St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
TOWN TOPICS.

There is blood on the moon sure. now.
1t seems these awful protests of excited
citizens against the proposed extension
of the patrol limits have not been even
read, and the agoniZlng doubt as to
whether the Journal and Tribune's edi-
toralS have been wasted or not is Gre
atlng great deal of suspense.
Some remarks by d. NJ. Gilmore, 'a
lifelong Democrat" as the Journal
calls him, seem to be affording the Re-
pu)llcanS considerable comfort anent
tie patrol limits extension. Without
wishing to analyze Capt. Gilmore's par
ticular brand of Democracy, 1t at least
seems that he is the kind of Democrat
the Republicans like.
If Dave Clough accepts the presi-
dency of the state fair board, 1t is to be
hoped for the peace of mind of those
who are interested in seeing the fair a
success that his ideas about advertising
have changed radically. When Mr..
Clougb, colonel ClOugh, as he has
lately been called. became president of
the Minnehaha Driving Park associa-
ton he decided that too much money
had been spent for advertising. He had
never found it nedessary TO advertise in
his business, and he didn't think it was
needed-in vain was he labored with
and told them that running horse race
and sawmill or lumber camp differed
materially in some respects. Mr.. Clough
only winked his other eye and conf
IDENTITY awaited the result. There was
no paper on the walls, only few stray
handbillS and small ads in the papers.
The summer meeting was failure. and
likewise the fall meeting. Where there
had been large crowds the year before,
with music by the Fort Smelling band,
there was sparse attendance, and the
music was furnished by an Italian harp
band that ClOugh discovered somewhere
in the wilds of East Minneapolis. David
may do for the state fair, but he had
better read p. T. Barnum's opinion of
the efficacy of printers ink before he
embarks.
Five men were seriously injured by
the dropping of st. Paul elevator yes
terday. Twice that number of Mime
apolis men would volunteer to take a
drop in the Tribune elevator, just for
the novelty Of seeing the machine
move.
One alderman became excited yester-
day while discussing the eXorbitant sal
aries paid poundmasters, and ex-
claimed:
why, those fellows get as much pay
as we aldermen do, and just look at the
difference in the work DONE"
AS the poundmasterS do nothing, the
vulgar public may not appreciate the
difference.
Tom Lowry is enjoying himself In
Washington justas if no danger threat
ened his street railway system. Evil
IDENTIFY he hasn't read in the Minneap-
oils papers of the record of one Sierra
Leone Richards.
Persons who have bought coal of John
GoodnoW have always noticed that.it
was carefully screened, and wondered
why John was SO careful to keep the
dust for himself. The secret is out
now. John fOreSaw that the government
would need little of that dust some
day.
Republican papers accuse the Chicago
Democrats OF voting the dead in the in
tereSt of Cregier and call it a heinous
crime. Yet Gov. Merriam is doing just
as bad. Whenever measure affecting
Minneapolis comes before him he is
ruled by the voices of the politicians
who were not only killed but buried
last fall.
The jOurneymen and the master
plumbers have settled their differences.
There will, of course. be but one result
from the compromise-the householder
will get no mercy from the combine.
1t has been limited that the cry against
the eXtravagant salaries paid pound
masters was started by some of the de-
feated rivals of Poundmaster Sterling,
the eX-alderman Of the Eighth ward.
An interesting question in Minneapo-
lis just now is, "Will the McHale anti
tights bill compel the draping of leg o.
mutton whiSkers."