St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-25
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

A. G. Spalding, the acknowledged
leader of the great American base ball
industry, is playing in hard luck, says
the Chicago Times. He resides amid
the palms and olives of aristocratic
Kenwood, and the Ciceronic genius of
his active mind is ever busy with plans
for the adOrnment of his beloved 1uS-
cuium-with side squint at the price
OF real estate. The latest proposed i'm
proVement of Kenwood has aroused the
ire of one of MIR. Spalding'S tax
abhorring neighbors, and, in a spirit
of revenge worthy of Kentucky ven
delta, he is erecting upon land directly
opposite the palatial residence of the
patron OF the artistic Arson series of
nondescript dwellings as ugly as Chi
nese idol. But this is not all. With re-
fined cruelty it is proposed by the tor
turer to import and install in these
houses colony of lowly Africans.
There is more than one niger in the
fence ia this case, and Mr.. Spalding's
heart bleeds, not only at the thought of
the gloom which threatens to fall on his
surroundings, but also of the inevitable
decline in the value of property, which
may prevent him from carrying out his
lOng-cherished design of establishing an
asylum for aged and decrepit base bail
players.
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A printer well known in Atlanta got
hard up in Birmingham last week, SAYS
the Atlanta Constitution. He wanted
to come to Atlanta and he crawled into
the first vacant Stock-car he saw, and,
as it was night, rolled into one corner
and went to sleep. He was awakened
in little while by lot of mules, which
were driven in on him.
'tScared? Well, l think I was" he
says, in telling the story. But I
pacify the mules so they would let me
alone. / soon found that wouldn't
work. They eyed me SuspIclously, then
bit at me and kicked me until began
to realize that there must be some
change or my last days had come.
Il made Up my mind to ride one of
the mules. | tried one, and was
promptly landed against the top of the
car. Then another, and another, with
the same result. The fourth one was
docile, and on that mules back l rode
for day and a night. 1t was the most
horrible ride anybody ever experienced,
turning gray"
Mrs. Kendall is the only actress that
has ever been received socially in New
York. says the New York Sun. The
letters which she brought over from
England insured her this distinction.
and though she has carefully kept the
social part of her life in the background
since coming here, it is fact that the
most exclusive and influential people in
New York society have called upon and
received Mrs. Kendall with entire cor
diality. In one sense New York society
is the most exclusive in the world.
1t respects wealth, but not genius.
Mime. Patti. who has had the entree to
all the courts of Europe for years, never
got footh0ld in New York, even after
her cOmpani0nShip with Nicolini was
legaiized by marriage, and Mary Ander-
son. despite her great social success in
London, never succeeded in getting
much beyond the SOroSiS and one or two
women'S societies in this city. Indeed,
she is quoted as having said on her re-
turn to England last year that the en-
tire coldness of Americans toward her
socially was one of the causes of her
entirely in hotels and theaters.
The Kendals have unique
social position in London. Though they
both came of stage families and have
no social connections of wide impor-
lance, they have been in the heart of the
best society for many years, and when
Mrs. Kendall sailed away to this coup-
try good portion of the most exclusive
people in the peerage gave her fare
well dinner. After that New York So
ciety took her up.
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Some people have not the slightest
Pittsburg Dispatch. About Christmas
time cited a number of instances of
strangely ill-chosen glfts-an umbrella,
for example, to lady who had been an
invalid for years and can hardly expect
ever to be anything else. But | heard
of case yesterday involving this odd
lack of common sense which beats the
record as far as know.
1t was man who offended, OF course:
women have too much tact and insight
into the desires of their fellow beings
to make blunders in this direction. His
brother-in-law died. and he wanted to
do something sympathetic and all
that" for his sister, he said. He was
bachelor, but he had splendid resi-
denee in the suburbs of Chicago. So he
sent to bis sister and asked her to send
On her two youngest children, girls of
about eight and nine years, to him for
a month. The afflicted wife and mother
was glad enough to do this. The two
young girls had royal time with
their uncle. When the end of their
stay came near, what did he do
but take them to the dressmaker's and
have them arrayed in all the colors loom
or rainbow ever knew. Then he bought
heap of dress silks in colors and sent
them with the two children, who had
exchanged their mourning for the afore-
said gorgeous garments, to his sister.
He never thought of mourning or his
sisters well-known punctilio1S regard
for fashions and forms.
The two little rainbow sections, with
their cargo of dress silks for mamma,
reached their destination all right. The
horror of the widow is something I can
not paint. 1t was something beyond
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