St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-05

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Blaine-Eh. Ben, the Gillian scare was a
good enough war until after election. ai
Ben-Yes, that's true; but somehow it
didn't seem to do US such q tarnal sight of
good.
Yes" murmured Vice President Morton.
as he smacked his lips over magnum of
Ben Harrison's Scotch whisky, Il must ad-
NIT that it's leetle better than anything we
had in the Shoreham buffet-an' we had
some pretty stiff Ticker in the Shoreham
buffet don't you forget it,
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Sir Edwin Arnold looks much as did
Charles Diekens-and Dickens was good
locker
Wheeler now. doubtless, wishes he we're one
of the Boies.
The startling rumor that the nizam of
Hyderabad annually spends S100OO0OO gently
stimulates the belief that some American is
teaching him to play draw poker.
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AS George Slosson deftly pockets roll of
$4,000 he softly murmurs: "You may talk
about indoor base ball, but what's the matter
with indoor billiardss''
fair spirit of business rivalry is COM
mendable. but when Bank President Potter
attempts to smash the record in seven-Ggure
failures. it is time to draw the line
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The attention of John L. Sullivan is called
to the fact that Frank Slavin shows svmp-
toms of the real pugilist He has been fined
in London police court for being drunk
and disorderly
The harp that once through mugwump halls
Its lum tum music shed
Now hangs quite mute on mugwump walls.
Because the mugwump's dead.
George William Curtis.
Contrary to the general impression. the
Chicago river does not ''smell to HEAVIER"
Chicago is too far away from heaven 10 ever
annoy it with Bridgeport odors.
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The New York Press CRep) opines that
''the wOrkingman is the one on whom taxes
ultimately fall" Exactly. and this same
workingman is expected to pay the late Re
publican campaign expenses in Ohio.
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So far as New York is concerned. both the
worlds fair and Fassett are dead issues.
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Despite the numerous libel suits of Boss
QUAY. actual and threatened the New York
World goes grimlv on plastering the senator
with coats of obloGuT before which a thin
ner-skinned individual than Quay would
either sue the World or take to the woods.
The personal and Pertinent man on the
editorial page of the New York World sighs
as follows: San impulse of the autumnal
wood is balm for a mans soul inst now
There's a sermon in every sere and yellow
leaf, and a poem, too. albeit a melancholy
one" But this was published on Monday
the day preceding the election. No doubt he
feels much better, and pretty WELL thank you,
al present
Senior Montt the CHILEAN representative at
Washington. is small in size, and so is his in
sectiverous country.
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All. the New York landslide is Mt last ex-
planned There are 5000 unemployed men
in that state. and thew represent about 30. 900
mouths to feed. Great is Mckinley and his
tariff tax.
After all. to The ladies must the masculine
element of public speakers Weld The naim
for administrations upon practical politics.
While Kate Field was lecturing against pro-
hibition. she was in the habit of bringing
down the house by exhibiting to her audi
enees a broom purchased in Iowa. The
brnomstick was hollow. fitted with a neat
cork, and filed with whisky Mrs Cougar,
a.,
chusetts. evoked wild enthusiasm by showing
her St2 hat on which she paid S13 DUTY
Republican sophistry cannot squirm around
snch Touchdown argument against pro-
lection as this.
It is the sheerest nonsense TO claim that
Democrats hail with delight and Republicans
detest rainy weather on election days. Such
logic would prove that Republicans dread
cold water worse than do Democrats.
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Carter H. Harrison purchased the Chicago
Times at the very worst time possible tn Sc
cure much attention from his brother editors.
The gubernatoriaI fortunes of four great
states were trembling IN the balance
Plain matter-of-fact peopIe in EurOpe who
intend to visit the worlds fair will be Sur
prised to read in American dispatches ex-
tended accounts of prairie fires in Chicago"
For their benefit the GLOBE will explain that
the prairie fires were confined to the annexed
territory between st. Louis and Milwaukee.
The Chicago Herald publishes ~ Glance
at the Pleiades.' We supposed that it was
only the Republican organs who were begin
ming to see stars.
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Hundreds of Democrats don't know even
yet how they voted-Chicago Tribune.
But they do know who was elected.
We have met the Republican enemy and
captured three-fourths of them.
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First Englishm9u-Wha was il all about?
Second Englishman-The worlds fair has
just been elected in New York
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The Chicago Tribune says it is the custom
for New York to go Democratic in off years
Yes, the habit seems to be growing upon it,
1t should try the bichloride of gold treat
ment.