St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-15
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

New York paper spasmodically exclaims:
1.-THE trustees of Columbia college have set a
good example to our rich men in appropriate
ing $4,000 for the proposed botanical gar
den." Almost any exhibition of generosity
is good example to New York's rich men.
But will they follow it? Aye, there's the
rubi
| Librarian Poole. of Chicago. deposes and
says that it lis pretty conclusive that Shake
speare died from the effects of series of
sprees induced by the conyiviality that OBJ
tanned at the wedding of his daughter
judith" No matter what series of complica-
tions Shakespeare died of ne left series of
plays that WILL probably. never be eaualed
by any subsequent writer. Indeed. it is eX-
tremely doubtful if there are twenty Drohibi-
dtionists in the state of Iowa who could write
as good play as Hamlet"
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Socially. it is much better to rise with the
lark than with the sparrow. Aside from the
nerve-wrenching twitter of the sparrow, the
bird is an outcast aud an outlaw with price
upon its head.
Joaquin Miller's son says that the impulse
to rob stage coach came to him like an in
spiration." Perhaps stage robbers, like poets,
are OOrIl, not made.
Luclan-Tve got sure cure for drunken
ness better than Keeleys.
Ovid-Wffat is it?
Lucian-Stop drinking
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The racing plugs are not circumscribing
the track out at Garfield park, Chicago, any
more. No, the managers of the winter snap
got TO monkeying with the city press in an
offensive manner, and after a few wells
from the left flipper of that leviathau. the
horse owners, gamblers. book makers and
film-hammers laid down and croaked the
last croak of overwhelming defeat. The
press may not be exactly the lever that
moves the world, out when it comes to jerk
ing up skin games by the roots the press is
still in it.
And so Sunol has at last followed Dexter
and Maud into Robert Bonners realm of
oblivion. AS a voracious collector of equine
brie-a-brac Mr.. Bonner stands peerless and
alone.
Closely following the exciting wolf hunt
on Michigan avenue, Chicago, comes a Wild,
hair-lfhng bear hunt in one of the most
populous sections of that metropolis. The
game bagged last Saturday was genuine
bear who wore his hair on the outside, and
not one of the genus homo who do the bear
act i'll opposition to the bulls on change.
An exchange asks: rs Gould short?'
Yes; short. sharp and decisive.
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An exchange notes that san aeronaut has
wretchedly persisted by falling from his
balloon before large audience in Bombay
We presume there in nothing more embar-
RAISING to a public performer than to fall
from balloon before large audience. 1t is
said to be worse than st age fright.
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Philadelphia paper makes a strong de-
mand for more raw material. Well there
was quite quantity of it lying around loose
after Tommy Ryan got through with Frank
HoHson, the Britisher.
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Iceman Turner, doorkeeper of the house.
has patronage to the amount of $4,000 per
annum to distribute. and is in most favora-
bic position to send cold chills up the office
seekers back.
Virginia owns 1,501,OOO acres of oyster beds.
These are large, roomy beds and yet great
many oystersmanage to fan out of them.
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Prof. Keeier saws the suns heat will warm
the world for 100000 years yet This is
pretty close guess, still we are not prepared
TO hand over the prize until the termination
of the period. Somebody may beat it.
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On the Maryland coast the other day a
whale was captured in whose stomach was
five-gallon demijohn of whisky with the cork
stillin. The secret is out at last B. Harri-
Ttor, r;1-c H.
and. 10. it hath returned after many DAYS.
This unconventional act however, will
probably lose B. Harrison the state of Ken
tueky.
Sir Edwin Arnold is wise in refusing to
write a book about America 1t is quite true
that about all the mean things that have been
said about us that can be thought of. but
perhaps Sir Edwin believes we are not as
black as we have been painted.
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The american tim war is nothing but a
tempest in a teapot, and tin teapot at that.
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Dear Car: What are you using on cranks
this season?-Russell Sage.
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He-What are you looking for my dear?
She-The editorial page of the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
He-It hasn't any
She-Then way doesn't it come out and
say so on the first page and save people the
trouble of wading through slush?
Cassagnac, Cassagnac, Beware of the day,
When you meet on the greensward the form
of Floquet
Twas he who pinked Boulanger, Floquet
the cruel
And shed the first blood in a Freuchiied
duel.
Christmas shoppers will find the coming
ten days very busy ones aud they Will do
we'll to consult the advertising columns OF the
GLOBE. By so doing they will save time and
also discover the most advantageous places at
which to trade. We do not say this in a ner-
functOry manner, but because it ought to be
said for the benefit of our people, and because
every word of il is true.
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A drowning man, clinging to a log in n
creek near Cincinnati. called for help and
was answered by two men. The men then
went into a saloon took drinks, and, on their
return, the victim was a corpse. Is pleasure
before business the modern axiom of Ohio
humanity:
ANTi-GRAIN GAMBLING.