The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-23
EPlSTLEs TO ST. PAUL.

This ice machine is a great thing said
julie Mayer. refectively, the other night.
why, down in the Milwaukee breweries they
don't use any natural ice any more. The
artificial Is SO much cheaper than the natural
that they run their machines in December
just the same as they do in July and August. E"
julie admitted that the first cost, perhaps.
was not as great to Mother Nature, but when
cost of cutting and construction of the Ice
houses and so forth was considered, it was
cheaper for the brewer to make his own
ice,
Beating the natural expense Of the ice
manufacturer brings to mind an old railroad
story. rarely In print.
1t is narrated that train on one Of the
jerkwater roads that run around the foot
hills of the Southern states came into a STA
ton one morning about 8 o'clock with head
light trimmed and all aglare.
The division superintendent happened to be
on the platform, and inquired Of the engineer
what he meant by wasting oil that way.
The man in the overalls, who had spent
the night monkeying with bad order cars.
a leaky injector and boiler that wouldn't
steam. turned to his superior and replied,
with some viruience:
with the quality of oil they use on this
road, it's a - sight cheaper than daylight. 7"
A commercial person who was trying to sci
something to the city authorities had lot
of trunks carried into the main entrance OF
the city hall Friday afternoon. He intend
ed to show some samples of his goods, but
he couldn't get anybody who had time to
look at samples, and the trunks stood there
for some time.
When the commercial person got around to
look after them two of them were labeled
'W. R. Johnson. Municipal Court" and enc
that looked like gasoline stove case, and
another which had the outward appearance
Of containing a folding bed. were marked:
"a. R. Kiefer, care Of Tom Neuhausen,
steward"
81 had an experience with man who was
committed for insanity. and whom I took
to Rochester Friday said Deputy Sheriff
Marks. 1.-The man was a morphine fend,
and he was in the most frightfully nervous
condition that l ever saw a man in. Why a
gentleman indulging in quiet fit Of del.rium
tremens would be like a dead man COM
pared to this fellow. He had been gro
Gerry clerk. I believe. and had gone the limit
with dope, having started in on cocaine and
switched to morphine because his first dope
had lost it's power to please. He couldn't
eat thing to save his life. but he bought
all the fruit and peanuts the train boy had
and then threw the stuff out of the window.
give you my word that he took dose
Of dope for himself every fifteen minutes
during the trip, and I didn't have much trou-
BILE with him until just at the finish, when
he got in too much of a hurry and broke the
needle of his hypodermic. 1t was broken off
short up near the end, and ten minutes
later he was in an awful state, and l had
to take the gun away from him, because he
wanted to jab the blunt end of the nozzle
into his arm. He did succeed in pushing it
into his wrist short distance, and seemed
to feel no pain. The jolting Of the carriage
on the way to the hospital from the depot
was agonizing to him, and he screamed all
the way for the driver to go easy. 1 tell
you that. If anybody who has any taste for
the drug could have seen that fellow a cure
would have been effected on the spot
The Phi'is Inc.