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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
CAUSE FOR

The Washington court that has just
granted a young wife divorce, when
the allegation was made that the con-
traction of the marriage was due to
the hypnotic influence, evidently at
taches Importance to that faculty, infu-
eDce, or whatever it may be called.
There have been cases where it has
been made a defense in criminal trials,
but there are too many possibilities to
give it much consideration in that
sphere. Without attempting technical or
scientific accuracy it may be presumed
that some influence, not of the logical,
argumentatlYe sort, often has sway in
the misleading of persons into matri-
mOny. Ii hypnOtism is a persuading
potency, a subsection of the will to the
behests of another, by a subtle force
mainly coming through the channel Of
the eye. it may be charged with the
instigation Of a good deal of ill-advised
wedlOck. In one of the latest month
lies an English officer who had been
much in India gives an account of the
performances of u of the Indian eX-
perts in magic for the amusement of
some of the officers. Among these were
the familiar but inexplicable feats of
the massacre of the child in the basket,
climbing out of sight On 2 string thrown
into the air and others quite as impoSsi-
bic. The officer states that the fakir
had a m~arYelOuSly piercing and fasci-
mating eye, and he entered upon no per
Torrance until he had impressed every
person present with his gaze. When
pressed for an explanation atterward.
he stated that he had done nothing. He
had not massacred and had no basket,
enid, sacred Irvine or anything else. He
had simply induced them to imagine that
they had Witnessed miraculous feats.
The young man or PM who
possesses this faculty to an extent like
that credited to the fakir would be an
exceedingly dangerous person to have
about, unTestraiDed by a high moral de-
veIOpment. 1t may be supposed that it
is exercised unconSciOusly by the party
at times. Still, it is we'll to believe that
the power of resistance is possessed
sufficiently not to release the person
yielding to it from all responsibility.
Perhaps the Investigations of the scien-
fists will afford more accurate under
standing of its mOdas of operation, if
the potency is as elusive as electricity
in its essence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
AROUND THE EARTH.

Baron OSten-Sacken. a Russian mill
%ionaire, who lately committed suicide,
left a note stating that his reason for
the act was that ''life was too monot-
onous."
1t is said that of 49S men who bore the
title of general in the Confederate sery-
ice only 1874 are left. q. T. Beauregard
is the sole survivor of those who held
the highest rank, that of full general.
Prof. Garner, of Washington, is to go
to Africa, it is announced, to Scientif-
ieaIly study the language of monkeys,
in their native state. In civilization the
monkeys chief organ of speech is a bar
rel organ.
Col. Ingersoll says ne generally finds
that when a man reaches that point
where he cannot pay his own debts he
turnes his attention to the finances of
the government, and evolves an elab-
crate plan for running them.
Nathaniel Holland, Of Barre, Me-,
ninety-eight years of age, last week took
the leading swath in his bayfield,, as he
has been doing every year since he was
twelve years of age. And the pace he
set the other mowers made them fairly
tired.
Secretary Blaine is quoted as saying
to a recent caller: Il am going to get
we'll just to give the lie to that out
rageous story. | am not deceived in
this matter at all. Enough has been
said by me, however. | don't want to
utter another word on the subject"
DR.. Edwin Bauer, editor of an anti
Semitic paper in Jena, is the last victim
in Germany of the laws against the lack
of respect for majesty. He. was sem
fenced recently to two months impriS-
onment for the sentiments expressed in
a criticism Of the dismissal Of Count
Waldersee.
Kate Field brings her sharp pen very
effectively and deservedly to bear upon
the American hog, who is pursuing
Mr.. Blaine to the ends of the earth, fol
lowing him as he drives, lying in wait
for him as he leaves his carriage, exag-
geratlng his ailment. whatever it may
be, and rel going so far as infinitely
to describe him at deaths door.
Count HolStein-H olsteinburg, chief
court marshal of the king of Denmark,
whose recent marriage with a singer of
a dancing hall created such a sensation
in Copenhagen, has been placed under
guardianship. The sportive count, who
was successful in the spirited contest
among the jeunesse doree of Denmark
for the young woman's hand, enjoys
the respectable age of eighty years.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
VALUE oF HoRsE RACES.

Some people look upon horse races as
of little O. no practical value. They
serve to show What training can do to
develop equine activity, Just as GYM
nastic and athletic trainings develop
the muscular forces in men. The run
ming race has the sanction of the IA
theirs as far back as there is any record.
1t has prevailed in nearly all parts of
the world from the dawn of history.
This affords a large presumption that
there is merit in the practice. The
theory, Of course, is that it aids to de-
veIOp speed and endurance in the ami
mal-objeets Of perhaps greater moment
before the introduction Of steam and
electricity than now. 1t does not appear
that there has been for centuries any
considerable advance in the de-
velOpment of these qualities, al
though it is believed that the
thoroughbred found on the tracks
in this country and Western Eu-
rope is the fastest horse the world has
ever seen. This type of animal will
hold its place in the estimation of the
public, if the business sphere forit has
lessened. Many enjoy the running
races far more than the trOtting. yet the
trotter is the special product of modern
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
PERHAPS SHOULD WAIT.

Weber is one of the few counties in
Utah in which the opponents of the
Mormon party have strength to sue
cessfully combat that organization.
Ogden is the chief town in this county.
A convention of the Liberal, or anti
church movement was held there the
past week, and candidates put in nom
ination for the legislature and other
positions. The resolutions and speeches,
if their statements are reliable, throw a
good deal of light upon the inwardness
of the state movement that has met
much favor outside, and apparently
been accepted by some of the Gentle
element in the territory. 1t is alleged
that this state effort is due TO the craft
of the church leaders. They have
seemingly accepted the situation and
given p0lygamy the shake, and.
in evidence of their good faith,
abandoned the separate political
organization composed of the church
element. Now they say their people
have only common interests with other
citizens, and will, like them. divide
themselves between the Republican
and Democratic parties. The only bar
rier to statehood is now removed, and
all can unite in a common effort for
that attainment. According TO the Lib
erals, the wolves have only put on the
sheepSkin. They are still wolves. The
MOrmOnS took the name of the Peoples
party. The name and the organization
are now given up, the committees for
mally announcing its disarmament.
The MormOns Outnumber the others in
nearly all the counties, in most of them
comprising man times the number of
Gentiles. They are not understood to have
any disposition to retire from politics,
but only to.come into the ring in the
DISCUSSES of national politics. They
are not credited with good faith in this
action. 1t is still the hand of the
| priesthood moving in it. The end is
statehood, which will release them from
the CALLING restraints Of United States
authority. The voters are allotted to
the two parties by orders from head
| quarters. An instance is cited in which
a bishop presided at a Republican meet
ing and then at a Democratic meeting
in succession, displaying equal zeal for
both. He wanted to start them with
equal eclat. 1t will be for the church
authorities to decide which party is to
have control in the counties or terri
tory. Like the bishop, they have only
to change the outer label pasted over
the word Mormon. The Mormon
church has ALWAYS been disloyaI
to the government and hostile to Ameri-
can ideas. 1t may have had revelations
of better things, but these sudden CO.
versions wisely are put on probation.
A state swayed by the Saints of the
Utah disposition would not be a profta-
bic accession. 1t would be easy for /
to so manipulate matters as to make
~dissenters very tired of life there, and
their rule perpetual. If this is the vera
cious diagnosis, it Is best to go slow in
the state matter. 1t might be the wiser
way to divide the territory between the
neighboring states of Idaho and Nevada.
They are in great need of population to
make a reputable appearance in the ma
| fiODal family
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AN ABSURD RULING.

If the statement of a Boston paper is
reliable. the census man is not the only
n who makes a queer use of govern
ment appliances. The statement is that
a blacksmith in Massachusetts by toll
and ~frugality saved means to send for
his wife and seven children to come
over from Ireland. The ship containing
them arrived at Boston, and the black
smith was eXultant at the prospect of
the reunion. They were assisted emf
grants in the CONSTRUCTED view of the
e emigration commissioners, and, conSe-
quently, not eligible for admission to
the home of the free and the land of
numerous official cranks. With tears
in his eyes the blacksmith declared that
if they were to be sent back he would
sell all his property and go with them.
1t is almost impossible to believe that
rational men could cOnStrue the law so
abSurdly. These children and their
mother would be apparently the kind of
accessiOns desired, having assurance Of
support.
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MORMON

There is no doubt that the Mormons
are establishing extensive colonies in
two or three of the states of Northern
Mexico. 1t is probable that the migrants
are mainly of the class that is unwilling
to abandon polygamy, as it is not init
mated that the Mexican government i'm
poses conditions in the matter. If this
is the fact, it will afford no regret that
they go, and their departure may re-
move a disturbing element. The region
they are beginning to occupy is pictured
as a very fertile Il by the irrigation
possible with the water from the
mountains. The climate is delightful,
and the Mormons are, as a rule, indus
triouS and frugal. They may find the
new regions SO alluring as at least to
prevent much further increase in Utah,
and afford room for the GentileS to come
in and overpower them in numbers.
This would be desirable.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
WHY BIG

A class of superficial writers come
ment somewhat d%isparagingly upon the
fact that some of the great life insur
ance companies pay their chief officers
what are termed e%Xtravagant salaries.
1t is intimated that the president in
some cases may have a salary equal to
that of the president of the United
States. and the immediate staff of that
official grade down to SO. 900, perhaps, as
the minimum. In the list, too, it is al
legged, are the neal kindred of the pres
ident in obese array. In such cases it
is to be presumed that the rare ability
to operate the machinery of such insti-
tutions runs in families. Then there
are scores of millions of dollars accu-
mulated, and the enormous revenues
most have avenues of beDefieent difu-
sion. Those not in suitable proximity are
likely not to appreciate the philosophy
of the system.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
ARMORY EXPENSES.

There is a law by the recent legislature re
curing every town in which there exists a
company of the national guard to provide a.
heated and lighted armory. 1t is a dead-let-
ter law in st. Paul, through some echnical
loophole Of escape for the council, but the
militiamen have been discussing it. Adjt.
Gen. Mullen, when questioned about it, said
he considered it an outrage for the militia to
be required to pay for their own armory.
They have to pay two-thirds of the expenses
now. They work for the state for nothing
and pay 6625 per cent Of their expenses for
the privilege of doing so. They give up their
own interests to serve the state and are the
best young men we lave. Armory rent ought
to be paid by the city, by all means. The
militia are wonderfully improved in the last,
thirty years. They are nearly as competent
as regular troops, and should not be harshly
criticised by the press as they have peen
when they are called out as was the case last
week. 1t was their duty only to obey orders,
and that they did. They were called dudes
and recruits If ANYBODY was to be criti-
cised it was not the militia, for they were abb
~solutely powerless in the matter"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
HE car HAVE IT.

Everything moves rapidly to-day on
the political checkerboard, and, if rumor
is true. the opposing forces in the adj
mlnistration party are arraying them
selves for a final contest. The retire
ment of QUAY and DUDLEY from the
national committee leaves two adroit
politicians as free lances in the field.
AS long as they held their positions in
the party's directorate, they were bound
by tacit pledges of allegiance to the
man whom they had helped to elect.
Released from this harness, they are at
liberty to follow their personal prefer
ences: and their personal preferences,
they openly declare, lead them to the
invalid of Bar Harbor. Broken in body.
distressed in mind, ill-itted TO endure
the tolls and pains of another campaign,
in which the unhappy record of his per-
sonal career will be told afresh, he is
none the less the hope and the idol of
the Republican party. If he wants the
nomination, everybody agrees that he
can have If.
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ing senator from New York, and the
biggest of the party bosses in that
state. He toasted the guest in the
words, eve love him for the heads
he has cut off," The gathering
fully shared the feeling, as shown by
the applause. The incident and pro-
motion of CLARKsoN are notable as
showing the hypocrisy and Pecksniffian
pretensions of the Republican leaders
in their declarations in favor of civil
service reform. Their last national
platform was urgent in its demands for
the extension of the system, and HAIR
RISoN recognized it in this declaration
in his letter of acceptance:
SIN appointments to every grade and
department fitness and not party Serv-
ice should be the essential and discrim-
mating test and fidelity and efficiency
the only sure tenure of Office. Only
the interests of the public service
should suggest removals from Office"
The party managers glory in the de-
fiance of these professions by the rep
resentatiye spoilsmen of the age. If
LINCOLN was right. they VIII find it a
more arduous task to fool SO many of
the people the next time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
THE SPIRIT.

The New York World finds an I'M
usual spirit of 'unableness" III the Re-
publican party, illustrated by the di5po-
sition to resign things. The most con-
SpicuOus illustration referred TO was the
resignation of MATT QUAY from the head
of the Republican national committee.
No credenee is given the notion that
he will resign his seat in the senate and
allow the governor to appoint a Demo-
crat. Then in New York and MaSsa-
chusetts the disposition is prevalent
among Republicans thought of in con-
nection with the Office of governor to
decline to enter the ring. In Iowa the
Republicans have given this nomination
to a man who is a chronic office-seeker,
but has been put aside in cases where
there was expectation of success.
The impression is evident that this is
not to be a Republican year in politics.
But the point most noticeable is that the
spirit of resignation in Republican high
official circles comes from without and
meets internal reluctance. QUAY
would not have discovered that
his health was enfeebled and the chair
mansfip of the national committee so
undesirable a station If there had not
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-01
WILL RE ~PROFTTARL

If, in the progress Of reform, It is
deemed best to stop the street cars on
Sunday, an example may be found in
Toronto. Canada, a city not very far
from the proportions of st. Paul. 1t is
said that the wheels all rest on the first
day of the week. The street railways
there are operated prOtitably apparently,
and the city treasury derives a hand
some income from them. They have
recently been leased for thirty years to
a partly United States syndicate, the
city receiving a royalty of a percentage
of the earnings and $500 tax for every
mile of track. This is computed at
S124.00 the first year. and increasing
every year, up to 100000. The fraD-
chiSe must be less valuable than in
cities where the cars run on Sunday,
but possession of one for twenty-five or
thirty years in almost any growing city
will be a bonanza to the possessor.
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been a demand in the party for
him to step down, so loud and Importu-
nate that prestige and pelf we're in peril.
Incidentally, and by looking down a
distance. it is observed that there is a
great deal of pulling at the co~at-tails of
the handsome and complacent head of
the Republican committee in this
state. His resignation is looked for.
The list of those whom large
and respectable elements of the Repub-
lican party actively labor to put out of
place would be a long one. wanna
MAKER is n of these. Since the de-
velopments in the financial wrecks in
Philadelphia it is a growing and not
suppressed feeling in his party that he
has passed the line of confidence and
usefulness in the public service. 1t is
even alleged that a committee Of 100
Republicans in Philadelphia sent a dep
utation to the president to advise him
to drop the 800, 900 man out of the cab
met. Then there is PORTER, the man
who plumbers so %egregiOusly among the
figures. Has no n heard it intimated
in high Republican quarters that he is
worse than incompetent? He teaches
figures the znost monStr0uS men,
daeity. If he had not the Gu.
ticle of the rhinoceros he would come
down with a jump. In New Hampshire
the resignation of Senator BILL CHAND-
LER is openly wanted by about half Of
the Republicans. Then there are Re-
publican governors holding seats in Ne
braska and Connecticut when the peo-
pie elected Democrats. High-minded
and honest Republicans think they
ought to get out OF the way. On the
whole, the party that has laid claim to
all the moral tints in affairs is losing it's
stamina. The blood is tainted, and the
party that has had such protracted sea-
sons for developing high qualities, free
from the allurements of station, is get
ting in good trim to come to the front.
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THE A VESSELS.
Contract Awarded for a Cruiser
Nickel Steel.

WASHINGTON, July 81. : Secretary
Tracy has finally decided to award the
contract for building Cruiser No. 13 to
Cramp & Sons,of Philadelphia, although
the Bath Iron Works of Maine were
the lowest bidders. In expla-
nation of his action, the secretary says
that the Bath company cannot build the
engines. bnt propose to Sub-let that part
of the work, and that it would he in
convenient to have the hull and engines
built at different places. Further, the
Bath company admit they could not
complete the vessel within the contract
time; and, finally, that it would be too
great a risk to give the building of one
Of the most important ships in the navy
to a new and inexperienced firm.
WASHINGTON, July 31.-In view of
the exhaustive trials made by the navy
department with the result of demon
strating the superiority and greater ten
sile strength of nickel steel as a resist
ant armOr for naval vessels, the secre-
tary of the navy has contracted with
Carnegie, Phipps & Co. for ten three
inch protective deck plates, upper lay
ers. The relative cost of these plates
as compared with pure steel will be
studied, and if satisfactory terms can
be made this kind of armor will be
adopted in the construction of the ar
mored cruiser New York and Cruiser
No. IL.
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THE STORY OF A DAY.

ParneITs adherents are deserving him.
France and Russia form a trade alliance.
Noble insists that he does not intend to re-
Sign.
The tax levy for Ramsey county is twenty
mills.
Grain rates on the lakes advance with a
jump.
AIIerton. the trotter, breaks his record to
2:l2l2.
Two children are killed by lightning near
Carlisle, Pa.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway cuts
rates on flour to . cents.
Thomas Lowry isto be banqueted by prom
inent citizens of the Twin Cities.
Sylvester Young, cashier at Louisville of
the Chesapeake q Ohio, skips with $4,000.
The Fidelity Mutual Aid association is to
appear before the insurance commissioner.
Leech Lake Indians insist that they viii
not accept ploWs for their ruined rice fields.
The English house of lords makes Randall
MOwbray Thomas Berkeley a peer OF the
realm.
Lena Frey. Royal Garter. Prince Fortuna
tus, Emmett and Harry Ray win the races at
uamline.
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ALL AROUND.

Illinois pays two cents a head for Eng
ish sparrows.
President Palmer is at his Detroit log
cabin building himself
A peculiar glossy and Transparent
cloth is made from the fibre of nettles
The latest Maine church fair wrinkle
is serving ice cream on a pine single.
Gen. Neal Dow, Names unentombed
Hannibal, is in favor Of the whipping
post.
Herreshoff. who designed the Glori-
ana, has a blind brother who can model
boats as we'll as he.
Jubal Early was the orator at the un-
yelling of the Jackson monument at
Lexington, Va, recently.
Gen. Boulanger is about to publish a
book under the title of reflections,
Thoughts and Maxims."
The little republic of Switzerland will
be 600 years old on the LIST Of August,
and the anniversary will be celebrated.
The British Admiralty has resolved
to give $50, 900 to Admiral Colomb for his
invention for flashing light signals.
II the sun had nothing else to do but
shine on the righteous 1t would be hard
II worth while for 1t to rise as early as
It does.-Texas Siftings..
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FALSE

Gen. GARRISON IS the president of
the National Republican leagues. the
working element of the party, and it was
conceded that Mr.. QUAY would give him
his position as chairman of the national
committee. His claim to these distinc-
tons and the gratitude of the party
rest mainly upon his striking service
neal the head of the ~poStofice depart
ment. 1t is admitted that he broke all
the records in cutting off the heads Of
officials of opposing politics. On the
return of Mr.. GARRISON from Europe,
the other day, a banquet was given him
in New York city. Tom PLATT was
one of the speakers. He is the seced-
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times. The trotter is not to be crowded
by any visible devices for transit.
These tests of disciplined movement
have been a large factor in the produc-
ton of a superior type of roadster and
family horse. The effect is apparent
universally. The speed and courage of
the trotting horse have infused them
selves into the entire range of equines
designed for related or family service.
The practical value is beyond computa-
tim