St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-06
ODDS AND ENDS.

DR.. Angus Macdonald, now travelling
through Europe, has just been posing as
st. Paul Alexander Selkrk, and yesterday
wrote letter to Lathrop Mussetter that sent
cold chills tobogganing up aud down the
spines Of all his friends In fact, the day was
so warm that friends of the doctor. suffering
from heat. were invited in to hear the letter.
so that they might get thoroughly chilled. 1t
appears that while on boerd a ADDITION YES
sci, bound for North Cape, the doctor was
shipwrecked The boat collided with a rock,
and the passengers spent an eventful night
on that rock, in the course of which DIR.
Macdonald was a reseuing angel. The letter
was refused for publication but the public
may breathe again, for DR.. Macdonald aud
his estimable wife are both safe in Paris
again.
1T
The treasures of the historical society were
increased yesterday by the gift of two val
nable autograph letters from r. G. Judson. of
Pennington. The letters were formerly the
property of Mr.. Judson's father. Both are
dated at Washington. The first is from An
drew Jackson, Dec. 26, 1886, to Roswell Jud
son in reply to request for an autograph
letter. The other, dated Sept. q, 1850, is a
friendly letter from Daniel Webster to Hon.
plate, and contains this significant, almost
prophetic paragraph: 'This letter needs no
reply. 1t is. 1 am certain, of very little value
but have thought you might be willing to
receive it, and perhaps TO have it where 1t
would be seen by those who shall come after
YOU"
49,
1t was warm yesterday. Everything was
sticky, and everybody as cross as two sticks
One of the Rondo and Lafayette cars was
rattling along down town at lively rate,
when daughter of Erin: with double chin
and bolster-like figure planted herself in
the middle of the track. ''Sthop that carl
Sthop that carr she vociferousy CALCULATED.
"'he car was stopped and the Irish woman
prepared to climb into it. She had COM
| mon blonde dog, and the conductor politely
but firmly objected to having the canine as
passenger. The old woman drew herself
up magnficently and said ''Well, if yez
| can't carry me dog, yez can't have me
money! This threat, however, did not at
feet the conductor at all, and. as the car
| rolled on, the old woman was left standing
on the corner. We'll anyway, I'll till Tom
Lowry on yez, do yez mind" was her parting
shot. And the blonde dog hung his head and
blushed.
| She was pretty girl strikingly pretty
| girl. she came up on the boat Sunday, and
| as she clicked her pretty little French heels
| over Fourth street every man on the block
J lost his heart to her. She marched up to a
| window decorated with sign in concave
letters. and laid pink-tipped finger on the
! letters. Then a look of blank amazement
| oyerspread her face and she said to herself,
| naively and quite aud1bly, why. l thought
| they were carved in the glass. / bet Charley
box of chocolate creams they were" And
| a sadder and wiser little woman walked on
down the street. A great many bets have
been won on the same subject, for the letters
are only pasted on the inside of the pane.
| The inventor has made a large fortune from
the clever idea, too. by the way.