St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-22
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

All, there. majahl in view of the much
Wanted beneficence of the Mckinley BILL
how do you account for the present shortage
Of the peanut crops
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Chicago has but little use for Christmas.
New Years. Fourth of July and other minor
holidays. The sap of Chicago's enthusiasm
is weekly spent in hilariously celebrating
divorce day."
y Santa Claus has no affiliation with the
sugar clause" in the Mckinley bill. Ut
terry regardless of tariff legislation sSanta
Claus believes in sweets to the sweet"
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The New York Recorder says: washing
ton is full of cranks, and most of them are
In congress-" Yes, so 1t appears; the Re-
publican minority in the lower house com
prises eighty-seven members.
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The Chicago Globe insists that congress
should visit the world fair grounds and note
progress. L: certainly should if it proposes
TO invest S5,O0O,OOO in the enterprise.
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Mem. for B, Harrison-Blasne will not go
10 Boston for his health.
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The Helena Journal, published by Russell
Harrison. has cordially Endorsed the presi-
dents message. published by B. Harrison.
Praise from such source is praise indeed.
There IS a fish hatchery in Michigan that
has 51,Oo00O0 whitefish eggs in process Of in
cubation. If the public does not believe this
story the public is at liberty TO count them.
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A consensus of opinion in the press re-
veals the fact that mir. Elkins is a man of
affairs Quite true, but it need not neces-
sarily be forgotten that there are shady as
well as sunlighted affairs.
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TIE Plainview, Mimi, News says: "St.
Paul may as well pull in; Milwaukee has Of
fered the Democratic national convention all
the beer they can drink if it is held in that
city" The attention of the News editor is
directed to the fact that it takes more than
beer to buy votes, saying nothing of political
conventions.
Can it be true that Blaine is shattered
idol! And all on account of thBt man Ell
kins, too! Turned down by ''Steve?" Jimmy,
we would not have believed it of you.
The Minneapolis Journal insists that sit
pays well to have permanently good roads,
How about 'fences?"
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''Steve" ElEins twice declined the position
of secretary of war. But then, those modest
destinations came at periods when there
was no war in sight. Butwhen complications
with Chilli threatened danger, steve" sprang
ike a second Mettus Curtius. into the yawn-
ing chasm-of the cabinet. 1t is now under
stood among the bright young men employed
as Washington correspondents that steve
Elkins soul is in arms and eager for the
fray
Millionaire John D. Rockefeller says he is
quite content to smoke plain, ordinary 40
cent cigars 1t would be interesting to learn
what John D. Rockefeller would consider an
ornamental, gllt-edged, fantastic, grotesque,
arabesque, swell, swagger. bon ton. creme de
Ia creme, upper crust top notch, oorich-
for-the-blood cigar.
The weather of last evening must have
been in the nature of dampener to the
spirits Of Santa Claus 1t certainly dampened
everything else in sight.
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Should the COMMANDMENTS chief of the
army of the United States send Chill an ulu-
matum. the CHILEAN can put it in his pipe
and smoke it, He can also put Pat Egan in
his pipe and smoke him, if he wants to.
Pugilist Frank Slavi1 has arrived in New
York. No confidence is violated in the state
ment that he brought over plenty of station
cry, and is prepared 10 write to a finish with
any other literary character who dares cha-
lerge him.
Milwaukee antes a carload Of beer for the
convention pot. Kansas City might see it
and raise it one washboiler full of weiner-
wurst. se
Why should eternity be broken up into
quarter chimes by the city hall clock?
What is the use of building a navy? Pat
Egan can be brought home in but one ship.
President Harrison has named puppy
''McKinleY," but the report does not state
whether it is intended as a compliment to
the dog or to the Ohio man.
milwaukee is in it, softly chirrups
Cream City organ. Yes, her foot is in it, at
least.
A Chicago papers headline, "Wiliiam B.
Keep Married. suggested the query How
is such thing possible in Chicago?
Boss Quay says he is not in the senatorial
race for reelection. The ears of the boss
must have been pretty close to the ground to
have caught the low rumble of Congressman
Dalzells boom.
Censusman Porter's paper, the New York
Press says: THE administration will GER
tainly be strengthened by the presidents APP
pointment of Mr.. Stephen B. Elkins." But
the administration was "strong" enough
already The retention of Wanamaker and
Raum makes it rank enough for all practical
purposes.
1t cannot be that Ia grippe is a heightened
disease that only condescends to attack emf
nent personages. And yet so far in its 1881
ravages Ia grippe appears to have found its
victims only among celebrities At least,
such is the testimony of the daily papers,
| and yet it will hardly be denied that more
| plain John Smiths have suffered from la
grippe in this country than have any other
class of people.
GovernOr-elect Roswell 7. Flowers presi-
| Dental boom has travelled clear across the
Atlantic to Rome and been Endorsed by
Murat Halstead.