St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Cal Brice declares there is no truth in
the report of his intended resignation
from the senate andthe story of his heavy
losses in Wall street he says is ''all
bOSh."
Meissonier left no will. His family
intend to fulfill his intention of present
ing to the Louvre two pictures which
he always refused to sell-namely:
''L'Attente" and 1.-The Etcher."
Sam Jones says of his late unpleas-
antness in Texas: II am sorry of the
occurrence. [ don't like to have fell
low set in on me with cane without a
moments notice. | shall continue to
denounce the wrong and stand up to the
right anywhere and everywhere, and
when they think to cane me is the best
way out l will give them the best Eve
got in my shop every time. Yours, out
of the ring and free of disfgures."
Miss Anna w. Kelly, the new reading
clerk of the Colorado senate, is young
and very pretty woman. She reads
rapidly, clearly, and with correctness of
accent and pronunciation. She is the
first woman to hold such position.
Emperor William has instructed a
German railway official to make an ex-
hauStive examination and report on
American railroads. 1t is understood
that Jay Gould is thinking of sending a
competent man to Germany to estimate
on the value of the empire with view
to buying it.
Minister Phelps has written from Ber-
lin to his home in Englewood, n. j.,
offering to bear one-third the expense of
purchasing land for park, new sta
ton, and buying a steam roller. and
half the expense of improving the sew
erage, matchmaking the roads and
erecting a soldiers monument.
DR.. James S. Kelly, New Ork phy
DR.. Koch's treatment. has returned
home a convert to the system, but
strong in the belief that the lymph is
dan gerous in inexperienced hands. He
SAYS: 81 consider that the lymph, to
the medical world, is what dynamite is
to the engineer"
Mrs. Tenant, mother of Mrs. STAN
ley, says to an interviewer: In Amer
lea, as in England, there are thousands
and thousands of sweet, lovely, worthy
girls who are fading away because there
are no husbands for them. This is really
deplOrable, and question of far more
Importance, in my mind, than the labor
problem" 81
Cyrus W. Field, Jay Gould, and a half
dozen other millionaires who live at
IrvingtOn, are engaged in war against
new school house. These gentlemen
live in what they themselves term the
richest school district in the United
States. and they oppose the erection Of
building that will cost over $1,000, in
asmuch as there is already one $50, 900
house in the district.
George Francis Train learns from his
friend Psyche that everything Is going to
the demnition boWwows. People" he
says, will wake some morning within
few weeks and find that Jay Gould
hasn't a penny, and the Standard Oil
company is in the dirt, and Carnegie
has his bread to beg, and there isn't a
dry goods house or mill Or factory that
can pay ten cents on the dollar"
Ben Pitman, the famous shorthand
writer, tells this story of a speech which
John Sherman once delivered at a po-
litlcal meeting Oh resumption of specie
payments: II was with him during the
day of the speech. He took me to
private room, and there, referring to
books and quoting aloud, he talked of
the intended speech. took down every
word he said, but when he had finished
he remarked that he would give much
better speech at the meeting in the
evening. We went to the meeting, but
the crowd was SO great and the bands
made such racket that Mr. Sherman
was not able to make himself heard, nor
did he deliver by any means as goo1 a
speech as he had uttered to me. Hav-
ing both i'll shorthand, made up
speech from the two that was worthy
the great financier and that was copied
far and near in neWspapers.n