St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-27
on the subject, "The demand creates

1.-THE chief mineral productions:of the
United States are Soda water was an
other piece of geological information.
There seem to be different opinions
among the st. Paul boys in regard to
the chief production of Minnesota.
While the geographical explorer of the
Monroe school still adheres to his opin-
ion that pigeons and potatoes are the
most important things produced here, a
rising politician of the Cleveland wrote
eon mis- examination paper. 1.-THE chief
!. production of Minnesota is Gov. Nc
Gill" lis safe to say. that, had that
boy been'a member Of the state c0nven-
ton, Mr.. Merriam would have had
small show for becoming chief execu-
tive of the state.
81 While the students in the higher
: grades were finding life burden be-
cause Of the dreadful aspect of the
blackboard questions. the intelligent
boys and girls down stairs were moving
ION the even tenor of their way as though
There were no such thing as day of
+ Judgment. In Miss Campion's room the
babies were exercising their story-tell-
ing faculties. Some of the tales were
thrilling in the extreme, and were it
not for the fact that Interruptions fire.
1quently occurred that cut off story at
the most exciting part, it is doubtful
whether teacher, children or reporter
would have escaped the nightmare for
weeks to come. just when Arthur Nc
Lain was in the midst of an Indian
story that was calculated to make his
listeners
BLOOD RUN COLD,
little girls hand went up, and Ar
thurs voice was drowned by, Teacher,
| saw an Indian too, and lots of BEARS"
Carl Anderson, lately from Sweden,
Sweden, and gave an account of his adj
ventures while crossing the ocean.
Lille Gebeau started to tell story of
the Cinnamon, but she soon drifted into
the subject of china dolls. The little
girl seemed to be better informed on the
latter subject than in regard to live
Cinnamon. Esther Sparrow and Leo
Highmark had interesting tales to relate
on many subjects. Guy Shane told the
most thrilling ghOst-story on record.
Guy said the ghost he saw looked like a
billy-goat with four legs and sharp
horns. The tale SO terrified both Guy
and his listeners, that the boy was
obliged to stop several times to get
breath.
Tie pupils in Miss Woods room are
ulVlQeQ INTO TWO classes. the wv Wiling
Workers." who compose the older schol-
ars, and the little tots, who are called
''Busy Bees" At "a recent spelling match
John Swanson, who belongs to the
BUSY Bees" spelled down the boys
and girls in the "Willing Workers"
class. This was triumph of little over
big. and John has been promoted to the
rank of knight. In the B second grade
Maggie Shey is little girl who is un-
usually quick and bright in her studies
and a favorite in the room. The best
writer's are Victor Blomqujst and Ansin
Peterson, and Knute Lunden leads in
Enumeration.
The A second grade is full Of prodf-
gies. Evelyn Olson and August John
son are the best scholars in the room !;
but the most prominent person in the
room is Chris Moeller. This boy is ir-
repressihle, and when his hand goes up
his teacher knows that some dreadful
information is to be impaired. The
usual information is. "Henry wants to
fight with me-" Johns sassin' me-" or
''Gertie says I'm flip. Please make her
STOP
It was a Cleveland schoolboy who
wrote composition on the 'Great Wall
of China" and at the end made the
startling announcement that the "Chi-
nese wall was built two centuries be-
fore God"