St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-26
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

chamber of deputies Minister Constans
smashed NJ. Laur on that most useful, If
slightly overworked, portion of statesman.s
anatomy, the jaw. NJ. Laur thereupon asked
Minister Constans to step outside ana fight a
duel. Minister Constans refused. M. Laur
thereupon insinuated that Minister Constans
was an eminent coward Now, IL Minister
Constans refrains from again hitting, NJ
Laur, the words of the latter will obtain
great prominence from their evident authen-
ITCHY.
+ Vale, hectic necktiel Hail and farewell.
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The Chicago police department has brass
band. There are some things in this world
more terrible than polceman's club
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DR.. Edward Eggleston says that he IL tired
or being regarded as woolly Western da-
lectician. Dr. Eggleston can be assured of
a large number of friendly sympathizers,
whose only wonder is that he doesn't OUTFIT
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Boston deliberately abandons BAKED beans
as standard culinary specially. Is this an
intentional affront to derry Rusk?
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Boss Quay. having gone into the libel suit
business, finds that he has on hand the largest
stock ever carried by one firm in the United
States.
An Eastern interviewer says: Gen. 0. O.
Howard is not a tall man. but he has dis
tinctive military bearing and is easily picked
out in company" In the event of war
with Chilli it pehooves Gen. Howard to keep
off from the skirmish line if he is easily
picked out in a company"
Even royalty has its little drawbacks.
Princess May of Teck, who was betrothed
to the late Prince Victor, cannot. under Eng
lish law. marry during the next five years.
AS we understand the matter the bethrothal
of Princess May and the Duke of Clarence
and Avondale was one of these rare occur
rences in royal circles, genuine love match
Such being the case it is not at all likely that
Princess May would be willing to enter
tain thoughts of other matrimonial
alliances within five years, if ever But TO be
prohibited by law from meeting matrimonial
advances half way ah, there's the sting Pro-
hibition is Objectionable in even its mildest
form. Such a law in this country would be
in iunocuous desuetude within ten DAYS
from its enactment American girls would
be Immediately aligned and modified as an
army of fair rebels. The idea, Not that they
loved their lost alliances less, but their lib
erty more. The enactment of such law in
the United States would be great stimulant
to business at the window of the marriage
license clerk
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The Bellamy colony at Evanston, Ill, has
proved failure, and is now Looking Back
ward'-with regret.
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A brakeman on the New York Central rail-
way neglected to flag train, and fourteen
lives were lost. Brakeman Cole, on the
Pennsylvania road stood i'll the snow to flag
an express SO long that both his legs had to
be amputate1. There are brakemen and
brakemen.
A pungent flavor has been added to B. Har
rison's presidential boom by the recent
capture of the indianapolis primaries by b.
Harrsen's hired men.
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On to Valparaiso! Missouri has volun-
teered to contribute brass band in the
event of war with Chilli
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Even the national Democratic convention
fails to pacify Chicago She is .all stirred
up over the live issue whether Pfeffer in.
tends to keep saloon or play base ball dur
ing the coming summer
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Last evening was one to gladden. the heart
OF every Scotchman and renew bright memo
ries in the mind of every lover of English
literature. The birthday of Robert Burns re-
calls classic glories that seem not for this
age of dreary commonplace in literature and
maudiin verSificatiou. Unhappily the genius
OF Burns and the work that he lett us con-
trasts more strikingly with the ineffectuali
poetic fire OF this country than with that
OF almost any other nation laying; the least
claim to the literature of poesy The first
century of American literature. and it is a
humiliating confession to make has wit
messed steady degeneration in quality, with
vast increase in quantity 1t may be said
that American poesy had reached its acme
when the harp OF Edgar Alien Poe was ST.
fenced Burns and Poe! Both neglected and
unappreciated in life: each sainted in after
years as the noblest representatives of their
high art in their respective countries Ut
terly dIssimilar III their lines of poetic COM
position, they meet upon common ground as
the ablest opponents of their nations song
work. The One reached the heart through
natures woodland paths and fields; the
brood upon life's mysteries, yet conceal with
jaunty air the very Thoughts that Poe revealed
for them in strains vibrating with despair
symphonies of awful doubt The songs of
Burns are carolings of health. happy chan
sons trilled by a plowboy wringing music
out OF the clouds of sorrow; the
mystic power Of Poe the mutual misery Of
mankind voiced in sad, harmonious anthems.
Last night the anniversary of the birth
of Burns was celebrated with song and
banquet, wine ana good fellowship.
The post-prandial oratory breathed whole
souled comradeship and hearty joviality.
This was fitting to the memory OF the man
the honest pride of every scot, Commemor-
alive of poor Poe such an occasion would
not have been appropriate. There was little
laughter in his life He was not the boon
companion of men; the popular hero of the
hour. High priest of the supernatural
silent and mysterious in his incomings and
outgoings. he wrought alone and only the
musical echoes of solitary vigiIs with the
muse live after him. But he was Americas
greatest poet. and her greatest master of
prose. And there be little souls who would
dissect the personal morality of Burns and
Poe. What has the world of letters to do
with thisg Only their art is on trial before
the bar OF public opinion. AS Joaquin
Miller wrote of Burns and Byron, SO let US
say of Edgar Allen Poe:
''1n men whom men pronounce as i'll,
find so much of goodness still;
In men whom men pronounce divine,
find SO much of sin and blot,
hesitate to draw the line
Between the two where God has not.r
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