St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-04
THE SMALL BOYS DAY.
PICNICs WITHOUT END TO BE
GIVEN AT VARIOUS, RE-
SORTS. ,.;:se-:;. :..,
BASE BALL GAME AND REGATTA.
Great Programme. Arranged to BE
Presented at Como Park in
Afternoon and Evening.


body will rise to dispute the asser-
ton. The fourth day of July has re-
CURED several hundred times since
Pope Gregory devised that ingenious
calendar which gives the new woman
a chance to pay for the ice cream
and otherwise display her newness
every four years, but only 120 of
these "Fourths" of july have ever
attained glorious distinction. This is
the one hundred and twentieth
Fourth and the indications since
midnight are that it. will be just as
glorious as it's predecessors, with the
possible exception of it's primal an
cestor of 1776. On that day it is
recorded that Americas patriots
cut her loose from Britain's RAM
pant lion, and engaged the services
Of a watchful eagle to keep ocular
tab on that same hungry beast. That
eagle has proved to be a bird, for
while he has occasionally winked
the other eye, for instance, in 1872,
he has never attempted the feat
simultaneously with both eyes.
OF all the days i the year this is
the small boys day. An observance
to this effect, if not in the same
language, was offered a year. ago,
in one or two of the newspapers, of
the country, and even then it did
not seem to ring with originality:
But it is none the less true, if, it is
hopeleSSly trite. The small boy is
entitled to have it said of him" once
a year, besides every year brings a
new crop of the species, wild with
the inborn love of the flrecracker-
and these new youngsters must. not
be ignored. Nothing strictly fresh
can be said, however, concerning the
manifold relations which the small
boy and the firecracker will entertain
toward each other today. All that
can be predicted is that the first
whiff of the exploded cracker will
agitate the boys nervous system
much in the same manner as the
smell of the blood of an Englishman
moved a tabled giant to remark:
Fee-fi-fo-fum! etc. -.-... .-.".
Then the boy will ,s
IRRITATE A CRACKER
with a piece of red-hot punk and throw
it at his grandfather to remind him
of old times.
But the small boy will not enjoy a
monopoly of the Fourth. His father
and mother and big brothers and sis
ters will also celebrate the glorious
| day-not with so much eclat, so many
4, r,4 foo fnY.
the danger so dear to the small boy S
heart will not attend the picnics,
| dances and musical entertainments
that the big folks will patronize. But
| they will derive a pleasure-mild in
| comparison to be sure-celebrating the
| day of days. Church societies will
| participate in the festivities with be-
coming decorum, spiritualists will hold
| special services and conjure up the
shade of the immortal father of his
| country, and likewise the spirit of
that first and famous Democrat whose
Jeffersonian principles some Of our al
legged Democrats seem to wot not Of,
or care not if they wct. Athletes will
| display their proWeSS on land and
| water, and fireworks will illuminate
! the sky at night in myriads Of fantastic
| shapes and brilliant colorS, though, it
| is said, rockets will be scarce, owing
| to the enormous consumption of them
| by. the Chinese navy in sending up sig
nails of distress during their late un-
| pleasantneSs with the JapS.
Picnics will be as plentiful as pins,
and picnics are great institutions for
| girls, and therefore for the other sex.
The small boy may yell with delight
as his torpedo explodes upon the bare
foot of another boy, but what is such
a demonstration of brutal joy COM
pared to the heatific expression that
rests upon the countenance of the
young man engaged in gently swing
| ing his best girl in a hammock remote
from public gaze? Verify picnics are
picnics, and nobody minds the ants
| in the sugar or the grass in the but
ter-that is grass butter.
Perhaps the most interesting event
of the day will be - 80 1.a.
THE ANNUAL REGATTA
of the Minnesota boat club. It will be.
gin at 10 a. m. sharp, and the events
| will be as follows: .-'
Maiden single, for Parker prize anG
individual medals 80 -.
Junior single, for Corning prize ant
individual medals. s.
Senior single, for Jilson prize ant
individual medals.
Junior double, for medals.
Senior double, for medals
Junior four, for the mayors cup ant
individual medals.
Senior four, for the citizens, cup an(
individual medals. -
Quarter mile dash, for the Stone cup
Tub race. --
Swimming race.
After the RACES the prizes Will be pre-
sented: The mayors cup by T. D
O'Brien: the citizens cup by E. A
jaggard, and the Stone cup by c. w
Gordon. The other prizes will be pre-
sented by Miss Saunders, Miss Winter
Miss Auerbach, Miss Pope, Miss Ster
ling, Miss Caro- Noyes and Miss Emily
Robins.
1t was announced yesterday that M
cards had been issued for the rega tia
but that all friends of the club would
be welcome on the island
The programme of the athletic event.
at the annual picnic of the Knights O.
Labor, to be held at st. Anthony Park
is as follows, suitable prizes to b,
awarded to the winners:
100-yard foot race (teamsters only.
Running broad jump.
50-yard ladies' race
10O-yard fat mems race Geo pounds
and over).
1OO-yard race, boys under sixtee,
years old.
Standing hop, skip and jump.
Running high jump.
Standing high jump.
150-yard foot race
THE SPIRITUALIST FOURTH
of July celebration will be held a
Twin City park, as stated in yesterday
G. b e. A test seance will be give
at 4:30 o'clock, and there will be a gran,
dance in the evening.
II CHURCH CELEBRATION.
The members of the Plymouth Con
gregational church and Sunday schoo
will picnic at Bald Eagle lake. TIL
! arra N penentS for tha outing have al