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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-07
POSTAL REFORMS.

The postal department has nearly
always had management that was
tlert and eager to gain repute by max
ng the service more advantageous to
the people. Some advance to meet the
growing needs of the country has been
made under every administration. 1t Is
he feature of the government that most
touches the general life and social and
business activities, and its conduct
should should be specially free from
all influences that impair its utility and
Efficiency. The good man now at the
mead has been successful business
nan, and, despite some peculiaritieS
and hobbies, is honestly trying to keep
Up the record of his predecessors for
The betterment of the service. lie is
convinced, of course. that the Repub-
iican party was premature i'll declaring
for the one-cent letter rate, or perhaps
had no other purpose than to take
popular position III campaign.
Ills business instincts, and the
experience of big shop, dictate
to him that it should pay its own way, if
not more. This it has rarely done, and
"AiiAS l'lS PuLLlC W SCb lltl vi q SoIt
slant surplus, it would seem a pecul-
iary favorable time to give the people
The bottom rate. There is no eXpendi-
ture from the ire aSury that would have
wider beneticcnce. In recent lette
the postmaster general says that the
one who points out defect or chance
for Improvement in the postal service
performs an act of good citizenship"
No claims are made in this connection,
but cheaper postage would hardly create
Eny new defect. If the practice with
letters without stamps Oh them is II OF a
def ct, it IS often an annoyance. and at
times q serious injury. No person in
tentionaily puts letter in the mail
without the stamp. 1t is an oversight,
or it may have been rubbed off. The
rule in force is an absurd assump-
ton that the letter writer has an
idea of defrauding the government of
two cents. Often the sole mission of
the letter is thwarted. For instance, a
st. Paul party the other day had im-
portant directions to give a person in
Chicago about to leave for a distant
land. The letter unaccOuntably got
into the Office without stamp. The
Chicago party, anxiously waiting. re-
ceived i'll day or TWO the notice of
letter held Tor postage in the st. Paul
office, and the delay of nearly week in
getting it defeated ends of great mo-
ment. The English practice is to for
ward all such letters and let the party
addressed pay double rate or refuse to
receive them. This would be desir-
able change. 1t was the custom in an
earlier period, and there was no good
reason for departing from it. Any post
master knows that the number of let
tiers unstamped put in the Office is very
large. 1t is true most of them may be
due to carelessness or stupidity, but it
is The business of the department to
help people along, and not make them
suffer for their plumbers or folly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-07
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

W. Fl. Ell. Murray.of Adirondack fame,
is about to publish volume on the
great pleasure resorts of the country.
Judge Chamberlain, librarian of the
Boston public library, thinks that he
has found in the filling OF the back of a
copy Of North'S ''Plutarch." edition of
1868, large amount of Shakespeare's
handwriting.
The next reunion of the Army of the
Potomac will be held in Portland, Me,
on July 3 and 4. 1880. The orator will
be Gen. Francis Walker. Of Boston, and
the poet, ex-Postmaster General Horatio
King, of Washington.
President Eliot says that Harvard is
the only college from which a professor
was ever taken for president of the
United States, John Quincy Adams
having held the chair of rhetoric and
Oratory in that institution.
1t is said that Washingtonians are
puzzled at the variety and extent of
Secretary Rusk's stock of stories. The
stories are all new and well pointed,
and the mUre famous OF the Capital
City's rcconteurS are rather jealous OF
the witty agriculturiSt'S success.
Gen. Spinner, eX-treaSurer of the
United States, now ninety years of age,
writes from Jacksonville. Fla, to Cni-
zen George Francis Train to say that he
is sorely afflicted. He Is almost blind.
He says: ''Can just see with great eff
fort to write. but can't see TO read my
own writing"
King Carlos, of Portugal, who pos.
sesses sixteen Christian names, while
his younger brother answers to no less
than thirty, is personally one of the
most amiable of monarchS. He is a
handsome blonde young man, who car
ries himself with military air, and is
credited by his personal friends with
considerable decision of character He
is devoted sportsman, all accomplished
musician. speaks seven languages and
paints in water colors.
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of the removal of the tax would accrue
to the manufacturer aud dealer.
AN OLD WORLD.

The theory that figures can't lie has
hard time, even with the chronology
that is printed with all the Bibles. In
a reference to the subject in a st. Paul
pulpit Sunday night, it was pronounced
production Of the middle ages, and alb
surd in the light of history and modern
discoveries. Civilization was old when
the patriarchs first came into the Bib
lical narrative with their sheep. and
had reached material development
never since surpassed. 1t was the
height Of absurdity that in 500 years
after flood that swept the world, leav-
ing but a small boat load to continue
the species, the races could have differ
entiated and the Asiatic world have
swarmed with uensely populated ma
tons. Recent researches in Egypt give
conclusive evidence of the existence of
people versed in arts and varied attain
ments more than 10000 years ago. 1t is
coming to be believed that this is a
pretty old world, and many of the puz-
Zles of sacred writ will be much easier
solved on that basis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-07
CONGRESS RAAssEMBuI1s.

Congress has pulled itself together,
after fashion, since the holiday recess,
yet there is not much evidence of 4 Wig
orous reopening of the session. The
prevalent epidemic may have something
to do with the half-hearted way the con-
gressmcn are settling down to work, but
it is more probable that the things they
saw and heard while al home are having
a depressing effect on the mind Of the
average statesman. As rule, the peO-
pie of this country are not we'll pleased
with the way the Fifty-first congress
started off. The election of Mr.. REED
was not particularly encouraging to
those who have been looking forward to
a time when congress would put its grip
on the monop0lies and hold them in
check. The construction of Mr.. REEDS
committees, particularly the one on
ways and means, does not encourage the
belief that any thing is going to be done
by this congress to reduce taxation.
The truth is, the entire American peo-
Pile have the blues. The influenza and
a taX-perpetuating congress together
are calculated to make them feel low
spirited. There can't be cheerfulness
where there is no hopefulneSs. And if
the great producing classes are to con-
tinue to pay tribute TO the favored few
who toll not, neither do they spin, yet
snrpass SOLOMON in the luxury aud eIe-
gance of their living, what is there to
be hopeful for or cheerful about?
The congressman who went home
during the recess must have observed
the Respondent condition of the public
mind, and it is no wonder that they are
dropping back into their places in a
| faint-hearted sort of way. They posi-
bly, realize what they are going to do to
help keep the country in the dumps,
yet they haven't the courage TO about
face and give the relief that is needed.
The first thing the Republican majority
will do will be to amend the rules of the
house so as to deprive the Democratic
minority of the few rights they now
enjoy. Tue next step will be to unseat
| every Democrat whose place is contested
| Then they will remove the tax from
| whisky and tobacco and put it up on the
neeeSsaries of life. OF course the inter-
ests of the country do not demand any
such legislation as that, bnt the bare
NAL masters who own the mines and the
| manufactures have ordered it to be
done. Aud the majority in congress are
| there to do the bidding of the barons.
| Things look blue enough now, but it is
not marker to what they will Look by
the time this congress has finished its
| work of hedging around the monopolies
so that the producing classes can have
no privileges except what their masters
| confer.
This is not campaign talk, intended
| for mere political effect.
1t is solid nugget of truth. and there
| are those who read these lines who will
| live to verify it in their own sad expert
| ences.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A Cincinnati man. who has preserved
arecord of $50 railroad accidents hap
pening in.tbis country in the past year
hnds that only thirteen out of the lot
occurred from causes beyond human
control. Every one of the others was
due to drunkenness or earelessness.
The thriving and enterprising town
of Plymouth, Pa. has novel society in
its midst. 1t is known as the Young
Ladies' Protective association, and its
primary object is the protection of the
matrimonial interests of the young
women OF the place. Girls between the
ages of seventeen and thirty are eligi-
bic. No woman can be admitted over
the age of thirty.
The dynamite and powder mills of
Germany have just formed trust. The
agreement will be binding to all parties
till 1925. ANY mill owner who violates
it will be liable TO heavy fines; in az
gravated cases as high as $500, 900. All
the profits of the members of the trust
Will be pooled. Sixty per cent of them
will go to the dynamite manufacturers
and tho rest to the powder men.
COrregio's 'Sau Giovanni cited In
the biographies and catalogues as hav-
ing been in a church and subsequently
lost, is thought TO have been found. A
gentleman bought the picture lately for
4 very tritiing sum from q poor family
i'll the town of Corregio. and after sub
uniting it to experts it has been pro-
nounced the real thing, picture of
great vigor and spontaneity and i'll Cor
regio's best style.
Trumbull county, O.. has a plague Of
rats. They infest town and country,
are lii field and forest, house and barn.
cellar, granary, hogpen and corncrib.
The warm weather is favorable TO their
ravageS, and they are making hay while
the sun shines. A Warren paper says
the reason the rodents are so numerous
is that the farmers have killed off hawks,
snakes, owls and other creatures of
prey until none are left to slay the rats.
E. Fl. Munger and H. S. Munger, of
Meridcn, Conn, went out through the
woods the other day TO search for trail
lug arbutus. a flower that usually
blooms i'll April OF May, land is generally
flower. They secured nearly hatfuI
of this beautiful pink and fragrant
flower, which had blosSomed in the
open air under the warm rays of the
sun. and they also bore away with them
a large collection of the roots bearing
buds, which will be potted in the house.
This Is the earliest appearance of arbu-
tuS on record there.
Gloves. q village about twelve miles
west of Cincinnati. is excited over a
ghost. The specter makes his habita-
ton in all old house close to the read,
and next to the residence of William
Gibson. He is quite a muscular spirit,
and one of his playful amusements is to
stone passers-by on the road. Horrible
noises are heard in the old house every
night. and people will not go along that
part of the road alone. Several claim
to have seen the ghost The annoyance
became so great that Gibson packed up
his things and left. The people are or
ganizing to investigate.
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VINE Is ; 2ioCKEE.
THEY "A X RELIEF.

A committee appointed by the resi-
dents near Bisbee station (Hanson post.
Office, Towner county, n. D. write
the GLOBE that there is urgent need of
relief in that locality TO avert suffering.
Most of the settlers, they state, came
there three years ago with very little
means. In 1883 their crop was de-
stroyed by the frost, and in 1889 by
drought and gophers. Mortgages and
money sharks have completed their
misfortunes. They say they have no
money to buy food or fuel. and cannot
get through the winter without aid.
tFhe committee is composed OF five citi-
liens. with G. p. Petersen chairman,
to whom all relief should be sent.
Towner county is in the Devils lake
region, where the chief restitution pre-
walls.
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family of four boys and ono young
woman. The boys consider their sister
to be one of themselves, she being in
nearly every respect as handy as boy
should be, and sharing the labors of her
brothers. They can draw the lines of
ship, hew the timbers, build and launch
her and sail her around the world. They
lave done it and are doing it again.
The schooner Axel. fine little vessel
which they have built, is nc present
somewhere on the gulf under command
OF one of the brothers. who is most ex-
pert navigator. The other brothers and
sister are now engaged in building an
other, and a larger vessel, which is we'll
under way.
q A few days ago. while the crops on
the Kicker farm. in East Nittany valley,
Penn, were being threshed. chicken
was found under the sheaves of wheat
III one of the mows, where it had been
since the grain was placed there, on the
18th of July. The chicken had lived
all that time without food or water, and
weighed when found considerably
less than one pound, though still alive.
The Marquise dc Galliffet. one of the
most beautiful women in Paris, is suf-
fering from strange form of insanity.
She goes into commissions whenever she
sees her face in mirror.
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iwedes are a wee bit jealous of their
prrrogatives, and can assert themselves
it they have mind to. 1t is further
more observable that, III all this gproar
yer federal patronage. the large Irish
tnd German population of the state are
lot takn into account at all; while those
who were born and raised in Minnesota
ave to stand away over on the other side
# the fence, withoutso much as chance
20 peep through the cracks. At all
vents, it is pretty kettle of fish that
Ir. WAsHBURN has stirred up with his
lmateur politics, and we are curious to
sec how he is going to get his party out
IT the soup.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-07
THE STO&Y Of A DAY.

Kansas Is swept 10y q blizzard
Senator Cali waits Cuba annexed.
1t is claimed that Dr.. Peters is still alive.
The American association admits Syracuse.
Miss Ellen Bayard is to wed Count Lewen-
haupt.
The Democratic Ohio caucus is called for
Thursday.
The London West End scandals are venti.
lated IN court.
Montana's Democratic legislature fails to
Get quorum.
Gordon, of ST. Paul. defeats Leroux, of
minneapolis, at fencing.
Senator Wa=hburn has really concluded to
elelye Marcus Johnson
Boulanger has n scheme for controlling the
IariSiau municipal elections.
Senator WaShburn is roasted by the Wash
5ngt0u CCanty Farmers alliance.
Report is made in the Yermjlliou land case
that there WAS carelessness, hot fraud.
Banker John Jay Knox proposes silver
bullion as q basis of bank circulation.
The ST. Paul chamber of commerce recon-
mends that congress build up OUR merchant
marine.
The 500 line announces its willingness to
land passengers to Boston for ) g. In order
TO meet this the Chicago roads must take
passengers to Chicago for nothing.
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1t is dastardly aspersion to insinuate
that it is the committee on chips.
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

Changes In The monthly invest
ment circular of John
Northwestern I'll. Davis & Co., bank
ers, New York, con-
Traffic. tains the following:
''Some months ago
we noted In these circulars the changes
which were going on in the traffic move
ment to and from the Northwestern
country, whereby Chicago was losing
her old supremacy as the toll-taker for
the business of Minnesota, Dakota,
Manitoba and beyond. This was the.
result of geographical and natural laws,
OF, rather, of the new railway lines
which had taken advantage of those
laws. The great waterway from Buff
falo to the head of the great lakes was
once the chief carrier from the East to
the West; then the opening of the
trunk lines took away the lake com
merce, to great extent; now the latter
Is being revived and fOStered by an intel
llgent combination of lake and Iail. This
Is building up Duluth and Gladstone
and other lake ports, from which the
newer lines of rail extend throughout the
whole Northwest. The item of ''main-
tenance of way is an important one in
operating expenses of railroads, and
this item is entirely eliminated in so
much of through route as can be
traversed by boats and ships. Duluth
is 250 miles farther west than Chicago,
and yet it is no greater distance from
Buffalo by lake. Gladstone is about as
far west as Chicago, but is $50 miles
nearer Buffalo 10y water From Glad
stone to st. Paul by rail is 341 miles;
from Chicago to st. Paul 4l0 miles.
From Duluth to St. Paul is about $50
miles by rail as against the 40 from
Chicago. Even to Omaha the rail haul
from Duluth is but thirty miles longer
than from Chicago. These geographical
facts account for the greatly Increased
traffic by lake which has been
seen since the construction of some of
the newemrail lines, and year by year
Chicago will lose and the upper
lake ports will gain more of the trade of
the Northwest. Already the daily tom
mage of the Sault Ste. Marie canal eX-
ceedS that of the SueZ canal. which is
the highway for the greatest CONNER
cial nations of Europe and Asia. The
tonnage of the 500 for the year 1889
has been T,5l6,000 tons, an increase of
over ID per cent over 1888. In the first
ten months of the year the Minneapolis,
st. Paul d Sault Ste. Marie railroad
took out of Minneapolis 25 per cent of
the total flour and mill product shipped
from that point, the larger part of
which went to Gladstone and was
shipped thence by lake. The railroads
OF the Northwest, As we'll as the trunk
lines, must recognize and meet. as best
they can, the working of these natural
laws"
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WON'T HELP HIM.

In his message President HARRISON
urged the removal of the tax upon to-
bacco in order to relieve an important
agricultural product from a burden.
There is no tax upon the agricultural
product. The man who grows the ar
ticle has nothing to do with the tax. He
sells his product to the manufacturer
just as the farmer does his wheat to the
-four maker. The tobacco tax is paid
the government by the manufacturer
and dealer. He adds to the price of the
article prepared for use, and the con-
sumner pays the tax. Fhe grower has
no interest in the matter more than
any consumer, unless it is assumed
that without the taxation the consump-
ton would be greater ana the demand
increased. The middleman would not
pay the farmer ary more. and would
make as little reduction to the con-
sumner as possible. The chief benefit
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ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.

The late Thomas Parker. of Washing
ton, became so attached TO cane, which.
he had carried for years, that he kept it
i'll he'd with him all during his illness,
and before dying expressed wish that
the favorite stick be buried with him.
His wish was carried out. the cane
being put in the coffin.
There arc many people alive yet who
want something for nothing. About
fifty of them live in Sioux City. A man
named E. A. Sears, of Minneapolis. sent
out offers to give three pieces OF ele-
gantIy upholstered parior furniture as
an advertisement TO all who would send
90 cents to pay boxing. Many sent the
money and got three little iron toys with
plush seats ana pretty finish. The re-
cipients were surprised, and yet cannot
claim they were badly sWindlcd, for
they got all they paid for.
There is living at point Oh East bay,
near Pensacola, Fla, remarkable
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BoULANGEK's NEW SCHEME.
HIS Aims to Control the Municipal
Government of Paris.


PARIS, Jan. 6.--Upon the reassem-
bling of the chamber of deputies. NJ.
Chautemps, Radical Republican, and
formerly president of the Paris munich
pal council, moved the reorganization
OF the police of the prefecture of the
Seine. The motion is important for its
relation to all old dispute between the
Genital government and the authorities
of the city of paris. The municipal gov
eminent of the city. as the body directly
representing the people of the city
claims that it should have control
of the police of the city. and
that IN SO far as this control
Is taken from it, it is deprived of self
government, but the general govern
ment claims that Paris is the capital of
France and as the seat of government
cannot be left in the hands of local
authority. The quarrel on this point
helped TO give passion to the battle of
the commune. 1t will appear. there
fore. that ChautempS' proposition for
the reform of the police covers the pro-
Ject of putting it into the hands of the
city authorities. The B0ulangists are
concentrating their political efforts in
Paris. BOulanger. it is said, will con-
test the Eighteenth reimbursement.
The latest phase of the B0uiangist con-
spiracy is consequently that the munic-
lpal government shall control the police
and BOulanger shall control the munic-
ipal government
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THEY WANT TO.

GARRISON states that the bill to pro-
vide clerk for each of the $50 mem
bers Of the lower house is to be passed
at this session of congress, and ought to
pass. He insists that the members
who "have the courage Of their eonvic-
lions" will vote for it. There is no
doubt that those who are not afraid of
their constituents will so vote quite
generally, particularly those of the
CLARHsoN school Of politics. The
chairman of each of the fifty or more
committees is allowed a clerk, but the
others have to pay when they employ
them. The argument is that so many
people write letters to the members ex-
peetinS answers that it imposes too
much labor. They have to look after
things i'll the departments or White
house, too; but perhaps most of them
would be willing to compromise on the
service Of pretty typewriter. 1t is
probable that their constituents are in
clined to kick at any addition to their
perquisiteS, bnt they have one legiti-
mate recourse. Let them astoniSh the
people and themselves by refusing to
be candidates at the next election.
This may take the impulSion OUT of the
kickers.
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ALBIoN's LION sNARLs,
Portugal Must Apologize Or There
Will Be Trouble,

LoNDoX, Jan. 1.-THE Times Lisbon
correspondent says another note from
the Marquis of Salisbury was delivered
to-day. It is believed that this
note threatens that. unless prompt
satisfaction is given for Serpa
Plnro's action, there will be an
immediate rupture of diplomatic
relations. The cabinet was immediately
convened and Senior Gomez was charged
to answer at once. The Portuguese
claims and pretenses were ignored some
what cavalierly in the Marquis of Sails
bury's former note. A dispatch from
Kiel to the Standard says that the Portu-
guese government has employed Ger
man engineers TO lay torpedo mine in
the Tagus, in view of possible action by
the British fleet,
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Sad Domestic News.

New YORK Weekly.
Observation-Disclosures has become re-
aiarkably attentive to her duties lately.
Mother (sadly)-I have noticed it.
-~-''Yes. she has stopped sighting her
work, and pas shirts and collars aud
cuffs are starched beautifully. She
walked twenty squares last Saturday
afternoon to see q woman who had
promised TO show her how"
my! my!''
"And lately she has begun studying
eook-books, and asking me all manner
OF questions about the desserts and
other dishes which L have always had
to make myself. She seems determined
to master every department of house
keeping"
"Alas! 1t is as feared. She is going
to be married."