St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-16
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

1t is reported that quite number OF
women attended the -Fitzsimmons
mill at New Orleans. What with women
fighting prize fights in twenty-four-foot
ring surrounded by a lot Of drunken pugs,
and other women attending mills between
masculines III disguise, our boosted modern
civilization appears to have been side
tracked.
Those low plnnks heard from the North
west are not seismic phenomena. 1t is the
sound Of contesting Republican legislators
dropping from their seats.
The annex for the exhibition at the worlds
fair of a sample section of Minnesota climate
cannot De commenced too early. It will re-
quire goodly amount of ground floor room.
TO certain extent it is true, as asserted,
that the Minnesota legislature has great re-
sponsibilities. but they are as light as elder
down compared to the heavy responsibility
assumed by the Pioneer Press in keeping the
bueolic Legislators straight.
1t is a settled fact that Poker Charlie
Farwen has enough brass collars to go around.
but it yet remains question whether or not
he can drum upa sufficient number of Hi
nois legislators willing to wear them.
The Kansas wasp, ingalls,, has made his
bid for Alliance votes in the legislature of
his state, and is now waiting for returns
With divorce mills all around him, rum
ming on full time. Chicago man has been
recently unearthed with eight living wives.
Yale college is on the lookout for skeletons
of antediluvian saurians. Has it investi-
gated the First, Third and Fourth congress
sional districts of Minnesota?
At II o'clock Wednesday night the atmos-
phere of st. Paul was honeycombed with
original remarks. News had been received
that Jack Dempsey had been knocked out in
the thirteenth round. AS the details de-
veIoped. it was seen that Prof. Dempsey was
merely looker-on in New Orleans, more like
one of the audience who had inadvertently
stumbled within reach of the ambidexterous
Prof. Fitzsimmons. At 11:15 p. m. man
came up to the GLOBE Office to say:
Dempsey was not in it
At IL :25 a gentleman doing business on
South Robert street arrived to say that, while
his mind that Dempsey was not in it from
the start" ct II AS a delegation from the
court house came over and declared with
one universal chorus:
Dempsey was at no time in it..
At IL 10 a. m. three men arrived IN coupe,
and, calling out squad of editors. requested
them to incorporate IN the account OF the
mill the fact that Jack wasn't in it from
no iOl- off
opened a small bottle. At 1890 Fitzsim-
mons advocate, who had won everything In
sight, telephoned:
SHAY
''Well?'
SIS that your"
Eyes
"Shay''
'sWhat?'
''Can you hear me9"
yes
'Shay, (hic) Zachk Dempshey wasn't in 1t
from. sthart ter finish"
majority of the United States senate ap-
pears to have sprinkled large quantity Of
Paris green on the gold bug.
Prize fighting is not brutal. The pug who
pug to hammer him around a twentyfour
foot ring does SO voluntarily He can stop
any time he desires to throw up the sponge.
He is the victim of no mans cruelty. He is
never in duress. Horse racing, dog fighting
and chicken mains are all brutal. Prize
fights rarely result fatally, while the over
driven race horse dead on the track. or the
killed or manned jockey are too frequent at
tendants of racing. 1t is an open question
if the sports mentioned in connection
with prize fighting are not the more demon.
aiizing.
Strange as it may appear. Lieut.. Hem. the
English yachtsman now IN this country, will
have nothing to do with shells.
Aaron Harris, of Georgia, lifts dead
weight of 400 pounds with his teeth, and
with the same b1cuspids yanks barrel of
flour as if it were feather. He ought not
to hesitate in taekIing small steak in res
taurant
ExGov. Thayer may not be guilty of dis
orderly conduct, but he might be arrested
for impersonating a governor.
CnCCJD M THE DDECC