St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-02

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and several other places which are set
down on the map of the state as being
in Iowa. In any Of he cities named you
can walk into a saloon and get all the
whisky you want, and you don't have to
call it by any other than the "Od ia
miliar name.o Not long since some one
who said he had been in Dubuque wrote
an article for the Century magazine in
which it was stated that 1.-The only way
I'm which YOU can procure whisky in Dill
buque is by going around to the back
door in the night time" Whoever he
was he did not come any nearer the
truth than Mai. Norton. Such state
ments as these lead one to infer that The
persons making them are too full for
observation.
The appearance of fulsome bits of
special writing appearing in the diff
fereDt papers. IN which gentlemen who
don't care to be mayor OF Minneapolis,
or could not be elected or even secure a
nomination, are tatfied and tOddied, and
gives rise TO the thought that this class
of advertising should be included in the
announcement of want ads at 10 cents
a line.
c. II. Sandpaugh. of MankatO, says it
IS an Annoyance to him that every time
he comes to Minneapolis to have peo-
pie take it for granted that he has been
given the tip on another AnOka county
boxing match, and ask in whispers:
when and where does it come dip
Bill Nye is visiting Minneapolis so
frequently that his lectures are NOW in
Guided in the list of regular monthly
meetings that adOrn the assignment
books of the local departments of the
newspaper offices.
There is a movement on foot to induce
?. p. SWensOn to run for a slate Office
on the Democratic, but Peter thinks
that the office Of register of deeds Of
Hennepin county is high enough game
for him.
An evening paper has been asking
the banks if they like to have their
clerks gamble. The next article of this
interesting series of kindergarten liter
allure will consist of the replies of rail
road managers as to whether train dis
Uatchers should be employed who are
in the habit OF getting drunk.
1t seems as though the Minnehaha
races without II. +. Jones being lin it,
will be something like Minnehaha with
out the giggle.
In the absence of proof to the con-
trary it can be said without danger of
successful contradiction that +. c. Babb
is still mayor of Minneapolis.
Unless Minneapolis gets a hustle upon
itself 1t will have no eight-hOur strike
to present this year, and Kansa City may
use the fact to Offset the comparison of
bank clearings which has been made to
us disadvantage.
H. L. Rockfeld, who parts with the
pTOpTIetOrship of the Nicolet house to-
day says: Il like Minneapolis and hate
TO leave it," Mr. Rockfield should have
held on little longer. There'll be
Democratic administration next fall and
thCOwn will boom again.
The gentlemen who are taking the
census have hard and fast rules laid
down for the questions to be asked.
After finding out the Christian name in
full of the person Intercepted. the
initial of the middle name and the sur
name. the festive census man is expect
ed to ask the PERSONS sex. Not only as
an evidence of good faith, but also for
publication. When it comes to the Oc-
CupatiOn. it will probably be a matter of
history that the majority of Minneapolis
men will have to answer capitalist. A
person is also expected TO tell of any
physical defects. If they are subject to
chapped hands, cold feet, or any of the
other ills that flesh is heir to. After the
queStiOner is through, very fair record
is the result, that will be useful for
reference to those about to indulge in
the luXuries OF matrimony.
The fact that Mayor Babb was not in
vited to be one of the party to take the
trip up the river in the government
steamer, and that w. E. Steele was, is
CLAIMED by the handsome majors friends
TO have no political significance. The
mayor was not invited because he was
forgotten. Of course, some mayors
would not be forgotten, hut then, Babb
has been in position to be forgotten so
long, thBt nothing is thought OF the
oversight
When superintendent Bradley shows
thas the cigarette habit among boys has
been stamped out, it will have been
conclusively demonstrated that the
public school is depopulator of the
city.
The Kerniss is over, and in years to
come the young residents of Mime
apolis will listen in rapture to the tales
which grandma" and grandpa" will
relate of their triumphs ION the stagen
in 1890.
John S. Mclean has emphatically de-
MED the rumoI that was current on the
streets last night, to the effect that the
talking doll dictates the editorials
which appear in the Evening Jay.
The first of May has come and gone.
and, as yet, there have been no strikes.
The foreign laboring men have not
struck, and even the imported matches
refuse to strike, except on The box.
Some of the speakers at the mass meet
ing last night we're seen TO strike an
attitude, and a stalwart copper" was
caught in the act striking a drunken
man. but that was all. 1t seems prob
able that, in Minneapolis at least. the
WOrkingmen will strike balance with
their employers, and that one will end
the talk of strike.
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