St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-03

more to squander. This is the last feather
laid upon the back Of the national camel.
Verify, the Encouragement of the Column
bian exposition is almost as glaring as is
Secretary Mobiles jugglery with Indian at
fairs.
My name is Henry James,
And haunt the turbid Thames.
In preference to Boston, where for years 1
CHANGED to dwell:
All the critics praise my writing,
Aud eXalt my boom a. kiting-
But somehow and alackl alas! my novels
do not sell.
Current report dominates John C. New as
the probable successor of Secretary of the
United States Treasury William Window.
The suggestion is plausible. Given forty
nine strong, large-brained, capable men, and
one 7x9 little fellow of inferior capacity and
narrow minded partisanship, and Ben Harri-
son will invariably select the iftieth man.
By the way. the president did not select Jim
Blaine for secretary of state. He was forced
to pull him in out of the wet through the
cabin window.
Minnesota protests that the idea Of con-
densing whole winter into the remarkably
short month Of February is not the proper
caper. Up to Jan. 81 1.-The land where the
mango apples grow is not more saluDrious
than had been the prevailing weather of the
great Northwest
In the declining days of his frosty old age,
Bismarck appears to have made mash on
young Billy Mckinley. If Billy has any
friends left in Ohio they will do well to keep
an eye on him. He is liable almost any dark
night to lower his trunk to the sidewalk and
bid the Buckeye state long and sad ta-ta.
Mrs. Stanley complains that Americans
keep their houses too warm. Has Mrs. STAN
ley ever visited the family of Senator John
Sherman-when the old man was about the
house?
No one but a rank political ghoul would
stoop to busy himself with the question of
successor to Secretary Window while the
coffin cloth of the dead man was yet wet by
the tears of his bereayed family. Unfortu-
nately. however, the climate of the District of
Columbia seems favorable to the propagation
of rank political ghouls.
Old George Frisbie Hoar declares he will
wash his hands of the force bill hereafter
strong sheep dip.
1t is said that Mr.. PETER cried when in
formed of his election. 1t was rather tough
on the state Of Kansas.
1t was a newspaper man. Walter B. Ste
vens. who exposed the silver cesspool i'll
Washington, and now large delegations from
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up with masses of irrelevant verbiage. They
may succeed in hiding it from sight, but can
they destroy the odor?
An exchange says that Thomas Regain,
foreman of Lucky Baldwins stables at Nor
ris Park, is missing, and it is feared he has
been badly dealt with" But what fate could
be worse than that of being obliged to WORK
in Lucky Baldwins horse barn?
The popularity of Miss Agnes Huntington
and she undoubtedly is popular-is difficult
to analyze. She is an artistic who cannot be
safely approached by the ordinary stock critic
with book of rules in one hand and tape
measure in the other. Perhaps she is best
described as living link between operate
and dramatic art. 1t certainly requires
genius to fill such role, and, as Miss Hunt
ington comes nearer to it than any other con-
temporary i'll the same line, she must per-
force. be pronounced genius. But it falls
out that she is popular with certain people
who are utterly ignorant of dramatic canons
or operate technique. Miss Huntington is
not great as an actress, emotional or other
wise. Neither is AdeHna Patti. Neither was
Sontag, MalIbrau, Parepa Rosa, Jenny Lind
or Emma Abbott. To-day PATHS dramatic
attempts in opera are painful to the audi
ence. 1t Is yet TO be noted in dramatic rec
ords, the first success in delineation of char
acter of one eminent prima donna, or one
eminent tenor, baritone or basso profundo.
They cannot act; the exhibition of their
vapid attempts is nerye-straining and aggra
vating On the other hand, the eminent
tragedian. comedian, tragedienne or soubrette7
is yet to be named who can or could win
marked attention by melody of voice. The
more dramatic talent the less operate, and
vice versa, are and have been the rules since
the days of Sophocles. This, then, is the
difficult role essayed by Agnes Huntington
to wed music to the drama; to make a love-
match between Orpheus and Melpomene.
How well Miss Huntington succeeds is not
attested by the number who flock to witness
Paul JONES' The magnetism of the starts
not OWNED by the touch of criticism. The
attempt to mix melody and drama in one
stage representation always has been, always