St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-15
THE CAPITOL CIRCUS

THE CAPITOL CIRCUS.
AT 10 O'Clock this morning, unless
something has happened to the troupe
| since Saturday, the JOHNSON STARKEY
circus will resume its performances in
the capitol. Admission is free up to
| the halls capacity, the acrObats are very
good of their kind, and the show is en-
| tertaining, strictly moral, and highly i'm
proving. The public are requested not
| to crowd and to take Off their hats. This
last may seem unnecessary, but it is
really due the occasion. 1t is not gen
orally known, but the whole thing is, in
| point OF fact, a judicial investigation
designed to disclose whether one
STARKEY is "a practical architect and
| sanitary engineer" why it is impor-
tant to find this out. the GLOBE has for
gotten. 1t is sure, however, that this is
the plays plot and motive, but its most
interesting features are its digressions.
1t has consisted entirely of digressions
up to this point, but no one can tell how
long this will last. There is limit, I'M
doubleday, TO the amount of capital its
promoters will be willing to expend in
the enterprise; and if anybody cares to
sip from this fount of intellectually, he
had better take advantage of it while it
is on tap. 1t is liable to be shut Off at
any moment.
Saturday being sort of holiday, the
performers tried to present something
which would be especially gratifying to
clergymen, teachers and school chill
dren. With this very commendable OBJ
Ject IN view, one of the leading men
| asked feature performer how he would
calculate the area of triangle one of
whose sides was equal to the sum Of
other two. This was received with great
applause by the school children and
teachers, because it was really a great
joke. 1t was like those other pleasant
rleS, the answer to which is, 1.-The boy
lied" The point of the triangle joke
is that there cannot be such triangle.
One other cOnundrum made great hit
also with the teachers and school chill
rend. This was. how do you calculate
the area of a column which you have
never seen and none Of the dimensions
of which you know. The real answer
to this sally is to say that you cannot do
much If you have only ''pi'' to work ON,
pr being the name of a symbol in
geometry which would enter,a S matter
OF course, in the calculation. The point
Of this eXcruciating outburst is to be
found in the similarity of pronunciation
of ''pi'' and ''pie" 1t was not brought
out very clearly On Saturday, but it will
be tried again some time during the
coming week.
For the benefit of the clergymen who
were i'll attendance some theological
features were interSpersed. The creed
of the Peoples church was first pre-
scented with Stereopticon illustrations.
One performer said that it was Roman
esque. This was a play Oh the
word Roman. and the fun of it was that
the creed of the Peoples church is not
at all like that of the Roman Catholic
church. Perhaps there is little OBJ
sc urity about this, but it was appre-
clated by the eiergymen for whom it
was designed. Then the architecture
of the Peoples church was discussed,
and this question was put: why were
the little stones which appear scattered
over the church'S brick front put there
by the builders?" Several guesses were
made about this. The first one was
this: Because the original plan was
to call the church after ST. Stephen, the
disciple who was stoned" 1t is, per-
haps, needless to add that this was
wrong. Then some one veptured: SIN
order to suggest that it takes rocks as
well as faith to run a church, But
this, also, was at once voted to be
away off. Finally somebody said that
he knew. but did not want to tell. Be-
ing threatened with the loss of his
salary, however, he revealed the awful
truth. "They were put there,D he de-
clared. ''to make people ask questions"
After this there was IN adjournment
| until today.
This morning the first part of the ses-
sion will be devoted to the solution of
local mysteries. The azotine question
will be inquired into little. The audi
forum will be alluded to also, and il
any one in the audience has any stale
scandals which he would like to see re-
vived, if he will submit his inquiries in
| writing, they will receive attention.
The bulk of the time will be consumed,
however, with an Investigation of the
habits and customs of the Siamese and
the Burmese. This is in response to
the widespread curiosity about these
far countries which has been aroused
in the community by the recent pres
entationS of wang" at the Metro
| politan opera house. There ought to
be large audience, and, if its size war
rants it, somebody may recite "Casey
| at the Bat"