St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-28

cltement of retrenchment and reform, this
important improvement seems to have been
lost sight of. 1t will come some day, and it
is pretty well assured that when it does the
cable will give way to electricity. 1t is stated
that the East Seventh street cable Will
shortly be replaced by electricity.
Minneapolis is rapidly gaining reputation
of having the most fastidiously dressed gen
tlemen in the West. Willie Wettleson and his
vest have become famous from the Missis-
sippi to the coast but he has an apparently
successful rival in the person of sgd
Smith, the handsome punctuation manipu-
lator OF the Minneapolis Evening Tribune
who flashed himself before the GLOBE staff
last evening in the fashiest suit of the sea
son. The advance agent of a negro minstrel
show would pale into insigniticance and hide
himself IN shame If he got fash at that flash
suit; the SWEETEST horseman at the Brooklyn
handicap or Latonia would think he was
only a stabeman if he saw sgd" while
the proverbal dude, who is supposed to be
flasher than anybody would think that he
had never been thoroughly taught the defini-
ton of the term "fashy." That suit and
sgd did not flash over the electric line last
evening without purpose, for be it remem
bered the Wilburs have left Miuneapo-
lis for six weeks engagement in
this city. and "Syd'' is said to be a
great fayorite with the chorus; so Man
ager Wilbur had better keep an eve on that
suit or its beautiful summer radiance will
invade his ranks, and that flash suit and
''Syd" will cause him to lose his fiashiest
fairy.
Since the expression rushing the growler''
originated in the slums of New York, the
changes have been rung in on it in every
conceivable form, such as Pushing the cat
Chasing the duck and ''Chip for can. -
But the following from a New York paper
was undoubtedly written by some one who
was, to use the latest slang, Next
Kate Lawrence who lives on South Ian
sing street, was brought before Justice Ste
phens in police court yesterday afternoon on
warrant obtained by her husband, charging
her with iutoXication- Kates hubby
stated that she was in the habit of ''ruShing
the jar practice which consists of taking
a pint bottle to a saloon and getting 10 cents
worth of fusil oil i'll it, which is absorbed 5y
the ''rusher" and produces temporary insanity
of a violent nature Lawrence said that
when his wife was under the influence of
the lar his home realized all his concep-
tions of hell. The case was adjourned.
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Caledonia, in Houston county-the county
that produced George F. Potter, Senator
Kelly and P. j. Smalley-has great curiosity
A correspondent writes:
''The song of the whip poor-will by robin
red-breast is the strange curiosity heard here
the village. He sings in the evening until
after dark and again at intervals through the
day. He is a beautiful songster, and. varying
from the robin to the whip-poor- will, gives
the impression of two birds. He begins as
whip-poorw1ll and ends as the robin. He is
! q delightful curiosity to our citizens MANY
| have seen end heard him for half an hour at
one time, in the top of a high tree. He and
his mate are nesting. Is there another in
| stance of The kind known?''