St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-01

In American football is reached the acme
OF the propulsiye force of popular pastimes.
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An appropriate Christmas present for Gen
Palmer. commander of the Grand Army of
the Republic would be a miniature Confed-
crate flag, not for its intrinsic value alone.
but for the edificatiOn OF Gen. Palmer's
neighbors, who might be amused by his hys-
teTical antics.
great many people have wondered at
the comparatively small sensation created in
this country by Sir Julian Pauncefote. So
lar during his ministerial career his person
atty has remained wrapped in the gloom of
obscurity, if not in the impenatrable cloak of
insignifcance. But at last it is all explained.
Sir Julian is q most enthusiastic lawn tennis
player.
Here is the truth. not exactly in nutsell.
but i'll six lines from the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The GLOBE acknowledges the delicate com
pliment of the last three lines, which, with
out mentioning its name. is undoubtedly in
tended for the GLOBE:
Extravagant inducements are offered bv
some of the younger New York dailies to
subscribers but in spite of the war of hro-
mos ana insurance policies the best paper
and the most read is that which gives the
most news in the best shape.
An Eastern Republican organ admits that
New York has ),0a0 unemployed men, and
another four years of Harrisonian- Nj Kinley-
ism would give it 10000.
1t appears that many q self made man can
not make his own will.
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The war correspondents down in South
America are still hanging around. Within &
pencils, eating lines and waiting FOR war.
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Poor old st. Louis sets up plaintive wall
for the Democratic national convention
Having hOodooed Grover Cleveland in 1888,
it really has the presumption to offer to do it
again.
The Chicago Herald Friday last threw open
its palatial new quarters to its advertisers,
among whom are numbered some of the
most prominent Commentaries in the United
States. The reception was a grand success,
ana ereditable to the enterprise of the most
enterprsing journal in the country.
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should Roger @. Mills secure the speaker
ship, it can be considered quite probable that
! one could play a game of progressive pea
knuckie upon the coat-tailS of Charles A.
, Dana as he fys this great but ungrateful re-
public.
MY SON." SAID dying millionaire. 81 am
now about to make my will. Perhaps the
lawyers and chuekle-headed probate judges
may allow you to receive some of the money,
and perhaps they won't. But, at all events
| you can be consOled with the thought that
life is full of disappointments aud that the
only real consolet ton TO look forward 10 is
heaven-ah"'
The Chicago Inter Ocean, good old Repub-
| lican organ that it is. says waiingly: who
ever shall win the speakership contest will
| be unfortunate in that he must succeed
| Thomas B. Reed" He will. indeed. Tom
Reed disgraced the speakers chair in the last
congress- and it is doubtful if the house jan
itors have been able 10 sufficiently purify it
for its Democratic occupant
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With alldue Difference to the genius of Sir
! Edwin Arnold, it has been suggested that
even a ghost dance is better than ''No
Dance"
Friendly Sympathy stops and wipes away
her tears when a learned New Y )rk journal
says: Lord Lytton was poet much in the
same class as the late James Russell Lowell"
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II. as Astronomer Chandler says parallels
| of latitude are uncertain, and the earth
wobbles on her axis, what becomes of Bos-
| toms claim of being the hub OF the universe :
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Roger Q. may, really. be one of the Mills of
the gods. but il is quite evident there is to be
no slow grinding i'll the speakership contest.
After all the colleges have established pro-
| fessorships of football, they should also pro-
vide pension bureaus for cripples.
| Whitelaw Reid. the United States minister
! to France, has been granted leave OF alb
sence. and will probably arrive in New York
| by Christmas" This illustrates the condition
! Of servility to which the itch for political
! office reduces a man. Time was when. as i
free. frisky and Independent New York
| newspaper proprietor, Whitelaw Reid didn't
have to ask any one for "a leave of absence"