St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-16

fined to the frequenters of Chinese
joints. Fashionable ladies are falling
into the use of the drug to an extent
that should cause alarm.
TOPICAL TALK.
By one of those mistakes for which the
eompositor is proverbial. my letter from
Rochester in Yesterdays GLOBE made me
say that the entire asylum building needed
reconstructing. What did say was that the
center building was fire trap and ought to
be rebuilt. This center building was the old
inebriate asylum, and became the nucleus
for the system of buildings which constitute
the present insane asylum. 1t has settled all
out of shape, and the tower got a wrench
from the cyclone which gives it a decidedly
dilapidated aspect. 1t is liable 10 burn down
at any time or to fall from its own inherent
weakness. 1t is false economy in the state to
withhold an appropriation for its reconstruc-
tion when in its present condition it is a per-
petual menace to the lives Of the inmates, as
well as a sonrce of danger to the other build
ings, which have been put up at q great cost
and are admirably adapted to the purposes
of hospital.
DR.. BOWERS, the late superintendent Of the
Rochester asylum, has been censured by
some of the newspapers for remaining at the
asylum during the term of his suspension.
This criticism is unjust to the doctor. He
remained there at the urgent solicitation of
DR.. KILBURN, who came up from St. Peter to
take charge of the institution while the in
vestigation is pending. With becoming pro-
priety, Dr. BOWERS has refrained from taking
notice of all criticisms, and this statement as
to how he came to remain at the asylum is
made at the request of DR.. KILBURN.
TIT -.
There was one amusing incident connected
with the Rochester investigation which has
not been mentioned in the reports. One of
the most popular of the young newspaper
men in the Twin Cities was on the scene as
representative Of q Minneapolis paper, and
when Judge START issued his permit for the
investigating committee to interview the
prisoners in Jail it was so worded as to ex-
clude newspaper reporters AT an indigna-
ton meeting held by the press gang over
what seemed to them to be star chamber
proceeding, our Minneapolis friend was ap-
pointed a committee of one to visit the judge
and induce him to modify the order so as to
give the reporters a show for their white,
alley When the reportorial committeeman
entered the court room the judge had
left the bench for few moments,
and was down at the clerks desk,
talking to that official. His back was to the
door, and as the Minneapolis newspaper
man has defect in his eyesight he mistook
Judge START for the representative of a st.
Paul paper, and, approaching MIN from be-
hind, slapped his honor familiarly on the
shoulder. and at the same time p1opounded
the inquiry: do you suppose that this old
duffer of judge is going to sit down on the
newspaper gang?' When the judge wheeled
around with fierce look on his countenance
the newspaper representative was paralyzed
by the discovery of his mistake. He offered
an apology by stating that he had mis-
taken the judge for reporter. This was
only adding fuel to the flame which was con
suming the judicial dignity, and in tone
that betokened his earnestness the judge in
formed my Minneapolis friend that the only
chance reporter would have to get into the
Olmsted county Jail would be by repeating
such break as he had just made-which
would entitle him to thirty days. at least.
TfH
The tendency OF the age is toward practi-
cal education. and yet there are gratifying
evidences here in the West of disposition
to cultivate the esthetic. manners make
the man. was the expression of courtier of
past generation, and it is still true that the
graces of manner are essential to securing
favorable reception for one anywhere in the
world. A person who knows how to use his
voice and has the physical advantage of a
graceful and easy movement OF the body
usually makes good impression on first ac-
quaintance. Those who stammer and are
awkward in their movements are always at
decided disadvantage. 1t has not been
great while since when those who wished TO
improve in the parlor graces had to go East
for instruction. Now this state of affairs
has changed, and the Westerner fl nds at his
very door as good tuition in voice and ply
steal culture as can be procured in any land.
The method for bringing the soul and body
into sympathy. of mentalizing the muscles.
so to speak, is becoming part of an educa-
tional system. Mental and physical culture
are going hand in hand. ALI thoughts and
emotions spring from the soul. The body is
the instrument of expression. 1t becomes
important, then, that the two should be
trained togethtr !; and thus it is that in any
thorough system of education due attention 1
must be gwen to physical culture, to training
the body in the art of giving proper express
sion to the sentiment of the soul.
TTf
The project of connecting the Twin Cities
with Lake Superior by canal has been re-
vived, and is being carefully considered. 1t
is not the visionary scheme that some per-
sons affect to think it. Capitalists have re-
Gently been studying the matter, and they
are disposed to look upon it favorably as
business proposition. The distance in di-
rect line from St Paul to Duluth does not ex-
ceed 13O miles. Over most of this distance
the levels are very favorable for canal build
ing There is no reason to suppose that the
physical and engineering difficulties would
be insurmounuable, because glance at the
map shows that the natural drainage be-
tween these two terminals in its centra lines
does not vary much from straight line. It
Is proposed to build canal wide enough and
deep enough to float the largest lake vessels,
practically making a lake port of the Twin j,
Cities, The importance of such an improve
ment at once suggests itself to the people OF
St. Paul and Minneapolis, for it would thus
extend the so-called lake route into the
heart of the Northwest. aud make a vast
depot of supplies at these cities. 1t wonId
also solve the question of stable low rates OF
transportation.