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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
TOO MUCH EDUCATION.

a GOttingen professor. who is alarmed
because good brewer commands larger
wages in Germany than a Greek profess
sOr, has written book to demonstrate
that there is too much learning in the
world, and that our educational methods
must be reformed SO as to appreciate
the value of scholarship. He shows that
there are now entered on the rolls of the
German universities %, 900 students. and
that fully one-half of these hopeful
youths are doomed to poverty and dis
appointment. The GOttingen professor
is right in his dOleful prediction if these
$4,000 young men are being educated
for the ''gentlemanly professions in
stead of the more lucrative and more
certain callings of industrial life. But
if these $4,000 young German college
students had it in mind to turn their
hands TO manual labor when they
left college they would not be hurt by
the stock of learning they are accumu-
lating. \ carpenter or a blacksmith
or ShOpkeepeT is none the worse for
beng a good scholar. ! he real trouble
Is i'm that false idea which is current
that education dISqualifieS a person for
manual pursuits, and that the educated
man OF WOMAN must find a station some
where in the professions. Still, it is
loss of time for Young person TO de-
NOJe years 10 the study of the dead IAN
gHageS when the SAME period spent in
manual training school would give
the preparation required. and thus ell
able him to secure profitable employ
ment immediately upon leaving school.
it has long been the fault of our educa-
tiOnal methods that there are too
many captains and not enough
prlyates being turned out from
our schools and colleges. Now that
it is coming to pass the privates are
receiving more wages than the captains,
the fault will correct itself. We have
the evidence Of this in the disposition to
make manual training a part OF our
common school system here in America.
Manual training and technical edura-
ton in mechanical pursuits is being ill
cOlporated into nearly all OF the schools
of our American cities. Private enter
prise has also taken hold of the subject.
There Is private institution of this
kind in New York, which is well patron
lied. and whose graduates are in de
mand by master mechanics, as they
make better wOrkmen than are turLed
out bythe loose apprenticeship system.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
FOOD authorizations.

In Wisconsin the state food commits
sioner has been testing the vinegar III
use in the towns, and. out of thirteen
SAMPLES in Madison, found one made
from cider. Whisky. white wine and
burned sugar were the chief cOnstitu-
'ents. 4 sample obtained of an honest
apple grower in the country had Is per
cent of glucose, due probably to the
cheap mOIasses used. There is a wide
field for investigation and reform in the
food elements, and there should be CO.
operation and steady work in all the
states until a change is effected. 1t has
become so much matter of course to
adulterate and cheaper the articles that
enter into the commissary relations,
that anything entirely true to the name
is the exception. There should bee.ther
new systems of classification, and eX-
planatOry notes accompanying all arti
cles that are to be taken into the system,
or assurances that there is 20 element
more harmful than the one whose name
iS pSal
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21

While the South American delegates
in their journey across the country
have occasion for frequent exclamation
points, they can speak of very remark
able enterprise in their land that is to be
completed and celebrated in the Col
umbuS anniversary year. This is their
railroad across the Andes. 1t connects
Valparaiso and BuenOS Ayres. The
distance is 81 miles. not length to
compare with lines in this country, but
it is to he the highest road in the world.
1t begins the ascent soon after leaving
Valparaiso, and twists and climbs TO-,
$50 feet 70 three-mile tunnel, and then
commences to descend. Little more
than 100 miles remain to be built, but
tins is so difficult that it will take three
years. Passage over the road will be
apt TO satisfy the demand for exciting
adventure. 1t will save much of the
transit about Cape Horn, and If the
conference results in any considerable
increase of commercial interests. it will
be of no small benefit to this country.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
IfTheY We're Men.

The manager of the literary syndicate
took rather an unfair advantage of the
amiable ladies who write their thoughts
so freely for the public eye in inducing
them to change their sex in their minds,
and delineate the betterment their mas
culine example would exhibit over the
one afforded by the average male citi-
zen. 1t subjects them to the darts of
the merciless publisher in securing
some spicy reading. Mrs. WilcOX-Ella,
the pOetesS of passion, now model ma
trOn -disparageS the man as he is by as
Serting that were she man she would
control her passion and never disparage
a woman. Mrs. Frank Leslie would
make love to two or three women just
to show how exquisitely that role could
be played. Mrs. MoultOn wOnld escape
the dressmaker and go about without
escort. Fanny Davenport would not be
man at all, and Mrs. Langtry would do
as men do. There is good field in this
exercise of the imagination to pour salt
on the raw places in masculine moral
anatomy, but as matter of fact women
would be apt to do very much as men
do if they were raised in that persua-
sion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.

An Ohio youth of sixteen has devel-
oped long and luXuriant mustache.
An alligator near Micanope, Fla,
seized horses tail and dislOcated it.
A Chinaman arrested for fighting reg
istered as Cabbage Cow at San Fran
cisco police station.
Peat fiber is coming into considerable
use in the manufacture Of brown paper,
being about 80 per cent cheaper than
wood pulp.
Finding no milk in the spring house,
a thief in Frederick township. Mont
gOmery county, went to the barn and
MIXED the COW.
During the last twelve months JO-
seph Sepp. Reading, Pa. newsboy,
with one arm, has ira Yeled 1.200 miles
without paying cent for railroad fare.
Somebody has taken the trouble to
compute that the average consumption
of salt per adult capita in this country
is nearly fifty pounds per annum.
A dog at Greenwood Lake, Ca, is
twenty-One years old, and has killed in
his life over sixty rattlesnakes. He has
been bitten by them four times and still
lives.
A woman living near the lines of JEFF
ferson and Walker counties, Georgia. is
seven feet two inches high, twenty-five
years old, weighs $50 pounds, and can
whip any man in the neighborhood.
A Toronto. Ont, man was i'll Phila-
deiphia and bought ticket for home,
stating that he wanted to go via Lewis
ton. He meant Lewiston, n. Y, and
when nc awoke IN Lewiston, Me-, next
day. he was the maddest man that down
East city had seen for month.
A business man in Chicago sent out
10000 circulars, and on each was printed
the request 10 tear off ana return to him
a slip pasted on the left-hand upper
corner. There was a second slip on the
lower right-hand corner, and nineteen
out OF every twenty who returned slip
at all took pains to detach the wrong
one.-Detroit Free Press.
The dinner to the bankers at Kansas
City last week cost $4,000. Twenty
cooks prepared the feast and 800 walters
served it. Among the articles of diet
consumed were 5000 Blue Point oysters,
600 prairie chickens and l.200 quail. The
soup was made of two green sea turtles,
weighing 600 pounds.
Search is now being made in Mexico
for the buried treasure of MOnteZuma,
estimated to be worth $S0,000,00 This
immense wealth was Secreted by En-
peror Guahtimotzin, nephew Of Monte
yuma, in 1870, to prevent it from again
falling info the hands OF COrteZ and his
followers, who had once before seized
it, but had lost ii in the battle with the
Aztecs on July 12. 1920. when the Span
iards were driven from the City of
Mexico.
According to the Wichita Eagles cal
culau0n il would take a train 3.l23
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER.

President HARRISON has been more
fortunate than was generally antici-
pated in selecting a successor for TAN
NER. In some respects it is better ap-
pOintment than some of those that the
president had III mind and was urged to
accept. Gen. RAUM has had an expert
ence at the head of the internal revenue
bureau which VIII be valuable to him in
his new position, and then he is man
of approved business qualities, and has
never exhibited any of the elements of
crankism. Beng all old soldier him
self, it is natural that he should act lib
orally toward the veterans; and yet he
is man of too much business sense and
experience to drift into any such eX-
trayagant fOllies as characterized TAN
NER's administration of the pension of
fee. We shall be disappointed if the
new commissioner shall not pursue the
pension policy adopted by Gen. BLACK,
which was in all respects an honest adj
miniStratiOn of one of the most re-
sponsible offices under the government.
If he deals as fairly by the old soldiers,
and at the same time protects the pub
lie treasury with the jealous care that
Gen. BLACK displayed. the country will
be satisfied with Gen. RAUM's appoint
ment,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21

miles long to carry the Kansas corn
crop.
The Stansberry MOI Sentinel man
was presented with peach the other
day that measured nine inches in cir
cumference.
The gold mined in Australia and
neighboring islands in 1888 was valued
at 95,503, 553.
The owner Of the ostrich farm in
Lower California paid 500 each for his
birds, and he has quite number OF
them. Twice year their feathers are
plucked, and each picking is worth $500.
A clerk in one of the departments at
Washington has discoXered that soldiers
in the late war were killed in their first,
third and fifth battles more than in any
other.
A young lady of Columbus. Ga, has
made crazy quilt out of Louisiana
State lottery tickets that failed to con
meet" with the prize wheel. The num-
bers are worked in silk of beautiful
cOlOTs.
Elmer Mather, of Homework. Pa,
has just recovered his watch. which he
lost in his field six years ago. Since
that time the field has been ploughed
and narrowed three times. 1t was
ploughed again a few days ago, and
while narrowing it Arthur Burton
turned up the watch, as bright as the
day it was lost.
The day is not ten years distant"
says a scientist. ''When the United
States will be damaged more by its En-
gIish sparrows than by all the weevils.
cut-wOrms, crows. blackbirds, rabbits,
hawks, feas, flies, moths, curculiO.
drOughts or floods. He could not to-day
be got rid of for $1,000. 200 in cash. He
damaged us last year $25. OO0, 600"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
Chinese Progression.

1t will be remembered that it was but
three or four years ago that two or three
miles of railroad in China so shocked
the traditions and conservatism of that
country that it was ordered torn up.
The governmental there has been specially
opposed TO all innovations, as it feared
that the spirit of the age might secure
hold, and disturb the security with
which i. teeceS and tyranniZeS over the
masses. But Il more liberal spirit seems
to now obtain in the palace, as the EN-
perOr has authorized the construction of
a railroad from Pekin to an important
point 700 miles in the interior. This
will be owned and managed by the gov
eminent, with particular reference to
moving troops in case of rebellion 1t
will be big entering wedge. Other
railroads will follow. and all the mod
ern devices will not be long in disturb
ing the great hive that has repealed in
truSiOn so long. But some superstitious
freaks may further delay The progressive
work.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
BAD HABITS.

The bad habits of good society arc
now more conspicuous than ever be-
fore
Warnings against juvenile cigarette
smoking are best sounded with
shingle.
The death of Henry Chase. the st.
Louis artist, was due to the excessive
use of tobacco.
Gum-ehewers' paralysis is the latest
form of professional neurOsis recorded
in medical literature.
Gladstone couldn't learn to smoke
when he was young, yet during his
career he has caused many mighty men
to do so.
If you sell or give minor cigarette,
or paper and tobacco out of which to
make one, in Georgia, you become a
laW-breaker.
The Prince of Wales recently re-
marked that he liked the American
game of poker, but did not possess suf-
ficient nervous energy to play it with
skill.
The late Wilkie Collins was victim
of the opium habit, and, his friend Ed
mund Yates says, took more pure laud-
annn than would have sufficed to Kill
ships crew or company of soldiers.
A boy who had been in the habit Of
amusing himself by stoning railroad
trains was sent to the house of correc-
ton, in Philadelphia, with a plain init
nation that any others who were caught
at the same practice would be served
the me way. This will stop his stone
throwing for while.
The ISben fad has reached New York
city. The consequence is that, with all
ardor peculiar to sweet women, the
very nasty plays that were written by
Isben are being discussed, approved, or
opposed, his opinions thought worthy
consideration. and his motives wondered
at and their worth or lack of it made
meat for many luncheon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
WOULD WE'RE A WIDOW.

Young maids, you know, are voted slow.
And SET aside completely,
While sprightly danes assert their claims
And smile on men too sweetly.
Who cares for youth and beauty blended?
This is the married woman's day;
The bud s. bright reign, alas, is ended,
And only matrOns hold full sway.
The married belle is versed quite well
In what we term Irritation;
Her honeyed smiles aud artless wileI
Drive girls to desperatiOnl
No wall flower is she, nowadays,
Nor treads the sober Lancers,
But joins the walters giddv maze,
The merrieSt of the dancers,
4 maid may be most fair TO see,
And IObed IN dqintiest dresses,
Know how to talk and dance the York,
Yet failure she coufesses-
She murmurs: W ould were a-widow,
How delightful il would be;
In widows weeds there 5 many bidder
Would surely bid on me-"
She signs in vain, and it is plain,
Can ne'er have her desire.
For how can She lest welded be,
To widOYh0od aspire?
Her chances now are very small,
Quite slim the prop of hope beneath her,
For wives ana widows have it all,
And she, poor thing cannot be either.
Kate A. Darlington.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
THE COUNTKY'S GROWTH.

In a recent number of one Of the sci
entific publications Gen. MEIGs figures
upon the increase Of population in the
United States, with special view to sug-
gestions to the civil engineers in the
cities to devise their work upon scales
sufficient for the needs Of enormous
growth of the commercial and business
centerS. BY his calculations. in thirty
years this country will have 159,CJ0.0JO
people. and in 1850 there will he nopu-
latiOn of ISL, 7G5. So. This is an Overes-
innate; as the country grows the ratio
of increase becomes less. An addition
of a few hundred new settlers 10 vii
lage would make large peTcentagr,
but the same number added to Il biz
city would be very small per cent.
additions from foreign sources are
rather diminishing. and become less per
ccptiblc in the figures of growth every
wear. The excess OF births over deaths
notably lessons as country grows
n.der. and has in this country for some
time past fallen below 3 per cent an
nually. 1t is true, however. that the
PIllel cIiits are 2IoNIIIG 1T lnuCH
larger ratio than the country at large,
This should suggest to those VINO plan
Tor their needs prOyident breadth Of
vision. All the essentials of metro
poIitan life should take into view the
coming myriadS who will jOstle each
other in their ways. All the public i'm
prOvements shOnld have Il scope that
may seem to the conservative as vision
airy. 1t is only question of time, and
less than even the SanguIne MAY now
1iX. when the Twin Cities will number
millions of people. Possibly the men
of that period will look back and wonder
1T the lack of discernment and prevls-
ion manifested by tire generation or
two before
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Mapleton, Me-, points with pride 10 a
local 4115-pOund Irish potato.
1t is estimated that s., 010, 600 has been
paid to hotel keepers i'll the White
Mountains this simmer.
Mr.. MOntambeau. of Bay City, had
six white mice. six kittens and a like
number of puppies born into his house
hold on one day recently.
A woman in Wadley, Ga, has become
q grandmother at the age of so. She
married when only IA, and her daughter
did likewise.
Frederick Livingstone, aged IS years.
and the oldest man in PetersbOrO, n. H.,
is president of the First National Bank
i'll that town, and is found daily at his
post of duty.
Mrs. Cynthia McPeeters, living near
GreencaStle, Ind, is 80 years old. On
her last birthday she entertained a
party of friends and baked the cake that
formed portion of the repast.
Aunt Belle Crawford, aged 30 years,
who has lived i'll Kansas since 1856, took
her first fast ride on railroad train the
other day, going from AtchsOn to Wy
andOtte with the family of her niece.
A letter was received at the state
house in Boston the other day addressed
to '-Gov. John A. Andrew" 1t came
from veteran of the Civil War in New
Zealand, and made inquiries about GER
tain back pay.
A magnificent English tree, known as
''WinfarthIhg oak which measured
tbrty-eight feet seven inches in girth
in l744, has just been remeaSured and
found to have grown but seventeen
inches in the interval-130 years.
HOratiO n. Waldo and wife. Of Ar.
cade, celebrated their siXtieth wedding
anniversary recently. Nh Waldo is
eighty-fOur years old, was an ardent
AbolIti0niSt. and his house was a sta
ton in the famous ''underground rail
way"
Very few people are aware how many
more people have visited the Paris eX-
position than were admitted to the Cen
tennial at Philadelphia in 1876. This
had 9,S57,6?5 visitors and the Paris ex-
position Is in a fair way to have 35.00O,-
900.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
HER LADYSHIP'S FAN.

Painted and perfumed, feathered and pink,
Here is your ladyship.s fan:
You gave 1t to me to hold, think,
While you danced with another man.
Downy and soft like your fluffy air,
Pink like your delicate face;
The perfume you carry everywhere
Waited from feather and lace.
Painted and perfumed, dainty and pink,
toy to be handled with care:
1t is ike to your ladyship's self. ! think
A trifle as light as air.
Foryou are wonderful triumph of art,
Like Dresden statuet;
But you cannot make trouble for my poor
heart.
You innocent faced eoquette.
For understand those enticing ways
You practice on every man:
You are only bit of paint aud lace,
Like that delicate toy, your fan.
San Francisco Post
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
THE NOOL FRACAs

The manufacturers of WOODEN goods in
the East do not seem satisfied with the
rather indefinite utterance of their rep.
resentatiyes, recently, looking to relief
from the embarrassment caused by the
tariff on wool by an increase of the
tariff on imported woolens. 1t is ap-
pretended that if this is obtained the
consumers will make it so warm that
reaction will ensue. The Wool Re
porter speaks for them, and says they
would rather have four yenrs of free
wool, and take the chances of free
goods, than to 90 through the expert
ence of the past four years again. The
wool growers of Ohio. or the politicians
who speak FOR them, threaten free goods
Il there is TO be free wool. Consumers
would manage to get along with both.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
SHIP RAILWAYS.

The London chamber of commerce
has recently had under consideration =
scheme OF a noted engineer for the con-
s;Tucticn Of railways Tor the convey
ance Of ships from ports 70 inland man
featuring points. That it is entirely
practicable was shown by Capt. EADs.
the architect Of the St Louis bridge. 2
great engineering triumph. Had tie
lived, he would probably nave effected
his fayorite project Of a railroad across
the isthmus to haul the great ships
from OCEAN 10 ocean. IL is but a matter
OF expense. The conception. however,
is an eXniiardting one. 1t would be an
exciting experience for the ocean yoy-
ager to be taken right along over the
Obsuucting land in his ship and again
dumped into the water. There may be
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
WITH PIPE AND FLU TIE.

With pipe and flute the rustic Pan
of old made music sweet for man;
And wonder hushed the warbling bird.
And closer drew the calm-eyed herd
The rolling river siowlier ran.
An would. -ah would little span,
Some air of Already could fan
This age of ours. too seldom stirred
With pipe and fluteI
But now for gold we plot and plan;
And from Beersheba unto Dan
ApoIlo's self might pass unheard,
Or find the night jars note preferred.
Not so it Jared. when time began,
With pipe and futel
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
PERSONAL WEAKNESSES.

Gov. Hill has special fondness for
porterhOuSe steak.
Ex-senator Ramsey has a fancy for
whitefish la vinaigrette.
Secretary Noble is fond of fried
chicken and curried oysters.
Secretary WINDOWS favOrite dish is
pickerel la mayOnnaise.
Judge MARITIME finds his chief Joy and
delight in chicken pOtpie.
Mrs. Mckee is fond of fried spring
chicken and lettuce salad.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21

A MAGAZINE writer says there are
two dozen women in America who have
more money than any of the rulers in
Europe except the severely economical
queen of England, and several of the
number could match figures with her.
Some of the richest of them are
unmarried. and would, if welded, be-
from thirty to thirty-five years
of age. They are able to sup
port husbands, but are not inclined
to allow their benevOlence to run in that
channel. There are girls who get NOR
good out of life on so q week.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
Wanted to say Something.

Gaylord Hub.
1t is more than probable that Ames,
with his characteristic frankness, gave
expression to his anti-Irish views upon
the impulse of the moment, in a rather
thoughtless manner, not thinking what
weight they would have when seen in
public print. He had just returned from
Europe feeling light-hearted and robust.
and felt like saying sOmething-it didn't
matter particularly what. But Doc has
likely come to the conclusion ere this
that "discretion is the better part of
valor" every time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21

THE commissioner of emigration in
New Hampshire has found sS7 farms
that are deserted, all having buildings
in fair condition for occupancy. These
are all in 160 towns. Those who sup
pose that ''home market is the only
essential for agricultural prosperity
will find rare chances in these deserted
FARMS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21

Gov. FORAKER got up at the Pan
American banquet Friday night and
said no true-bOrn Ohio man was afraid
of a subsidy. Gov. FORAKER was not
born in Ohio, but he has learned the
Ohio principle to nieety. The only
time an Ohio man makes kick on
subsidy is when he doesn't get it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21

THE supreme court judges of New
York city have all agreed to change the
practice in divorce cases, as recon-
mended by the grand jury, and have no
evidence taken in private. This is the
outcome OF the FLACK case, and will
render it impossible to defraud woman
of her marital rights without her knowl-
edge. The rule will no doubt extend to
other courts.