St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-05
ODDS AND ENDS.

II there is anything OH earth that gives a
man real, solid enjoyment, it is standing
around and watching somebody else work.
The amount of overseeing the average citizen
does is something really enormous. At the
corner of Fifth and ST. Peter streets gang
of workmen have been hard at work for
weeks, drilling and blasting cellar out Of
st. Paurs firm foundation, and every day
men with serious faces lend the support of
their presence to the toilers. They stand on
the edge of the excavation and think great
thoughts with their hands in their pockets.
Women would never take the time, but these
great generous hearted men stand there by
the hour and see that everything goes on
well.
st. Paul's firm foundation is, by the way,
something to be proud of. In the parts of
town lying i'll the valley there's just a thin
skim Of soil over the rock, and in conse-
quence cellars are drilled out by main force.
An engine works day after day, and great
sections of rock are hoisted out. This i'm.
pressed one visitor yesterday. He stood on
the corner half an hour wrapped in deep
thought, and gazed at the ST. Peter street hole
in the ground. Then he turned TO st. Paul
man, and said, That's very odd place to
have stone quarry. think The ST. Paul
man was too mean to enlighten him.
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The very latest thing in time-killers is
puzzle. 1t has been in st. Paul but few
days, but it promises to rival the forgotten
popularity of the pigs-in-cloyer puzzle. 1t is
little box with glass top. From the sides
of the box project five little brass pegs, and
lying on the bottom of the box are five tiny
brass rings. Now the puzzle is, by dinT of
Ii, nd iny hof hnv
to hang the rings one on each peg. 1t looks
easy, but it isn't, and it is fascinating in the
extreme. When one has wrestled with the
little concern for long and fruitless hour,
its name, "Hang 1t An,' seems very, very
mild.
The man from New York is nuisance.
On his native heath he may be all right but
when he com es up to somebody else's native
heath and begins 10 disburse great chunks of
cold New York nerve, the air he breathes is
needed for something else. Last night he
was here in ST. Paul, and he went to the the
alter with a man he used to know. He sat on
the front seat with his Chilli sauce-colored
suit and his scarlet necktie, and dropping his
arm negligently over the back OF the seat, he
talked in an unrestrained way about every
thing that came into his mind. First he said
that in New York people never listen to what
other people are saying. You can confess all
the murders you have committed right there
on Broadway, and no one but the man you're
confessing to will hear it. Then he'd seen
this play before, and he explained it all out
to the man he used TO know. He told just
what was going to happen next He had
seen the original company. They never
bring the really good companies out here.
This was very bad. Wouldn't go in New
York at all. Anything goes out here in the
provinces. That's only few of the things
he said, and every time see his sause-eol
ored suit hate New York.
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This is the story of a travelling man. He
sells dry goods for a house in Chicago. He
came here not long ago and went TO the
hotel. / say the hotel for he stopped at the
only really good hotel in the town, whose
name for obvious reasons, 1 cannot here
diyulge. After dinner he went out and met
a man he knew. By and by he met some
more men, and he began to be absent-minded.
He got SO absent-minded that he mixed his
feet all up and looked cross-eyed. After that
he got so absent-minded that he didn't re-
member anything at all. Next day, or per-
haps day after next he felt better and started
West but his money was all gone. There was
lot of it. but it got away from him while he
was absent-minded. Some letters of intro
duction were with it. Just yesterday the
clerk of that hotel received frantic message
from that man. Look under the carpet in
the southeast corner of the room had for
my money" He had put it there while he
was absent-minded, and suddenly remem-
bered it out in Helena. The money was
found as directed and forwarded TO him, and
this is true story with a moral
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There's girl up on the hull who always
gets seat in a car if it is just jammed. She
isn't pretty nor anything like that but she is
brainy and her feet are large. She wears
common-sense shoes with heavy heels. She
goes into car and hangs to strap in front
of some man. Then every time the car
jerks she lunges around with those heels
After few lunges the man gives her his
seat and limps out and stands on the plat
form and sWearS