St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-31

"We've got one of the best jokes on
st. Paul travelling man that l have
heard for a long time," said Clerk Ehle
Allen, of the Merchaets', to reporter
for the GLOBE yesterday.
''SOme of the boys had little game
the other evening in one of the clubs,
and the limit was very liberal one.
Everybody had pile of money, and
this travelling man had been losing al
most all Of the time. He was out about
$50 when along came big jack pot.
There were five in the game, and every
body staid it when IL was opened. This
travelling man, whose name l will not
give, was the last one to have say, and
by the time it had reached him every
one in the game had raised it. 1t cost
him S25 to come in. | was sitting by
his chair and saw the hand he held. 1t
was four straight, a 6, Z, 9. lie run
his cards over several times and re-
peated to himself i'll a whisper, g. Z, s,
8; 6, Z, s, 9, 10; want ten spot
The draw was made, and every one
of the others took two cards, denoting
that each one had a set of threes or was
holding up kicker. If he filled his
straight he would stand an excellent
chance of winning the pot. He called
for one card, and the dealer threw him
Que. 1t was a five-spot and filled his
straight. He looked at it for moment,
then threw his cards into the discard,
and, with an auathema at his luck, he
said:
IF there were ninety-nine ten-spotS
in that deck and one fivezspot | would
be sure to get the fye-spot. It's Just
my luck
1.-The pot was won by a man who
held three aces"
I'VE were telling stories in Duluth
hotel the other evening"" said State
Grain Inspector A. G. Clausen, land in
the crowd was an old man who looked
as though he had been fried to rich
brown. We were telling fish stories.
and he had been listening without
word Of comment. Attic conclusion of
a particularly atrocious one he braced
himself together, and, after an apology
for his intrusion, he said:
you have been telling about small
fish. Pll tell you story which you may
not believe, but which is as true as the
fact that the sun shines. l was one of
the crew of Whaler about thirty years
ago, and we went up into Baffin'S bay
TO look for whales. We sighted an i'm
menSe fellow one morning, and one or
OF the crew Of the boat which went after
him. He sounded couple OF times, but
we finally got close enough 10 him for
the harpooner to make strike. The
weapon pierced the side Of the immense
animal, and he at once sounded, leaving
a trail of blood i'll the water. We got
out the lanceS in preparation for his
return to the surface. and judge OF our
horror and CONSERVATION when the black
mass came up directly under the boat.
We we're thrown out of the boat, and it
was but the work of all instant for him
to crash the frail vessel into thousand
fragments. l held on to my oar and was
floating in the water when l saw the
immense jaws of the leviathian opened
in front of me. He was coming fol me,
and l had just time enough to place the
oar upright in his jaws and hold them
open. BY the force of his motion L was
carried into his jaws.
''His immense gullet was open, and
as 1t was very wet out in the jaws l
inside. In there L found one of the
members of the boats crew with both
legs broken by the action Of the jaws of
the whale when he swallowed him. The
whale was rapidly dying from the eff
fects of the harpoon, and:I went back to
the jaws, took out the oar, with plan
III my mind, and then came back into
the stomach. The blubber of the whale
is very soft, so that it took but a short
time to cut a hole through the body.
then thrust the oar through it, and, by
looking through the transparent eyes of
the whale, made out the ship about
half-mile away. 1t took me all day to
Scull the heavy body to the snip. 1t was
one of tie mott lucky escapes ever had
i'll my life"
"a laughable thing occurred yeSter-
day evening in the lobby of the Ger
mania Life building" said M. l.. Bur
we'll, of st. Louis, yesterday. at the
Ryan. 1T was a funny thing, and |
laughed until thought my sides would
split. | was passing the Germania Life
building when l noticed a well-dressed
man cutter the building, leaving the
young lady who accompanied him stand
ing on the sidewalk. Just then young
man, dressed in an exaggerated man.
ner, opened the revolving door, and as
he saw the young lady OH the sidewalk
he raised his hat and asked her if he
could not see her home. Just. then the
man came out, and | saw the young
woman point to the young man and tell
her escort something about him. She
said that he had insulted
her.
''The indignant escort made rush
for the young man. who lodged into one
of the compartments of the revolving
door, and while the angry man followed
he could not get at him. as he Staid in
the compartment, and went round and
round Finally, the indignant man
gave it up. and went away with the