St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-08

Although G. Browns paper upon
Educational Ethics did not so state,
the evOlutioniSt code does not cOun-
tenance the calling of man Son-of-a-
gun when Darwin taught that he IS a
son OF a monkey.
Some of the enemies of Senator Wash
burn would like to have the idea go out
that the junior senator is trying to be-
little Minneapolis. and that he is doing
Wizards Meeker Island .waterpower
scheme.
Health officer Kilvington has fine
flock of pigeons at the quarantine hos
pital. Yesterday cat got into the loft
where they are housed. and killed about
halt of them. The doctor says the cat
wasn't mad, but ne admite that ne was
when he first heard of the loss OF his
petS.
Senator SlOtten, of North Dakota, is
an ex-Minneapois policeman. He is
also opposed to lotteries. but it is safe
to offer odds that he never received his
education in the celebrated Babb-
Bracket administration. which now
orders all good citizens to go to bed at
,. m. Perhaps he remembers how the
police relief fund was once ''Swiped' to
help out lottery scheme.
And now there is fight over water.
Fights over whisky are common every
day occurrences, but when it comes to
fighting over water, and that the Ordin-
AIRY Mississippi fluid, it is time the board
of trade or The citizens reform club
should be heard from
The present low price of flour is said
to be causing uneaSineSS among the
millerS. The reduction in the cost to
the consumer, however, is not what
causes the average citizen to lose
much sleep.
A budding genius on the Evening
Journal Yesterday discovered that the
municipal court judge dipped his pen
III ink before writing out The sentence
of a prisoner The Judge should lake
warning, and retire behind screen
before doing such desperate things as
chipping his pen in ink"
Another member of the staff on the
same paper has introduced progressive
ideas into Minneapolis Journalism by
running municipal court notes in the
Apparently the young men employed
Oh the Minneapolis Journal have Just
awakened from a six months sleep.
Several months ago the GLOBE printed
a full and accurate account of the
trouble over the new East side school.
Yesterday the journal rehashed the
story as news, when the fact is the con-
trOversv has not been before the board
OF education Tor the past three meet
ingS.
The Tribune-Star also has an en-
ploye who possesses God-given genius.
He has discovered that between Mime
apOlis and st. Paul the river falls six
teen miles in twelve and that the dis
lance from the falls of St. Anthony to
Fort Smelling is S.236 miles. Besides
this man, Humboldt or Davies as a
geOgTapher or a mathematician was
pigmy.
Next week Wizards big enterprise is
likely TO be overshadowed in the public
mind by the spectacle of swell society
people teStifying in suit brought by
the keeper of a bawdy house.
G When the library board passed the
bill of extras yesterday for carpentering
work done in the building. there was
one item of considerable amount that
went through with the rest, that was
for partitions etc, ordered by the
school of fine arts. When the board
gave the school the use of the second
corner room it went about fitting it up
TO suit itself, and the cOnse-
Quence was that pine par
titions were erected to divide the
room into private apartments. Not sat
iStied with light, heat and other items
furnished it by the board, it also sad
died the bill in question upon kind
public, and says nothing about reduc-
Ing its tuition for such of the public as
may wish TO study art under superior
powers of instruction. With seventy
five pupils at an average rate of S. per
head each month, it seems as if this
beneficent corporation might at least
bear the burden of some of its own eX-
penSeS.
"InspectiOn fever" is the malady
which has taken the place of the grip
among city officers. The appointment of
an inspector to inspect inspectors is
next in order.
Henry Wizards proposition to build
4 dam at Meeker island, and thereby
secure water power for lighting st. Paul
anu MllIHcdDollS ny SlcClIIClGNs anu LOT
furnishing electricity for heating and
power purposes is not only creating
good deal of comment. but is bringing
out the latent characteristics of some
people. There are Mlnneapolitans
who. whenever a new enterprise is
preached by an outsider, speedily adopt
dog-in-tke-mange tactics. These peo-
pie are unwilling to see any business
succeed which is not conducted bv a
Minneapolis man. They seem to be
unable to see that every new industry
will add its proportion to the prosperity
of the city, even if it is not the prop
erty Of resident of this overgrown
New England village. And so certain
of them are opposing Wizards enter
prise. They never stop TO consider the
benefit which would accrue to the city
from its establishment. This same
spirit has heretofore resulted in losing
for Minneapolis several large business
enterprises. If the city is to be built
up the people must be liberal and pull
together.