St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-05
CAME WITH THE TENTS.

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run direct to the park.
CAME WITH THE TENTS.
The Ohio man who claims to have in
vented machine for controlling the
weather must have an affinity" as the
Christian scientists say, in Minneapolis.
Anyhow, one of those weather cranks
cropped out in Minneapolis yesterday.
This old gentleman-he Is about sixty
five-is often seeu on the street.
He rides horseback a good deal
up and down Nicollet. But his pecul-
iarity never cropped out until yesterday
He is a nice, clean old gentleman, a.
WAYS wears a blue suit of clothes and
silk hat of somewhat ancient pattern.
He looks, at first glance, like middle
aged old gentleman retired from bust
ness. But when one gets close to him
peculiar, disheveled look Is noticeable
in his eye. Under the big circus tent
yesterday he buttonholed a GLOBE re-
porter.
sSav. Young man." he began, ''have
You noticed how clear the sky IS to-day?
Not A cloud to be senior there was
none up to IL O'Clock. Its BEEN little
cloudy ever since. Well, it's that way
all over the country. Eve been watch
ing If all day and getting private mes
sages about il. Eve heard from San
Francisco. New York. Omaha and In
ternIediate points. Everywhere 1t was
the same-same clear, blue sky-up to
II O'Clock. Then turned IL on and
You turned what on?" The repor-
torial nose scented news.
'Why, my -
1 in PirPuS AZ
tache who had been listening. you'd
better move on or they'll have you IN
cage AS the Wild Man of Borneo."
The old man fed. That worldly cir
Gus man spoiled a splendid story.
tDo YOU see that fellow over there?"
inouired a gentleman in the Nlcollet
hotel rotunda. Indicating nicely
dressed young man, apparently about
twenty-five years of age. "Well he, IS,
beyond all doubt, the most thoroughly
disrepuSable person that ever mad the
misfortune TO number among my
acquaintance. He belongs 10 one OF
the noble families of Germany, lam
ily of great wealth and influence, but
instead of living at home and conduct
ing himself as he should, he prefers TO
travel about the world as
crook, He lives, as you
Americans saw, ''by his wits"
and at times he lives we'll. He has re-
ceiyed an unusually fine education. and
sneaks eight or nine other languages
with the same ease and perfect accent
that he does his own. L attended col
lege with him in Germany. and have
seen him from time to time IN THIS
country. l assure you that wIen say
he is one of the most ingenious scoun-
of least
exaggeratiOn. In Germany he at
one timed presented himself as
missing heir, and he had in
his possession documents so cleverly
forged that he very nearly succeeded
in obtaining a large estate. he was
identified and imprisoned for his at
femnted fraud, and when his own
father and sister visited him in prison
he denied ever having seen them be-
fore. His true identity was established
and he was sent to prison, but through
the influence of his relatives was soon
released and at once resumed MS
crooked career. l know OF one case
where he met a large party OF newly
landed Italians at Castle Garden ana
took large sums of money from them TO
nav for tickets to the far West.
He then bought each of them
ticket on the elevated road, put them
aboard a train and bidding them good
hive in perfect Italian. walked OF with
the balance of the money. could go
on all night telling you OF his disgrace
ful actions, but those two occurrences
will serve to show you the sort or Eel
low he is. lido not know what he Is do
ing here, but he is up TO some haIm or
other, and you can depend upon 1t. de
| is probably following the circus and
| grating believe that's the term"
There were many remarkable and
c,irions costumes to be seen about the
| citv Yesterday afternoon, but among
| them none attracted more attention
| than that worn by a certain Afro-Amer-
! lean of the most pronounced type, who
| arrived on the 1:30 train from st. Paul.
| The man himself was dark-cOmpleX-
| Toned, even for a negro, and had the
| kinkv hair and facial characteristics
of his race, and would probably
| have passed in the crowd tor
a very ordinary parsonage but for his
Respondent attire. His feet. which
were of generous proportions, were en-
| cased in the shiniest OF patent leather
boots, new enough TO make merry music
| in response to his every movement. His
trousers were Tayishingly gay and OF a
pattern which resembled horse
| blanket. His shirt front was Of dazzling
| whiteneSs, and as he wore no vest none
of il was under cover, while his waist
was encircled by sash in
which appeared a most curious and
wonderful combination of shades. But
the most remarkable feature of his tout
| ensemble was the hat. 1t was plug
hat of a shape long since forgotted. and
| the material of which il was constructed
was dress silk of the daintlest shade of
ivory. This singularly attired indiyid-
! ual sauntered about the streets creating
a sensation wherever he went and eX-
ulting in the consciousness that he had
'smade a hit" All would have gone
well. but as his satisfaction increased
he lost sight of those warning words
to the effect that pride gOeth before a
fall,and his head was elevated more and
more, until he could not see the side
walk. a large stone carriage step
doomed up ahead, but he saw it not, and
went against it with such force that he
rolled In the gutter and his gorgeous
hat was rolled in the street. When he
had gathered himself together and re-
moved as much Of the dust as possible
from his hat, shirt front and sash, he
walked away with decidedly humber
mien.