St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-13
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

She was young. She was beautiful.
She carried a letter in her hand. 1t
was enclosed in one of those envelopes
used by young ladies when they are
very particular about its contents. She
came into the pOstOfice just as long
line of men were preparing to buy
stamps. She was very particular ABOUT
the letter, and uncertain, TOO. as was
evidenced by the pOiSe of her hand.
As she trlpped up to the stamp window
ahead of all the men there we're a thou-
sand questions in her eyes. The men
saw that they were in for it and ground
their teeth. Visions of lnane, time
consuming questions falling from her
lips danced before their eyes. Ihey
knew what women before stamp
window were, those knowing men.
They had seen them many times. IL
was always the same old story OF delay.
No mistake about til at. When were
women ever known to buy two-cent
stamp and go about their business as
they should? Never was the answer
framed and hing up in the mind OF
every man there.
"Wish we'd brought camp chairs, :"
grOWled a fat man under his breath.
''Or beds" suggested another also IN
ellned toward embonpOint.
The others smiled a grim smile indie
alive of assent. The innocent victim OF
all the silent eXecratiOn was by this
time at the window.
TWENTY-FIVE wO-cent stamps. please, "
said she to the clerk. They were given
her, and she sailed out.
Deep silence fell like pail over the
building. Strong men stood aghaSt.
/, 4 Il lnh
smashed in an age of reckless lcono-
clasm.
There has been considerable talk
about the alleged escape of gigantic
python from the Exposition building
several days ago, and great deal OF
curiosity as to the whereabouts OF the
snake has been the result Of the talk.
Press Agent Woodward determined to
create an additional amount or curiosity
bv finding the snake again. Some or
the firemen attached to the Cataract
Engine company discarded a piece Of
hose about twenty feet long. and 1t was
dragged to the river by some of the
small bows in the neighbOrhOod. The
press agent saw the piece of hose. He
picked ii up and threw it into the river
among the logs. Not quite satisfied
with the arrangement of the thing, he
climbed down on the logs and with his
cane proceeded to place it into po-
sition calculated to deceive the public
into thinking that the harmless piece OF
rubber was a real snake
When he had fixed it in the proper po-
sition he climbed back to the bridge,
and was at once assaulted with a voiley
of questions as to what it was by sew
eral persons who had witnessed his Op-
eratioms. He gravely replied that he
had come down TO the river to see the
big snake Il at had escaped from the
exposition building several days before.
The people at once jumped to the con-
clusion that the piece of rubber hose
was the snake, and the news that the
reptile, which had been creating so
much talk. was lying dead in the river,
spread rapidly. A policeman saw the
crowd and fastened 10 the spot to see
what the matter was. There was the
snake. apparently dead, in the bottom
of the river. Every person who passed
stopped TO see what the excitement was
about and the crowd soon reached a
gCOdly number. One young man ran to
the exposition building and breathleSSly
announced that he had found the snake.
Manager Bracket promised him that he
would be given a reward of S25 If he
would bring the snake to the exposition
building. But he did not return, and
the supposed reptile was permitted to
remain Tor the editicatiOn OF the public.
The MillerS won at Duluth yesterday
and Billy Harrington and Hy l.. Hach
spent the evening shaking dice to see
who was the former Jonah of the team.
Park Commissioner Pat Ryan is all
right on matters of business and cracks
q joke occasionally. Yesterday after it
was announced that the meeting next
Monday night would be held in the
Open Door church. he blandly inquired
If it would be an open meeting.
Judging from the way "stalls'' are be-
ing made use of in this base bail mud
die, the whole affair is a horse on some
one.
There is a rumor current to the effect
that f. D. Briggs. "Brigglets," is in
town again. Minneapolis people who
know him fear that ne has come back to
swing that worlds fair convention of
next week into some scheme for Briggs
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. He will do it, too, if he
thinks of it.
Prof. Folwell hits hard and lands al
most every time he leads, but he is not
what would be called ''heady" fighter.
He is too independent of his second.
c. A. Pillsbury has been interviewed
again on gambling in wheat. 1t is now
in order to interview Harlow Gale, for
column, Oh the prospects of new
central market.
1t is unfortunate that "Old Hoss'' Van
Antwerp is not in town now to keep the
public posted on the TOSiness of Rosy
checked Sans cheeks, but perhaps Col.
W. l.. O'Brien, jr., will do as well.