St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-22

This is the day which, as heraded by the
weather prophets, Is to be the coldes
of the season. If it is-not so chilly ast
was expected. comfort yourself with the re-
Election that i'll this unsatisfied world things
never do GENE quite up to authorizations.
? What poor pugllistic stick must be Jack
Dempsey! La Blanche knocked out Dempsey,
and now Young Mitchell has done up La
Blanche, and almost any inefficient pugilistic
pug can knock out Young Mitchell. Such,
short-haired members of the fancy is the
stern logic of events, as applied to modern
pugiism.
Truly, we are degenerate race The past
ten days has witnessed the demise of an I'M
usually large number of eminent men, i'll
Guiding Gen. Sibley, Gen. Sherman. Admiral
Porter and Prof. Winchell. Yet, during the
same period we have heard of the birth of
not one distinguished parsonage
Angry Legislator-Did you say I was
crooked:
Taxpaying Cltizen-Not in such harsh
2 terms. L remarked casually however, that l
ives on TO your curves.
We are promised number of rare enter
tainments for the opening of the spring sea-
son of 1891. Big Road, American Horse,
Great Gall, Apollonaris Water, PromIscuous
Like, Dog Face, Ghoulish Glee. Pernicious
Activity. Fine Cut. Scap-In-the Eyes and
other Sioux chiefs promise to don the red
paint and NOV a warpath through the very
center OF Northwestern civilization This is
bad enough. surely, but worse is to come.
There bids fair to break out base ball war
hat ha
American ASSOCIATION that will make
trong men grow CHASTITY pale and
season crack the adamantine heart of
a chattel-mortgage shark. Already combs
are cut gaffs firmly affixed ana the prelim
mary strutting and cackling has commenced.
Al Spalding, one of the magnates, is out
with a sensational card in which he de-
dominates as anarchists nearly every one
i'll the profession who cannot couscientiously
bring their think-tanks en- rapport with his
own peculiar line of reasoning. Altogether
the coming six months are filled with dark
forebodings and grewsome possibilities.
Vance, Vest and Voorhees, There is
magic in their names. They always remind
one of fifteen dollars in the inside pocket
three VS..
SO soon as calico Charley Foster was
mentioned for secretary of the treasury. he
started for New York to look UP man
ufacturer of man-holes. He wanted good
cover for the hole in the treasury surplus.
The attention of Private Secretary ualford
is called to the fact thata certain editor down
in Georgia persists i'll spelling his given name
''Elijay.
Louis Kossuth is dying of old age and pow
erty. The successful patriot is he who, while
saving his country, manages at the same time
TO loot the public Golfers to an extent sufi-
Gent to keep the wolf from the door
AS Queen Victoria has not attended a the
atrical performance since the death of her
husband, it is said that her possible appear
ance al the rendition of Sulliyan's ''lvanhoe"
will be IAN event. Really 1t will and it
may, perhaps be much more of an event
than the opera of '.Iyanhoe.
d The college record of young man Astor,
| who recently married a young woman in
Philadelphia by the maiden name of Willing,
| is far from brilliant. lie was at Harvard but
| two years. and did not graduate. In fact, he
| was not matriculaled i'll the course prescribed
| by the faculty, but a special arrangement was
| made with the college powers whereby Astor
was permitted-for SO much paid down in
| cold cash--to enter Harvard without exam.
| ination. In short. he was boarded in Har
wards dormitories fol- couple of years at his
fathers expense. OF Such are the kingdom
of Mammon.
Wild ard woody as is the great West, it is
beginning to dawn upon US that Sir Edwin
! Arnold, in his Light of the World, has
! written great poem. 1t is grand III its i'm
| agery, sweet iii picturesque intonalicn, and
!. fragrant with the sug2estiveness OF Oriental
! hora-blue lotus flowers and tamarind buds.
| There are not ten people on the Pioneer
| Press force who could have done so we'll.