The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-21


o:5O call from the residence of Mrs
Conrad Gotzian drew part of the depart
ment to her home at 332 Summit avenue
where fire had caught in some draperies
and set fire to a handsome upholstered
chair. Pending the arrival of the fire
department, however, strong arms hur-
ried the chair out on the lawn, where a
small boy of the neighborhood armed
with a loaded lawn hose, was having
more fun than the Indians" and incl
dentally doing some good execution, when
the t1remen came.
The Minneapolis postmaster advertises
a letter for E. Van Dyke Robinson which
shows that even the name of S. Paal
may go unrecognized in Minneapolis.
Ready for Martyrdom-"No," said Me
andering Mike, Il amt dom nothin' at
present 1 am simply waitin'.'
Nv atting Tor what?"
Fur desc trusts to realize de peril DER
wealth is bringin' EN- into. When de
crisis comes an de magnates finds dey're
betn' socially Ostracised dey'n go lookin'
around for some one to dump de respon.
sibiiities onto Den I'll step up an say.
Gents. I'll take de awful burden of
wealt' off yer hans an not charge We a
cent. Washington Star.
An enterprising Philadelphia restaurant
proprietor hung out a large blackboard
sign the other day with the following an
nouncement: You can't beat our 15-cent
dinners" This sign proved to be a good
drawing card until a young man OF
humorous turn of mind came along The
latter, seeing the sign, stopped and, after
scrutiniZing 1t closely, smiled one Of those
smiles which bode no one any good. He
waited until none of the employees were
watching. and, taking out his handker-
chief. he erased the letter 81 from the
word beat" The transformation was
complete, and it was not until a crowd
had collected that the proprietor of the
restaurant discovered why there was a
larger crowd outside than inside
Occasion for Comment-'NVhy do you
consider him such a remarkable MANI"
lie has been IN politics a good many
years and hasn't vet been mentioned for
vice president. Chicago Post
Two years ago Louis Patnaud resigned
his place as assistant postmaster OF
Everett, Wash. to try his fortune In the
klondike. Three of his friends made up
1906 as a ''grubstake" for him. No wore
came from the recipient until he returned
to Everett week ago, when he divided
$1,000 among the three friends who had
helped him.
There's been quite a change in old
Backbite, hasn't there?''
How so?"
lie has taken to riding wheel"
can't see that that's any change
He'll still continue to run down his neigh.
bors. "--Philadelphia Record.
A Yokohama correspondent Of the In
dianapolis Press, who witnessed the re-
1Slous ceremony of fire walking In Toxic,
says: There were present diplomats and
professors from the Imperial college. and
an Episcopal bishop. and we think there
is sufficient evidence to prove that several
Japanese women did walk through the
fire. A doubling Thomas gathered up
some of the salt in which they rubbed
their feet both before and after their hot
walk, to take away and analyze. Another
suggested that the bamboo pole that was
used to make the path was hollow. and
may have contained a substance that sift-
ed out as 1t was drawn backward and for
ward that destroyed the heat The little
'amak of my friend, when asked why the
feet were not burned, replied: Much pray.
much pray We have stated facts The
Interpretation must come from those vers-
ed in the occult sciences"
Fudge-We came pretty near having 2
quarrel at our house. It was all along of
a cat and a dog. We had a cat that nv
wife thought everything Of and when 7
brought home dog she said it couldn't
stay, and l said that the cat must go.
Budge-And how did you settle the dis
pute?
Fudge-Oh, we didn't settle1t at all. TIE
dog did that He killed the cat.-Boston
Transcript.
When Admiral Dewey was In Nashville
he was asked to crown the queen of flow
ers, pretty girl from Murfreesboro He
was evidently somewhat nervous. and to
add to his discontinue, the crown was too
large He placed it on the young girls
head, but in a second it had slipped
around her neck. But the gallant admiral
was not to be outdone. He delfcateIy
eased the crown from around her neck
and over her wealth of hair and placed
1t on her brow, but again 1t slipped The
girl of course, was embarrassed as the
eyes of several thousand people were on
her. The admiral blushed a little. and.
with the air of one determined TO conclude
task caught the crown and daintiIy fix
ed 1T in the girls hair so it would not slip
AS he finished the task he pressed the
crown closer to the girls hair. and, with
one of his characteristic smiles. added:
1T will fit you all right in the morning"
kind of work, even If I could" said Rub
herfoot Bill, the sandbagger. ''rhis here
thing of gettip' a mans confidence an
then THROWN him down is too low for
me"
1T amt me they have the confidence
in, explained Greengoods George. at is
themselves they are so sure of see?"-
indianapolis Journal.
A story is told of "JacI,,. T7toLora, -,
elSht-year-old son OF the solicitor general
of the United States While his parents
and he were being shown through the
beautiful country seat of Hampton Court.
IN England in company with high
English nobleman, little Jack was play
ing about and learning a great many les
sons. The custodian was telling his usual
tales, and pointed out a vine planted by
George III. He explained that the grapes
from that particular specimen were re.
served for the queen herself, and that no
lesser parsonage tasted them Turning
with patroniZinz air to young America,
VINO was gazing at the vine, he said: 81
suppose you do not know who George III.
Was?' 'Oh, yes, I do; he was the George
that fought our George, but our George
licked him. and licked him good
Matter of Memory-The man who was
attempting suicide was not sinking foe
the third time.
OF course. 1t was necessary thereupon
that he recall everything In his past life |
in the space of one instant.
This he failed to do.
Again my accursed bad memory" he
Missed. and waded ashore In much
chagrin. which was in nowise Iessaned by
the derissve laughter of the spectators
Detroit Journal.