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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
The Next Poet-Laureate.

New 1orK Ledger.
Who Will succeed Lord Tennyson in
the office of poet-laureate is questio n
which the English periodical press is
already discussing. 1t is generally ac-
knowledged that it would be better to
abolish the office altogether than to con-
fer it, as it was often conferred in the
last century, upon men possessed of no
pronounced and enduring claims to lyri-
cal distinction. Tennyson himself re-
ceived, as he has told us, this laurel
greener from the brows of him who
uttered nothing Discriminating, of
course, from William Wordsworth.
The next wearer of the laurel wreath
should, like his last two predecessors,
satisfy not merely the whim of Queen
Victoria. but the taste and judgment
of the English-speaking world. There
is reason to fear, however, that the choice
of her majesty will not full on either of
the names to which the suffrages of the
cultivated public would most willingly
award the crown. OF living English
poets Swinburne and William Morris
(the author of JASON" ''Ihe Earthly
Paradise and 'Sigurd, the Volsung'l
unquestionably stand, next to Tennyson,
pre-eminent. But Morris has ruined his
chances of the laureateship by becom-
ing rank and aggressive socialist, and
SWinburne's republicnism is of too
sanguinary hue to make him accepta-
BILE to soyerelgns. We can scarcely
imagine the eulogist of Mazzini
celebrating queens birthday, and he
seems to have proclaimed beforehand
his opinion that for him the duties of
laureate would be irksome and incOn-
gruous. He has said in so many worlds
have no spirit of skill with equal fingers.
At sign to sharpen or to slacken strings;
/ keep no time of song with gold-perched
singers.
And chirp of linnets on the wrists of
kings.
But because the author of 'sErectheus''
and Boutwell, and "Songs before Sun
rise" would, perhaps, Iefuse the laureate
ship is no reason why it should not be
offered to him, in recognition of his rare
gift of melody. The prevailing opinion
in London. however, is that Tennyson's
successor will be neither Swinburne nor
William Morris, but another Morris, one
Lewis by name, who has scarcely been
heard of on this side of the Atlantic
1t is said in England of his principal
work, THE Epic of HadeS," that a
man who should offer to bet that he
could read it through would find hun
dreds of takers. We doubt if there are
ten cultivated Americans who can quote
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
ODD ITEMS.

Queen Victoria, having co mpleted the
fifty-third year of her reign. has now
reigned longer than any English mon
arch, excepting Henry I'LL, George
ILLS sixty years on the throne being
left uncOnsidered, as it was so inter-
rupted with regencies.
The new crown of King MeEelek, of
Abyssinia, has just been completed in
Milan. 1t is of solid gold, weighs four
and half pounds, and resembles some
what in appearance the tiara of the
pope. 1t is adorned with 100 precious
stones, and is valued at $1,000.
The Berlin BOerSen Courier estimates
that there are $1,000 different kindsof
postage stamps in the world. Last Jan
uary the imperial Postal museum pos
sessed $500 sorts, and is now supposed
to have at least 1000 more.
The annual production of india rub
Der balls i'll different countries Gin dOZ-
ens) is: Germany, 2,S50.000; France,
100000; Russia. 100000; England. $780,
GOO; Austria, $4,000; America, 500,0 900;
Italy, 100000; total, say 6,500.000 dozen.
The demand for German balls is in
creasing yearly. Germany now exports
to England about S50,000 dozen, and to
America about 900, 200 dozen.
Emperor William has had an electric
railway built for bringing dishes from
the kitchen into the state dining room.
1t is an interesting point in American
history if, as stated, the Confederate
gray uniform was borrowed from the
First Virginia regiment,w which borrowed
it from the Seventh New York regi-
ment. The confederate song Dixie"
was OF Northern authorship.
A 300-pound turtle and 1000 eggs were
captured at Melbourne beach, Fla, by a
party of fishermen.
John M. Lockwood, of Sturgis, Mich,
has little lamb that walks on its front
feet only, It's hind feet not touching the
ground. 1t presents an amusing APP
pearance as it stands or runs around
the lot. balancing itself on its front
feet.
A prohibition crank up in Genesee
county, New York, recently sent a
water pitcher to President Harrison,
with the suggestion that it take the
place of wine decanters on the White
house table. The president acknowI-
edged the gift, but didn'tsay yes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
THE STORY OF A DAY.

Lightning kills two citizens of Columbus, o.
Forty Chicagoans due of sunstroke in two
days.
r Congress is not likely to adjourn before
September.
Stranger Eyraud, captured in Havana,
reaches Paris.
Southern Republicans denounce the fed
eral election bill.
Lord harrington denies that he will enter
the English cabinet
Hon. P. A. Foster and R. L. Lind met death
by drowning at Mankato.
Favorites win majority of the races at
Coney Island and Chicago.
Idaho has the call in the senate, and the
statehood bill will pass that body
A clerks carelessness results in the destrue-
ton by fire of big hardware store at Elmira.
N
Commoner Caine is practically out of the
parliamentary race in BarroW-1n-Furness,
England.
Farmers meet in convention at Montevideo,
and nip the senatorial aspirations of banker
III the bud.
Oarsman William O'Connor is outrowed by
the Australian, Stansbury, who is now cham
pion of the world.
Heligolanders are to pass under the COM
plete control of Germany through the Anglo
German agreement.
District Attorney Rossman, of Ashland,
denies the charges filed against him with the
view of securing his disbarment.
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, refused to
consent to the execution of Maj. Panitza
until his cabinet threatened to resign.
Senators amend the river and harbor bill
by lacking on appropriations for Galveston
harbor and $500" canal Improvements.
San Salvadorans appeal to Mexico to pre-
vent Guatemala from interfering with the
election of-a successor to the late President
Mendenez.
Fire wipes out the Allen Bradley distillery
and the Standard oil refinery at Louisville
seven persons being burned, two fatally in
the latter fire.
Entrance to the Hill farm mine at Dunbar
has been effected by the rescuing party and
the bodies of the entombed miners may be
reached to-day.
Three passengers on the Northern Pacific
west-bound passenger train were seriously
injured in wreck at Drummond, Mont
caused by spreading rails.
Minneapolis and Milwaukee win in the
Western association; Toledo and Columbus
in the American association; Byooklyn Bos-
ton, New York and Chicago in the National
league and Cleveland, Pittsburg Chicago
and Brooklyn in the brotherhood.
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WOMAN AND THEIR WAYS.
She Wasn't Woman, but a
LADY

A certain New York lawyer has the
reputation among his acquaintances of
never losing his temper or allowing his
language to stray from the path of pro-
priety. He was desperately busy the
other day when female book canvasser
entered his private Office, and as she adj
yanced from the door, announced her
mission.
Il should like to show you verysVal-
liable work" she began.
MADAM" said the counselor, as he
rose from his chair, you must excuse
me. am very sorry, but at present l
am engaged
Evidently the agent had heard some
thing of the kind before, for she didn't
pause in her progress toward the law
yer's desk.
Madam" he repeated, 81 am engaged
at present"
Still the agent came on.
Madam" cried the lawyer in desper-
alton, II am engaged-and if you don't
go away you will force me to be what l
have never been before-guilty of rude
ness to a woman"
That settled the agent. Probably the
very vagueness of the threat helped to
set her to retreating. But like true
woman she had the last woodland sew
eral of them-just as she vanished
through the door.
II amt a Woman," she said, 'Fm a
lady,"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
Mrs. Nelson's Visit to Police
Headquarters.

A vision of black lace and diamonds
flashed upon the reporters who watch
police headquarters in Mulberry street,
| New York, recently as it swept from a
victoria into the mysterious apartments
which hold Inspector Byrnes and his
staff of detectives. In half an hour it
flashed out again and was driven away
in the carriage. 1t was recognized as
Mrs. Frederick Nelson, the handsome
sister of Freddie Gerhard. She was
Mary Isabelle Gebhard before her mar
iriage.
At her house, 100 Fifth avenue. Mrs.
Nelson at first refused to see the re-
porters.
Il won't tell you a thing about it,"
she said finally, and then apparently
reIenting she said:
well, if you must know. it was about
my dog. He is white fox terrier, and
| advertised $40 rewgSl for him On May
i2O."
what was his name?"
''Bluffer."
Even the stately English turnkey, who
ordinarily stands stolidly by the door,
in scarlet jacket and white tights,
smiled as he let the reporters out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01

Anent the Federal Election Bill.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
AS the Republican party is in power,
the chief supervisor will be Repub-
lican, and the United States marshals
and district attorneys are all Repub-
licans. thereby making the returning
board all Of the same political faith.
The returns will be sent to this partisan
board, from which nothing less can be
expected than repetition tit OF the Loui 81;
Kellogg and his political associates.
The Quays and Dudleys will direct the
work to suit the party exigencies. 1t is
a deep-laid plan to defeat the will of the
majority, but it is liable to recoil upon
its inventors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
SWEETHEART ROBIN.

Interlocked boughs of the hawthorn hedge.
How barely your brown twigs glistenl
What! have your blossoms forgotten their
pledge?
Is it not May-time? Listenl
Surely heard a bluebird sing
And smelt the breath of the clover.
What is the word he was whispering
Whispering over and oyer?]
Daffodowndilly, how late thou art
Thou Spring-time' earliest comeri
The gladness of summer is in my heart,
And ON my cheek there is summer,
Thrilling me through at the bluebird's call,
As the sun when it kisses the cloverl
EGainst my cheek did a sunbeam fall?
All, why was he bending over?l
Petals of white from the hawthorn tree
Over the lush grass blowing,
Light is my heart as your breezes be-
Why, surely it can't be snoWingl
A moment ago the dream-soft skies
Arched above fields of cloverl
why did he look me SO full in the eyes?
And why did my head drooo oyer?1
l know that heard a bluebird's call;
THAT word for whole hearts hushing1
| know that | felt a sunbeam fall;
All, what ON my cheek was brushingil
The sky showed never a sign of rain;
His eyes--he was Bending oyeril
and know. though l walked i'll a winter
lane.
I smelt the breath of the clover!
-Harper's Magazine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
Dangerous Experiments.

DUILIIUUIt OCII,
For 100 years the states have had con-
troll both of their local and congressional
elections. They may not have always
wisely exercised their power, but to.
break down the barriers of the state at
the very time they are radically improv-
ing their election laws and subordinate
their own officials to Federal agents is
an innovation unheard of till now. and
bearing the seeds of far-reaching con-
SEQUENCES. .
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
MIR. BAXTER Is APPOINTED

The appointment of Hon. GEORGE N.
BAXTER to be prosecutor in the Mime
apolis census cases ought to be satisfac-
tory to all parties. Mr.. BAXTER was
recommended by Mr.. HAY, and he has
no reason to have any bias or prejudice.
He is citizen of Faribault, and can
have no personal feeling in the matter.
Besides, he is capable prosecutor, his
four years service as district attorney
under the former administration giving
him an experience that will be valuable
to the government in this case. 1t is
understood that the prosecution will be
conducted wholly on behalf of the gov
eminent, as it ought to be.
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BLAINE AND REED.

Mr.. BLAINE's earnest words of warm
ing are said to have had an effect on the
Republican senate. That body hest
tates to pass the MCKINLEY bill be-
cause Republican senators realize the
wisdom of Mr.. BLAINE's utterances,
and yet they will ultimately pass it be-
cause of the force that the administra-
ton will bring to bear in its favor.
President HARRISON is at the mercy of
REED and MCKINLEY. They have as
sumed leadership OF the Republican
party, and whatever they outline as Re-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
HIS STARLIGHT.

You. who at my elbow sit,
BY whose eyes my lines are liti
How shall any poets pen
Go amiss or falter when
Stars like these shine out above
Beacons kindled there by love-
Lighting up the paths below
Where he wanderS to and fro?
Is it strange the rhymes should kiss
Under such spell as this?
They but mimic those, my sweet,
Who of old were wont to meet
Meet and finger at the bars,
Making love beneath the stars:
We ourselves were happy rhymes
III those dear betrothal times.
Take this lyric; every line
But reflects the stars that shine
Ger my shoulder, telling me
OF my sweetheart's constancy;
And if any word appear
Vague or needless, say you, Here
Went q cloud across his skies;
This is where its shadow lies.
But if any turn or phrase
Tempt your lips 10 lisp its praise
Know you there the poet caught
From your eyes the graceful thoughts;
All the merits of his song
To those constant stars belong
To those tender eyes that brim
Full with love to gladden. him
Frank Dempster Sherman in Lippineott'a
Magazine.
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Two Democrats.

Utica Observer.
The Democratic demand is for tariff
for revenue limited to the needs of the
government economically administered.
The Republican demand is for tariff
that will make rich manufacturers and
capitalists still richer. Cypress the
masses of the consumers and yield an
enormous revenue to be wasted by our
lawmakers. The public will soon be
called upon to choose between these
sharply contrasting principles.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Democracy the Salvation of TIT
Nation.

Democracy the Salvation of the
Nation.
Kansas City Times
The Democratic party in this country
has charge of the true principles of
popular government. The mugwumps
have nearly all said so. By the gradual
working of enlightenment all the num-
erous classes have fallen into line under
the Democratic standard. Manufact-
urerS, tin mine and silver-lead mine
owners, pension grabbers. offlcemongers
who cannot get into another party, and
the Union league bankers and brokers
of Wall street are contributors to the
Republican party. But in short time
the McKinleys. the Reeds, the Sher-
mans and the Windows will be swept
out by a tidal wave, and the errors of
the future will not be the errors of the
Mckinley bill and the Sherman regime
of finance
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
Charging for Time.

Philadelphia Times.
my charge for pulling tooth, mad
am, is 49,"
"But, doctor, isn't that rather dear?
Other dentists only ask one"
'Ah, but you must remember, ma'am,
they hurry over their work, while some
times l spend an hour or so pulling a
tooth. must charge for my time, you
know"
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Labor's Irreparable Loss.

MauISOn Democrat.
Under Republican laws our lands
have been stolen. Under Republican
laws and administration there has been
snch waste that the public domain, so
far as it contains suitable homestead
sites, is nearly gone. When that is ex-
hausted. labor in this country has lost
its main guaranty for high wages.
Cheap lands have been the poor mans
protection. He has nearly lost it by
Republican profiigacy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01

WYOMING is the first state admitted
in which women vote, hold Office. serve
on juries. and figure in politics just like
men. This has been the practice there
for twenty years or less, and will not
cause any local sensation. There has
been no great focking of the ambitious
ladies there to enjoy these privileges.
and it is understood that they will not
insist upon going to congress or the
United States senate at present.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
Driving a Stage.

Jessie Corson, plucky girl, has for
several years been driving stage be-
tween Usage and Park Rapids, MINI.
She makes three trips week, winter
and summer, rain or shine, cold or hot.
When the roads are bad she drives four
horses from the box with the same cas- y
grace and Hank Monk abandon that she
drives Two
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
A PHILADELPHIA census enumer,

A PHILADELPHIA census enumerator
sums up his work as 25O houses visited
and $3.50 spaces in the bla nks filed.
He was occupied 2l0 hours, and his
total pay was S24.6O. He had to visit
some houses ten or fifteen times before
he could get the required information.
When abusing the census men it may
be remembered that they have not
had soft thing in their job.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
A DIFFERENCE.

1t would probably seem to most Re-
publicans an absurdity that integrity in
public officials should have higher es-
timation in Mississippi, ruled by Demo
Gratis, than in Pennsylvania. one OF
the banner Republican states. The
past week has furnished illustrative
incidents. A Republican convention was
held in the Quaker state, and itsIhighest
effort and chief enthusiasm were de-
voted to vindieation of Mr.. QUAY.
His record was pronounced unsullied as
state treasurer. About the same time a
recent state treasurer in Mississippi was
standing with weeping eyes and a
breaking heart before the bar in his
state. to receive sentence to the peniten-
tiary for Initiating the example of QUAY
in the unlawful use of public
funds. 1t was immaterial whether
the criminality was due to his
own acts or those for whom he was
responsible. The fact that he was a
Democrat only made his party, who ad
honored him with their confidence and
high public trust, more determined to
hold him to the rigors of penal retribu-
ton. A year ago no man in his state
had the confidence of the people to
greater degree. Now he is being fitted
with the garb of the convict. He was
probably less fortunate in the ability to
cover his wrong, but the moral de-
formity was not greater than in the case
of the now extolled Republican con-
troller in Pennsylvania. But there was
no attempt to cover his crime, or shield
him from its just punishment. His
fellow Democrats express their judg
ment upon him in relentless prosecu-
ton. There is no condoning his offense.
1t is the prevalent rule in the Dem
ocratic states to punish their unworthy
officials, and not make senators and
party bosses of them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01
They WiIlDose Him.

CIeVeIanU PIaln DeaIer.
If the Democrats get the next con-
gress, the first man they will investi-
gate will be the car of the house, Tom
Reed. and the questionable means by
which he has been elected. The ear
will be fired, and will have to go at
once. He will be given dose of his
own medicine. III .
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An Actress, Device.

Miss Lillian Rivers, the leading lady
of an Ole Oleson company (not very
lofty position in the dramatic world,
perhaps), is preparing for the approach
of her that ''she created sensation
little over a year ago. when she was
sixteen years old, by effecting her es-
cape from the fourth story of the Beth
any female college at Topeka, Kan,
and going on the stage in the Silver
King company, with which she played
all through the West" Lest this be
net effective enough as an advertise
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ment, Miss Rivers has been having
half-carat diamond set in one of her
front teeth, and is now prepared to
shine-or at least to scintillate-upon
the stage. The alleged cost of this adj
dition to Miss Rivers dramatic equip
ment was S300-S10 for the diamond, $40
for the dentists ser vices and $3.50 for
margin.
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snain in a Red Satin Bodice.

The Cirque d'Ete has brought to the
notice of the Parisians young dancing
woman who, like Carmencita, in New
York, has taken things by storm. Her
name is Carolina Otero, and she is en-
Enthusiastically described as centre Spain
in a red satin bodice" She dances and
sings and sways her plant figure from
side to side and backward until her
curls touch the silken slippers OH her
feet. Her movements are exquisitely
slow and dreamy, and as she floats
about the stage to the tinkling of the
mandolin, lit recalls" says an enthusi-
astic writer, 1.-The slow twilight of Spain
with the clear moonlight falling down
on the towers and the sleeping bios
soms.o
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01

AMONG the new points made in favor
of electricity is that it will kill the
microbes or germs of disease. Learned
experimenters have reported to the
French academy that a galvanic current
of certain force will make corpse Of
the anthrax bacillus. 1t is not quite
understood whether this is wholesale
slaughter. or it is necessary to first
catch the wicked bacillus and put him
or it in the fatal connection. But it
doesn't matter how, SO it or they are
killed
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Can't Be Handled That Way

Milwaukee Journal.
Every good citizen will rejoice if the
antitrust bill now before congress
should become law, and prove to be a
Knockout blow to the trusts. butIthe
people will not believe in the .sblowp of
the organs. The trusts are too closely
allied to the high-taX party and put up
too much money for campaign use to be
handled in that way.
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An Arrant Fraud.
Madison Democrat.

Madison Democrat.
The Republicans boast that the Nc
Kinley bill puts many things on the
free list. But with the bill reducing
the revenues some s6O,OO0,OO0 and the
appropriate ons increasing some $S0,O00,-
600 yearly over Cleyeland's expense ac-
count, big deficiency must be speedily
provided for. This will put back the
sugar tax in the next congress and
larg weed out the free list. The
free-list phase of the bill is an arrant
fraud.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01

'rHE Republican state convention in
Pennsylvania, better known as Boss
QUAY's gang, Endorsed about every
body and thing except Baby MCKEE.
That was perhaps intended to be in
Guided in a general blanket indorse-
ment of the administration.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01

Those who dislike the clouds of
smoke diffused by the big chimneys
where they use soft coal may find salts
faction in the census figures that show
that the soft coal cities have beaten the
hard coal ones badly in the decade. 1t
is explained On the theory that more
people are looking for locations for bus
mess than pleasure alone.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-01

THERE were thirteen states counted
in the first census 100 years ago. The
largest increase of states was in the
third decade. The number went from
seventeen to twenty-three. There have
been nineteen states admitted since
1880, and the present number is almost
forty three, as Wyoming will be counted
as soon as the president approves the