The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-28
TALK OF THE TOWN.

One of Kellar's illustrations this year
is the ''Hindoo clock glass dlal, Win
a gilt hand, which points out numperS
in answer to queries propounded from
the audience, and repeated In loud
voice to a confederate who has control
of the hand such as, what day OF the
week did Jan. IA, 1903 come on!
Armed with d hundred year calendar,
the confederate swings the hand to what
ever day of the week is desired, the first,
second or as may be.
Finally some one asked:
ION what day of the week was Male
king reIieved?"
The magician, who ran away from
home a ten years of age to join a tour
ing circus, was puzzled, for he knew the
young fellow in the back did not have
that on the calendar.
81 did not understand that question,
he queried. q 80
The question was repeated.
81 am not sure that Mafelling has been
relieved" he replied, and the hand of
the Hindoo clock stood right where it
had been at y, showing that they do
not know any more about the relief Of
Mafeking in HindOostanee clock factories
than they do in the war office in Lon
don, where they had the town relieved
different days enough to keep the dial
busy all night"
The steamer Dubuque of the Diamond
10 line, will arrivelin port this evening
from down river. This is the first bridal
trip" of the boat this season, and is
arousing some amusement The Dubuque
brings up three new families. Newly
married couples have demonstrated a fond
affection for the vessel in previous sea-
sons, and hardly a trip last summer was
without a happy pair. Sometimes there
were two pairs and even more.
On one of the June trips last year Capt
Hi Beadle brought up no less than seven
different bridal couples. After reaching
port he was found pacing up and down
the hurricane deck, evidently considerably
ruffied Comment upon the change in
his usually sunny manners brought the
rumbling reply:
Seven newly married couples this trip.
What do you think of that? Fine, isn't
it?
"All the way up, wherever you went,
night or day, you couldn't get away from
that everlasting, I love you, dear bust
ness, and some of it was even worse.
What do you think? Just as 1 was leaV-
ing the Wheelhouse a few minutes ago a
pair of these doves came up, and the
young lady said:
g Please, captain, can we sit inside for
little WhlIe! just as II there WASH
enough room outside. And-would you
believe it?-there were two more couples
headed my way"
What did you do?''
What did 1 do? Do, did you say? Why,
1 excused myself and ducked for cover at
once"
Capt. S. r. Van SAINT, candidate for
the Republican nomination for governor,
prides himself on the fact that he believes
that he is to be Minnesota's next chief eX-
ecutive. A story was told on him to i
group of travelling men By one of the
profession last evening at the Ryan which
emphasizes that fact. Capt Van SAINT,
when he goes to Chicago. usually stops at
the Auditorium He recently walked into
the barber shop. removed his coat. sur
veyed a line of eXpectant and unengaged
BARRIERS and interrogated: Which of you
wants to shave the next governor of Min
neSota?'
There was Immediately a stampede.
Another time, the same authority says,
the captain had his shave, and after the
finishing touches had been put upon his
glossy, black mustache remarked to the
tonsorial artist:
do you know whom you have been
shaving?" .f.at
No" -
'Well, you have been shaving the next
governor of Minnesota
In his excitement the barber gave the
captain a check for Is cents instead of one
with Is c on it.