St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-13
as G. D. Meyer officer and chairman of
the committee on reception.

prevented Aid. Bradish from paying his
respects to Aid. Sterling Friday night IN
the council. Sterling is on the commit
tee OH ordinances, and the day before in
the committee he had opposed an 0rdl-
nance to change the name Harrison
street to Central avenue, of which thor
oughfare it is practically a continuation
above Summer street.
whats your objectlon?' asked Bla-
dish.
ssOh, it's a matter of sentiment for the
name HARRISON" answered the red
headed alderman.
s'And you would oppose the wishes OF
the property owners all along the street
in ward you don't represent because
of feeling of sentiment for the name
of Harrison?"
EYES," answered Sterling.
BradiSh was so mad he couldn't speak,
and as chairman he went right Oh put
ting the matter as If Sterling's Objec-
tions were too nonsensical and childish
to be entertained. In the council ne
was dying to reply to Sterline's slckiy
sentimentality objection, but Ed john
son prevented him by one OF his Speak
er Reed rulings.
What's the matter with changing the
names of some more streets in East
Minneapolis, numbering avenues east
and west and streets north and south,
as in other portions Of the city. for the
convenience of the public? Is East
Minneapolis under obligations to per-
petuate the names of dead presidents
and other nOtables?
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Half dozen men, four women. about
a dozen boys and three small girls took
part in an exciting chase for all escaped
canary bird on Eight street, near Nicol-
let avenue, yesterday. The bird, noble
specimen of the German tribe, with a
yellow breast and green-tipped wings.
somehow got out of its cage and secured
a tantalizing position just out of reach
on limb of tree. His owner, an aged
lady of ample proportions, with baritone
voice, vainly endeavored to coax him
back home. Finally one OF the
boys climbed the tree. Just as he
was about to grasp the bird,
the canary whistled softly, twisted his
tail around to his bill, wriggled it a
moment and flew across to the roof OF
the porch. BY this time the crowd had
been augmented by three more men
and wood cart, and the boy who had
climbed the tree swore. A natty-look-
ing young woman, wearing raklsh-
looking straw hat, came along. Upon
learning what the trouble was she gave
the crowd a look of supreme disgust
walked into the house and in a few mo-
ments reappeared with cage contain
ing lady canary bird. In less than
two minutes the German sOngster was
in the cage. The German SOngSter was
a gentleman bird. The crowd looked
foolish and the wood cart moved on.
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Especial Sale of Paintings" reads
sign in window on Nicollet avenue.
The paintings for sale are not the ones
the hearts of the cholly-bOys go pit-a-
pat.
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1t is sad commentary on the lake
business Of 1890 and on the ingenuity
and enterprise of the managers Of the
Minnetonka hotels this season, that
nearly half of the lake season has passed
and still there has been discovered no
marine monster disporting himself in
the cool depths of beautiful Mime
tonka. No summer resort has a right
to expect that it can exist and flourish
without some sort of an attraction.
Time was when the queen of North
western lakes had no lack of aquatic
curiositieS which had been seen by per-
fectly trustworthy citizens, men who
never even tasted drop of liquor. But
all this is now changed, and no ore in
tereSted in the success OF the seasons
lake business seems to have enterprise
enough to dig up monster OF the deep,
fit him out with pair of eyes as big as
dinner plates, give him hOrrible-loOk-
ing head and mouth and a Seventy-foot
body set with numberleSS legs, and
then produce the atfidavits of reputable
men who were near enough to the mon
Ster to smell his hot, fetid breath. 1t is
suggested to the Minnetonka hotel men
that they give Prince W. W. Wettleson
(of Faklrland) an immediate engage
ment.
There is no place for studying char
acter and personal peculiarities better
than the rotunda, or. on hot evenings
the sidewalk in front Of big hotel.
Take the West for instance. People
from all parts of the world are found
there at almost all times, and the way
in which they step up to the desk to
speak to the clerk, or buy cigar, or
call for pen, or read their papers, or
wander about, either in meditation or
sheer abstraction, denotes the char
acteristics of each individual. There is
the brisk, blithe, breezy, self-sufficient
travelling man who knows every attache
of the house; the stately foreigner who
gazes interestedly at the, to him, pc
culiar customs In vogue around him
the staid business man, reading his
hic nil in ruinf-
ness, wholly Oblivious of what others
are doing: the professional man who
forgets where his room is; the poll
tician, who knows. or wants to know,
every body, and who makes frequent
trips to the liquid refectory, never
alone. They can all be picked out in
stantly by the student of character,
and each of them thinks he is doing moi
the slightest thing that could be re-
marked. Force of habit Is responsible
for good deal of it.
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There is another class to be found
around most of the big hotels, composed
of persons never overlooked by the
student of his race. They are the
loungers-loafers one might call them,
attic ugh they are never present until
the business of the day is done, some OF
| them being most energetic citizens
They hang about the West rOtunda and
occupy the chairs in front ON hot even
ings, for example, because they like to
be seen in such swell localities. AS soon
as the shades of evening begin to fall
they are there. They sit around with
an admirably conceived air of proprie.
torship-just as if they belonged there
| in fact. There they read the papers
cock up their feet and look perfectly at
home. Along toward II o'clock all al
once, as if by common impulse, they are
up and away. They disappear so sud
denly that one is at a loss to know how
they ever did get away so quickly and
noiseessly. but they have gone. only te
reappear the next evening. After all
| it is but harmless diversion, their de-
sire to be seen in an ariStocratic neigh
borhood. They enjoy it and do no harm
u
There is one bore who inhabits this
mundane sphere who has never received
one-half the censure and condemns
ton to which he (or she) is entitled. II
is the bore upon the end of whose
| tongue are always to be found the