St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-01
HIT AND MISS SHOTS.
A little fiirt,
A copper curt,
And wifely indignatiopj
The old resource,
Divorce. of course;
Another court sensation.

Two women and 3 man arrested on the
previous night for drunGe nness, were in the
municipal court yesterday morning. One of
the women was placed on the stand as a wit
ness against her companion.
y ou may tell the court what you know
about the prisoner as. to her truth and
yeraeity." SAID Attorney O'Reilly.
s'Well, your honor" said the witness, ad-
dressing the court. ''as to her truth, /
wouldn't believe her on oath; as to her
yerscity-why. some says she do and some
says she don't"
The slumbering scheme of Aid Van Slyke
and few other patriots, for the establishment
of geological garden in connection with
state agricultural college grounds, was revived
last night in an informal discussion of the
value Of such an institution. 1t was at the
park board meeting, while the members
were waiting for a tardy president. Every
one seemed to think that a zoo would be
very good thing in its way, and, strange to
say, almost every one in the crowd had some
sort of wild animal to contribute to the gar
den. There will be no zoology on large
scale though until the present craze for re-
trenchment has evaporated. A bill was pre-
pared for submission to the legislature ask
ing an appropriation for the purpose, but in
view of the pervading spirit of economy it
was deemed wise TO let the matter drop for a
time.
The Western Journalist has been sending
to managing editors of leading Western
papers slip bearing the following inscrip-
,tion:
Dear Sir-We desire in our next issue to
print the views OF managing editors of the
leading papers of the West as to what are the
duties of reporter. We shall take great
pleasure in giving publicity 10 your opinion
IN this matter and hope you will find time to
express the latter for US. Yours, etc.
One managerial colossus in st. Paul has
been debating his reply TO a stenographer
two hours day for the past week. The
fellows who do the work on the aforesaid
leading Western papers, are impatient to see
the May issue of the Journalist.
Some people assert that there is fasciua-
ton i'll the newspaper business, ana that the
deyilish fellows who WELD the Faber do it
more for sheer love of the work than for the
salary they draw. The notion is erroneous
entirely. Bob" Fralieh who almost, liter
ally speaking, sat at his desk and chopped
telegraph until he dropped dead. didn't do
it because he had fancy for the picturesque
beeuty of the graveyard at Nap anee, but be
cause he needed the money there was in it
Lots of other men are burning the candle at
both ends and the middle just as he did They
will drop out one by one without making
much fuss about it, and ten line obituary
in each case will announce the fascinating
end of as mauy fascinating careers.
The popular love CT the sensational is as
well exempliied in church congregations as
i'll theater audiences. The preacher who
breaches without recourse to dramatic speech
and gesture, is not popular, but the pulpit
orator who appeals 10 and arouses the dis
tinctly unhoiy preiudices and jealousies of
his hearers to such degree as to call forth
an encore-an encore in a church, mind you
lis the man whom people will flock to hear.
] once heard a minister deliver a sentence
which famed all the Protestant hatred for
Catholicism into flame, and called forth a
storm of clapping and stamping. such
preaching as this, to use the preachers own
weapon, places farther than ever remote
the avowed aim of ali denominations, uni
yersal religion
A well-known newspaper man whose line
of duty takes in the late police run, measures
twenty-five inches round the calf of the leg.
This extraordinary Development he says, is
due to his having to walk up eight flights of
stairs to his Office with late police news. The
elevators stop at midnight.
Bob Fitzsimmons is coming here Slugger
Hall is also headed this way. j. l.. Sullivan,
Charles MITCHELL Frank Slavn and the pu-
gilistic lights of the universe are westward
bound. All these things are, and yet Pat Kill
matter with the man! Is he i'll, or has his
buffer lost its blif:
1t is my belief that every practicing phys-
elan in st. Paul, and, in fact in all Cities
should be made an officer of the health de-
partment, with power to act, in ordering
prompt precautionary or remedial measures
in certain cases. couple of weeks ago
well-known physician was called to attend
a case in West st. Paul. 1t was typhoid fever
The patient was young girl, one of a family
of Russian Hebrews living in one room.
There were seven in the family, believe.
The atmosphere of that room was execrable.
1t was sure death to the patient to remain
there, and the doctor wanted to remove her
TO the city hospital. The parents are ignor-
ant people, and they refused to allow the girl
to be moved, so she died. Now, certain
quarters of the town are populated with just
such people as these, living in precisely such
style. The health officers never will find out
these fever spots, but the doctors do find
them every day. Ergo. give the latter power