St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-10


ST. Vincent 1902 90 Edmonton. 80. -.
TT. Buford. 90 90 64Medic'e Il. 29.7OI 70
Fit. Custer. 29.94 SFort Garry - H..
THE puissant Gallo warrior, Gen.
BoULANGER, was unable to take his
wife in his hasty invasion of Brussels,
but was more fortunate with his mis-
tress. He is not bereft of solace.
CINCINNATI. too. wants smoke con-
sumer that will reduce the volume and
blackness of the smoke instead of in
creasing them. When one is in opera
ton, some other cities will do well to
look it up.
If BLAINE's great ambition is to es-
tablish foreign policy, why does not
the flag float above the hutS of the
Samoa barbarians, and why does Italy
ship its organ grinders and monkeys to
this country?
THE public verdict is very clearly
against secret sessions in the senate.
The open door would be relief to the
senators also, as it would save their
wind in rushing to the reporters to give
away the secrets.
No WONDER the president already
needs week Or two for quietude and
fishing. Only month in the White
house, and he is tired. He has made
good many other people tired, too, and
they can't find relief in Furnishing
fishes.
SOME prominent citizens in Stark
county, Ohio, have been arrested, and
are to be prosecuted with the utmost
vigor by the Humane society for using
live pigeons in shooting match. The
artificial targets meet all the require
mentS oil skill and sport.
FRED GRANT is generally referred to
as young fellow. but he is older than
his father was when he retired from
the fields that had placed him with the
greatest of militia ry chieftains, FRED
can hardly be called boy. Still, he
would not be thought of for a foreign
mission if his father had died when
FRED was half-fare lad
THE session of the legislature being
nearly over. it would be good plan for
the reporters of the Pioneer Press,
Tribune, Journal, Dispatch, News and
Star to ask SENATOR HlXSoN how he
spells his name. And, by the way, the
man who put the senator's name on
pasteboard in front of his desk got it
wrong, too.
In ONE of the Wisconsin cities the
proposition to open the rooms of the Y.
NJ. c. A. to women is met with the
sitting objection that those of bad re-
pute might wish to enter. Ii the OBJ
ject is to reform vicious people, the
doors should not be shut to them. The
greatest of reformers said it was not the
righteous, but the other fellows that
needed eleyating.
EVEN the Chicago Tribune finds fault
with the farmers who complain of Irvine
trusts without assailing the tariff on the
materials that enter into the manufact-
ure of the article. That paper, how
ever, did not, as remembered, urge
them last year to vote against the party
that sustains the sort of protection the
wheat growers are now feeling the
benefit of.
THOSE who have the disposition can
press the sympathetic chords on be-
half of the coal barons. They come I'D
to the spring days with 100000 tons of
coal in sight, in place of the empty bins
sought. The indications are that they
must reduce the price to find a market.
This will cut off the fairness they are
struggling for, and is the place for the
sympathy to come in.
The consul at Valparaiso kept the
record of 1887, and reports that in that
year Is, 900 vessels entered the ports of
Chill, and only 221 sailed under the
United States flag. There is something
out of gear when this country does not
loom up near the head of the maritime
procession. The navigation laws and
tariff have smothered the life nearly out
of the commerce of the nation and
about eXtinguished American shipping.
A New YORK paper reports that
cheating by false weights and measures
is found by investigation to be so COM
mon in that city, among retail dealers,
as to be regarded as the rule. 1t was
admitted and justified as needtul be-
cause all others did the same. One also
added: Il must cheat little to get
even with my customers" There are
the common penalties there for fraud
in such matters, but they do not seem
from this account to be very effective.
1t is presumed that this practice is con-
fined to New York. or Eastern cities.
"a FRENCH scientist relieves the ap-
prehension that this planet may be-
come too crowded for comfort with the
computation that, allowing five acres
for each inhabitant, Europe has room
for 115,000,000 more people, Africa for
1886 100000, Asia for 1,402 O0O, 900.
Oceanca for 515.000,OOO and America
for 1000, 100000. This leaves out the
frozen regions. Several generations
yet will have room for easy movement.
1t is not very material if 5000 or 5000
years later there may be too many peo-
pie. Ways will lie found to get rid of
them.
A LAW has recently been enacted and
enforced in France, prohibiting those
who sell newspapers and pamphlets
from calling out any hint of the con-
tents. They can announce the name of
the publication, its price, and mention
the contributors or authors: but the
frppf Vpn0pl who Should add GA II