St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

The capital was fairly overcrowded with
Y p S. c. E. delegates yesterday. Delegates
from Maine with their clipped 'qs;" dele
gates from Kentucky with their apologize
RS" and delegates from the West with no
accent whatever. They stared at the battle
W orn flags and peeped in at the door o
every Office. There was nobody in particular
to show them around, and-poor things
they went away with only half a notion of
the greatness of Minnesota's Official transac
tions One pretty girl from Georgia tried to
find somebody to tell her the exact height of
the statue Of justice on the dome. Nobody
knows. 1t may be fifteen feet, it may be six,
but the Georgia girl couldn't find out which.
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Next to the president of these United States
and the editor of great city daily,no human
being on earth is of more importance or has
duties more manifold than the suburban
drug store clerk He is expected to know
remedy for everything from Charley horse to
quick consumption. He knows the only de-
sirable kind of face powder and the latest
kind of perfume. He knows where every
body in his end Of town lives, how the family
are, and all about them. He knows how
often the cars run, and what line you take to
get to Fourteenth and Jackson streets He is
expected to be as polite as a Chesterfield
when woman comes in. and, after worrying
him half to death over some fancjed mistake
in the directory, buys two cent stamp with
the air of having conferred an enormous
favor on the house And then he is expected
to mix ice-cream soda with-well, with some
thing that tastes like wine, and to smile
every time anybody gets off that old joke
about winking. And the girls-well, just
watch the girls flock around him and then
say he isn't to be envied.
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One of the brightest newspaper women in
the West was in st. Paul the other day. She
is Miss Emily Bohn, of Helena. Miss Bohn
has not the slightest trace of the abrupt mas
culinity which great many feminine scrib-
blers acquire but is q very quiet and charm
ing young woman.
IT.
One of the advance guard OF the newspaper
men was Charles Elley Hall. Of the Publish
ers' Commercial Union. Mr.. Hall, like every
body else who has ever been here, is charmed
with st. Paul. Yesterday he happened into
a car and took seat next a Y. P. S. E. dele
gate from the remote rear woods. The young
woman. resenting the wholly accidental
proximity of strange young man, moved
into the next seat. The car went on. Farther
down town, when the car was nearly full.
very large and very black man got on, and,
seeing no other seat vacant, sat down beside
the timid Y. P. S. C. Z. delegate And, do
you know, everybody ON the car was mean
enough to smile a smile perfectly pereeptible
to any ones auditory nerves.
1T
"There was lecture at Market hall last
night. 1t was tour OF the world, or some
thing of that kind, with dissolving views of
Rome and the leaning tower and the holy
family and all that SOFT of thing. displayed
OH a large white screen. The lights were all
turned to pianissimo strength, while the
fortissimo voice of the lecturer filed in the
gaps. On the front seat sat young man and
a young woman. On the back seat sat
couple of frivolous reporters. Market hall
floor Is fiat The people on the front seat
were plainly visible in silhouette against the
screen. He put his elbow on the back of the
seat and whispered in her ear. She was
little deaf, so she leaned nearer him. Acct
dentally-of course-she bent forward, and
his arm fell right around her waist All the
lights were low, but just then Unexpectedly
the lecturer stopped shouting for q minute,
and the silence cleft by what sounded like
champagne cork going Off and instantly the
two silhouettes were observed to hastily
separate themselves with blush that was
visible even on the screen.