St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

George Jones, proprietor of the New
York Times, who is seriously Ill and
may not recover, has in his desk a pict-
ure of three generations of London
Times proprietorship. 1t is his ambi-
ti6n to parallel that in the ownership
and conduct of the New York Times.
He has it now. His son Gilbert will
succeed him. and his grandson will. if
present hopes are realized, take up the
work where the second of the family
lays it down.
Mrs. Douglas, wife of the once-famous
physician who attended Gen. Grant on
his deathbed. has lust received an APP
pOlntment to a subordinate position in
the treasury department at Washing
ton. Her husband. by his unremitting
attention to the dying president, lost his
practice and has never regained it. He
IS now broken i'll health and almost
pennileSs.
Judge Seagle. of Allegheny, Pa, de-
cides that although navigable rivers are
in general the property of the Federal
government, city lying along either
bank has police jurisdiction to the cen
ter of the stream. A floating saloon
anchored halfway between Jersey City
and New \ ork could therefore. by this
decision, be raided by the police of both
cities, half at raid.
One of Robert Louis SteYenSon'S COM
panions in his Samoan paradise is Har-
old NJ. Sewall, the consul general at
Apla, whose name was known TO every
newspaper reader year or so ago. Mr..
Sewall'S letters to his friends at home
show that he is enraptured with life in
the south seas. He has even reached
that point where he prefers the kavacup
TO r,t,rt l. 81 NhnE sArnr
American diplOmatists VINO are in the
service from sentiment rather than
from political or financial reasons. His
father is one of the wealthieSt men in
Maine.
Mr.. SpurgeOn'S faculty for remember
ing names and faces is we'll known, but
sometimes he makes slip, and the fol-
lowing little anecdOte shows his felici-
touS way of setting himself right on
such occasions. Meeting recently a
young student whom he had not seen
for year, he said: Right glad to see
you, Mr.. Partridge" The student was
of course immensely gratitied to find
that the great divine remembered him,
but reminded the pastor that his name
was not Partridge, but Partridge. son,
yes" Quoth Mr.. Spurgeon, Il must not
make game of you any more"
The first piece of furniture tnat Will
be placed in the 100000 house that
Charles Potts is erecting at Merton, Pa,
will be portrait of Representative Me
KinIey. For hir. Potts is tin-plate
dealer, and he considers that Maj. Nc
Kinley has enriched him by just the
amount he is spending on his new house.
The story goes that Mir. Potts learned
of the tin-pIate provision i'll the Nc
Kinley bill before that famous tariff
measure was made public. He at once
took time by the forelock and secured
options on quantity of tin-plate that
he afterwards sold at a net profit of
100000. Hence his great gratitude to
the Ohio congressman.
The twisted wire nail-a cross be-
tween screw and the ordinary plain
wire nails SAID to be working its way
into popular favor, and is believed 10
represent as great an improvement upon
the plain wire nail as that useful inven-
ton is over the old cut nail. The
twisted wire nail not only brushes the
fbers of the wood less than the two
other forms of nail, but by its screw
shape possesses a much greater holding
power than the other forms.