St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-10
HERE AND THERE.

The New York Herald figures out that the
net Republican loss in the eight states which
held elections last Tuesday was 1913, 400.
President HARRISON says he is not at all cast
down by this unfavorable showing Of figures.
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One thing the politicians learned from last
Tuesdays elections. That is never to
prophesy unless they know. Those who
backed their prophecies with their money
are now fully set in this resolution.
What promised to be @ good sensation
turns out to have been only lark of some
medical students. We refer to the finding of
the mutilated body at Lake Johanna. By the
by, as long as the dissecting of human bodies
Is absolutely necessary to the promotion Of
medical science, why is IL that our legislators
do not face the situation squarely and make
some legal provision for securing subjects for
the dissecting table, instead of compelling
the doctors to run the gauntlet of the peni-
Tertiary every time they carve stiff in the
interest of sciencei 1t would certainly be
more civilized way of dealing with the sub
ject than the present method.
Is laughter good exercise? OF course it is.
1t has been discovered that there is not q
ItlQOLt cOTutT UT lLleb VI TIC lQluut6 NtbS6le
of the human body which does not feel some
wavelet from the great CONFUSION caused by
hearty laughter shaking the central man.
The chemical or electric condition of the
system is modified, and thus hearty laugh
conveys distinct and additional stimulus to
the vital forces. Ifyou haven't time for out
door exercise take genial, hearty laugh
about three times day, and your life will be
prolonged.
rs gambling an acquired or cultivated
harit, or is it the result of natural vicious
inelinationr' asks a GLOBE correspondent.
Our opinion is that it is an Unborn vice. but it
can be repressed or developed according to
the inclination of the Individual. The men
who risk all on the throw of die or the
turn of card are not the only gamblers in
the world. The politician in search of pre-
emlnence, or the Spectator who seeks quick
profits. is the victim of the same perverted
impulse. Gambling has been a prevalent
passion with all nations and with all classes,
and in all ages
The original papers relating to the terrible
witehcraft delusion a. Salem were discovered
the other day in an old vault utilized for the
storage of county records. Among them
WAS tue Ofuer cOuuennlug nineteen luuO-
cent persons to death for an impossible
crime. There was also list Of those who
were in prison awaiting death when the tide
of public sentiment turned toward better
things and caused their release. There is
also record showing that the witch burners
became penitent, for they directed that the
released prisoners should be paid sums rang
ing from EGO to $50 as a compensation for
the wrong that had been inflicted upon them.
IT Is seldom that a good newspaper man is
called to go up higher, because there are not
many higher places for him to go. We do
not therefore, congratulate DR.. ALBERT
SHAW on his promotion, but rather on his
exchange of labor, in going from the edi-
torial desk of the Minneapolis Tribune to Gil
the chair Of political economy in Cornell uni
versity. DR.. SHAW is one of the brightest of
the young journalists of this country, and
Cornell may well be proud to enroll him on
her list of instructors.