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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
ALL AROUND.

The gossips are wondering why refused
him
The catch of the season-who, toothless and
Old.
A poor, wheezy Crpsus, asthmatic, dyspep-
Is stepped TO the eyebrows in silver and
gold.
let them ascribe to me loftiest motives,
Well plersed to make capital out of my
woes;
And no one has guessed that couldn't ac-
cept him.
For the best of all reasons--he didn't pro
pose, Life.
'Tallling about employing women in fac
tories,' said a Manistee, Mich, lumberman
to the Tlmberman, ''brings about the fact
that the hoop factory at Manistee employs
women feeding the planners and other light
work of that nature, and finds that they do
the work well, and at the dairy salt factories
ali the soaking and such work is done by
girls, who work on piece work and earn
about 81 to 81. % a day, and seem to like the
employment"
John O'Leary, a mere boy, with the aid of
his sister and younger brother, drove a bur
glar from their home in Glen's Falls. n. Y. a
few nights ago. The thief awakened the
lad, who instantly jumped from his bed and
STdlbicu Nttu iuG MS slolCI SOOl
appeared, and in few seconds the brother
came TO the rescue. The trio attacked the
the burglar from all SIDES and it was only
after hard struggle that he managed to es-
cape Young Leary works on u canal, and
had just returned home with his sum.ners
wages, which it is supposed the thief was
after.
A little volume. says the New York Post,
d, L.. ~
Paul Loye, in which the subject of death by
decapitatlon is discussed at length scientific
ally Dr. Loye's experiments have been con-
Quoted chiefly at the expense of dogs, Of
which he has beheaded great number. He
has motto cd with great exactness all motions
of the eyes tongue, lips, ears and jaws of the
animals during the first few seconds after
the severance of their heads from their bod
les, and has reached the conclusion that in
every case death was absolutely painless He
viii publish, hereafter, the results of similar
experiments i'll the case of human beings.
Jane Hading almost had nervous prostra-
ton III Kansas City She was accosted by
one of the citizens who spoke very good
French. With Partisan politeness he in
vited her to buy corner lot.
Mrs. Parsons, the Anarchist, has not met
with q warm reception in Chicago. Her fell
low-dynamiters assert that she has become
tainted by Anelomauia 1t is even said that
she would rather drop an 'h' Than throw a
bomb.
BY the death of Victorine Dernay, Gen.
Boulanger has losta bitter opponent. Der
nay was the most popular of the Partisan
cafe singers and was -relenlessly opposed TO
Boulauger and his party. She eagerly sought
for songs which would offend him and his
friends, and her pleasing voice and manners
enabled her to hit him many a hard blow
which man could not have delivered with
immunity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25

the whole region of country proSperS,
from the improvement of the lake SER
vice.
DThough, as physical proposition, the
lake cannot be obliterated, its value can
be seriously impaired by the nature or
lack of congressional legislation.
In the face of such business Situa-
ton, can Minnesota afford TO place Mr..
Washburn in the senate for the next six
years? Do the business men of this
state, who attended the great cOnyen-
ton at the Sault Ste. Marie, held for the
purpose of securing appropriations from
congress to enlarge that canal, feel that
they wish to be represented in the sem
ate by gentleman whose entire pecuni-
airy interests. and the interests of those
associated with him. would be adj
vanced by the failure or abandonment
of those appropriations? Can the farm
ers OF Minnesota or the consumers of
coal afford to send man to the senate
whose interests lie in dwarfing our only
lake port, and throwing obstacles IN the
way OF reaching it. instead of securing
additional facilities? The questions
answer themselves.
We do not assume that there would be
any open hostility on the part of Mr..
Washburn Gf elected to the senator to
the enlargement Of the 500 canal or the
Improvement of the harbor at Duluth.
He is too intelligent and shrewd politi-
clan not to be APPARENTLY in their
favor. 1t is not necessary to explain
now senator, whose heart and pocket
book lie in one direction, could follow
those dictates while his face was SEEM
ingly set the opposite way.
We simply point to the map and ask
the members of the legislature whether
they do not consider that Mr.. Washburn
is human?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
sTaTEsMEN,s PERoUIsITEs.

1t is now urged that each congress-
man should be allowed clerk, to be
paid out of the public funds. 1t is said
that it's not uncommon for member
of congress TO receive as many as 100
letters in day, most of them from con-
stituents, soliciting some information or
service that will involve time, and often
expense. The Dakota delegate has de-
fined the member as the errand boy of
his constituents, and still he would give
months of hard labor TO get there.
People who write there for merely per-
sonal interests should pay for the serv-
ice If a clerk were allowed to each
member. most of them would simply
pocket the allowance and go on writing
the letters or leaving them unanswered.
The people are watchful of devices to
add to the perquiSites of congressman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25

has staked his entire business interests
upon q scheme which can only succeed
by diminishing, if not destroying, the
value of Lake Superior to this state. A
glance at the accompanying map, and a
comparison with q similar but ineffect-
ual attempt to dwarf Chicago and Hi
n0iS, will fOrcibly illustrate the point
at issue.
The distance by rail from Chicago to
Toledo is 234 miles. The distance by
cmcutous lake travel from Chicago to
Toledo is SOC miles. and from Toledo tie
Buffalo 800 miles more. 1t was perhaps
not surprising, before the experiment
had been tried, that business men
should have conceived the idea that
such an enterprise as the Wabash sys-
TEN, extending from ST. Louis TO To-
ledo, on Lake Erie, and designed to
build up st. Louis and Missouri at the
expense OF Chicago and Illinois, would
prove a great success. They know a
great deal better now.
The Wabash road was built with a
view of taking the carrying trade from
Chicago, on the theory that the addi-
tional rail haul would be overcome by
the lake transit of 800 miles to reach a
point only 234 miles distant by land. If
il had proved a success the incalculable
damage to Chicago and Illinois. and
even the states of the Northwest, is ap-
parent. But natural laws of trade are
not easily reversed, and the Chicago Il
Alton, the Rock Island, the Chicago.
Burlington u Qinncy and other roads
which took the shortest route to deep
water at Chicago, proSpered. While the
Wabash fell into hopeless bankruptcy,
and there remains. The problem was
solved for all time, and it was demon
strated that the shortest rail route to
deep water is the developer of the coun-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
CHRISTMAS.

The GLOBE sends its Christmas greet
ing to its great family of readers.
We wish one and all the fullest en-
JOyment of the festive season when all
hearts are lightened and all souls are
being bathed in sea of merriment.
1t is good TO have Christmas.
1t is good because it celebrates the in
auguration of an era ON earth of the
highest form of spiritual life ever
youchsafed to man.
1t is good because it ushers in a sea-
son of unembittered humanity. when
the asperities of life are lost i'll the joy
Gus merry-making.
1t is good because the merry-making
of the Christmastide becomes infectious,
imparting itself from one to another,
until all are swept away on tide of
merriment far beyond the sight of the
cares and troubles which have bur-
thened the rest of the year.
Christmas is the souls resting place.
To many hearts it is the shadow of a
great rock falling across the treelesS
plain of human existence; the single
fountain of cool waters bursting forth
in the parched desert. How inviting
its shadow, how refreshing its waters
to the tired ones Of earth.
Christmas is the good genius of our
American home life. 1t is the season
when we make our pilgrimage to the
Mecca of social purity. The Christmas
home-gathering with its hallowed as
sociations and unalloyed pleasures, has
been blessed influence i'll preserving
the purity of our social conditions, and
thus becomes potent factor in main
tanning the integrity Of our national
system.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
try as well as the financial success of

u y
the railroad.
The situation in Minnesota is almost
relatively the same. The short distance
by rail of $50 miles from St. Paul and
Minneapolis to deep water at Duluth,
gives Minnesota grand opportunity for
development. Instead of the lengthy
and circuitous lake route even under
which Chicago and Illinois prospered,
the route from Duluth to Buffalo by the
lakes is almost in a direct line. The
distance is about 1000 miles as against
1,100 miles from Chicago to Buffalo.
Taking st. Paul ana Minneapolis as
about the center of population in Min
neSota, though not geographically the
center, and adding the rail- mileage, we
have from this center to Buffalo, via
Duluth and the lakes, distance of !. 150
miles, and via rail to Chicago and thence
by lake to Buffalo 1.500 miles. The noon
day sun could not be clearer than the
fact that all of MinnesOta's interests lie
in reaching the lake with the least pos
Sible rail haul.
In the face Of this and the Wabash
experiment, Mr.. Washburn has con-
Structed his 500 route. distance by
rail from st. Paul and Minneapolis to
his lake port at Gladstone of 342 miles,
or to the Sault Ste. Marie of 494 miles.
If the intelligent reader will again
glance at the map he will see that the
drying up of Lake Superior from the
500 to Duluth would be directly in the
line OF Mr.. Washburn's business inter
eStS, and the only thing which can ulti-
Hiately save his road from the fate of
the Wabash, while the short rail routes
to deep water at Duluth prosper, and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
CONVERTING LIGHT.

A late number of the Northwestern
Prohibitionist contains very strong
article against Sunday newspapers. In
addition TO the stereotyped arguments so
generally used by the puritanc classes,
the article contained some telling points
if the argument mad been directed at
the Chicago press. But the meat of the
article is in the postscript which the
editor adds by way of apology, saying
that since writing the article he had
seen a decent Sunday paper. By "a
stroke of good luck copy of the SUNDAY
GLOBE had fallen under his eye, and he
was so fascinated with it that he had to
apologize for having abused the Sun
day newspapers at all If more of these
defamerS of the Sunday press would
read the GLOBE they would have the
scales removed from their eyes, and
their prejudices against the Sunday
newspaper would disappear like mist
before the morning sun.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
LITTLE LAUGHS.

An oyster never gets lin the soup" al
church fair.-Cartoon.
If Utah comes into the union she VIII
probably be called the Matrimonial state
Cincinnati Enquirer.
If there is anything in name Menelik.-
king of the rebellious Abyssinians will be
an invincible adversary. Chicago Globe
Patti is getting $500 night now in Lon
don. With the assistance of tkese figures
one can understand why hers are all fare
we'll tours-Pittsburg Chronicle.
First Amateur Nimrcd-It is getting late
and we haven't killed ANYTHING yet Second
Amateur Nimrod- Well, let US miss q couple
more rabbits and then go home.-Texas Sift-
ings.
First Boston girl (referring to gayly-st
tired miss who has just passed)-Did you
ever see such taste: She must be color-blind.
Second Boston girl-Exeerable Her dress
is as inartistic as rainbow. -Phiiadelphia
Record.
Moral c1tizen-You are dreadfully intoxi-
Gated, my good man. Beware, you will even
tually fill drunkard's grave. Intoxicated
man-Yesh, ave filed many drunkerd's
grave-hic-rm sexton down at the-hlc-
shemetery-Time.
Thompson Street Hostess (at dinnerl-Why,
gracious, Mis- Dinah, yo' amt eat none OBJ
yo' pie. Miss Dinah-No. Mis- Brown, de
servant hab evidently forgot ter lebe me a
knife or fox an Is done got my kids on
New York sun.
Ii seems that our great-gran dfathers were
sometimes tickle, as witness the following
from intentions of marriage in Brunswick i'll
1868 as given by the Bangor Historical
Magazine this month: ';Juue Is. Peter
Coombs, Jr., and Charity Coombs, of Harps
WE'LL June % the next entry Peter
Coombs, Jr., alters his mind and intends
marrying with Ellis Smith. of HarpsweN. =
Lewiston Journal.
A Kentucky school teacher called on pa
iron. Uncle Billy" said the teacher, 4
don think it is worth while for you 10 SEND
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
The Human Form Divine.

The Empire gowns are delight to
the women with handsome necks and
busts-I am talking now about the low
evening gownS-but there is many
woman who refrainS from wearing
them. not because she is bony but be-
cause she is slender. The low French
corset is scarcely low enough to do what
she requires, and so if she is wise she
will have long strip of soft cheese
cloth, which she will bandage just below
her bust, literally binding herself in it.
When the end is reached it may be fast
ened, by some one else, of course, with
safety pins. The result will be that the
flesh will be effectively and not immod
estly pushed up, and the Josephine
gown Will look much better than if a
pair of French stays were worn. Not
that | object to stays, though l do OBJ
ject to the wrong kind. Just try these
beauty suggestions and see if, to use a
very old proverb. 1.-The game is not
worth the CANDLE 81
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Senator Riddleberger believes in high
license in the senate chamber.
1t is evident that the Republican chairman
did make Harrison Quayke.
By the death OF Colorow. Sitting Bull be-
comes the most doubtful ward in the coun
try.
The Boston women who voted for Hart
thought he was such dear man, don't you
know?
John 0anamaker has been chosen presi-
dent of the Presbyterian union of Phila-
delphia.
it would feel better if he had "a word to say
for publication now and then.
Dhuleep Singh asserts that he is the
proud and implacable foe of England"
But Dhuleep is onl Singled cat, at best.
Harriet Beecher Stowe still continues in
good physical health. She is somewhat
stronger mentally than she was few weeks
ago.
Carter Harrison is a near relative of Presi-
dent-elect Harrison. This Carter, however,
lives at Murfreesboro, Tenn, and is a very
harmless sort OF man.
j. Warren Keifer, of Ohio. says that no
Office in the country would tempt him to
dgalH enter PUBIC Ire But WOulQ0 [ n6
kindly 20 as consul to Timbuctoo:
Says the Epoch: ''Amelie Rives is at work
on new novel of the goody -goody order,
the scene of which is laid in Russia and the
greater part of the dialogue is to be in Rus
sian" Evidently Amelie has learned at last
that She cannot write English.
London's new commissioner Of police, Mr..
Munro, is, like his predecessor, Sir Charles
Warren, graduate of the Anglo-Indian
school of affairs AT methods He was at
one time chief of the Indian police and had
90, 00J men at his command. Warren was
soldier pure and simple, but Munro has been
at the head of the detective department of
Scotland Yards since 1884. succeeding How
ard Vincent Munro does not keep blood
hounds
There are those who assert that President
Cleveland is totally lacking i'll sentiment and
imagination; that he is, IN fact nothing more
than Gradgrind. This is far from the truth.
The fact is that in a very undemonstratiye
way Mr.. Cleveland cherishes deep in his ma
ture vein of romance. The announcement
that he will live in New Jersey after he
leaves the White house results from his de-
sire to end his career in the state in which he
was born He has always had a tondness for
New Jersey. as he first saw the light in that
historic commonwealth. Besides all this,
mosquitoes never bother him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
STILL ALIVE,

Those who talk about the Democrats
taking water on tariff reform are be-
logged in their views, as illustrated a
few days ago. 4 conference of repre-
sentative Democrats from all parts of
Wisconsin was held at Milwaukee in
order to keep the good work moving on.
There was entire unanimity in the
cause, and no disposition to halt on ac-
count of the blunder SO many people in
that state and elsewhere made in voting
on the subject. Defeat cannot depresS
or unnerye the men of convictions.
Democrats are enlisted in this contest
because they honestly and earnestly be-
lieve that it involves the public good.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
WAR OR NECESSITY
The Only Methods by Which the
Annexation of Canada Can Be
Brought About.

NhhCAattou VI SaHdud Sdh DO
Brought About.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-COngreSsmen
whose districts are on the border Of
Canada are naturally interested in tho
annexation question. The majority Of
them, however. do not regard the prop
osition with favor. "All that part of the
Dominion west and north of Minnesota"
said Representative Nelson, of Mime
sofa, lis already practically annexed to
st. Paul and Minneapolis commercially.
Lower Canada is so far away that tho
people there are almost bound to come
to us to trade. Annexation, however, [
do not consider at all practical. The
resolution which has been introduced
in the house is nothing but buncombe.
The building of the Canadian Pacific
railroad destroyed the last chance of am
neXation by binding the provinces all
together. Before they were very much
separated and their isolation might have
caused some of them TO desire TO come
into the Union. The Canadian Pacific
has now strung them all together like
beads on string. Neither party in
Canada dareS to favor annexation, and
the less said about it in the United
States the better for the success of the
cause. While annexation would be
good thing for us, the Canadians do not
desire it. Ii annexation comes, in my
opinion it must come either through
war or memorable commercial neces.
SitV -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
AN ENEMY OF THE STATE.
Why One of the Candidates for
United States Senator Should
Not be Chosen.

Why One of the Candidates for
United States Senator Should
Not be Chosen.
The GLOBE recognizes the fact that
the senatorial fight now raging in Min
Desota, does not concern its political
family. The large Republican majority
in the legislature renders it certain that
a Republican will be chosen, but
though in a political minority, Demo-
Gratis have as much interest in the pro-
gress and development of the state as
other citizens. 1t is on this ground that
the GLOBE proposes to discuss the mat
ter from purely business and non-po-
1itical standpoint.
No one will gainsay the fact that the
interests of our producers, consumers
and business men generally. lie in
reaching by the shortest possible route,
the great chain of lakes which afford
Minnesota such important and vital
protection.
Any business which can be advanced
by dwarfing the carrying trade of Lake
Superior, or throwing impediments in
the way of the great Improvement de-
manded for the Sault Ste. Marie canal.
is hostile to all the business interests of
Minnesota and every individual within
her borders. save those who may be foS-
tering the scheme.
W. ID. WaShburn. who is one of the
prominent candidates for the senate,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25

All that gladdened the small boys life
Was a candy bag and new iack-knife.
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bilities $1,000. The assets are estimated
at $1,000.
TROUBLES OF THE TOILERs.
Organizers of Labor Speak of the
Evils Attending the Importation
of aI;anc

of Aliens.
DETROIT, Dec. "a. - Representative
Nj. ii. Ford, chairman of the special
committee on immigration and labor, ar
rived in Detroit yesterday morning. He
began his investigation in the Russell
house parlor this forenoon, and con-
tinued until noon. when he left for
Grand Rapids, to stay over Christmas at
nome. MIR. Ford will return Wednes-
day and resume the taking of testimony.
Lyman a. Brant, deputy collector of
customs, testified that his duties are eX-
cluSlvely in the interests of the customs,
and he pays no attention to the inforce-
ment of the pauper law of 1882, and
makes no examinations relative to the
contract labor law. From his connec-
ton with labor organizations, he knew
that very large percentage, at least
40 per cent of foreign people from
Europe and Canada, work in our print
ing offices as compOSitOrS. Many of
these printers live in Canada. In other
trades the same practice prevails, but
he did not know that inducements were
held out to bring such workmen here.
lie knew of numbers of lumbermen
coming into Michigan from Canada
to work III the pine woods,
who. he presumed, went back
to Canada in the spring. Henry
a. Robinson, a justice of the
peace and prominent member of labor
organizations. testified that he had per-
sonal knowledge of Canadians coming
into the city for employment, working
daily and returning at night. Witness
had seen advertisements in Canadian
papers for employees in Detroit, but no
names were signed to them. There
were plenty of American labOrers for
the various trades at the times, and the
object of securing Canadian craftsmen
was to break down the unions and
cheaper wages. Witness stated that it
was very difficult to convict EMPLOYERS
of the Otfense of importing labor. In
the Detroit street ear service there are
about 100 persons employed who are
aliens. a partial canvass of the labor
organizations developed the fact that
aliens formed twenty-five per cent of
their number. jeremiah ID. Long, city
assessor, testified to the same condition
of things, and said when labor organiza-
tons make any effort to increase wages
Detroit employers advertise in Canada
for men to keep wages down. Firms
keep their names out of advertisements.
John Hare, assistant city assessor, ties.
tilted that thirty per cent of the carpen.
tiers are aliens.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-25
PEACE ON EARTH.

We drop the mask
To give and ask
A Merry Christmas, full of cheer,
And words of gold
To close the old.
And TO begin The coming year.
Friends tried but new,
Friends old and true,
We wish you happiness and mirth
MAY days unborn
Bring brighter morn
And sweeteF cleaning 10 your hearthl
Like little boys
Who find with toys
Their Christmas stockings overflow,
We pray your lot
Be not forgot
By Him who doth all good bestow.
Though tears viii rise
In loving eyes
Where grief her mastery hath won,
May yours be few,
And like the dew
Refresh whateser they fall upon.
If, friends, our jest
Be e'er expressed
AS to intiict too deep smart,
In kindness see
Each slip to be
But OF the tongue, and not the heart
Believe. in sooth.
That love of truth
A love of mankind guides our pen.
And that our prayer
Is Everywhere
Be peace on earth good win 10 men,
MILAN. f. s. Fales