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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
SANITARY OBJECTIONS.

A banquet is TO be rendered Mr..
LOWRY for his signal achievement in
providing the Twin Cities with the most
expeditions, complete and satisfactory
street car system to be found in any
city of the land. This is in the line of
approved customs, and has commend
able features of a local and specific
nature. But this is not the point under
consideration. 1t has been evolved
from the consciousness and mental
arcana of a class of the erudite that the
Improvements in this branch of modern
comfort and convenience are at the eX-
pense of the health of the people.
Dyspepsia and a train of ailments that
are induced by lack of physical activity
are the results. The. electrics and
cables slide along smoothly, and
hasten people to their places of
toll, with little Of the stir to
the physical forces of the older
time. Something of a contrast is
drawn with the equine regime. There
was nOt.then, usually, in good weather,
any very decided choice between the
car and the sidewalk. One could COM
monty expect to stand up, and the eff
forts pertaining to that feat in a jam
and the jerking over rough tracks were
anti-dySpeptic in their effects. The diff
ference between riding and walking
was not great in a sanitary way. Now
the car tracks are generally smooth,
and the transit so pleasant and cheap
that people will not-do much walking.
Those who need the exercise will not
take it with the loss of time when Mr..
LOWRY tempts them to such speedy and
economical passage in his comfortable
vehicles. Some insist that the jar of the
cars, occasional jerks or little races
to catch cars afford sufficient exercise.
They point to the manipulatOrs of the
trains as evidence OF the healthfulness
of the situation, and that riding is as
useful TO the system as walking. But
who eyerkuew a street car director to
greatly add to his weight? Measurably,
the objections apply to all the modem
appliances for facilitating transit. They
tend 10 diminish the activities of the
people as machines, and the results en-
sue common to stagnant forces. 1t is
insisted that the catalogue of ills and
bodily Affections keep pace with the de-
vices Of modern life. The father never
heard half the anne now applied to
ailments. The only remedy so far
suggested is to provide such motion to
street car riding as to make it do the
service of pedestrianism. This is not,
however, likely to be popular.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR.

The GLOBE heSitates in general to
suggest the creation of new county
officers whose maintenance will mean
further burdens of taxation. But daily
experience shows how much safer it
would be, were there a public admins
TRAITOR available for service in connec
ton with the probate courts. of orr
larger counties, at least. In ST. Paul
and Minneapolis a considerable proper
ton of the estates administered are of
non-residents who die seized of some
interest in Minnesota property ana, as
investments from abroad increase in
number with the passage of time. the
proportion will become still greater.
The death of executors named in wills,
sometimes before their functions begin
and sometimes before they are COM
pleted, constantly creates a need for a
public officer who will discharge the
duties for which they were nominated.
AS things are now, the probate Judge
selects for the position some person
suggested by those interested in the
proceedings before him. but no reSpon-
sibility attaches to his choice. The an
mails of the state are full of trusts thus
created negligently, or even dis
honestly managed, and the instances
of loss and annoyance to nonresident
heirs are numerous and distressing. In
other states a public administrator.
regularly appointed and under proper
bonds for the prompt and careful dis
charge of the requirements of his Office.
takes charge of matters like this. Such
an arrangement has been proved by eX-
perience to be safer and more efficient
than the system which we employ. and
it would be very desirable should we
adopt it. This, of course, cannot be
done until the legislature gives its sane
ton, but in the meanwhile the probate
court can practically do the same thing
by fixing on some citizen of character
and ability and using what pressure it
a 70 secure his selection on all such
occasions where real claims do not die
tate some other choice.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
CHEAP FAME.

A young lady III one of the towns in
Connecticut is obtaining a vast amount
of newspaper celebrity. Her name is
Miss IRENE W. Colt, and the basis of
her sudden fame is that she has passed
the examination requisite for admission
to Yale college. This no doubt war
m the statement that she is a ''brainy
girl" This might be conceded from her
picture, which is following the long
patent channels that lead to a notOriety
touching two oceans. She has an intel
lectual cOuntenance, and. withal. attract
i've features, classical and good for the
eyes to liDger on. 1t would be rude
and unwarranted to intimate that her
fame may lead the way to a
dime museum Or the stage. But
there is really no occasion for
ally high enthusiasm over the
fact that 4 young woman has
passed the intellectual ordeal for adj
mission to a college that does not make
provision for females. The past few
wears, perhaps nearly every year, young
men frufn the st. Paul high school have
passed this Yale examination, and it is
not remembered that failures have been
reported. The young ladirs who pur-
sued the same studies with them, no
doubt, would have equal success if they
had a fancy TO advertise themselves II
this way. If any of the ynHHg men had
thought to present themselves to the eX-
aminerS for NasSar or Wellesley. 40
doubt they would have passed credit
ably: but. whether this would have given
them fame in the newspapers Is not GER
tain. The Yale woman gave no unusual
euideEce OF brains, but aimed at nuto-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
ARDICATION.

All Minneapolis is agitated over the
plans of Dog Catcher HIDDEN, who
has resigned in the newspapers as often
as Secretary NOBLE, and who lone the
less continues to exercise the solemn
duties of his Office. When he was in
augurated as dog catcher there was
much jubilee in the Flour City, and his
inaugural address was generally spoken
of as eXcelling in every respect any
previous effort of the sort in the
memory of living man. Some people,
it is true, did c~riticise it as being
a little too statistical, but the gem
eral consensus of popular opinion
was in its favor. Two or three things,
however, have interferred with the
complete success of his administration,
but the GLOBE does not believe that
II of these affords the true eYplana-
ton of his abdication, if it is really a
fact that he proposes to abdieate. He
would have enjoyed his position more.
had he been permitted TO delegate part
of his duties to deputies, because this
would have left him more leisure for
PINDAR and the other poets. in whom
he takes great delight; and had the sum-
mer been warmer and rabies more prev
alent, his income would have been
gratifyingly larger. But the actual Sc
cret of his discomfort is not to be found
here.
The real trouble is that Mr.. HIDDEN
has a beard of several parasangs in
length, which swaYs and rocks in the
lranzac lilo tho uiilOu-c or nnha1intc
pool. One day recently. on Henne-
pin avenue, a stranger from Kansas
who was In attendance on the con-
vention of the Y. p. S. c. E. rushed up
to him warmly and SAID "HOw do you
do. Mr.. PETER, and how goes it with
anarchy?' During the following week
this experience was so often repeated
that finally Mr.. HIDDEN procured a
bound volume of the writings of the
lunatic successor to Mr.. INGALLS,, and
was electrified to discover from a por-
trait which constituted its frontispiece
his resemblance TO Senator PETER
to be so startling that all the
mistakes which had been made
were not only natural, but al
most inevitable. Since then he has
felt satisfied that he has mistaken his
vocation, and all his friends have as
sured him that any man with whiskers
as long as his owes it to the world to
stop catching dogs and to begin regen-
Grating society. This will account for
his recent statements: Il shall catch
no more dogs" and II will resign if
asked to do So" In other words, Mr..
HIDDEN's mind is made up. lie is in
the hands of his friends. The CLONES
advice to him s.to waste no time over
the composition of a letterOf abdication.
Even if he should try. he couldn't do
better than did st. Pauls Mr.. ERWIN on
a recent occasion. Let him send a
messenger TO Mayor WINSTON with an
epistle like this
Each individual, 1 think, has duties, per
sonalities. moods, sorrows. wounds and blood
born prides, in whose broad domain lie
camped the unseen but potent d~estinies
which control, design and give intention
the sacred character Of fate. Therefore l
resign. HIDDEN. Dog Catcher.
Then let him hasten to PEFFER'S and
DONNELLY'S and doe FISH'S side,
that man may no longer grovel, but soar
and soar and soar.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
A VIOLATION OF law.

President HARPER, of the new Chi
a g university, used to be professor of
the Semitic languages at Yale college.
He is a vigorous young man, who has
done much to %populaTiZe the study OF
the Scriptures in the original tongues.
During the recent convention of the
Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor In Minneapolis he took a
prominent part in the exercises.
and on the Sunday afternoon fol-
lowing its adjournment he occu-
pied the pulpit of the First Baptist
church in this city. The First Baptist
church, it will be remembered, is the
one under the pastorate of the Rev.
WALLACE II. BUTRICK. the man who
IS reported to have said that it costs
$1,000, 600 a year TO run the st. Paul
municipal government, and who proved
ROBERT A. SMITHS unfitnesS to be
mayor by some interesting instances of
the violation of the usuIy law IN this
country.
This President HARPER is about to
sail for Europe. and in a published in
teryiew has stated that the purpose of
his trip is partly for rest and partly to
engage professors there for the new
university. The reporter to whom he
gave this information asked the rev.
erend gentleman how he propose to get
import teachers from Europe in view Of
the act of congress forbidding the land
ing in our ports of aliens coming under
contract for employment in this country.
Dr.. HARPER is said to have smiled Sig
nificantly, and to have replied that he
proposed to make no contracts with
them; that he had no authority to do
anything of this kind; that he would
simply pick them out, and that after
their arrival in Chicago. and then only,
the trustees would arrange the details
OF their engagement.
The GLOBE submits that a programme
of this sort is as much a violation of the
law as though the president actually
signed a contract with the professors,
and smuggled them in as II smuggles
diamonds and jewelry. What he will
do will be to give them assurance of
employment, and. relying on that, they
will come to our shores. They will have
made no formal contract. and will eX-
pect to get by the custom house through
this device. But to all intents and pur-
poses they will be under contract, and
their admission will be a defect and
thwarting of a statutory provision.
To be sure, the alien contract
law is not the wisest n in
the volume of federal statutes.
But that is not the point. A law is a law,
and it is every good citizens place to
submit to it, however much he may OBJ
ject. and however foolish it may appear to
him. The GLOBE and Mr.. BUTRICK have
agreed all along that they had no SYM
patty for iawbreakers of any shape or
pattern. 1t is to be hoped that Mr..
BUTRICK will write a letter of remon-
STRANGE to his Chicago friend, so learned
in the Semitic languages. If this does
no good, let us have a fierce sermon
from the Baptist pulpit, filled with per-
sonal remini SCIENCES and hot inYective,
showing up this wantOn disregard of the
acts of congress-,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
THE STORY OF A A
The none saves The Bank of Rome.

The pope saves the Bank of Rome.
Buffalo may join the American association.
Shakopee gets a big Eastern plow manu-
factory.
| Longstreet beats Tenny in the 81, 800
match race in 2:07I2.
The interurban street railway mail service
is 10 start tomorrow.
Jimmie Carroll is acquitted of training
FitZsimmons for a fight.
Newton Baker, private secretary of Robert
G. Ingersoll, is fatally shot at Grolon Land
ing. n. Y.
Ed Hopper wins the St. Paul stakes at Ham
line in 2:OS, Verge dor running second and
Franchise third.
Mrs. Sarah Mitchell has brought suit against
Frederick " Sharon at san Francisco for
calling her a blackmailer.
Judge Aikens, of Sioux Falls. refuses a di-
vOrce to a Philadelphia on the ground that
his affidavit Of good faith as to residence was
merely a blind. 1t is believed the judge will
refuse divorces to Mrs. James q. Blaine JE.
and others on the same ground.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
THE 500 CANAL,

The successful trip of the whale
back WetmOre from Duluth to Liver
pool, laden with wheat, is the Begin
ming of a -transoceanic traffic that prom
Uses important things for the cities at
the head of the lake. Nothing a stay
their progress to ultimate greatness,
and every achievement of this latest
sort, showing enterprise and courage,
helps in the work. The new lock in
the course Of construction at the 500,
when completed, will open the way for
the limitleSs extension of commerce be-
tween Lake Superior and Eastern ports.
The present canal is los feet wide and
1000 feet long, and so constructed that
vessels drawing not more than sixteen
and a half feet of wafer can pass
through it. The new canal, which is
building parallel to it, will permit the
passage of ships OF nineteen feet
draught. The illustrated American, in
its current number, calls attention to
the marvellous volume of trade which
is made possible by the present facili-
ties. Every school boy has heard of the
Suez canal and is familiar with what it
has done for the world. But the
traffic of the Suez caual for the three
hundred and s~iXty-siX days of 1870 was
only $3.50 vessels OF q Total burden OF
6.s9O.O14 tons, while during the TWO
hundred and eighty-fOur days of that
year in which the $50 canal was open
1857 shlDs were taken through it. with
S,454, 435 net tonnage. Mlil.0AS OF
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

kota, reports that cutting there will
begin in a week or ten days, and that
every Indication points to overlooking
granaries, the local wiseaeres predict
ing that there will be thirty bushels of
wheat for every acre under cultiva-
ton in the district. Kansas is re-
ioicing in the prospect of a total
yield of s. ,OOO.OO O bushels, but those
who know place Minnesota's prOba-
bic output at twice that figure. If
this hope is realized, One-fifth of the
grand wheat harvest of the nation will
be contributed by this commonwealth
alone. The discouraged farmer may lift
up his head, and every industry in the
state may look with confidence into the
future. With plenty of grain and fair
prices for it, the unhappy past will
be forgotten in the prosperity of the
DAYS at hand.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
viii do almost anything, this flattering offer
to Mr.. Frohman was readily accepted.

viii do almost anything. this fiattering offer
to Mr.. Frohman was readily accepted.
+ + I
Notwithstanding the fact that there will be
an expense attached to the produc-
ton of Mr.. Wilkinson's Widows in this
city, the management of the Metropo litan
opera house has decided to make the prices
popular-225, 5o,75 cents and 81. and the boxes
S.. SO and Sl2. This attraction has never
played to less than Sl.50 for the best seats.
This company will not play Minneapolis
at this time; therefore the Minneapolitan
theatergoers will have the pleasure of wit
Messing these performances at the popular
st. Paul amusement resort. Mr.. Frohman is
compelled to take his attraction direct to New
York after the close of the st. Paul engage-i
ment. as he begins his next regular season at
Proctor's Twenty-third Street theater, New
York, early i'll August. This is a comedy
production by William Gillette. author of
THE Private Secretary and ''All the Com
forts of Home, and it is the best work tina
he has ever done. The comedy with such Il
company is a performance that one only
sees once in a lifetime.
I I
The sale of boxes and seats for his engage
ment opens at the Metropolitan Monday
morning at 9 O'Clock.
Burt Shepard's Ministries zil!, play an en-
gagement four nights 0&G wednesday matt.
nee at the Metropolis ii opera house. COM
mencing Sunday. Aug. Q. Mr.. Shepard is one
of the old-timers in the minstrel usiness
and thoroughly capable of giving a first-claSs
minstrel performance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
THE CROPS.

From every quarter of the Northwest
com the glad tidingS of a big crop of
grain full in the ear. Thursday the
first wheat of the eason was brought
into Red Wing. 1t tested siXty-twO and
a half pounds to the bushel. and the
yield averaged %thirty-three bushels to
the acre. On the same day the roller
mills of Mitchell. S. D., purchased the
first fruit of this years harvest
marketed in that region, which
showed a product of twenty-nine
bushels to the acre. The GLOBES
correspondent at Sanborn, North Da-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

bushels of wheat and millions of tons of
coal and iron and copper ore find their
way to market through this M at
rates infinitely lower than railroads
would charge. With increased capacity,
the canal will be still more employed,
and the cereals and minerals OF the
Northwest will be landed in the East
and abroad at figures which will enable
them to compete successfully with the
products of other sections of the
try. Too much weight cannot be given
to the 500 canal as a factor in Mime
sota'S development.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
Museum of Minnesota Fossils"

At the entrance 1 found an official who it
appears was the curator. His face in some
manner brought to my mind elusive recollec-
tons, and on inquiry he told me that while
on earth he had been secretary of numerous
societies. His temperament was so mild. and
he was so kind and obligIng, that his COM
pany was a source of real pleasure to me-. He
invited me to enter and look around, and
make myself at home.
+ +
Passing the portals l found that there was
but one large spacious room, the vaulted
roof of which was supported by marble pill
lars. On the sides. and through the room
were rows of handsome cases in which were
the most wonderful fossils tina ever ex-
listed.
The curator led me to a set of cases which
were labelled, Fossils of the Railroad Age"
in which were car wheels, pinch bars, pieces
of rails, ties. tickets, passes and many other
objects, including, indeed. a wrecking scene,
which, by some wonderful process of nature.
had turned to stone.
In other cases were fossils of the Banking
Age, such as ledgers. blotters, stubs, bank
notes, drafts, cheeks, mortgages, etc.
Another set of cases contained fossils of
the Legal Age. and there could be seen
proudly displayed law books. reports, df-
gests, supreme court reports, records of fl
ings. etc.
still other cases contained fossils of the
Medical Age. drugs of various kinds all crys-
tailized. Pills, medical books and instru-
ments. and numerous other things belonging
to the profession
IN dark corner vas a case containing Sc
fected specimens of various merchandise and
manufacture. which, as a representation OF
the modest Mercantile Age. came near being
overlooked.
After seeing many otle9 things of interest.
the polite curator led ma Ia aset OF long glass
ease, in which we e fossils OF a mich more
Interesting nature. Here were professors.
lawyers. doctors, capitalists, railroad mag
ia e.. theains.ans. historians. scientists and
oiiIsT~. all ~ natural ~ life. AM. excepting
III, ,nle hue. cloSciT resembling the best
w. =; }lfe il i.iT%,rat'oT nf iAe Indian tribes
d - -ui:hsauitn iHsUt,ti y. c0ul1 not
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chrome vssa I1rs>mtrA.l tail IN wl..l
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

A GooD point should never be spoiled
for personal reasons. At a temperance
meeting in Maryland the other day, the
colored speaker put it in this way:
whisky makes Democrats say the
Republicans. And still the Republicans
permit the making of whisky, and thus
are making the instruments for the de-
struction of their party" They even
grow corn that is used for whisky, when
they might say, the more orr the more
Democrats.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
Erected by the
State Historical Society
in 1897"


After passing around n critically examin-
ing this curious monument and its surround
ings, my attention was attracted to a large
and imposing building which TODD on a lit
tie eminence in a thick grove of trees, which
had hitherto hidden it from my view. Re-
crossing the bridge 1 soon arrived at a point
where l could view this grand and stately
structure, which was built of vari-colored
marble that blended so tremendously as to
give a most pleasing impression to the mind.
In front and along the sides were stately col
umns of pure white marble, and on the front
facade above the entrance was the inscrip-
tiOn.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02
WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. Aug. L-For Wisconsin: Gen
orally fair Sunday; northwesterly winds;
stationary temperature except in Southern
Wisconsin. For Iowa: Generally fair Sun
day; westerly winds; slightly cooler; For
Minnesota: Fair weather; stationary temper
allure except slightly cooler in extreme south
east portions; westerly winds For North
Dakota and South Dakota: Fair; variable
winds; slightly warmer by Monday.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

A ROMANTIC Chicago couple were
married in a hanson the other day.
Another couple had the knot tied in the
water in their bathing costumes, and
still another were married in an elevator
while going up and down. The race of
freaks is not likely to run out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

A "PROF. CAMPBELL" in Indiana is
operating an air ship, and takes in the
quarters to see him sail, but the seeing
it is not much so far. The only CAMP
BELL that is going to make things fly
much this season is in Ohio. But he is
not in the balloon business.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

OMAHA papers claim that GARRISON
is for that city for the national con-
vention. Some have thought he favored
Minneapolis. He is an eel sort of a
politician just now, wanting to take in
all sections.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

ST. PAUL parties have opened a mine
some distance down the river of a pow
der that is claimed by analysis to be ex-
actly the same as that used in the famous
mud baths at Carlsbad, in Germany.
Tests with specimens seem to confirm
the claims made for it. The find is in
one of the most picturesque and roman
tic regions on the Mississippi, and it is
believed that the Northwest may event
ually have a Carlsbad with the mineral
waters and mud baths.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-02

CONGRESSMAN RoRR repeats to the
Kansas farmers the old wltticism to
''raise more corn and less hell" They
are coming along with the corn, and
politicians think the other product is
Drolifn alSO.