St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-05
SAINT PAUL.
TUESDAY TIPS.

The Vega Singing society will give con-
cert and ball Saturday evening, April 5 al
Vega hall. 2lS East seventh street.
A vacant house at the corner of Victoria
and West seventh streets. owned by II. Bar
ton. was slightly damaged by fire last night
Patrolman Nugent summoned thirteen
keepers Of houses of i'll fame into the ponce
court Yesterday and, rs result the CITY
treasury is 81, 500 better of.
Reported at the health Office yesterday;
Scarlet fever at $40 Lafayette avenue dlph-
iberia at llS2 Edgerton street and mem
braneous Group at 521 L Orient street
The board of public works will take ND the
Crown Hill park matter this morning at l0
O'Clock Testimony will be taken as 10 the
value of the land to be used for the park.
AT the meeting of the Philosophical society
tonight. al Room IT, Globe building, I. +.
Wright of London, win speak on The
Elixir of Life" All interested IN theoSophy
ara invited.
The special meeting of the fire board 10
consider an ordinance relating 10 the proper
wiring of buildings for electrical purposes
was postponed yesterday until Friday nlSht
OF 80 o'clock.
4 permit was issued yesterday to the Wood
Harvester company for the erection OF an OF
fee building 1t the cOmpany's plant. Inc
building will be 69x95 feet two stories HIGH
and the cost is estimated at Sl4.5OO.
j. E. Jones. colored, was before Judge
Cory yesterday charged with stealing thirteen
hams from j. j. O'Leary * Co The case
Will be heard tomorrow.
Theodore johnson. who stole cigars from
the store of Jorgensou Y Co. on Payne
avenue. was sent TO the workhouse for ninety
DAYS Yesterday. j. Hogan. charged with
completely In the robbery. was discharged.
Mayor Eustis, OF Minneapolis was caller
at the mayors Office yesterday. In order TO
insure himself against being clicked sixteen
feet The Minneapolis Official kept close to
the mayors side while passing police officers.
The two short change" artists, Clarence
Vaughn and Charles Shields, were arralslssd
in the police court yesterday morning. The
case was continued to Thursday, but later in
the day the men were shown 10 the sucker, "
and as he failed to identify them they were
discharged.
There viii be two performances OF Lewis
Morrisou's Faust" At the Grand, a matinee
and tonights performance. This attraction
is meeting with decided favor with the
patrons Cl kLlt GIUIAl Jul Apt AllOLO ~ t4it+ -
It's merits would bespeak for it, The Broken
scene IS particularly effective, both from a
scenic and from an electrical standpoint
The city engineer yesterday appointed as
head street commissioner d. Il. Gregg. The
appointment was confirmed by the board of
public works At the meeting yesterday after
noon. and the new commissioner went to
work at once Gregg was formerly a street
90 b.c taA n iS una
10 building contracts. He lives at 4s2 Carroll
street. and was appointed to the position on
the recommendation of the mayor.
The VoOdoo," which will be seen next
week at the Grand, is said to have as recon-
meudation to popular favor new idea III
the line of faree-comedies. 1t is also pro-
nounced funny, which, in the present days
of laughter seeking, seems to be the great
desideratum on the part of the public. Its
music embraces a number of new songs and
some clever quartette singing. Thomas E.
Murray the Irish comedian, heads The list OF
comedians who will be seen in the cast.
Prot. Davidson, gave the last lecture of his
three courses, making the eighteenth lecture
he has delivered in St Paul, in the lecture
room of the Peoples church yesterday after
noon. This concluding lecture of the splen
did course was on the "EXegesis of the Last
Canto of Paradise Prof. Davidson has
made many friends among newspaper peo-
pie. as well as those whom he has met So
cially, by his courteous manner, and IL
leaving St Paul he takes the good wishes of
all, and a hope that we may have the pleas
ure Of hearing him again next season,
The Lilliputians, an organization number
ing eighty people, is the next big event tha
will be given at the Metropolitan OPERA house
for one week beginning next Monday night
The company is headed by eight midgets, the
smallest OF the lot being Franz Ebert, thC
comedian, who is only twenty-eight inche!
in heighth. but is a very capable comedian
This immense organization is one OF The
most popular attractions in this country
They will make their initial bow to a st
Paul audience in The Pupil in Magic" mex
Monday evening. Seats and boxes for thi
event can be secured at the box office tomor
row morning.
This afternoon the first matinee by thu
American Extravaganza company, in ''Al
Baba." will be given at the Metropolitan
There is as much in Ali Bahia" to lnteres
the juvenile population as there was in ''Sin
bad and THE Crystal slipper" and thes
pieces always used to pack the theater to tn
Among the features which are liable to live
in the recollection of the small people ar
the exterior of the cavern with its rushing
waters and shimmering moonlight the de
mon of the cavern, with its fiery nostrils
gruesome aspect and remarkable finale; tn
comic donkey. whose humorous qualities il
the piece in the minds of many ar
about as great as those of the famou
Foy; the grotesque lion the prismatic fount
ain. the gorgeous transformation scene, an
the living butterfly. These are features whic
will always attract The younger members G
the population, as we'll as their elders. L
addition to these there are the cavern c
coins, the Oriental ballet with its egg-spiI
ners, snake charmers, cymbal dancers, ia
bearers and other dancing girls. There wi
be, after tonight's performance, but foU
more given in the city. Saturday night wi
finish the engagement which, undoubtedl,
will be the most notable of the season. I'll
company viii leave upon a special train
nine cars Sunday morning at o'clocl
and will open in Milwaukee Monday night.