St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-18

Viii 10 uOt SpOlllLB lot UE0t. Climatic
influences and Grass igno rance spoiled Chill
long ago.
a course dinner-Raw turnips and bran
mash.
Stepladders we are told, are used by the
Belgian army for observations. They are
also handy articles in hotels with which to
watch the gentleman from the back dis
triets as he deftly disrobes preparatory to
blowing out the gas.
So
The statement going the rounds of the
press to the effect that the portrait o f
former speaker of the house known as Henry
Clay has been displaced to make room for
that of Thomas Bracket Reed is open to
conviction. No confidence is violated by
surmising that certain gentlemen, friendly to
the memory of the great Kentuekian. consid-
erately removedl MIR. Clay's portrait upon
learning that Tom Reeds was to be hung in
its immediate vicinity.
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senator Kyle appears inclined TO pose as
political chameleon ready at all times to. take
on whatever financial color happens to be
represented by the party with which he is
temporarily thrown.
China peremptorily refuses TO take part in
the worlds fair. This puts the kibosh on
the contemplated pipe-hitting annex.
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A recent dispatch explains that ''Blaine is
non-committal.' In this respect there is
marked difference between Blaiae and
Judges Cory and Twohy. of the St. Paul
municipal court
Echoes of B. Harrison's message are now
reverberating through the columns of Re-
publican organs. These echoes, by the way,
are considerably louder than the original re-
ports fired from the White house.
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Joe Howard says: rs the grip coming
again? Be careful of feet and bowels.
Thick-soled shoes and red flannel bellyband
are the desirable costume" Are you talking
to Tom Reed, the general public, or simply
through your hat?
President Harrison. having cried ''Havoc."
the whole country is now curiously watching
him to see how he does it when he lets slip
the dogs of war;
Due notice is hereby given that rthe first
Republican senator who steps on the tail of
the Force Bill and rudely awakens it from
slumber will Immediately thereafter have
sample piece of cashmere bitten out of one
of the legs of his senatorial pantaloons and
his toga ripped up the back.
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Cheek answered Cheek, and Great Nerve,
from his tripod proud, called onto Gail. who
answered him aloud, when prominent citi-
zens Of the Windy City requested Sir Edwin
Arv1n1 tn writ
Light Of Chicago"
The New York Advertiser has an editorial
on The Poetry of the Future" Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof 1t is the
poetry of the present that should be sat upon
by good man weighing 300 pounds.
Pendragon-I saw you had Miss Twitter
out for drive yesterday; did you pay your
devoirs?
De Laneey-No; 1 devoured my pay.
Iceman Turner appears to have sent cold
chills cavorting up the back of Tammany.
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The Shah of Persia has a pipe for which
he asks 100000. AS no one is jumping at
the bargain just now, the trade can be con-
sidered off
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1t is all right to call "a spade a spade" but
the man who calls club a spade is evil
IDENTITY trying to tinker up a bob-tail flush.
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Mark Twain has a magazine article on
Mental Telegraphy." 1t is that which in
duces a man to say 'goshr or words to that
effect, when he steps with his bare foot on a
carpet tack in the deceased hour of the noe
turnal vigil,
American Horse. having distanced old Red
Cloud, ex-chief of the Sioux, no one seems
inclined to even play Red Cloud for place.
If Congressman Springer will place his ear
close to the ground he viii hear the low rum
bic of Editor Charles A. Dana laundering
against the best interests of the world fair
Whether or no such utilization will exercise
an influence upon Mr.. Springer sufficiently
potential to cause him to take one step
backward" in the worlds fair interests re-
mains to be seen. However. there is method
in the present madness of Editor Dana He
has no love for Chicago. 1t was in Chicago
that he made his debut before the journals
tic footlights. 1t was in Chicago that he
saw his first journalistic venture. the old
Republican. go up the lume. This will
readily account for the obi profanum vulgus,
ct arceo tone of Editor Dana's remarks
However, let not the patriotic Chicagoan lie
awake nights worrying about this latest
Charles A. Danlan eccentricity. For the first
time in many years the New York Sun has
been found in the band wagon. 1t advo-
Gated the candidacy of Charles F. Crisp for
the speakership, and, despite the hoodoo
Mr. Crisp made the rifle Great Joy hath
turned the head of Dana, and, like Alexan-
der the Altitudinous he yelps for other
worlds to conquer. just at present Chicago
happens to be one CT those worlds.
Very littlei is said in the Milwaukee papers
about Milwaukee's convention boom.
boom that Will not bear the strong light Of
publicity cannot be much OF a boom. Per
haps Milwaukee's convention boom has been