St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-24
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

| Anent the question of international copy
| right Emile lola has unbosomed himself He
| says: Finally, 1 do believe the United States
| Will become honest and respectable"
Thanks. What date in the future has lola
set for himself to become respectable!
| Gibbons-I understand that Wall street
| somewhat resembles a menagerie.
Ribbous-It does. You should go down
| there some day and see Jay Gould feed stocks
! to the animals.
We don't know exactly how it comes about.
| and we don't know anybody who does know;
| but we give it out cold that, somehow, the
dread disease consumption invariably goes a
| long ways around the lymph-atic man.
The election of John NJ. Palmer is vital
issue in the state of Illinois. despite the mist
of political sophistry thrown around it by
Republicans. He has been Endorsed by a
large majority OF the resident people of the
state. And because the people want him, the
Republican party, which never yet paid the
slightest attention to any voice save that Of
arrogant monopoly, is fighting against him.
But John M. will be electe d. and one more
nail driven into the coffin of corrupt Repub-
licanism.
The Chicago Herald springs great. white
fact upon the world in the statement that
James H. Kyle, senator-elect from South
Dakota, sawed wood to pay his way through
college," 1t is also another fact that he
sawed considerably more wood at PIERRE than
did ''Tin Plate Moody
The Republican party deserves defeat in
1892 for having sadded the country with Ben
Harrison, than whom smaller or more in
consequential man never yet occupied the
chair once filled by Jefferson, Adams and
Jackson.
Irate Debtor-I don't propose to be both
cred by your continued opportunities any
longer. Once for all, | tell you, you may
whistle for your pay.
And the patient creditor sat right down and
whisted Annie Rooney. while the debtor
fled. shrieking, from the room in search OF
his check book
The ST. Louis Post Dispatch virtually adj
mits that the holland defalcation will never
be settled by saying that the only way to set
tie it is ''by thorough Investigation
The Raum investigating committee is
yawning for Mr. Quay 1t is the only insti
tuition now running in the country that will
thoroughly WhiteWash him.
The Chicago flying machine appears to
have everything but the power of locomo
ton.
AS the glorious orb of day comes up nearer
to the north pole, Prof. John L. Sullivan
moves southwark toward the equator. There
is nothing startling in this astronomical fact
save the possibility of his crossing the orbit
of Sam Jones at point favorable for con-
junction. Prof Sullivan in perihelion with
Sam Jones would result in the flying of fur
and feathers.
''There'' said Prof Georg e seibert, st.
Paul's accomplished musical director, lis
violin with history"
The young man addressed glance adj
miringly at the ancient, nut-brown instru
ment, and said:
witnessed few vicissitudes, eh?"
''It has indeed. Let me see; ten years ago
it was owned by member of the Madison
Square orchestra. One night he was going
home quite late, and stopped i'll to get glass
Of rye and absinthe. couple of gilded
Youths of Gotham, on bat, becoming hila-
rious kicked the green bag in which it was
encaSed clear across the room. The owner
glued it up, and its tones were as sweet as
ever. Forty years ago it was lost in an I'M
used garrett in Paris, and rats gnawed the
strings off and made some inroads On the
wood, bridge and nut. Eighty years ago
wooden-legged sailor wandered through
Flanders with this instrument and played
his way into many toothsome meal. One
hundred and fifty years ago"
rs it as old as that|' inquired the amazed
youth.
s'Oh, yes When the fiery Alferi was in
diting his warm and brilliant verse, this yio
lin was charming The ears of the good people
of Florence"
rs it a Stradivari?''
colder than that
"a Cremona?n
''Many, many years older. When Petrarch
was making literary love to his Laura this
sweet-voiced violin was breathing melody.
along the banks of the silver Guadalquiyir
To Spain it was brought from
The Isles of Greece,
Where burning Sappho loved and sung
''When Homer, the blind old man of Scio's
rocky ISLE, was writing of the wooden orse
and the siege of Troy, this instrument was
charming the ear of voluptuous Sappho and
its administrations were heard at the revels
of Alciabiades.'
But that was long before our first recorded
history of. the violln-long before 1868, when
FIR. Linaroli, of Bergamo, and Gaspar la Salo
and Maggini, of Bresca were making the
first instruments of which we know. Why,
this violin antedates the destruction of the
Roman empire
You are right replied Prof Seibert
pleasantly. 'This is the identical fiddle
upon which Nero played when Rome