St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-07
dency shortens the lives of the incum-
bents, or they generally have had young
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SUNDAY CHATTER.

and kIckerS, and found in the main that
they were the NOAHs. JOHN the Baptists,
STEPHENsoNs and MoRsES of the ages.
They were the Illuminated who went
before, and people couldn't keep up or
understand them. There is something
IN that view, but in the modern time the
crank is scattered all around, and it may
be safely wagered that not one in a
thousand of him will ever be anything
but crank. There are two Ohio-born
men who claim to be Christ on earth
again. One of them, SCHWEINFURTH,
has been driven out Of his Illinois para
disc with his angelic hours, and the
other is negro arrested in Georgia as a
yagralt. Both have numerous converts,
but the world will insist that they are
cranks. So with that other fellow down
in New Jersey, probably born in Ohio.
He is building an ark to outshine NOAH.
Here and there one wrongly dubbed a
crank turns out big success, but the
average crank is chiefly useful to make
UP the mosaic of society.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT likes to talk
and pflilosophize. He has, perhaps, in
dulged in rather sensible lines of re-
mark to some of the poStmaSters and
other people in authority; but while he
was IN Milwaukee exploring postal mat
tiers he dropped around to Schlitz's
park; and as he slipped the very pala-
table amber in the pleasant shades, he
discounted his immediate activity by
gazing into the emptied glassware and
calculating, Nothing of merit was ever
written under the inspiration of lager
beer" Beer" said the youthful phil
Osopher, as his glass was being rehlled,
''stupefes without invigorating, and its
effect upon the brain is to stagnate
thought" 1t would be interesting to
know what the daily consumption of the
youthful reformer is. Perhaps the
editors of the German press can eluci-
date the situation.
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The recent statement of the young
woman in regard to the autopsy of the
mind reader BISHOP, about which so
much has been said, indicates that the
knife wielders had very considerable
doubt as to life being extinct when they
first put the blade into the breast. 1t is
to be presumed that they were in search
of soul. They were possessed with
the natural and scientific desire to
catch glimpse of the mystery of life.
Ii there were spirit still lurking in the
body, they would subject it to their
gauntlet. They operated on the line of
materialiStic theories, assuming that
the vital principle was an entity that
could be handled and identified. They
made total failures OF course, and, SO
far as known. found nothing 70 reward
their unfeeling dissection. But it is
/ fortunate that life is not gross and ma
terial. 1t is infinitely higher and nobler
than materialism would make it. No
scientific theories or human device can
touch it. More real than the tangible
objects of sense, it is amenable to none
OF their laws or restraints.
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Manual training as a feature of the
public school work is still largely in the
experimental stage, but the indications
are all favorable for its taking a per-
manent and benefcent place in the
system. In some of the Philadelphia
schools it has been On trial four years,
and the opposition, strong at first, has
nearly disappeared. 1t is not there
made compulsory. or required of those
who have no tastes OF aptitudes for in
dustrial pursuits. The cooking schools
Tor girls are also useful adjunctS of the
educational system i'll many cities.
Some practical observation strongly
confirms faith i'll this part of the edu-
cation of the sex. In some instances
instruction in sewing is given one day
in the week. The girls who need to be
able to make their own living acquire
facility in all the arts represented by
the needle and shears. If there is no
compulsion there can be no complaint
of interference with the home direction,
and if the object of the school system
is to fit for usefulness i'll society and
self-Support, these are legitimate factors.
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The governors of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi have made up their record in
portentouS prOclamationS, and can now
repeat the historic passage of the Caro-
lima executives. Should they really
prevent the meeting OF the champions,
it would cause general surprise and
hardly less general regret. 1t is doubt
ed that these gentlemen who put out
the loud-sounding official literature
really want to block the game. They
think the dignity of their positions and
commonwealth are involved, and the
fact of the crowd coming down there
is rather reflection upon their civiliZa-
ton. Should SULLIVAN and KlLRAIN
meet and SULLIVAN hold his ground,
the people who frequent variety shows
and concert halls would be surfeited
with the pugilistic melodies of which
the Boston bully would be the center
and hero. Nothing in the papers is so
much looked for just now as the SULLI-
YAN-KILRAIN situation.
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The great competition and romantic
prices at the sale in Paris of the
SECRETAN collection of paintings indi-
cate that some of the American people
were there with uneasy pockets seek
ing relief. 1t is stated that several
quite notable paintings were secured
by Americans, but whether any were
obtained by Minnesota visitors is not
known, although some were anxious to
invest. Nearly all the articles sold
above their valuation. The French gov
eminent paid $4,000 for MILLET's
''Angelus." which the author in his
lifetime sold for $500, and deemed that
a fair price. Ten years ago probably
no one would have thought of paying
$4,000 for it. The government bought
it for the Louvre gallery, for senti-
mental reasons, as the work of French
artist 1t is peasant scene. Prices
of such works of art are purely fanciful.
FILIAL FAITH.
When first in life 1 started, father gave me
good advice
Regarding things of which didn't know;
He said the world was very fulI of danger