St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-20

I'LL some time next september,
He might find here
a souvenir
To take TO shores Partisan
That would right bower
The Eiffel tower
IT'S the police commission.
The long-Suffering patent medicine
advertisement has found a rival at last
in the airy, fairy interview, ana news
paper readers now have an interesting
duo at which TO cusS as they discuss
their paper over the evening meal. The
Journal had the exclusive monopoly of
this style of journalistic architecture for
4 considerable length of time, but
latterly the Evening Hyphen has
entered the lists, and the rivalry is be-
ing carried to extremes. The object
seems 10 be to fill up as much space as
possible without saying much of any
thing, and reporter can make a gil
gantic success of such an attempt bv
simply using the style in vogue in Hong
Kong. 1t is well-known fact that in
China things are done backward. and
IN the new style of evening interview
it will be observed that it is the
reporter that is interviewed by the pub
lie man. Here is an amalgamated in
terView with the bumorist. Paul Blouet,
his attempts far in the shade. and will
doubtless be kept by him as a curiosity
of Minneapolis BOhemianism.
What magnificent suite of rooms."
remarked Paul Blouet. ETC., etc.
"Ah, l am glad to see you;
take a chair; come in; waiter,
bring me some Irish whisky.
some soda and cigar. What will you
haveP Hold on, waiter; a bottle of
claret, some chlOrOfOrm and sponge.
have here reporter. You see the OPP
Grafton is painful one, and you seem
20 be an adept practitioner"
Then follows three-quarters of col
umn of Nj. BlOuet Interviewing the re-
porter; when it is finished the gullible
representative of the press leaves the
room pumped exceeding dry, while the
distinguished novelist turns to make a
note of it for his next humorous publ
cation.
The aldermen went out to the stock
yards, said Its a big thing" and
Armour, Swift, Morris and the rest of
the big packers groaned diSmaIIy as
they saw their trade slipping away from
them.
The South siders accused G. II. Ben
ton of having real estate scheme con-
cealed within his market ordinance.
Benton gets back with YOU'RE an
other" The South siders have the
floor now.
T. B. Walker. than whom no one Is
more interested IN the development of
Minneapolis or the North west, mas said
that the Brooks Locomotive works could
have been secured for the Flour CITY by
means of a little bustling, and there are
any number of Minneapolis men with
large interests here who will echo
his sentiments, not only with refer
ence to the locomotive works, but
many other business enterprises. Not
long ago one of the largest wholesale
houses in the country expressed will
ingnPSS and a desire to establish a
branch house In Minneapolis provided
they could secure cooperation on the
part of Minneapolis business men.
Their termS-it would take too long
TO explain them in this paragraph
were perfectly fair and just. But
and their branch house was never To-
Gated here. What Minneapolis needs
primarily for the upbuilding or its bus
mess interests is little more work and
less talk. The city is full of "prom-
1neht business men" who are forever
harping upon the prominence of Min
neapOlis in all classes of bus
mess" who are never tired of
talking about the metropolis
of the Northwest" and fond of point
Ing with pride" to the wonderful
growth of the city, who, when occasion
demands, are never ready to get into
the harness and work for the city, as
city. If they see chance where they
q tn mo iZG nf
of the scheme, we'll and good; otherwise
they hold out. They never work to-
gether, and when anyone has the temer-
ity to suggest that Minneapolis is not
progressing in the business world as
fast as it should, they are ever ready to
raise the cry, of ''disloyalty to Mime
apOliS."
Perhaps Aid. Gray will purchase a
Bible for the poor farm since he feels
so keenly its absence. Here is chance
for the alderman to pose as a mission
airy.
If Aid. Loye's prophesy concerning
the stock Yards bears no better fruit
than his forecast of the evils of base
ball. the pig-slaughterers are in bad
way indeed.
The Lenten season has begun and all
outward Semblance of riotous pleasure
must henceforward be concealed for at
least six weeks. This custom of observ-
ing Lent is becoming more pronounced
every year. Time was when, outside of
the Roman Catholic and Episcopal
churches. no more was thought of Lent
than any other season of the
1t is now the proper thing
among all Christians to sacrifice the
flesh between Ash Wednesday and
Easter Sunday. Moreover, the observ-
ance of Lent has been found TO be
good hygienlc measure, and this doubt
less adds TO the generality of such OBJ
Servance. Six weeks rest between the
fast and furious festivities of the holi-
days and of early winter and the pleas
nres of spring. But those who mingle
In the gay whirl of society will not be
wholly idle uD to Easter. They will
nut in the time evolving schemes for
frolic and the costumes to go with them.
The Journal journalist who inter-
viewed NJ. Paul Blouet Is all right as
caster of bouquets at his own aristo-
cratic beat-nOt Journalistic, certainly.
Maj. Steel, Lieut.. Heffelfinger, Ser
geant Kirkham, Maj. Haskell, and sew
eral other military men. will be consid-
cred in Rev. s. w. Samples lecture on
the 'HerOic Sides of Unheroic People,"
P. J. E. ClementsOn brought about
She prosecution of Howard Kicker for
embeZzlement. Thatprosecution failed,
OF course, all prosecutions are not sue
cessful, if success depend upon convic-
ton. but IN the present case, to an out
slider. it looks very much as if there was
some motive in that prosecution beside
the desire to punish a man who had
violated the laws of society. The
amount alleged to have been embezzled
was paltry. There seems to have been
no dispute over the statement that
Kicker had given up some $500 to settle
the affair. He alleges that the money
was extorted from HIM, and he has
begun suit to recover it. There will Turk
In the minds of many the thought that
Clementson began the criminal proceed
ings as spite action. He leaves it to
himself to clear the matter up. He NAV
have been imposed upon and have no.