Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-19
ported sadness of the water should justify
further explorations.

slave. She, with rag baby tightly clutchec
in her arms. was escaping from the blood
thirsty Legree. The strained Siberian bleod
hounds" were in full cry after her. The dogs
were set upon the stage, when the first one
shook off his muzZle and darted upon Eliza
The audience thought this was so nominated
in the bills and was only interested, but, wheI
the hound rushed upon the woman and seized
her arm, she let go few piercing shrieks
rather more natural than was expected, and
reused her auditors. Legree changed his tao
tics and became Eliza's friend, and, striking
the dog with the butt of his whip, knocked
him over, and he was secured and muzzled. The
remainder of the dogs had been kept off the
stage. Eliza was not hurt, but was badly
frightened, and during the rest OF the play
was as nervous and timid as the most captions
critic could desire.
A DISPATCH from Geneva, Switzerland, says
of the vast nine and half mile tunnel undo,
the Alps, connecting Geneva and Italy, which
has been some years in boring: The first
journey in carriages from end to end of the St.
Gothard tunnel without interruption took
place last week, the passengers numbering
about sixty. They consisted OF members OF
the contractors aud engineers staff and their
friends. Locomotives have arrived at Gosch-
enon ready for the opening of the line. 1t has
been decided, on grounds of economy, not to
light the tnnnel with the electric light. The
journey by express train from Basel to Milan
will occupy eleven hours, from Basel to Flor
ence twenty-four hours, and from Basel to
Rome thirty-three hours. The federal govern
ment have directed that the st. Gothard road
be Kept free from snow until the line is COM
pleted between Flueien and Bellinzona-that
is, throughout the coming winter. A bad
part has been met with in the Ariberg Tunnel,
similar to the windy stretch of the St. Goth
ard under Andermatt
MAURAT HALsTEAD, in the Cincinnati
Commercial: We're the editor of a paper to
dictate what shall appear in the columns of
his paper, and what should be left out, he
might make very valuable paper of it, and it
would be a vast improvement possibly on the
paper as it is, but it would not be neWspa-
per. There are many organs of special causes,
but they are not newspapers. and do not pre-
tend to be; they are organs and month pieces
Of the causes they represent. If the editor
could make the news, if he could control
events, the world, like his newspaper, would
be vastly improved. There is not an able
bodied editor in the land who is not confident
he could improve on the present order Of
things could he have his way; but, as he can
not, he is bound to accept them as they are,
and make his newspaper a faithful reflection
of the passing show; and he endeavors to
compass so much that there viii be something
to suit the tastes of everybody in his news
columns. He can not expect to suit all tastes
in everything, and, if he tries to do that, o
brief experience soon convinces him that he
is destined to make melancholy failure of it.
So he becomes cosmopolitan in spirit at last,
and gives hearing and space to whatever
event commands for the moment public atten-
ton.
In 1868 Col. Hankins published book of
between four and five hundred pages, entitled
" Dakota Land, or the Beauty of st. Paul."
handsomely and profusely illustrated. In it
he gives spirited, detailed account of the
four leading hotels then in st, Paul, namely:
the Internationally Park Place,t the Summit
House, (Carpenter's) and the Merchants. It
Is a striking fact that the three first named
have been destroyed by fire, and never
rebuilt; while the Merchants remains, bnt
greatly enlarged and improved, and is still the
leading hotel. not only in St. Paul, but in the
Northwest. In 1868 it was under the manage
ment of Col. Shaw, and is now conducted
most admirably by Col. Allen. At the time
when Col. Hankins wrote, the three hotels
subsequently burned were superbly kept, the
international by Col. Belote and Col. johnson,
the Park Place by George w. Harrington, and
the Summit House by Warren Carpenter. Col
Shaw, the then popular keeper of the Mer-
chants, is characterized in the book as o 'jolly
landlord" and is worthily succeeded by 'mine
host'' of the present day, whose praise is
spoken by countless guests all over the coun-
try
PRESIDENT WEITE OF Cornell university,
who has watched the working of the civil
service system in our own and in foreign
lands, points out the evils of the spoils system
in an article in the North american ReuieD
He says, among other things: "That the
petty interests of comparatively small num-
Der of citizens constantly encroach upon the
most important interests of the whole nation;
that large share OF the labor and care of the
executive and legislative branches of the gov
eminent is confiscated by small minority,
and that the system has in this respect become
intolerab.e." The great desire OF the country,
he maintains, is to get the whole matter OF
minor offices out of politics; to relieve presi-
dent, secretaries, senator's and members OF
congress of them; 10 give all these men time
for their public duties; to stop the influence
of Office holders in the caucus as far as posi-
BILE; and to substitute a democratic system OF
appointment and advancement won by meri;
for the essentially aristocratic system of arbi
trary appointments won by influence. Presi
dent White warmly supports the Pendletor
bill as 'the only measure yet presented which
even claims to give us q clear and Ineligible
plan of REFORM It will be interesting to OBJ
serve the tactics that will be adopted by the
Republican senator's to prevent the passage of
this bill.
WoMAN's INFLUENCE is justly all powerful
in the social circle. There she can preside as
tho 1,riosless opd 1vield her rofininC oud oJou,f