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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
NEWSPAPER HEADS.

Chicago also has a twilight club, deS-
1gnated as Sunset, which determines
the problems of life and society. At a
recent symposium the newspapers came
under review and one of the philoso-'
pliers descanted disapproVingly upon
the system of headlines in vogue. The
offensive phase was specially notable at
Chicago, of course. The grumbler
lived in suburban town and, in coming
in on the car. he had often been dis
tnrbed by the apprehension that some
person would note the headlines before
him. One might suppose he was read
ing some nauseouS divorce trial or ac-
count of prize fight. Allowing for
any loudness required by the perverted
Chicago taste, there may often be room
for improvement. The reputation of a
paper is at times largely made by its
headlines. 1t will be remembered that
the former management of a Chicago
paper so shocked the public sense
with Sacrilegious headings that the
paper is still viewed with appre-
hension in many circles. Instances
have been noted of journals going to
al doSulu CAtl6Ll0 Ill uillllS lOO uuCu
space for the character of the news. In
recent times there is system and art in
headlines. II is one of the departments
of newspaper architecture, in which
skill and taste are in the highest de-
mand. No bungler or slow coach can
fill the position. 1t is rapid work. The
salient points in the articles must be
caught at glance, and Indicated in the
captions with graduations of typograph-
ical conspicuity. There must be no
misleading or failure to strike the live
interior of the variations. There may
be indications of eXhilaration over
events that the paper is known to be rep
resentative of, but the reader eXacts
good faith with MIN. He must not be
victimized by the headlines. They
must be pleasing to the eye. Ii is no
small feature of first-class paper to
prepare the heads.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
APosTAL PHoNoGRAPH.

Some account has been given of the
proposition to utilize the monograph
in connection with the postal service in
Mexico. 1t seems that the late consul
general from this country has concluded
a contract with the Mexican govern
ment for its use in the postoffices of that
country. The contract is for fifteen
years, and local company is to fur
nish clerks and care for the instru-
ments. If it is considerable conven-
fence this country should be the first to
have it. The cylinders are to be sent
in the mail at the same rate as first-class
matter. The cases in which its use is
specially anticipated are where the
voice is wanted to identify the sender,
or the people can't read or write. The
latter class are very numerous in Mex
leo. Some interest will be taken in
noting how the thing works III that
country,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
ODD THINGS IN LIFE.

Two-thirds of all the children born in
Connecticut in 1889 were boys.
j. a. Steinmetz, while visiting near
DowningtoWn, Pa, went cunning, and
shot the four legs off rabbit.
A Philadelphia shoemaker's dog died
day or two ago from swallowing a
piece of sole leather in mistake for beef
steak.
At Keyport. n. j., the other day, a
brother and sister met for the first time
since their parting, in Germany. tWen-
ty-hve years ago.
Levi Williamson, of Ansonia, Conn.,,
has hog that is seven feet long and
weighs 1000 pounds. 1t is so fat that
it is unable to get up.
A Chinese laundryman at Bristol, Pa.
rents all the places in the city avail able
for laundries, so that he can eni oy a
monopoly of the trade.
Juseph Russell, OF Ludlow, Ky,
jumped 240 feet sheer down into the
Tennessee river, at EdgewOod, KY, the
other day. for a purse of $500.
Miss Edwards, teacher of t he school
at Graniteville, Nevada county, Califor-
MA, went to North Bloomfield, fourteen,
miles, on SnowshOes the other day. She
made the trip in four hours.
Henry Schumacher, farmer at Low
hill. near Allentown, attempted to
shoot a wild turkey, when the cap
missed fire, but he exploded the foWling
piece with match. and killed the bird.
Ardon G. Case, of Wratogue, in the
town of Simsbury, is the champion hun
ter of Connecticut this season. Mr..
Case has captured by gun and trap, from
October to January, twenty three foxes,
twenty mink, eighty-three muskrats,
thirteen skunkS and two coons. One
fox was handsome silver gray. The
result of this success is many hard dol
lars. the fox, mink and muskrat skins
being quite valuable.
1t is learned that DIR. Justin Canas-
toga is about to institute q series a eX-
periments with dynamite shell which
he claims can be discharged by powder
from an ordinary ordnance piece, and
made to explode at distance, the same
as poWder-Shell. In order to further
his experiments. the inventor has OBJ
tanned an English Blakely gun used
during the war on the defenSes of
Charleston, S. G.
The principal sea fish that serve as
nourishment to the human race are the
skate or ray, the shark family, the
sturgeon, the funny, the mackerel, the
Goldfish, the herring, the sardine, the
anchovy, the salmon and the eel. Some
readers may be surprised to see the
shark included, but it is a numerous
family, and all are not man eaters. The
shark fishery is a regularly established
industry in some parts of the world.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
A MESSAGE.

How little the left hand knoweth
The deeds that are done by the right,
How little the night time showeth
Its sorFowful shades TO the lightl
How few of the hearts that are broken
Betray to the breaker their grief;
How many harsh words that are spoken
Are the crushed souls only RELIEF!
AIasl for the ehildlike gladness
We never may known again;
And alas, and alas for the sadness
That bcoods like spirit of painl
Like some spirit of pain that will hover
Still nearer when sunlight is fed.
Until youth. and youths last changeful lover
Grow old, and grow cold as the deadl
1t is strange that the hands that might lead
us
To heaven, refuse us their hold;
That the dear lips that whisper God speed
u.s.
Are the lips that are first to grow coldl
But love, We are nearer the dawning,
just there is the heavenly light,
And how little the glorious morning
Knows the sorrowful shades of the night
Lola Marshall Dean, in the Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
SUNDAY CHATTER.

The modesty of some of the young
people on st. Anthony hill is phenom-
email. The idea of newspaper fame
brings bushes often to their cheeks.
For instance, tony club party in tobog-
gaming near Summit avenue last Sun
day night met an incident that covered
the head and faces of the men with
blood and required ambulances and sur
geons for the ladies, and yet they took
all precautions to keep it out of the pa
pers.5 About the same time young
man of the blue blood persuasion, who
dotes on cigarettes and the girls, was an
actor in bit of comedy that he would
not have made pubic on any account.
He had stayed much longer than good
usage warrants, sitting up with one of
his best girls. 1t was so late, in fact,
that he did not believe he would be able
to wake up at the business hour, so he
went to his room and made up pack
age of his week day suit and started to
go to sleep with a friend nearer town
who would wake him. One of the vigil
liant hill police saw him coming out of
the house with a bundle at this I'M
seemly and suspicious hour, and
not dare to run, as the officer proposed
to make him target. His explanations
were received with good deal of in
credulity, although he opened the pack
age. As test. the officer asked him to
name the contents of certain pocket.
The pool ticket, photograph and comb
were not there. He was evidently a
petty burglar and could not fool the
police, so he was run down to the sta
ton and made to try on the suit. which
was found an excellent fit, and effected
his release. The story has partially
pledged the police not to let any re-
porter get hold of it. 1t is innate,
shrinking modesty that causes these
parties to shun the public light in their
little mishaps.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

streak runs along all the business lines,
consequently there is no chance for the
people thrown out by economy to gain
other employment. They have little or
no means of subsistence to fall back on,
and are not in need of any precepts of
retrenchment. Somehow wealthy peo-
pie and high livers are most apt to do
their economizing at the expense Of
labor, and not in the costly Injuries
that minister to their appetites or com
fort. 1t always makes dull times in a
community when there is a prevalent
movement to economic. Things move
off most actively and smoothly in a
town where the people are not eager tC
save what they gain, but spend it freely
and help other people to get along.
Economy don't want to be taken gener-
ally. like whisky and quinine, for fear
OF the grip. Some don't need it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
SOME DON'T NEED 1T.

When times become little close, and
the look ahead is not altogether assur-
ing, the standard advice is to cut down
the expenditures-be more economical.
That is always good counsel for those
who do not have a little balance on the
right side every year. In the abstract,
economy looks like a good thing, and it
is possible that some need to have it i'm
pressed upon them. Still, it depends
good deal upon circumstances whether
it is virtue to be inculcated. 1t means
cutting down expenses. The man who
lives on an avenue with more income
than he spends concludes that he must
economic. If he is employing four or
five men about his premises he will re-
duce the number to one. If his wife
keeps several sewing girls they will be
reduced one-half. The big railroad has
little trouble to keep up its dividends
and the plethoric salaries of its officers,
and great number of men are turned
out of employment. This economy
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
A SnOb Notion.

Journals in the old country are in
clined to ridicule the quite frequent
practice in this country to size up gather
ings by their pockets. There is sus-
picion of snobbery in it and an ignoble
standard. At cock fight in New York
a report states that twenty men present
represented 100000. At a wedding
the party in front of the altar are stated
to size up S20,0O0,000. At funeral
1850, 900 stood about the bier" I'm
less the gathering is distinctly classified
by the possessions of the individuals
there is no more propriety in singing
out the men who have money than those
who have bald heads or light or dark
hair. A man is not necessarily an OBJ
ject of inyidious comment because he
has millions. In all the makeup of
good samples of manhood he may COM
pare favofably with the standard ''poor,
but honest" The chances may not be
quite favorable, but there are grand
men. who are rich. If they are rare. all
the more need of giving them respectful
reference. 1t is only toadyiSm that
genuheets before dollars.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
THE STORY OF A DAY.

Duluth Republicans name NJ. o. Hall for
mayor.
Virginia negroes claim they have been dis
franchised.
North Dakota's Legislators are entertained
AT Grand Forks.
South Dakota publishers organize an asso-
citation at Mitchell
Bismarck's bill TO squelch social dem
ocracy Is knocked out.
GOV. Mellette of South Dakota, makes an
appeal for seed wheat.
Chicago's friends are again worsted by
New York in the worlds fair committee.
Certain receivers of public moneys are
swindling Uncle Sam and escaping detec-
ton.
Canadian lumbermen are stealing billions
of feet of timber from the pine forests of
Northern Minnesota.
An alleged flaw has been found in titles
to real estate, valued at millions, in Helena,
Great Falls and Anaconda.
Nellie Bly, completes her trip around the
world i'll ~ days, 6 hours and IL minutes.
Miss Bisland is still on the Atlantic.
The Missouri Valley Cut Stone Con-
tractors and Quarrymen's association opens
It's semi-annual convention i'll st. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
wRATsHALLICaLL MYLoyE4

If fheresbe truth in ancient saws
Itsurely would be meet
That / should call my love Revenge
They say Revenge is sweet.
Or I might name her conscience" who
Makes towards of us all;
Or her that teaches more than books
Experience" might call.
ECONOMY is wealth, they say
Shes wealth enough for me;
s'Consistency's" jewel, and
A jewel, too. is she.
Or knowledge would be apt and true,
For that is power, i wis:
Yet might dub her Ignorance"
For Ignorance is bliss.
And yet again, she drives US mad,
So Learning would be II;
And she'd do grace to .sBreyity,''
For she's the soul of wit.
But when before her virgin charms
My suppliant knee is bent
I'd like to call her Silence for
IT'S Silence gives consent.
And il in these triumphant arms
/ hold the winsome elf,
I'd call her History" in the hope
That she'll repeat herself.
w Wilson X. Welsh in Life.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
A Peculiar Decision.

The jury in the Clemens Muller breach
of promise suit in New York found a
verdict of $4,000 for Miss Cammerer,
whose heart was threatened with blight.
Her sad humor disappeared like the dew
in the morning sun as the verdict was
rendered. Not sign of heart fracture
was visible. That $4,000 HAD more pos
sibilities of bliss than the ''ocean of
kisses" the aged lover sent her. The
peculiar feature of the case was that
an award fol breach of promise was
had although the contracting lady knew
that her lover had wife in an asylum
from whom he had not obtained a di-
vorce. The new marriage was to take
place after the divorce was had. This
was not obtained, and still the jury held
that the woman had good case. OF
course she had no right to love another
woman's husband, but it was probably
prospective heart movement. The
love was to flow from the date of the di-
vorce. On the whole, it doesn't seem
just the thing for young woman to
agree to marry man until she Is quite
sure he can get rid of his wife.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
CAN BE DONE.


The preacher who, in the discussion
of the Sunday paper met the statement
that it was the Monday issue that In
yolVed Sunday labor with the theory
that this could be avoided by preparing
the Monday paper for the press Satur-
day night, was. perhaps not aware that
the feasibility of that plan had been
tested. Before the war the Sunday issue
was almost entirely unknown. Only
here and there VIGOROUSLY wicked
sheet appeared every day in the week.
In many cases the Monday morning
paper was put in type Saturday. One
such Instance is recalled of a daily
paper among the most prominent and
influential in one of the largest Western
states. Work on the Monday issue
was substantially ended by o'clock on
Saturday night. The paper was made
ready for the press, and the office
locked up, not to be opened
again till early Monday morning. 1t
was in the era when the incidents that
led to the war were taking hold of the
public mind, and there was eager
anxiety for the latest news. This forced
partial letting down of the high stand
ard of the paper recalled. If reports of
any exciting event came to hand on
Sunday, the editor would hunt up some
of the printers after Sunday school, and
open the pages for few lines of nara
ton. Bright and early on Monday the
paper was out with its history of the
world for day. A suspicion of being
slow might have contributed to the final
demise of that sheet, but it left an eX-
ample. Perhaps an imitator now would
find favor and support with those who
see ''a viper'' III the Sunday issue. They
would no doubt enjoy the two-day-o Id
seasoned news at their Monday morning
breakfast. Perhaps they Go not even
read of Sunday events.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

let was used against him. but without
effect, as he was elected by handsome
majority over his wing competitor. In
1882 Charles James Faulkner, after
wards minister to France. introduced
billin the Virginia legislature looking
to the gradual emancipation Of the
slaves, and in support of his bill made
powerful abolition speech. These are
a few scraps OF history that have been
lost sight of in modern times, but they
are authentic.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

church member is more of bar to the
progress of religion than the saloon, or,
for that matter, all the evil influences
of the world combined. 1t is because
of the position the rascally church
member occupies in the sight of the
world. If the churches would adopt a
stricter discipline relating to member
ship and would seek to reduce their
numbers so as to include godly persons
only, instead of endeavoring to swell
the membership by admitting the un-
godly for the sake of gain, then Chris
tianity would make progress and the
cause of religion could easily surmount
the obstacles the world presents.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
Relics From Chicago.

The parties who bought Libby prison
and took it to Chicago to exhibit seem
to have made good speculation; over
100000 people have visited it in three
months. Some st. Paul young ladies
who took it in on recent visit to the
Lake City, brought back grips padded
with pine chunks that had constituted
a part of the structure. They will
treasure these and hand them down to
posterity as interesting relics. One of
them seemed to the possessor to have
marks of blood on it. Some inmate
had evidently murdered some of the
cIawlers that used to infest people in
such places. There can easily be sup
ply of such relics as long as there are
old pineIboards and sticks in Chicago.
The war museum in the building is full
of objects of interest, most of which are
not being given away or sold, as the
supply cannot be kept up, as in the
case of the building. The value of
most.relics is in the label on them. If
that is credited the sentiment comes
along all right.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

Ex-Secretary Along Fifth avenue
meet very frequently
Bristow's ex-Secretary B. II.
BristOw. writes New
Career. York Star man. He is
large, portly man,
with great. round face, upon which is
written the signs of courage and firm
ness. He has aged very much since ne
was secretary of the treasury in Grants
cabinet. Yet, the exercise he takes
in walking up and down town
strong and vigorous. Had it not
been for an accident Mr.. Bristow might
have been president of the United
States, but he happened to be placed
n an unenyiable position with great
man who was the idol of the American
people. This fact would probably not
have injured him had it not been that
Gen. Grants enemies, who called
themselves reformerS, lit upon Bris-
tow as presidential candidate
against the man in whose cabinet he
was serving. As usual these Re-
formers made good deal of trouble;
but for no one as much as for Bristow.
They put him in false position before
the American people and before bis
chief. They made the discharge of his
Ipldlu uulN q NTIdIlIs
So when BriStow left the cabinet, faint
ed with their venom, and came to New
York to practice law. great part of
the country looked upon him as man
who had secretly betrayed his master.
Coming from the greatest whisky dis
trict in the United States Bristow had
well-defined suspicious of frauds upon
the revenue before he had the power
to grapple with them. When he
was made secretary he began to
lay his plans to destroy the whisky
ring. This action brought him into
high official circles and provoked great
scandal. The enemies of Gen. Grant
seized upon this action, made Brstow
presidential candidate, and started him
on the road to political destruction.
Bristow was fair and faithful all the
way around; but those who used him
were not. He destroyed the whisky
ring, and his friends" de-
stroyed him. He left public life
at the end of his term in disgust,
and instead of returning to Kentucky,
he came to New York to practice law,
quitting public life forever. He has
pledded along, making money, and pre-
serving dignified silence through all
the Misrepresentation that followed
that memorable presidential contest of
1876, when Hayes was nominated for
the presidency. and he went out of
power.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

If FIVE millions of American dollars
have been counterfeited and put in cir
culation by Mexicans, it is still fact
that they have as much silver in them
as the genuine coin. The 26 cents short
age of the latter affords good margin
for the imitatorS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
THE EXILE OF THE NEGRO.

The only way to treat the matter is as
a huge joke which nobody has the
slightest idea of converting into prac-
teal one.-BoSton Globe.
The example of the North is not per-
feet, but if the South will live up to it,
the negro'S condition need no longer be
a source of national Louis
Globe-Democrat.
What will it profit US to expel six or
eight million negroes, perfectly adapted
to working under the Southern sun,
and fill their places with Huns and
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Hon. James Phelan, nf Ten2er
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

IT IS noted in Boston that the crusade
of a few of the rightly jealous but
somewhat unbalanced clerical brethren
IN the westerly twin, against their CO.
worker, the Sunday paper, "does not
have the Endorsement of st. Paul."
Reference is had probably to the city,
but it would no doubt be equally true
of the saint if he is so situated as to OBJ
carua
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

One of the scientific cranks who are
always hunting up things to make peo-
pie uncomfortable. has found that milk
induces insanity. The mental unbal-
anee has proportion TO the use of
milk. Typhoid fever, winter cholera
and other diseases are due to water,
wine induces Bright's disease, beer
makes people fit for the soap barrel,
tea and coffee shatter the nerves,
whisky brings snakes into the boots
and milk sends people to the lunatic
asylum. The only safety seems to be
in not drinking at all. But eating is
nearly as bad, as little can be known of
the constituents of the culinary ele-
mentS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

THE noted organ of prohibition in
New York city asserts that the United
States, Great Britain and Germany are
the champions of the world for liquor
drinking. No other great people can
hold the glass with them. 1t does not
contrast with them the Chinese, the
Mahometan nations. the Esqulmaux and
other people who do not use alcoholic
stimulants. These hard drinking ma
lions have fair share of the wor IDS
enterprise and good things. Their peo-
pie are said to have more and know
more on the average, as we'll as live
longer than the people OH the more
abstemiouS list.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

PEOPLE look up at the wires being
strung across the streets from the iron
posts painted black, and the heavy wire
running along the center of the street
with a sort of curious apprehension.
Even the gamins hesitate to put hand
on the posts. 1t is perhaps well that
people should be little overcautious,
but disaster now and then will be
needed to make the apprehension dur
able. An incident at Newburg, n. Y,
a week or two ago, is related as show
ing the possibilities. One of the heavily
charged wires sagged and touched al
awning supported by iron posts. A
horse touched his nose to one of the
posts and at once became dead horse.
A man who went to help him was killed
and second knocked down. The wires
are good things to let alone.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

The incredible story is told that
callow youth down in Alabama wIlled
$4,000 to the Y. M. G. A. in his locality
and then smoked himself to death with
cigarettes. Possibly it will appear with
the proper affidavits in the literature of
that organization as an incentive to
imitation,