The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-07
Episthes 10 St. Paul.

T. s. Horye and Toxic Santaro Oh, the
Japanese commissioners, who are here in
specting telephones, bus ness methods and
mechanical contrivances of practival value, in
one way and another, are ging to stay through
the fair
This would be very complimentary to the
institution If the globe trotters' residence here
was entirely voluntary, but 1t is not, ex-
actly. Indeed, the distinguished ambassadors
of the court Of his most eminent hghness of
the most glorious realm of the Mkado are
detained in this most admirable community
at this extremely busy time by an exceeding
ly trivial disagreement with the puissant
government of Uncle Sam.
1t is not serious. 1t is not likely even
that a report of 1t will ever be made to
the Japanese embassy at Washington, but
1t is none the less embarrassing to he prac-
teal prisoners.
The japanese gentlemen came through from
Vancouver in a hurry and there their bag
gage delayed. When they left Britich
SOL, they forgot to leave the keys to their
trunks with the customs house officers. and
hence their travelling outfits are limited to
hand satches. Yesterday was a trife chilly,
even after the Pacific breezes, and the COM
mssioners kept indoors as much as they
could with due respect to the presence in
town of their countrymen of the navy.
The visitors have inspected the local tele-
phone system, and found it practically
counterpart Of their own except in the recent
~ adopted metallic circuits and the fact that
the government owns those in Japan. This
was not, probably. surprising to them
it would be for an American to go to
Yokohama and the same transmitter that
DR.. Gray, Edison and Bell all claim some
credit in transmitting jargon that locks in
| written characters. like the hen tracks
! the outside of a tea caddie.
Joe Reynolds tells a story that illustrates
| tho highborn air Of the present secretary of
the department. Gen. AIger came West
| during the first year of his incumbency Of his
| present Office and he Travelled like lord with
special train. 1t occurred to the general
! that as he in the chicken country he
| ought to tickle his palate with some prairie
! chicken meat and the person in charge of the
c0mmissary of the train telegraphed to
| official OF the railroad at Mankato that he
better go out and kill some prairie chickens,
as Gen. Alger wanted some.
The official telegraphed back that it was the
closed season and that chickens could not be
! had
A reply returned that 1t made no diff
ference about the season and that Gen. Alger
| Insisted on chickens.
TIE division superintendent got hot. He
| wired back:
'Tf Alger wants chickens let him go out
and shoot them. I'll stake him to the gun if
he gives me a bond that it won't be confs-
Gated by the game warden" Gen. Alger got
no chickens that trip.
Judge Lovely sat in the corridor of the
Windsor hotel last night Two couples went
| by the big windows and one of the men
locking in said to the other:
isn't that Lovely?"
o,Iyox 4I,o Id,
with him, that you think it lovely for lot
Of men to sit around a hotel, but I think 1t
| beastly." And then she wondered why the
| gang outside laughed so much.
Chief Engineer McHenry's testimony before
| the railroad and warehouse commission, that
| his road had put all Of Carlton county into
| a swamp at Corona without yet getting a
| roadbed that would be depended upon, sug-
| gests one of the local traditions of the place.
Corona. it might be explained for those
| who have never been there, is a transient
| community. It's population daily consists Of
| possibly $50, and they stay only lcng
| the dispatcher orders, instead OF being a
| queenly community, as its name might sug
gest, the genealogical derivation seems to
| come, after an inspection of the place, to the
| association with the corona which attaches to
| the Northern lights
| The red deer paws the festive snow on
| the boys in winter, but in the summer, ex-
| cept at train time, the scraggy tamarack is
King AlphOnso monarch of all he surveys,
| and his theOdolyte does not shoot very far
| either
1t will be seen that the local traditions
| thus largely attach to the red deer and the
| train crews, and one Of the legends OF the
| latter is that in 1874, when the track was
| much newer than it is now a train left
| Thompson one bright morning ard net a
| trace Of her or her crew has ever been heard
Of since. One superintendent once got no
| ton that, as the train never reached Island
| lake, It must have gone off the track into
| this swamp, but, after driving saunders
| down 1000 feet, and wasting $40 worth OF
| coal switching the graphing crew IN and cut
Of the road of through trains, the company
| gave him his congo and the train still lies
| there This Is a story sometimes emtel-
| Hshed by the more literary of Corona's
transient population, with the 8 ,ated fact that
everg year OF the Goth of July a curling col
| umn Of smoke can be seen issuing from a.
| but The Philistlne does not vouch for the
credibility Of this latter part of the story.
do you know" said a critical reader Of
the newspapers to The Philstne yesterday,
| Il can tell every time the Dispatch gets
scooped without even looking at The G OIL e
| or Pioneer Press?"
80? How?"
watch for the places where it says late
| yesterday afternoon It's a cinch. Look al
| that Williams house fire that occurred at
g. M. The Philistn ne.