The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-28

he was formerly employed in the SEN
ate engine room. When Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain was visiting this country,
he was being shown about the capitol
by Senator Sherman, and In the course
OF their sightseeing the Hon. Joseph
was taken to the senate engine room,
where powerful and beautiful Harris
Corliss was driving the ventilating ma
chinery. ID
Attracted by the beauty Of the Gid
Ing monster, he tunred to McClosky,
who was oiling journal, and asked:
What is the horse power Of that
engineer"
Felix looked at him a moment, partly
with pity and partly with contempt,
and then replied:
Horse peower hill That majigger
runs by steam.''
On another occasion Felix was relat-
ing some of his Californian expert
ences, and incidentally made remark
about the virgin forests that met the
pioneer when he first struck the golden
state. One of the party, anxious for
mental illumination, asked:
What the devil is a virgin forest,
Felix?"r
"a virgin forest" replied Felix, whose
Hibernian extraction accounts for the
bull, lis forest where the hand Of
man has never set his foot"
There Is pathoS in Texas, sometimes
The brilliant correspondent Of a Texas
strong men to shed tears like women
when their feelings are aroused by
exceptional circumstances. For ex-
ample, there was a man in Texas ac-
cused Of stealing horse. 1t is scarce
ly necessary to say that Immediately
there was q lynching bee. AT the con-
clusion of the entertainment, the par
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the wrong man, and the high-minded
citizens who had managed the affair,
were filled with remorse. They deter
mined that the dead mans memory
was entitled to vindication, and, there
fore, committee was appointed to
wait upon the widow. They found
her weeping. The chairman, with ain
awkward wave of his SLOUGH hat, said,
in a somewhat embarrassed manner:
Marin, we hanged your husband, but
he was the wrong man. Marin, the
joke is on u.s.
The same veracious conversationalist
says: There Is no fruit SO popular in
Texas as pie. Everybody eats pie
from the toothless babes to the tooth
less patriarchs. We have pie for break
fast, pie for dinner, and pie for supper.
And yet, there are only three kinds of
pie made in all Texas; the kivered,
the unkivered, sa1ld the cross-barred.'
Fred Musseya told the story about
Billy MaSon's Chicago constituents who
came to Washington and were enter
tanned by their witty and popular con-
gresham. Among the living curiosi-
ties' Billy Mason pointed out Martin,
of Texas the statesman who almost
asphyxiated himself when he first came
to congress. One of the Chicago con-
4 iY1C ont al ccIx Oh h.
lar Texan, and then said:
'Oh yes, I mind q lot of stuff printed
about him. What was it he done made
him so conspicious?'
why" said Mr. Mason, cit was re-
ported that when he first came here
he blew out the gas just before going
to bed in his room at Washington
hotel"
"Well, what Of it; why was such a
fuss made about t?" asked the Chi
cago constituent from Blue Island.
why, on account of blowing out the
gas light" said Mr. Mason.
"WeH," said another constituent from
the Black Road, you didn't think
man of any sense is a-going to sleep
in the room with the light burning,
do you? I don't see where the laugh
comes in, don't.
Last evening certain popular and
does not lie to the southwest of Wash
ington, but quite the contrary was
standing in a hotel rotunda convers-
Ing with some friends. Up came the
it1nerant flower man, who said: 'Tuby
woses, gentlemen; nice tuby woses.''
mo; not tonight, Johnny said the
congressman. i have quit buying
flowers for the present. My wife has
returned
William E. Griffith, of the Cunber-
land News, is the only man that ever
told story about Senator Quay's ever
having talked too much He has
known Quay from boyhood, and has
said among his friends that Quay's
quality of silence has been to him truly
golden. Once, and only once, when he
was very young man, did he give
himself away until he blushed like a
school girl
The story is illustrative of his early
ambitions, and of the high mark and
goal he had set up for himself, and to
which he at last attained. In the sum
mer of 1858, one sultry afternoon,
young man at that time residing in
Beaver, and out Of employment, seat
ed himself on sthe stone steps of the
old court house alongside of the young
parliamentary for friendly chat. Vari-
Gus plans for employment were dis
cussed, after which the question was
asked Of Quay: And what do you
propose to do?" ooh" he replied, 'T
propose to stay in politics, and 1 mean
to succeed, and 1 intend to become one
from Pennsylvania" but just here his
face became suffused with a blush-he
realized that for once he had said too
much, and instantly his lips were
sealed, at least, upon the subject of his
own future.