The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23
COOLEST Day EYER HERE
SUCH WAS CHRISTMAS DAY IN 1879.
SAYS THE WEATHER
OFFICE
MERCURY DROPPED TO 80
And 1t Has Never Reached the
Same Mark Since in the
Official Thermom-
MERCURY DROPPED TO 3

Whlle Dec. Is is known the world round
by reason of the story of the manger in
Bethiehem, there is one corner in ST.
Paul where it is marked by another sin
guar distinction, singular in view of the
recently existing conditions. That Granny
is the eyrie of the weather observer, for
MS records show that the lowest tenn
perature ever marked in his books was on
christmas day, or, as he calls it, Dec. 2o
1879, when it was 80 degrees.
Inc boy or girl who was born that day
will be just twenty-one Tuesday. and a
glance at the o b of that day may
interest many
H. P. Hall, still hustling, flew his pen
nant at the masthead of the Clio e.
and in the paper Of Dec. 26 he opines
editorially:
Brother Smith, of the First M. E.
church in st. Paul, recently INDUCED in
a political harangue in another mans
pulpit on Thanksgiving day. which, be-
ing edited down to date, means Rev.
samuel u. Smith, of the Peoples church
Miss Katie Gordon was organ:st at
the Christmas service at st. PauPs, and
the operate. prinna DONNA, Miss Emma
Abbott sang Nearer, My God, To
Ihee. In the! evening Emma sang Ar
line in Bohemian GIRL at the Academy
OF Music in Minneapolis to a packed
mouse. She sang here in the afternoon
and the telephone exchange management
connected their Minneapolis patrons with
the 81. Paul opera house, and Emma Abb
pott was heard ten miles away.
IGNATIUS AND BILL IRWIN.
The present senatorial contest makes of
more or less interest the fact that Ig
natius Donnelly and w. D. Washburn
nad contest pending before congress.
Donnelly told a story on Bill Erwin.
who was detailed during the previous
campaign to meet Ignatius on the
stump Donnelly spoke first, and intro
duced Erwin in this wise:
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen: I will
now have the pleasure of introducing
TO you the gentleman who is to follow
me IN this debate the Hon. William
w. Erwin, of St. Paul Mr.. Erwin az
uouplIess many OF you know, is one of
the most famous and successful of law
yerS or the Northwest. He is especially
successful in criminal practice; and so
great is his reputation that he is sent for
TO go hundreds Of miles to try cases.
Nhen there is a desperate criminal case
-Whether at Deadwood, Brainerd, Du-
Iuth, or anywhere else in the Northwest
which other lawyers can not defend
then Mr. Erwin is sent for to save the
otnerWlse lost criminal. Mr. Erwin, u
ooWlhg TO that individual and retiring so
as TO lace him forward, has beer. sent
mere to defend Mr. Washburn.'
The American Express cornnanv
handled 5000 packages in three days
capt John Clark was presented with
d handsome huntingcase gold watch
j. j. Hill, general manager of +he ST
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba 6istrib.
uted e0o turkeys to employees of the
road - '-10
Adam Fetsch sent the Globe STAFF a
box of Paul Morphy cigars.
There is just little of the unfamiliar
and the familiar about some of thn
names in the business directory. Auer-
bach, Finch, Culbertson & Co, WHOLE
sale dry goods, Jackson street. A. Il.
Llndeke & Bro retail dry goods. Q Fast
Third street; Stees Bros. fIIrnitnre !.
Perkins, Lyons & Co., Haggenmilier &,
kuhl, wholesale liquors; Crippen & Up
son, trunks; P. H. Kelly & Co, whole
sale groceries; r. G. Munger music.
Merrill Ryder, furs; Powers Bros, re-
tail dry goods; E. Lytle, Dawnbrokers
morton, Doran & Co, commission 1ner-
chants; N. B. HARDWOOD & Co., Mime
apol1s, the progeny of "Olson's," where
the present merchant prince of the Mill
City was then clerl1ing; Pollock, Donald
son & Ogden, glassware.
A SLAP AT CROOKsTON.
The satirist was doing local work, for
Since Crookston boasts of weather So
degrees below zero, it is suggested THAI
Hon. L. Fletcher, who owns most of
the townsite, sell enough of it to plant
at least a section of the north pole
upon.
There was much going on in the world
at large.
The Spanish senate passed a bill to
abolish slavery in Cuba
Edison's discovery of the carbon fla
ment lamp was worth a column of the
G l 0 b that day.
The Pioneer Press said editorially, "un-
der the heading, Mr. Edisons Last
Chance" Next Thursday night is Mr..
Edison's last chance. If he is sue
cessful then he will come into an inherI-
lance Of fame, such as no inventor has
yet gained in his lifetime. All his brok-
en- promises and disappointing delays
will be forgotten, and he will be well
coined as the first of American inven-
tors. On the other hand, if ne fails
this time, the public will be apt to drop
Mr.. Edison
"BOBS' WAS IN THE FIELD.
A dispatch from Lahore says that Gen.
Roberts reports his troops are suffering
from overwork and exposure.
No hard wheat sold at $1.51 in Mil
waukee.