St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-04
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

A few evenings ago a swell young man OF
St. Anthony hill purchased very light
weight crush hat placed it in silk hat box
and started for home. On the Selby avenue car
| he sat with the box between his knees, with
the bottom pointed toward those on the op-
posite side. He noticed that every one was
looking at the bottom of the box with sup
pressed smiles, and he wondered what it
meant When he arrived home the mystery
was explained. Some joker had cut the bot
tom out of his pasteboard box, and the peo-
Pile were gazing up into the emptiness of the
pasteboard structure. realizing that the
young man was all unconscious Of what he
was carrying SO guardedIy.
S S S.
1t must be that the artist of the Pioneer
Press was making pictures for rogue's gal
lery before he engaged on the paper and is
having hard work to efface the old lines from
his mind. For the credit of the state it is to
be hoped that every Republican legislator
whose name appears under picture in that
paper has good ground for libel suit, and
will not hesitate to improve it. If the paper
keeps up printing these pictures. the legisla-
ture of 1895 will have strong Democratic
majority as surely as the next election
comes
Every city in the land has its hungry po-
: licemen who are a terror to banana carts
lunch counters and cigar stands But ST.
Paul has a policeman il will issue bonds to
back against the world as being the champion
banana pincher cigar nlpper. free lunch
grabber and midnight meal sponger. He has
driven twenty-one fruit stands, as many
lunch counters and a score of cigar dealers
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business. When a sandwich wagon is COM
PEELED to cross his beat the borses are driven
in a dead run, and sometimes he catches
them at that, ana fills his pockets with their
choicest goods.
Who hasn't met the person who is eter-
nally talking abont his family tree and the
famous people in it? He thinks he is i'm
mortaizing himself in your estimation by
telling you that he is a direct descendant of
the Duke of Wellington, John Adams, or
Alexander Hamilton, or that he is distant
relative of Queen Victoria; that Roscoe
Conkiing was his fathers own cousin, or
that'his aunt was the wife of Admiral Far
ragut One of this numerous and tiresome
class died at Findlay o.. Friday, at the age
of 106 years. His name was Paul Jordan, and
he claimed to be the Legitimate son of Ma
poleon Bonaparte.
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Henry Taudenstager. Of Springfield, O.,
having courted the goddess of fame all his
life and at the age of forty finding himself
still rejected, has resorted to q desperate
means of gaining her attention. On Friday
he walked deliberately into the police head
quarters of that city, and asserted that he
had murdered five people during the past
twenty-five years. He detailed the list of
his alleged victims, and portrayed his meth
DDS ofdisposing of them in the most start
ling fashion. The police were accommodate
ing, and locked him up pending an investi-
cation of the facts in the case. 1t is safe to
believe it Will be found that only a desire for
notorety lies at the bottom of the tale.
A barbed wire turst has Just been formed |
1t makes pretty jagged thing to attack. and |
It's hoped everybody will have the good
sense to leave it along
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The Dispatch grows '.jokey'' over the car |
nival of crime which has possession of the
city and Friday took a two-column laugh all /
to itself. When the festive footpad and bur-
glar becomes more Jockey or scarce the
Dispatch's laugh will be more catching At
present everybody is wondering where the