St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-08
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.
Wild Western Favored Native-Well what
do you think of our mining city?
Eastern Visitor-She's Butte.


Eastern Visitor-Shes Butte.
The principal toast responded to by the
Ohio society at Delmonicos the other night
appeared to be ~
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Iii more than likely, laying all purple
royalty aside, that the Prince OF Wales is not
one half as ashamed of the snug little gam
bling party at Doncaster in which he was
caught as is the residue of SAID little party of
being detected in the company of the prince.
Itis even limited that some of the party are
even now trying to lie out of the scrape.
tet,
sItis true as enunciated by the GLOBE,
every great commercial nation must have
navy But with Bill Mckinley blocking
the way, how can the United States become
great commercial nation:''
In its drastic criticism of extravaganza on
the part of Chicago's worlds fair managers,
congress utterly failed to allude to Promoter
General Moses P. Handys cheese sandwiches
and blood sausages. with which he proposes
TO use as bait for distinguished foreigners.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox wants but little here
below. but that little comprises the privilege
of publishing Col. John A Joyce's latest
poem without exciting invidious comment.
The Chicago Post admits that, Powerful
athlete as he is, John l.. Sullivan cannot
carry a tune" And yet. whenever John ap-
pears with his jag there is music in the air.
The once blatant ''put bayonet behind
every ballot yell appears to1 have died into
an echo, a thing intangible, unreal and
weird
Straight tip to Inventor Pennington: The
only trouble with air ships is that they are SO
heavy they fall down. Otherwise the mech
anism is perfect.
At certain St Paul club the other even
ing some one suggested Rutherford B. Hayes
as Republican candidate for president in
'92. Everybody smiled. Another one men
toned Ben Harrison. The assembly burst
into a roar, glassware and china fell to pieces
on the sideboard and the arabesque decora-
ton of the dado curled and crinkled ike
apple parings on CRATE fire.
In this country-aside from Chopper Clark
son-the person who cuts off another nead
is likely to be strangled In France the
processes are reversed, and the stranger is
liable to the loss of his brain box.
Mr. Gllroy, a New York street paving con-
tractor, is having trouble, and there has de-
ve!oped disposition to knock him higher
than his justly celebrated kite.
The water falls on the messy stone,
With its drip, drip, drip;
And the votes of the Democrats at Pierre
Are for Trip, Trip, Trip.
1t is really true, the divine Sarah Bern
hardt is growing, well, to say the least, stout.
That eminent assistant Republican, Charles
A. Dana, can now divert his Parthian shafts
from the oIeaginous Cleveland to the fatty
degeneration of the only Cleopatra"
In dtime politics. or rather, when our
politics was young, there was an organiza-
ton known as Barn Burners" What's the
matter with denominating the remains OF the
Republican party state Stealers."
They cut off Eyrauds head. Efforts to Sc
cure acommutation of his sentence lmmedi-
ately ceased.
On such days as the Minnesota legislature
is in action, it is painfully apparent that
John Day Smith needs a liver pill.
Edgar Fawcett is opposed to the use of
dialect in literature, and says that if he had
occasion to put rude Maine fisherman in a
novel he would make him converse in classi-
cal periods. But if he had occasion to put a
rude Maine politician, like Tom Reec, i'll a
novel? Classical periods are not Tom Reed
ian specialties The novel would fall dead
from the press, and Edgar Fawcett would go
tlImbling down the back stairs of fame i'll
company with Henry James. ~
South Dakota and Illinois are still sena-
torial vacuums. Other states, have filled
their hands. and Idaho comes 10 the front
with three of kind.