St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-03
MINNEAPOLIS,
Additional City News on Page 5.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
"In what year were you born9"

''In 1S4S."
"Then you are just twenty-seveu
years Old"
won't you please take this easy
chair?"
The above will be the dialogue be-
tween the lady of the house and the
census taker who has tact and who re-
serves making accurate mathematical
calculations until he is alone.
If the government would only allow
dealing in futures" some enterprlSlng
nose-counter could make a snug little
sum by calling upon Secretary Hall, OF
the board of trade, since the census
taker is paid 30 cents for every manu-
featuring enterprise reported.
Four extra telephone girls were COM
PEELED TO resign Sunday night, although
1T was their first night on duty. The
lball team played away from home. and
these four girls we're detailed to look
after the newspaper wires.
1t has been suggested that Mind
Reader johnson try his powers on
Mayor Babb, but JohnSon'S managers
say he is young yet. and they do not
like to subject him to too great STRAIN
at first.
"The Boy Scout is said not to be
the same Young man as 'Peck's Bad
Bow" although the public may think
them Identical so far as badness" is
is concerned.
The Minneapolis men who deal in
drinkabes are of the opinion that Mrs.
Helen Cougars name should be spelled
Gouger,
1t is learned from a reliable source
that the only object in Hennepin county
not visible from the top of the Guaranty
Loan building is the Peoples Political
Reform club. Some persons, however,
claim that there is nothing approaching
an object about the p. p. II. c.
E. Saltus Porke-Which style do you
consider best adapted to newspaper re-
porting, Victor Hugo's or Jean Paul
Frederick Richter's?
Col. ". l.. O'Brien Jr.-I prefer a
judicious combination of Virgil, Tenny-
son. "Ouda," and 1.-THE Duchess"
Office Cat (who has just finished eat
ing a jay)-Slush!l
Twenty-Five believers in the theories
of Col. Parker on teaching now live in
Minneapolis. Two years hence, should
they continue to practice pedagogy,
they will have become converts to Prof.
WillowWithe'S system.
Johnston Mealey, who made the mag
unanimous proposition to the county
commissioners yesterday, should rent
out his nerve to some big quarry con-
tractor. Dynamite would not be lin it.
= Since the W. G. It. U. has openly de-
clared that the exposition art gallery
statues must be clothed the reason for
the recent attack upon Sheriff Eye is
explained. Not even facts must see the
light without some adornment.
D. ]. Burrell has blOssomed forth as a
humorist. After such turning over it
would not be surprising should the
board of trade take to organizing pic
MICS and mardi gras festivals.
Judging from the present outlook,
the Nell case will be alive and kicking
when that other knell, known as the
judgment knell, becomes a reality.
smash at the White case, and, of
course, White ''gets 1t in the neck"
If White, instead of being a peace-lov-
ing citizen who acts as salesman for a
beer bottling establishment, were pig
tailed celestial, going to church every
Sunday in the interest of his laundry
business, and running an opium JOINT
the other six days of the week, he
would find a score of ministerial cham
pion instead of one.
The managing editors of the different
Twin City papers have for the past few
weeks been taking regular gymnaStlc
exercise, so as to be in shape for the
college graduate who is ambitious to
write editorials on such subjects as
"Whither Are We Drifting?" why
We Are Thus" Approach of the Mil
lenium," etc., to the exclusion of the
Mckinley bill, the garbage question
and Brackets gun ordinance.
Gen. Grant, the assistant secretary of
war, in an interview yesterday said it
was improbable to raise wheat in the
Northwest. If Gen. Grant has been re-
ported correctly perhaps Secretary
Sturdevant, of the chamber of COM
merce. might give the assistant secre-
tary of war a few points on wheat that
would cause him to change his mind.
Flax may be good thing in an off year,
but mo. l hard" which is raised only
in the Northwest, has worldwide
reputation.
Quite a number of people went fish
Ing on Sunday last. Some few caught
fish, while the remainder of the delega-
ton had to content themselves with
sunburn, ivy poison and general feel
ing that life at its best was perhaps a
failure. But then, if the stories the
fishermen tell are true, everybody en-
joyed themselves and the outing did as
much, if not more, to invigorate a man
as one of the sensational sermons
preached by SIS man In fashionable
church.
The city of Minneapolis will issue
$4,000 in municipal bonds, the proceeds
of which will go towards the improve
ment of the fire department. These
bonds bear interest at the rate Of per
cent per annum, but so eager are capt.
talistS to invest in reliable securities
that the city officials feel satisfied thai
the money will be borrowed at consid
erably less than the rate of interest SCI
forth in the specifications.
Extra Fine Business Suits Only $14
This week at the Plymouth Clothing House.
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