St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-27
BY THE WAY.

County Assessor Harroun and a staff of
experts are pusily engaged in fixing up the
personal property assessments for the year.
The assessor estimates that the assessment
on personal property will amount to sixteen
and half millions, or half a million less
than that of last year. The total assessment
last year was one and a half millions below
that of the preceding year.
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:, The Bell charter, among other novelties,
requires that aldermen and assemblymen.
when voting, shall do so audibly. The al
dermen, at the meeting yesterday afternoon,
quietly ignored this requirement and al
lowed the city clerk to push through the roll
call without either aye or may being
heard. OF course upon the mere question
of referring documents to committees the
mere fact that no objections were raised
ought to be sufficient If the Bell charter
were to be observed to the letter, public bust
ness woula be considerably retarded.
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City Attorney Lawler has had no sinecure
since he received his present appointment
The fact that a new city charter was put into
operation augmented the difficulties he had
to cope with, and, as he remarked yesterday,
II have had no time to attend to anything
outside the work of my department.
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The success of the Ludwig testimonial ben
eft was largely due to the indefatigabIe work
of City Clerk Tom Prendergast. The genial
tom is a close personal friend of the
world-famed baritone, and entered heart and
soul into the benefit which was rendered
him.
F. S. Fee, of the Northern Pacific road, is
very confident of the future of the Alaskan
territory as a resort for tourists. Americans,
he claims, in future will cease crossing the
ocean, and ''by and by the steamships will
have to go out of the business. so far as the
transportation of Americans to Europe is
concerned"
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An alderman remarked yesterday: "a
great deal is being said about teaching Ger
man in the public schools. l am opposed to
it, and I'll tell you why-it costs this city
$1,000 year.
The Duluth papers report that Manager
Watkins, of the st. Paul base ball club has
been visiting the Zenith city. SO
Manager Watkins replies that he has not
been in Duluth since 1879.
Some one must be stretching a point or two
here. Can it be the newspapers? They GER
tainly have no reason to say that Mr.. Wat
kins was i'll Duluth if he was not. There is
nothing to be gained thereby. Future de-
Veiopments will disclose who is correct.
The assembly is so small numerically that
the members inadvertently address the chair
in conversational tone and without rising.
President Murray, however, is a stickler for
the enforcement of rules, and he persists in
rapping each assemblyman TO order who de-
parts from strict compliance Herewith.
This fact created considerable merriment at
the session held last evening.
j.
''Do you see that man?' asked prominent
business man, in one of the larger retail
stores, of customer last evening AS he
spoke he pointed to gruff, bustling middle
aged man who was making himself
somewhat odious by his obstreperous and
brusque conduct, DO you know con-
tinued the business man, ''he is the meekest
fellow imaginable at home. There the bet
ter half does bossing, and it seems as though
he takes particular delight in getting sweet
revenge on other people when away from his
wife. 1 once knew man." he pursued,
after giving some brief instructions to a
clerk, who was the direst opposite. At
home he played the tyrant, but in business
and other walks he suffered all sorts of IN
dignities with an humble grace" Such are
certain types of men.
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Il don't believe its safe thing for man
to read nothing but Republican literature,
even though he is a stalWart Republican"
said Warren j. Ives, of Hutchinson, yester-
day. Il am a Republican, and take the
GLOBE and think it's a good thing for Re-
publicans to read it. Again, believe it is
bad for Democrat to read nothing else It's