St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-25

| certain man was not dead who KNOWS all
about it. could easily prove it.-Matt Quay
Bob Ingersoll recently sent a night-rate
message from Helena, Mont, to New York,
the tolls of which amounted to $3.50. 1t is
understood that the Davis millions pay
! The freight.
Creighton How is your New Year reforma-
| ton progressing?
Leighton-See here. | am worse off than
in 1890. broke off a lot of bad habits, stuck
to my resolutions but have somehow con
tracted 80 PR cent more and worse ones
Thus, you see. the equilibrium of life I'M
morality is sustained
Sanitary reform is II OF what is needed in
this world The more the Ohio penitentiary
scandal is ventilated the more unsayory it
becomes
The United States is III similar condition
10 that of Succl when within four days OF the
termination of his fast. Congress will ad-
Journ in four days
That Pied Piper of Portland. Tom Reed, is
now in sight OF the beautiful river of political
death. And like the cohorts of Pharaoh wal
lowing in the Red sea- the Republican party
is with him.
Simultaneous with the appearance of Sir
Edwin Arnold's Light of the World comes
the announcement of the failure of candle
maker in Toronto. Too much competition,
eh:
There mnst be prevailing series Of gales
it,ct AIIp
tarv of state jim Blaine, is still casting his
mudhook to windward.
An honest dollar is the noblest work of the
United States mint. This does no. necessar5
lily impugn the availability of silver.
To Matt Quay: The New York World is
still wealthy
yisitor-What pretty little boy you have,
to be sure. What business do you intend
him to follow:
Father-Oh, don't know. Poet, guess.
Visitor-Nonsense. Make hint grocery
man.
Falher-He hasn't got the sand.
Journalist Joe Howard has pulled cigar
cite to pieces and analysed It. and discovered
that it contains oil in the paper. Oil of salt
petre to preserve the tobacco. opium to make
it mild, and, a!so another kind of oil in the
flavor. Is Journalist Joe Howard attempt
ing to pour oil OH the troubled floods of mic
otine?
New YorkS Life credits the residence OF
Ignatius Donnelly to Minneapolis. But,
then, Life is humorous journal.
Republicans take free trade as they do
qninine, in eapsues-the capsules of reel
procity.
Gen. Butler believes that the American
flag should wave from The North pole. If
he will go up there and wave il, and George
Francis Train go down and wave another
fom the sou tn pole, the great world will
continue to turn around just about as often
and the United States continue to expand its
Iimitless resources.
The Sioux City Journal says: $40 be
successful legislator requires experience and
special aphtudes." Possibly but does it not
also require keen receptive qualities, and
an India-rubber conscience: Our observa-
ton is limited TO Minnesota legislators; We
never saw any other brand.
With the involuntary withdrawal of Mr..
Ingalls,, Senatorelect Kyle appears to have
introduced the decalogue into politics. Per
haps the efferyesccnt iridescent meant to say
there was no place in politics for Ingalls, and
the decalogue at the same time.
If some young reporter will take the fol-
lowing up to the residence of Gov. David
Bennett Hill and read it aloud, he will be
asked to stay to dinner: Nearly half OF the
presidents of the United States were III the
senale before they went to the white house,