
|. of them begin their long speeches with
/ the assertion that they do not intend to
they have taken more of the Senate's
| time than they intended to. | was
sitting there thinking Of these things
when | spied my old friend. Uncle
.Jabez Larrabee, of Illinois. in the gal
Fiery across from me. Always inter-
ested in his observations, [ went over
and sat down beside him.
1--WE been thinkin'," said he, "what
tarnaI nonsense it is for US to teach our
children how to write accordin' to rule.
Now, out in our village they teach what
they call the Spencerian system, am
they make every child set jest so at his
over his right shoulder, an his arm
restin' jest in such a position on the
desk. swum don't see no use in that
at all, fer no man ever got to be great,
seems to me. till he unlearned all them
rules an went to writin' accordin' to
his own idee of how it should be DONE"
~
met friend who has Just returned
from Europe, writes a New York Star
reporter. and happened to notice that
halfway down on light bamboo cane
he carried was silver band about an
incn wide. Inquiring what it was, be
laughed and said it was new foreign
fashion in canes which he hoped TO in
little pressing he let me into the Sc
cret. The cane was favorite one with
him, but while in Nice it was unfor-
tunately stepped on and broken in the
middle. Taking it to a local restorer OF
such things, he had it carefully repaired.
the spllntered portion being concealed
by the aforesaid silver band. When he
returned to New York, and went to his
club and other resorts, the band on the =.
cane attracted attention. Moved by a
spirit of fun, he gravely told inquirers
that it was the latest English fad In
canes introduced by the Prince of
Wales. He offered to bet me that
within month you could count 100
the avenue, and on the whole l did not
care to take him up. If this ventilation +.
does not spoil the scheme, the fashion
may 'catch on"
1t will be remembered by newspaper
readers, says the Washington Post, that
within the last year a certain Maryland
millionaire named Dupont married a
barmaid in the city of Queenstown, who
was popularity known DIS "Tottie." This
young woman was not strikingly hand
some. but she was generally credited in
| Queenstown with possessing one of the
sbarpest tongues in Ireland.
When "Tottie" was taken away from
the Queens hotel by her American hus
band she was succeeded by young
woman named Miss White, who was
scarcely less original in her remarks
than her predecessor had been. 1t must
be borne in mind that young woman
loses nothing in social caste by being
barmaid in Ireland. Not long since an
Englishman, who was stopping at the
Queens hotel, presumed on Miss
Whites freedom of speech. He stood
Eleaning upon the bar and gradually
moved his face closer and closer to Miss
Il Whites ruddy cheek. By the merry
twinkle in the barmaid's eye it could
that he wanted to kiss her. His
lips were slowly but surely approa CHI
ing the barmaid's rounded cheek, while
Ether right hand as slowly and as surely
encircled the neck Of decanter which
stood on the bar. When his lips had
approached to within one inch of her
| cheek she suddenly raised the bottle
and poured its cold contents down the
back of his neck. Then springing
| lightly backwards she exclaimed, with
merry laugh:
f Il thought ye were gettin' a trife
warrum, sir, and I'd cool yer ardor.'
+ One result of Capt. Zalinski's going
abroad as military attache to United
States legation, says the New York
World, is boom just developing in Or
ders for his dynamite gun, which is
course. states only can be customers .
and private individuals, however bellig-
Grant their dispositions, have no use for
gun forty feet long that has to be
worked by pneumatic engine, aud
shoots ball that weighs sixty pounds.
England and several continental ma
tionS have sent i'm these orders since
Capt. Zalinski went over, and others are
on the way. The first one ordered by
England is for use in Australia, in coast
| defense. Americans invented dyna-
mite, emmensite, guE-cotton, and, in
deed, nearly all the 'high-eXplosives,
and a gun whose projectiles are said to
have the very highest known penetrat-
| ing power has just been invented near
I here But there isn't any 'SmOkelesS-
powder maker over here yet, and "a
linski will no doubt bring home with
him the secret of making it,"
-
The short, thick-set man with gray
hair. small mustache and bronzed face,
who registered at the Palmer last even
| ing as A. S. Greene, says the Chicago
Tribune, has had as rough an eXperince
| in the United States navy during times
of peace as any other officer. During
| that awful hurricane year ago. when
the Inflated Vandalia, of the Pacific
squadron. foundered Oh coral reef
just off the Samoan islands, there were
four of her officers clinging for their
lives to small railing. The immense
| waves dashed over the ship, and the
officers were dashed overheard. Three
of the men were drowned instantly.
The remaining officer, Lieutenant Com
mander Greene, caught on to some
wreckage and made the shore after
being tossed about for a long time OH
the sea. The natives cared for him, and
in day he took command of what re-
manned of the Vandalia crew. Lieut..
Greene is in Chicago to inspect some
government steel shaftings being
made by firm on the West side.
He is trying to get some recognition
for one of his sailors who saved some
twenty-five men during the Samoan
catastrophe.
when the storm was furious" he
said, "a Greek sailor on the Vandalia /
| jumped overheard and swan over to the
Nipsic. He got onto the ship be means
of rope over the side and threw light
line over to the Vandalia. He tossed
the line about seventy yards right
against the wind. This was made fast
by rope, and by this the twenty-five
men who We're on the Vandalia were
able to get to the Nipsic, and then
| ashore. 1t was brave deed, for the
seas over which he swan had drowned
some forty men, and nearly all expert
swimmers. Outside of mere mention of
this act nothing has ever been done for