St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-10
HERE AND THERE.

'My purpose in calling the attention of the
municipal conference committee to the law,
as did, was purely in the interests of the
laborers and contractors said Comptroller
Ponthan last evening. Il think they should
be protected. UNLESS the money is in the
treasury they cannot get their pay.'
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There seems to be popular effort just now
to analyze and determine the real cause of
extreme difidence. A Chicago writer-a
lady, aud very clever juggler of letters and
philosophy, by the way-asserts that it is self
conceit. She amplifies that the person who
has prediction for suffusion of bushes
when in company, is imbued with the fic-
titious idea that he is the cynos1re of all
eyes. An eminent authority on rhetoric dis
agrees with this theory, however. He is
given to the opinion that quite the reverse is
the true solution to the cause. A young man
who can converse fiuently and intelligently
IN small company, many Of whom may out
rank him in point Of eloquence is often un-
able to give utterance to the same thoughts
before large assembly. The rhetorician as
serts that this is owing to a lack of conf
denee, coupled with the horror of failure.
The more general belief appears to be, how
ever, that the young man lacks force Of char
acter
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A local attorney who enjoys an enyiable
reputation as public speaker, recently gave
his earlier experiences in addressing a gath
ering: u was naturally diffident, so much
so, indeed, that even came near abandoning
all hopes of ever becoming a lawyer" he
said, land consulted my father as TO the ad-
visibility of taking up medicine. He would
not listen to it. He had set his heart on my
becoming lawyer. and 1 plodded along and
graduated. l found that the real element l
lacked was what is vulgarly called CAB and
cultivated the propensity until 1 fancy
am now pretty well fortified with the ar
ticle.''
r.
P G. Reynolds is the genial superintendent
of the telephone exchange in this city. The
past two months he has been regaling his
friends with variations of piscatorial-pas-
times. He said he was arranging for fish
ing excursion, and promised his friends
fish dinner. Oh he never failed to get big
catch in his life. 1t was only question OF
skill. If a man knew how to handle the rod
and reel there is no excuse for his coming
home empty handed. Well, Saturday night he
went out to Cnisago lake and promised 10 re
turn Sunday with a string of bass and pick
erel. But he didn't return Sunday. Hisexpect-
ant friends awaited for him in vain-waited
through Sunday, through Monday, but no
fisherman came. Yesterday he landed, how
ever, with his traps under one arm and
gunny sack under the other. The boys were
still waiting and watching, and although he
adopted strategic schemes to evade them,
they caught. him. They took the sack and
poured out the contents. Shades OF Izaak
Waltonl What a catch. Sixteen Shiny bull
heads. one Shiny eel and two dwarfed sun
fish. That was the galaxy, and. the boys
were welcome to help themselves.
For heavens sake. P. G., what did you
use for bait?" asked one.
why, angle worms. of course he replied
with evidences Of misgiving 1t began to
dawn upon him that he hadn't done ex-
actly right
"Oh, angle worms are all right, but do you
know you must have let your hook lie on the
bottom of the lake. and In mud-hole at that?
These things are no good
with flush of pain and sad disappoint-
ment, P G. put the bullheads, the eel and
the sunfsh back i'll the sack and started off
for the city scavenger's Office When he goes
again he'll take an expert along and he'll
take lessons.