The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-08
Epistles 10 ST. Paul.

Secretary Healy, of the school board, in
the intervals between supper and bedtime,
has recently embarked in scientific expert
mentation. The researches have been kept
very quiet and did not leak out until YES
terday, when a salesman for a new patent
antiseptic tried to sell the school board some
OF 1t. To praise its virtues he said that
Superintendent Gerlach and Secretary HeaIy
had been present when it was tested in one
of the schools and could tel how it worked
Superintendent Gerlach said that was true
1t cleaned the place up in no time.
But Healys recommendation was along a
different line
ut tastes fine" said the secretary. al he
placed some Of the violet powder on his
tongue tip with his little finger NOW you've
all heard about this creosote. CreosCte, to
me, tastes like an over-smolled ham which
has been left two or three weeks in a damn
musty cellar. This antiseptic, on the other
hand, is like altar Of roses dissolved in the
transcendental incense Of Mt Olympus and
packed in the petals of the bridal orange
blossom"
The board bought twenty-five pounds Of the
stun en- a venture.
Jacob NewsaIt is the past grand master ard
lot OF other things in the Odd Fellows
crder He has been in town couple of DAVIS
and the fact that he is interested in locatins
the Odd Fellows home at Owatonna appears
to have no effect en- his popularity Mr..
Newsalt tells a good story and that goes
lar n helping a man in fraternaI orders
1t is related Of Mr.. Newsalt that his mission
in lie is tie running of hotel keepers. He
shores with such assertion, with such abso
lutte knowledge Of how to make a noise and
still go on sleeping that his reputation is
as broad as the Northwest is long It is told
i'm hot ho
of Tracy when it was first started. He was
on the road at that time. He dropped int,
Tracy one night and told the tavern keeper
that he wanted a bed all to himself The
hotel man told him he would have the room
that was reserved for bridal parties Mr.
Newsalt went out and did some business
and when he got back to the hotel he wanted
to go to bed at once. He was sent I'm To
the sparsely furnished bridal chamber and
found big railroad man in bed. He was
snoring though he was being paid for It,
Il took look at him., said Mr. Newsalt
land concluded that 1 could beat him. went
to bed. In two minutes 1 was asleep. In
ten minutes that fellow was down in front
OF the stove in the office. The next morning
l was introduced to him and he not only re-
fused to shake hands with me- but proposed
to give me beating. 1t seems that he was
a conductor on a freight train and when he
WShC W sleep III the caDOOSe the rumble OF
tie train was lost in the fog of his snore.
He was sore and he told so much about the
fellow that he met at Tracy that ever since
then have never been able to get a. room
In hotel on the floor on which anybodv
else slept. Which," added Mr.. Newsalt .is
the principal reason for the fact that am
chartered on Billy Johnson. am told that
I've got to sleep In Johnsons office, because
1t is located in the only building In town in
which there are no people O. nights"
The sick and wounded of the Twelfth and
Fourteenth are fortunate in having in chsrpa
of their hospital train. in part at least, Cant.
c. c. Whitney, the state expert printer. Can't.
Whitney has helped run trains before. He was
one of the three. four, or five, who recently
hustled 1856 hungry editors across the CONT
nent and back at a rate that was rarely
equalled by small party OF ten or a dozen.
1t required considerable executive ability and
not a little foresight to arrange for the
transportation of SO large party at such a
rate through a country poorly fitted with
accommodations for them. and while thew
were not sick. the chances are that they were
not less exacting than the hospital boys will
be.