St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-02
BY THE WAY.

There is something about the influence of
Sunday that makes people want to get mar
ried. At least indications point that way,
for more marriage licenses are issued on Mon
day than any other day. One Monday not
long ago there was an photographed strug-
gle in the clerk of courts Office of the city
hall when young man of bashful appear
ance came in and asked for license permit
ting Kazmier Bwaceyk and Yadwiga Condo
SEX to marry. The clerk wrestled with the
young man in spirit for a very bad quarter of
an hour before he found out how the names
ought to be spelled. The matter was finally
arranged, and the fair bride can now write
her name Yadwiga Gendosek-Kazmier.
II
La grippe has not made its appearance yet
this year, but st. Paul is threatened with an
EPIDEMIC perhaps not SO dangerous. but GER
tainly more uncomfortable than our old
time enemy. Several of the people in town
have of late been complaining of unusually
severe attacks of priekly heat, but on exam
ination physicians have discovered that the
trouble is something very similar to the old
fashioned prairie itch. 1t is said TO have
been brought here by Italian emigrants. and
is very contagious. Money it is claimed, has
transmitted the disease.
prominent physician when asked about
his patients several of the best known people
in town. One prominent society woman IS
especially afflicted. The disease is the work
of hideous little parasite, burrowing under
the skin and causing agonizing itching and
slight Inflammation, which is increased by
the constant scratching Of the wretched vic
tim. The parts of the body most affected are
the soft parts of the skin between the fingers
and inside the elbow and knee joints. Any
part of the body, however, is liable to the
contagion, and unless arrested the disease Is
said to last seven years. The physicians
call it ''scapies IAN Inflammation of the skin
due to the irritation produced by the acarus
scabie. 1t is especially prevalent among the
Italian population, but spares no one to
whom it once attaches. A mixture of sulphur
and lard is the simple remedy used in Its
cure. Some of the doctors anticipate an
epidemic of the disease, but it is to be hoped
that so unpleasant complaint will be
stamped out in its infancy.
II
One of the latest additions to the critical
literature of the day is little volume en-
titled 1.-The Race Problem and Other Cri-
tiques ''py II. W. Holley, Minnesota Repub-
lican of the old-fashioned kind. The race
problem, with which the book begins, is the
longest essay 1t is an answer to "An APP
peal to Pharaoh. "a book on the race problem
By an anonymous author. who urges the de-
portation of the negroes to Africa. Mr.. Hol-
ley taking issue with the unknown author
on this point, builds up very spirited and
readable essay on the subject. HIS manifest
earnestness leads him into several errors lie
has this to say of Northern cities: THE
status OF the negro throughout the Northern
states is no whit better than it is in
the South. He has gallery made for
his use at the theaters. At no communion
in any Northern church can he sit down and
break the sacred bread at the first table with
white COMMITMENTS" Facts refute this
statement. Mr.. Holly finally advises the col
onizatIon of portion of the South by the
negroes as solution of the much vexed
question. Following the race problem
is learned but harsh criticism of Belamy's
Looking Backward" Nine other critiques
among them one on A. B. Stickney's 1.-The
Railroad Problem" I'LL up the book. They
are all well written, but are from the biased
standpoint of man who we'll informed and
brilliant sees only one side of a question, and
writes more as an antagonistic debater than
as critic