St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

So New York is talking of a S1,OOo,OOO ap-
preparation for an exhibit at the worlds fair.
The prospect is that New York Will be ex-
tremely hoarse before the appropriation is
wrung from its reluctant pocketbook.
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Senator PETER says that he studied law be-
fore the war. So did Daniel Webster. Here
the resemblance ceases.
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Chill declines to apologize. Now let Uncle
Sam put Chill in his pipe and smoke it.
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Jerry Simpson is right on hand in congress,
and prepared to enjoy all the fun in sight.
This is not the first time, however, that Jerry
has attended three-ring circus, albeit the
orbit represented by Jerry is a small one
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Bombbang men interviewing Russell Sage
will find it much easier to blow in money at
that Office than to blow it out.
49,
The st. Louis Post-Dispateh unkindly al
ludes to Prof. Keeley as 1.-The jag DOCTOR" In
this world it is extremely unwise to make
fun of other people, as it is not known at
what moment one may need their assistance.
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Managing Editor Cdictating to typewriter)
My Dear Stanley: You discovered Living
stone. You found Emin Pasha. Inow offer
you commission from the Daily Sensation
to discover the man who is turning out SO
much American tin. Name your terms, and
draw on US for advance money.
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The Chicago Inter Ocean quotes a resident
of the Windy City as answering the question
What is promoters" as follows: "He is,
my dear sir man selling a thing he does
not own to man who doesn't want it," The
Inter Ocean will excuse this additional ques-
ton, but does this apt and unequivocal def
milton apply to Worlds Fair Promoter Moses
3. Handy?
So B. Harrison does not like the Michigan
''gerrymander" Have the states any rights
which the temporary head of simple feder-
alton of states is bound to respeetl
Quoting the Chicago Inter Ocean of Dec
II: IF st. Paul would open her ice palace
along in july she might make bid for the
Democratic convention. 1t would be handy
to cool the bottles" The only noticeable
thing in this obscure and awkwardly con-
structed piece of attempted witticism is its
injustice Perhaps it was an unwise show Of
misplaced enterprise to erect, as did St Paul,
ice palaces for two consecutive winters
These winters, it should be noted, were I'M
usually severe all over the country. Ice pal
aces could have been built and maintained
fully as long at those times in Chicago as in
St Paul. The latter saw her ice palace fade
away in the winter of 1887. But the cold.
hard fact remains that during the past three,
and so far in the present year. an ice palace
has been, and is, up to the present writing,
an impracticable and absolutely impossible
scheme, owing TO the extreme mildness
which has, and does prevail in the climate
wherein is located the city of ST. Paul. More
than this can be easily maintained: The
average mean temperature Of St. Paul, Min
neapolis WinOna, Rochester and Owatonna
has been no lower during the past
three winter seasons, and up to the
present wrltIng than has the average
mean temperature of Chicago, Milwau-
kee, Madison, Wis, and Rockford, Ill.
During the seasons utilized for ice palace
purposes in st. Paul, equally elaborate gla-
cial structures could have been erected and
maintained for the same period, and longer,
In either or all of the cities last mentioned.
That they did not go into the ice palace bust
ness was not owing to a lack of weather. At
the time of the last ice palace in ST. Paul a
printer in Madison, Wis, had both OF his
ears ana TWO toes frozen walking three blocks
to his Office At the time of the first ice pal
ace in st. Paul a woman and two children
were frozen to death In bed in Chicago, and
Chicago street car horses were led into the
barns with their ears so badly frosted that
amputation was necessary. During the win
ter which witnessed the last ice palace in st.
Paul six men were frozen to death within
radius of seventeen miles of Milwaukee,
Wis. The same winter ice in Lake Michigan
so blocked up the water tunnel that Chicago
was in great danger of an appalling water
famine. At the present writing the atmos-
phere surrounding St. Paul is as soft and
balmy as that which permeates the everglades
of Florida, or rests above the limpid waters
of ''Pascagouias smiling bay" Summer
climatel Convention weather. There is
as great difference between the fresh, invig-
Grating ozone Of Minnesota and the seeth-
ing, torrid summer heat of Chicago as there
is supposed to be between the cool zephgrs
that fan the cheeks Of the Peri at the gate of
heaven and the sulphurous fumes of hades.
1t may be claimed that this statement is in
the nature of heavy draft on hyperbole.
Looking at il calmly, it cannot be considered
too hgurative. AS an honest if somewhat
indignant retort 20 the daily and intermina-
bic filings of the Chicago press at Mlnnesota's
climate, it is considered just about fgurative
enough.