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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
CHEAP ALUMINIUM.

Our news columns bear tidingS every
now and then that some one has per-
fected a cheap method for smelling
aluminium. This is one of the great
scientific problems of the age, and the
highest rewards await him who solves
it. Alumni um is the cOmmonest of
metals, and at the same time one of the
most expensive. This is because it is
so hard to get at. 1t has the most extra
ordinary affinity for oxygen, and requires
a degree of heat for its smelling which
puts its cost at prohibitive figure.
Most of the aluminium Of commerce is
made from cryolite. a Greenland min
eral. 1t is smelted by the use of sodium,
which suggests at how high figure it
is gotten at. But there is aluminium all
around us in common clay, and if we
only knew how to separate it at mOder-
ate outlay, we should have new
weapon for progress whose Importance
we could not overestimate.
Aluminium is the lightest of metals
1t weighs only two and half times as
much as water. 1t is as ductile as gold
and as strong as iron. The air and
ulOiolutc uO HUI fuSt III, duQ IIlHc anu
wear make no more impression on
1t than on steel. If we could get
cheap aluminium, 1T would revolution
ize our Industries. We should have
aluminium water pipes in our streets,
and should ride in imperishable alu-
minum railway cars, which would dance
lightly along our railway tracks where
now lumber our heavy coaches of wood.
A good many people have claimed
that they have devised process by
which all these results can be reached.
But those who are best Informed about
the matter are skeptical. There is
nothing impossible about the solu-
ton. Only it seems not yet to be at
hand. The general idea of the invent
ors is to use some of the waste products
of petroleum, which cost but little
These mixed with the clay and igni ted
will generate heat enough, they hold. to
effect the separation, nd give us the
metal at price which some put as low
as 10 or Is cents a po und. The effective
answer to everybody. however, who
says that he can do anything like this
is that there is no aluminium on the
| market to be had atsuch figure. There
is no doubt that just as soon as any man
can supply the metal cheaply he will do
so. Then we shall believe in his proc
| ess. Until then we shall wait and hope.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
ONE OF REEDS FALLACIEs.

There never was car so easy to as
saSsinate as Speaker REED. The gem
crosby with which he supplied his enc
mics with explosive weapons adapted to
his destruction excited the admiration
OF the world for a while. but everybody
who had studied the lives of kings knew
that in the end it would prove fatal to
him. A catalogue of the cleverly con-
structed torpedoes which he had prodi-
gally handed about would fill good
many columns, aud it is not easy to say
that one was more dangerous than an
other. Mr.. REED. If he goes down in
history at all, will be classed with those
public men who have been kllled by
gift for epi grams.
There was nothing easier, for exam
pie, for men to remember than that Mr..
REED had publicly expressed his grail
tude 10 God that the house of repre-
sentatives was not deliberative body.
Everybody could remember it, and
could understand its fallacy. Every
body who reflects at all on the methods
of legislation knows that the sole, or
even the chief. purpose OF their exist
ence is not the enactment of laws.
The American theory of government is
founded on the notion that the more in
frequent the interference of the govern
ment is with the concerns of its citizens
the better it is. Our institutions were
born i'll a protest against governmental
interference, and no small portion of
such ills as affiict us to-day grow out of
our faithlessness to the principle.
1t is important that we should have
reasonably frequent sessions of congress
and our state legislatures. There is
work enough for them, if they do moth
ing more than repeal or amend the laws
already enacted which have roved UNI
wise or ineffective. Besides this, the
open ventilation by representative men
of existing evils, even with ut legisla-
ton, clears the atmos phere and Gains
popular discomfort. The old methods of
effecting objects which everybody agrees
to be desirable wear out, and new ma
chinery for the purposes has to be in
vented, which will.be adapted to changed
conditions. But, unless the American
idea is quite wrought is only after much
deliberation and with much hesitancy
that there should be legislation aimed
to change the existing order of tni ngs.
The existing order of things may be all
wrong; but our forefathers' theory was
that, if there were legislation enough to
give natural forces field for free play,
the evils would adjust themselves. and
that, too. before very long. This we UNI
derStand also to be in the creed of the
Democracy, under whose banner we
fight,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
APHORISMS.

One self-approying hour whole years
outweigh.-Pope.
Weakness on both sides is, as we
know, the motto OF all Quarrels. Vol
taire.
A sound discretion is not so much in
dicated by never making a mistake as
by never repeating it.-Boree.
A slender acquaintance with the
world must convince every man that
actions, not words. are the true criterion
OF the attachment of friends; and that
the most liberal professions of good will
are very far from being the surest
marks of it.-George Washington.
The great man is he who does not
lose his child's heart.-Mencius.
Mankind are always happier for hay
ing been happy; so that if you make
them happy how, you make them happy
twenty years hence by the memory of
it.-Sidney Smith.
Most of our mIsfortunes are more sup
portable than the comments of our
friends upon theme. c. Cotton.
Business dispatched is business we'll
done. but business hurried is business
ill done.
There are moments when silence, prolonged
and unbroken,
| More expressive may be than all words
ever spoken,
1t is when the heart has an instinct of what
| In the heart of another is passing
Owen Meredith.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
SPREADING EAST.

Vermont is not one of the states where
any separate political movement among
the farmers would be looked for.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS was born in
that state. and he said it was all right
for birthplace, provided emigration
took place soon enough. He may have
had some political prejudices. 1t was
supposed that most Of the people there
regarded it as their chief mission OH
earth to vote the Republican ticket
But the farmers in that state have or
ganized league. and have already in it
about third of the usual vote of the
state, and in another year expect to
have majority, and will at the next
election put ticket of their own in the
field. They think they will carry the
state. The last legislature neglected
their measures and added 10 their
strength. Their declaration of prin-
ciples is about the same as that of the
Alliance in this state, with some little
timidity about tariff reform. Their ex-
ample is likely to be contagious in the
other New England states.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
ABSURD FIGURING.

The difficulties that invest the efforts
of ingenious Republican mathematieians
in attempting to figure out a basis of
hope for the party in 1892 are such as to
deter the more rational and eonsery-
alive. The situation naturally leads to
many absurdities. A Republican paper
has tried its hand at scheme to elect a
Republican president after the general
ballot fails to do it. OF course, if any
third party should have votes enough to
present choice in the electoral college.
the decision would go to the house of
representatives, where the Democrats
would elect by the vote of about three
fourths of the states. The theory of the
Republican editor is that the Alliance
men will carry states enough to prevent
q choice, and then TO prevent the mat
ter going to a Democratic congress
their electors Will vote for the Republic
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
SIX WELL-KNOWN WOMEN.

Lady Rosebery left her entire fortune
TO Lord RoSebery for life, with remain
der to their children.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger's nom de
plume is Julien Gordon. She is writ
ing a serial for the Cosmopolitan Maya
zine.
The widow of Mark Lemon, once edi-
tor of the London Punch, has Just died,
after having survived her husband for
twenty years.
Fanny Davenport's first stage appear
anee was in February, 1857, at the
American theater on Chambers street.
New York, OF which her father and
Harry Watkins were the managers.
The widow of the noted temperance
lecturer, John B. Cough. will probably
leave the old Cough estate. near Wor-
cester, Mass, in consequence of i'll
health, which demands freedom from
all care and anxiety.
The Empress Eugenie's wedding pres
ent to Miss Baby" Beckwith was a
handsomely embossed silver bowl. The
fair American bride was a great favor
lite of the French empress during the
closing days of the empire, when she
was one of the bellies of Paris.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

pancy of the structure that bore his
This party of the second part, the
presumable other factor of his du-
ality, had an absolute monopoly,
and seems to have had row.
ing disposition. He travelled num-
Der of weeks. and finally in town
i'll Oregon he suddenly vacated the
premises, and the original MATTEsoN
resumed possession, and was aston
ished to find himself, as he discovered
on inquiry. some 1000 miles from Far
go. 70 him the elections were just
over, and he was anxious to learn the
results. All the intervening time was
blank. He had not an intimation or
scrap of information of the career OF
his body while the other occupant had
it. In the interest of this theory, it is
to be regretted that there is no diary or
narrative of the use made of his visible
personality during the time of his dis
Judgement. 1t would be interesting to
know how the other fellow talked, acted,
and what he knew. 1t is only reported
that he did not have Mr.. MATTESoN'S
wonted care in the preservation of the
clothing. Whether he had vicious IN
dulgences, made or wasted any money,
is net known. The authenticated
Mr.. MATrEsoN is staid, industri-
Gus, matter-of-fact individual, with no
Eighty freaks. He never drinks or uses
stimulantS, and is in the later vigorous
prime of manhood. He has been
newspaper man for more than twenty
five years, and has invariably main
tanned the proverbial poise of the voca-
ton. He had:a serene disposition, and
was not perturbed by the veXations of
life. There have been other cases
where parties have strayed away under
alleged temporary arrangement, but
this IS not an acceptable explanation IN
the case of the Fargo editor. If there
are possibilities of second personality
getting control of the internal ma
chinery, this may be taken as one of
that class.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
THE STORY OF A DAY.

The Bijou theater, Minneapolis, is burned
O'Brien denies favoring dynamite methods.
Big Foot is captured and the Indian war is
over.
The originator of the Cardiff giant hoax is
dead.
Parnen is taking sudden interest in
labor
Selah Chamberlain, the Cleveland million
aire, is dead.
The American hog will soon be permitted
to enter Italy.
Congress will not be able to do any bust
ness this week.
A Wilkin county farmer kills his wife. dan
gerously wounds his son and daughter and
then kills himself
Capt. o'Shea vigorously objects to the
charge that he bartered his wife's honor for
a seat in parliament.
Steps are being taken to send commission
ers to the South American republics TO invite
them to make exhibitions at the Columbian
exposition.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
GOSSIP OF THE PRESS.
A Suspicious Omission.

Philadelphia Telegraph Qnd. Rep.)
1t is one of the most remarkable char
acteristics of the federal elections bill
that, though framed and pushed at a
time when the whole country has either
adopted or is considering the adoption
of the Australian plan, it does not con-
tain single provision Of that system;
that it repudiates it absolutely; and
that when put in operation the federal
elections bill would, if made law, pre-
vent its further operation at every fed
eral election where so supervised. This
is all the more strange if it Is true, as
the president and Mr.. Reed and Mr..
Lodge and Mr.. HOar and Mr.. EdmuDds
say it is, that the force bill is meant to
insure pure elections and fair counts.
Everywhere among the honest and best
minds OF this and other countries the
Australian system is declared to be the
very best of all, and yet the force bill
would repeal it in the fourteen states in
Which it is now law and prevent its
being used elsewhere.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
WHEN PHYLLIS PLAYS"

When Phyllis plays at close of day,
And hills and woods are clothed In gray,
While in the west a golden zone
Tells that the suns short course IS done.
And night comes on with short delay,
As shadows in the freight play,
Then steals my thought III dreams ayay.
Aud sweet peace reigns ana care is gone.
When Phyllis plays
The feathered choir in budding May,
The poets song that wins the bay,
The song of camp. the organs tone,
Holds not the spell which falls alone
AT eve, as fades The suns last ray
When Phyllis plays.
-Flayel Scott Mines.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
Shielding the Mckinley Bill.

Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
1t is pleasant to see the solictude
with which Maj. Mckinley protects his
tender young offspring, the Mckinley
bill, from exposure to the rough winds
of argument and blows of amendment.
lie fears that in its present feeble con-
dition either of these might prove dis
astrOus to it. From present appearances
it is unlikely that anything on which a
be allowed to come up at this session if
the Mckinley bill can help it. No Re-
publican congressman will be glven,a
chance to amend the precious bill or say
hard word against it. That suits the
Democrats perfectly. They want the
new law to stay just as it is, so that
they can "wOrk it for all it is worth"
in 1892.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
THE EDITORS DUALITY

The conceit that obtains with a class
OF psychological philosophers. that du-
atty runs through the human economy,
may have illustration in the case of the
Fargo editor who was lost so long, and
now appears on the Pacific slope. The
theory is not, perhaps, accurately form
ulated, but its purport is that the regu-
lar tenant of the body at times takes a
vacation and the other fellow occupies
and runs the machine. Mr.. MATTEsoN.
the editor of the Fargo Sun, Oh the day
following the November election, was
unaeeountably, and apparently without
premoniti0n, dispossessed of bis occu-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
COMMON SENSE TALK.

Common sense is the knack of seeing
things as they are, and doing things as
they ought to be done. &C. E. Stowe.
knowledge without common sense"
says Lee, sis folly; without method, 1t
is waste; without kindness, it is fanati-
clsm; without religion, it is DEATH"
But with common sense, it is wisdom;
with method, it is power; with charity,
it is beneficence; with religion. it is VIZ
tue, and life, and peace.-Farrar.
Common sense is, of all kinds, the
most uncommon; it implies good judy
ment, sound discretion and tact. which
is practical wisdom applied to everyday
hfe.-Tryon Edwards.
If IA man can only have one. kind of
sense, let him have common sense. Ii
he has that, and uncommon sense, too,
he is not far from genius.-H. w.
Beecher.
The crown of all faculties is common
sense. 1t is not enough to do the right
thing. 1t must be done at the right
time and place. Talent knows what to
do; tact knows when and how to do 1t.
w. Mathews.
The figure which man makes in life,
the reception which he meets with in
company. the esteem paid him by his
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tneSe QepenQ as MUCH
upon his good sense and Judgment. as
upon any other part of his character.
A man of the best intentions and the
farthest removed from all injustice and
violence would never be able to make
himself much regarded, without mod
crate share of parts and understanding.
Hume.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not
nslfnl
are forty men of wit to one man of
sense. He that will carry nothing
about him but gold will be every day at
loss for reader change.-POpe.
To act with common sense according
to the moment is the best wisdom l
know; and the best philosophy is to do
ones duties. take the world as it comes,
submit respectfully to ones lot, bless
the goodness that has given us so much
happiness with it, whatever it is. and
to deSpiSe affeetation.-Wal
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
THE CHEAP LIGHT.

The cheap light Of the future is prob
ably to come from electricity. The cost
of its production israpidly growing less.
and the efforts of the scientists and ex-
perts are directed to the problem of find
ing the minimum of cost. The marked
reduction III expense the past two or
three years has not probably exhausted
the Investigation. Awards just made
in Philadelphia for street lighting have
been from SO to So cents per light for all
night, which is spoken of as greatly less
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Twelve hundred cases of smallpox
are reported in Guatemala?
Salt has been found near Annapolis,
Kan, at depth of $40 feet? The vein
is 240 feet thick.
The average Wellesley college girl
weighs 11919 pounds. and is trifie over
five feet two inches i'll height?
In Paris there are $4,000 gasllghts, so
that it is just 100 times better lighted
than it was century ago?
The wagon and carriage manufacture
ers in st. Louis have formed trust
with provisions against cutting rates?
Into the streets of Denver S25, 5000, 900
in gold and silver coin are shoYeIed
from the mountains every wear?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
Gov. Hill as a Leader.

Atlanta Constitution.
Viewing the situation at this distance
it strikes us tina. the Democracy OF New
York already has, in the person of Gov.
David Bennett Hill, the most active and
thoroughly equipped leader it has. had
since the days of Nh. Tilden. Certainly
the party has recently come out of a
very hotly contested campaign with fly
ing eoiors, and it is generally conceded
that this result was due in a great meas
ure to the organization effected by Gov.
Hill. Mr.. Cleveland seems to be doing
very well. He is saving wood and say
ing nothing, and that seems to he very
safe policy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

A WRITER in one of the magazines
would have fund raised to send mis-
sionaries to educate and ChristianiZe
the "poor whites" in the mountain dis
tricts of East Kentucky. Tennessee and
Virginia. This will not be encouraged
by the Republicans. as the people to be
reached are mostly of their party. and a
campaign of education" might change
their politics.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

CONGRESS is not in pursuit of imfor-
nation about that silver pool among
members, in which it was charged that
The number of its members has been
stated, but not their names. 1t would
be of interest to know who the lucky
men are and how much they made.
But the subject may be too delicate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
MFR. Blaine's Versatility.

Boston GIobe.
Mr.. Blaine is said to have hypnotized
the president, after long struggle, to
get SO stolid subject under control.
When Mr.. Harrison gets thoroughly i'm
bued with the idea that he is to be re-
nominated, the next process will be to
hypnotic his friends into the notion
that he is fit candidate for retirement
to Hoosierland. AS an all-round hyp-
notiZer Mr.. Blaine will be found TO have
few equals.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

AN EMINENT writer couple of hun
dred years ago pronounced sugar poi
son. and its immediate use productive
of consumption. He advised its exclu-
sion from the country for that reason.
But there have been many notions held
in the past that were quite as absurd.
Two hundred years later some may be
located in the nineteenth century.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

cratic principles" Nothing could have
been more timely, or better put, than
his warning to the Democratic party of
the country against sacrificing by over
confidence, or by neglect of its solemn
pledges to the country, the ground
when it has gained in the great battle
ness and greed.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

A LADY died In Chicago last week
who had resided there since it had but
100 population. She was not remarka-
BILE for age, but she had seen the entire
growth of the second city on the CONT
nent, and probably missed chances to
own a good part of it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

A cURBsToNE philosopher has
reached the conclusion that all street
mendicants believe that tall men are
usually more benevolent and have more
means than short men. He claims to
have watched dozen short men pass
unchallenged. and every tall man to be
accosted by the beggar. An interview
with one of the impeeunious furnished
no other explanation than the fact that
it was their experience.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
Rather Queer.

Baltimore American.
, At the Tariff Reform dinner in New
York last night Gov. Hill was not pres
ent. His absence was due to a slight
put upon him by certain members of
the club. And yet in the last campaign
Hill did more effective talking for the
Democrats than any man in the coun-
try. Those New York reformers must
be queer set.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

THE Inauguration of the finest the
alter west of Chicago in st. Paul this
week, and the visit of the most noted
explorer of modern times, with the
presence of a thousand or more Alli-
ance people, will introduce the new
year with some eclat.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

THE New York Sun is doing elabo-
rate work with figures to show that
the Democrats will have hard time
III 1892 if they do not count New York.
DANA has his mind so confused over
Mr.. CLEVELAND that his computations
are not given much consideration.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

than before. In Massachusetts the
cities are petitioning the legislature for
a general law permitting them to man.
ufacture and sell electricity and gas for
lighting purposes. 1t is claimed that
the uniform experience, both in this
country and Europe, is that it is greatly
cheapened both for public aud domestic
use in this way. The time is antiei-
pated when cities will supply the people
light about as cheaply as they now do
wafer
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29

If NOT new departure it was conf
men dable exit, that of the return to
Italy last week of cargo of paupers.
This country should not be made the
dumping ground for the poorhouses of
the old world. Those who are likely to
be industrious and self-supporting. il
without means, should not be turned
back, but the pauper institutions do not
need recruits from abroad.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-29
Faith Put to the Test.

Rich Wife Go spendthrift husband,
who has just got over all attack of the
tremens, and is about to 20 out for
waikiki am quite sure that you will
never drink again, darling. Wifey can
trust you now.
Spendthrift Husband-Then Just let
me navea couple of dollars to take with
me, my dear.