St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

Thomas genius as great military leade
Had he been more ambitious, or if he ha.
had strong political friends behind him, as
had some who passed him in the race for
promotion, the close of the war might have
found him in a higher rank. But he was
not man who cared for promotion. He
had no ambition beyond duty, and he
permitted no impulse to move him that had
not its origin in pure principles and sound
patriotism.
With handsome person, and a manner
that begat confidence and induced affection,
General Thomas with less commanding mill
tary abilities would still have been the idol
OF his army. Although young man when
the war began, men older than himself came
to regard him as a senior. and the soldiers
who carried bayonets or welded sabers spoke
affectionately of him as "Pop." The men
came to him and expressed their wants, ex-
actiy as if he had been; their father, and he
took them into his conference.-the had them
already in his heart-and he showed that the
arduous duties Of his position did not blunt
his sympathies nor make him Indifferent to
their needs. General Sherman, at the time
OF the death of his great comIa1e, in 1870,
eloquently said: General Thomas had no
children OF his own, but every man in the
Army OF the Cumberland called him father,
and felt toward him as a son."
General Thomas is buried beside his wife,
at Troy, New York, and neither in the cap
ital city on the Hudson, nor on any of the
battlefelds made immortal by his genius,
has a monument to his memory been erected,
nor is this needed. So long as purity of pur-
pose, great self-denial, manly simplicity of
character and great genius are respected by
Americans, SO long an enduring monument
to General George Fl. Thomas will be found
in the hearts Of his countrymen.
Why grape fruit is called 'sgrape fruit,"I
cannot imagine. 1t does not look like a
grape, nor taste like a grape. It resembles
rather mammoth orange, and has a more
acrid favor. 1t is, however a most valuable
fruit, and while I do not believe in recon-
mending food because of its medicinal value
grape fruit has tonic properties that would
make it far more popular than it is at pres
ent, were it better known. good way to
serve grape fruit is to cut it in halves, mid
way between the blossom end and the stem,
removing the seeds, and loosening the pulp
with a sharp knife. In this way, it can be
eaten with spoon, and sweetened to the
taste with powdered sugar. The half of a
good grape fruit eaten before breakfast and
after dinner will be sure to aid healthful
digestion. 1t is usually in the market in the
early spring months, when other fruits are
rot attainable or are expensive, and it is at
all times much cheaper than the orange.
The trolley assumes every day new and
strange forms of terror. Last week a woman
in Baltimore was one evening looking out of
her window, when binding fash came
from the trolley wires just beneath; such
flashes are of constant occurrence, but this
one must have been very powerful or the
woman's optic nerves very weak but be that
as it may, certain it is the woman was stricken
blind, and so remains up to this time, with
but slight hope of recovery.
1t is said that the English have invested five
hundred millions OF dollars in American rail-