Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-11
GLOBELETS

IuOudfu heInenyl, the nOCed VlOiln1St.
defines genius as 1.-THE power man has
to kindle his own fire.
salary grabber is bad enough, but the
worst kind of one is the man who grabs
another fellows salary.
The unpleasant report CONS from over
the ocean that Anthony Trollope, the Eng
lish novelist, has lost his mind.
Some cigars make more ashes than
others, the Co,irier-Journal observes. A
cigar has just burned forty ton, of an Iowa
mans hay.
An anti-boss Republican journal says,
''Mr. Arthur now has the opinion of the
people on his administration in a conven-
lent shape to be bound.'
On the night of All Saints day in New
York, the German Catholics placed lighted
tapers on the graves of deceased relatives.
This ceremony was repeated upon the fol-
lowing night.
A good many conspicuous Republicans
declare themselves ''out of politics" just
now. That means, they are out-of-sorts,
out of official position, and out of hope
for the future.
"a grand explosion of gas on the wes-
tern limb of the sum-" is what Detroit as
tronomer declares he witnessed recently,
and it is pretended that he is not drink
ing man either.
The Bell telephone patent, would, it is
considered by those competent to form an
opinion, be cheap at $lO,O00,000. The
consolidated telephone interests of the
United States are estimated at from $780,
100000 to $15O,OOO,OOO.
The original scenery, property, and
dresses of ''Enoch Arden" as played by
the late Edwin Adams, were burned some
years ago in the Academy of Music in In
dianapolis. The MS, both of the music
and parts, persisted in the Park theater fire
idNew York last week.
In view of the results of the recent elect
ions in the several states, Republican
Pennsylvania anti-machine boss paper,
publishes likeness of Gen. Garfield with
tn, remarks of the distinguished dead
statesman on memorable occasion: God
rules and the government still lives"
Tne preprietors of we'll known cos
metic soap have given an order to the
London Sterso 'copic company for 100000
portraits of Nine. Patti and Mrs. Langtry,
which is believed to be the largest order
of the kind ever issued, the weight of the
cartes alone being about four tons. They
are intended for gratuitous distribution in
the United States.
An exchange says, little Alex. Stephens
has an excellent opportunity to max, a
good record as governor of
Georgia. The better. class of
people look to him for an exemplitica-
ton of the doctrine of civil service reform,
and it is understood that he will not re-
move any officer in the state department
found dong his duty.
Nora Mccarthy, the handsome young i'm
migrant girl who disappeared from Castle
Garden some weeks ago after buying
ticket over the Erie road to Watkins, n Y,
where she was to meet her sister, has been
found. Her ticket has not been taken up
by the Erie conductor, but Detective
Groeden, of Castle Garden, has learned
that she is in Watkins, Texas, only thou
sand or more miles out of the way.
It is quite true, as the Baltimore Sun
says, reform ''in the future is what all
sinners propose. ''They all intend to turn
over new leaf-in the future. But what
people want is reform now, not next year.
Future reform soothing sirup has been adj
minstered to the public until it has lost its
t. Lo-
years and years. What it demands now is
a little performance. Future reform too
often represents present corruption and
misgovernment; and the future reformer
is frequently syren singer, who caarms
only to deceive"
A correspondent of the New York Com
mercial Bulletin estimates the southern
cotton crop of the present year at six and
three quarters to seven million bales. The
question rises, how much of it will be
saved? Of the cotton crop in 18SO--S1
(6,6OO,OOO bales), it was estimated that
100000 bales were lost, owing partly to the
weather being such as to waste the cotton
in the fields and partly to the fact that in
the spring prices were SO low (1Ol4c in
New York for March, April and May) that
the remnant of the cotton remaining did
not pay to pick. How about this year?
As to the weather, we have the winter be-
fore us; and as the picking of large crops
extends into the spring in the bottom lands,
it is possible that some of this crop will be
wasted on account of unfavorable weather.
The people of old Rome had the habit
of pitching their bosses from the Tarpelan
rock. They got bad fall, and were never
heard of any more. The people of this
country, about 100 years ago, upset Boss
George I'LL. and his ring bosses, and we
have had horror of bosses ever since.
Nevertheless, in our prosperity and supine
ness, we sometimes forget those Jefferson
ian maxims: Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty; that power is always stealing
from the many to the few, and the bosses,
the modern name for tyrants, by their arts
of treason, stratagem and spoils, get the
better of the people for a while. For a
while only, for this year will witness the