St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-27
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.


the social life of New York, says the
Sun, is Chauncey NJ. DepeW and Gen.
Horace Porter, at dinner party, These
two veteran diners OUT have been neigh
bors oyer the tables of prominent people
for so many years, and have
been friendly rivals in post-pran-
dial elOquence so long that
their experiences are in many
cases almost identical. 1t would be q
wise man who could figure up the num-
Der of elaborate dinners which the pair
have eaten in company. They have got
into the habit Of referring to each other
in the most amiable way in all Of their
stories, and Mr.. Depew seldom tells an
anacdote or reels off a "reminiscences
parenthetical phrases as: "You re-
it so, Horace?" IAN right, HOraceT'
or some other reference to Gen. Porter.
Gen. Porter always replies to these
queries and references with an anliable
and often smiling inclination of
the head, and when he rises
to speak he not unusually be-
gins his address by saying, "Chauncey
and | were dining" or making some
other reference to the genial president
OF the New York Central road. where
upon Mr.. Depew always ways his head
in sympathy. They are the most har-
monious speakers in the world.
Both have soft, easy and
conversational style, and they are
utterly without Oratorical sins.
Of course, at the big dinners the two
men are more formal in their refer
ences, but at the small and particularly
attractive banquets at which they fire.
quentiy figure they are as confidential
and unrestrained as couple of college
chums at a class dinner.
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Chance threw me into the company of
Will Day, the wonderful champion
cross-country runner, yesterday, says
New York Star reporter. By the way,
it is not generally known that he was
chriStened William O'Shaughnessy Day.
and comes of an old and wealthy Irish
family. When asked if there were any
truth in the story published in prohibit
ton journals that he was a total
abstainer, and owed his sue
cess in athletics to that fact,
he promptly denied the statement, and
said that when he felt like it he enjoyed
Il square drink as well as any bon WV
ant. Although he weighs only 106
pounds, he is not as thin as the figures
would lead one to believe. His bones
are small, his muscles large and hard,
and besides this he carries no beef.
From his early childhood he has been a
swift runner, and at ten years OF age
could distance airy man in the little
New Jersey town where ne lived.
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How dramatic talent seems to run
In
Booths, Drews, Hoeys, Watkins and
Wa lacks are all illustrations Of this
fact. 1t came home to me yesterday,
SAYS New York Star reporter, when /
saw Amy Lee Oh the street, look
ing as bright and pert as ever.
Her grandfather was all excellent
actor in the beginning of the
century, and her parents, Harry and
Rose Watkins. as well as her aunt. Mrs.
John Hoey. were the stars of the past
generation. Although she is married
and well-to-do, she has seemingly an
inherited craving, as well as a talent for
the stage, and is unhappy when not APP
pearing nightly before the foOtlights,
so she is again Oh the road in new
play.
Lots of advice has been given to
smokers. DuG LII tC1l SOu SUtIlCtIHliS
which has never been written up and
ought to be known"
This was told Chicago Tribune re-
porter in the Grand Pacific by one of
.he biggest tobacco dealers in New
York.
''Come into the cigar store" he went
on, land you will notice that two out of
three men will cough while lighting
cigars"
The first person who set fire to cigar
cougned quite violently.
Didn't | tell you?" exclaimed the
lecturer. Two out of three will do that"
"It's caused by the smoke"
When you are about to
smoke cut off the mouth. end of the
Cigar, put the smoke end Sin the-moHth
and then blow. This expels all the fine
particles of TOBACCO and dust inside the
cigar. When you have done this re-
verse the .'torch" and you won't cough
when lighting it. Those little bits of
tobacco get down your throat and are
Injurious. More people have been in
jured by swallowing these little specks
than you have any idea of, yet they
think they were hurt by inhaiing the
smoke"