St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

Lights are out in the Ashland avenue home
of Carter H. Harrison, at Chicago. The trip
around the world didn't win.
The resignation of Senator George f. Ed
munds. of Vermont. did not come exactly in
the nature of bolt of lightning from clear
SKY. Light-waisted intimations of his inten-
tons have been flying around in the press for
number of days. and it is not exactly in
vidious TO say that in several Republican
sheets no small degree of lying has been in
dulged i'll concerning it.
Every journalist in the Uuited States Will
cheertully testify TO his appreciation of 2.
7. Barnum who, throughout life continued
far beyond the usual limit, combined much
of the restless activity of the newspaper
world. Indeed, Mr.. Barnum was among the
pioneers of journalism in this countrE.- and
so early as 1879 proved that he had the cour
age of his convictions by going to Jail for
ninety days on most frivolous charge of
libel. No man, perhaps, in his profession
has so frequently been thrown into intimate
relations with the press of this country as
has Phineas Taylor Barnum; it is doubtful
if any man has so largely profited by
such relations. In view of many dis
astr0us experiences, it cannot be said
that he was pre-eminently a lucky man. But
whenever ill-luck set heavily against the cur
rent Of his financial interests. strong common
sense and business sagacity came to his aid
in selecting the best means OF overcoming
the ''slings and arrows of outrageous for
tune, and he advertised more extensively
than ever before. He believed firmly in the
merits of judicious advertising His rewards
during au eyentful life were three colossa
fortunes.
There is singularity connected with peach
culture which may not have attracted the at
tenton it really deserves. Whenever the
Delaware peach crop goes glimmering, the
Michigan crops come up smiling, and vice
versa. Thus the equilibrium Is gloriously
sustained
Joe Howard PHILOSOPHERS: "Better week
in bed than an eternity in a coffin But less
than week i'll bed has given some people
their eternity of coffin.
The New York Press daily insists that Bill
Mckinley is "A pretty lively corpse" This is
all right enough so long as the Press con-
fesses that Bill is corpse
Baron Fava will please notice how quickly
he sank out of sight when the municipal
elections in the United States began to come
Off
An Eastern paper remarks that the ''chief
characteristic of New York is the rapidity of
its change And yet the rapidity of New
York change is not nearly SO great as is the
amount required to produce the rapidity of
life incidental to New York.
You may go and seek your fish;
You may cast your fly ker-swish;
You may also take along leathern bottle;
BY the trout stream lie in wait,
Or at Bass lake measure bait
AS it softly gurgles downward in your throt-
tie.
But before you cast your fly
Listen. Listen
BY the skies that bend above us,
Stars that glisten-
Tell Us truly as you love US
How long must we be waiting while you lie?
A country exchange informs us that good
hogs are worth four cents The very ordi-
nay hog of the st. Paul street railway is
worth five cents a head to the company any
day III the week.
Mr.. Comp is running for Office in St. Jo-
seph, Mo. tits understood that he is doing
some right lively scratching.
IN THE WANT COLUMN.
81 want to be an angel"
The dear girl sang. All eyes
Turned on the worldly wretch who said:
Then why not advertiser
New York Herald
Baron Fava should not be offended with
the playful tone of the American press Let
him remember what things have been said
about Sackyille West; and, if this is no con
ISOLATION, let him remember Gilly Ghooly