The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-17
Among The Exchanges.

The Merchants Association Of New York
city has recently sent us copy of very
attractive booklet designed to show New York
to its best advantage a pleasant and profit
able city TO visit in summer. There are no
illusions to business advantages; those are
already known, viii be found when the
visitor arrives. The book, which is hand
scmely illustrated, shows all the better
known summer resorts which be reached
so easily from New York, and Is we'll cal
culated to inspire the merchants of other
cities with desire to combine business and
pleasure by making trip to New York when
its surrounding resorts can be enjoyed. The
association is sending out 100000 copies Of
the book at cost Of $1,000, exclusive Of the
cost Of Observation-Disclosures Opinion (New
York;. SO
The municipal authorities of Venice have
petfdoned the italian government to take
diplomatic steps to recover 5000 pictures
which were carried off by Bonaparte between
1906 and 1910. and were appropriated by var
| ious covers after his fall The city also
desires that demand shall be addressed
| to Austria for the return Of 1875 pictures
which were carried off by Emperor Ferdinand
| in 1888. in time Of peace, for the galleries
Of Vienna.
Henry Norman, the we'll known English
| journalist. has this to say in the August
Cosmopolitan, concerning the Eng,ish-Rus-
| sian Chinese imbroslio:
We can hardly be more seriously threat
| ened In THE far East by Russia than we are
| and therefore II we are to quarrel we might
as well quarrel now, while we are the
| stronger. I have always been convinced
| however, that a firm British stand not in
words only but in act, would result in an
| agreement between this country and Russia
regarding the most serious questions at is
| sue. Such agreement would relieve Rus
STA from the neCeSSity in her of
vast additions to her navy, and consequent
~ would relieve us from the necessity of
| glad to be relieved is confirmed by an in
| terest1ng telegram from the Moscow CORE
spondent OF the Standard, in which he as
I serts that the expenditure of the eNtraor-
binary naval vote of 9OG00,G00 roubles has
| been stopped, that expected orders for bat
tleshtps have not been given. and. in werd,
that financial difficulties are bringing Russian
naval expansion to a temporary halt. NJ de
Whites influence must certainly be in this
direction, after what he said in his last
| financial report to the Tsar on the necessity
for national economy.
| At the first Paris exposition, in 1T9S there
were only ITO exhibitors; at the. second, in
| 1901, there were 220; at the fourth. In 1896.
there were 1,422, and at the eighth, in the
reign of Louis Philippe, there were 2,247.
The first worlds fair in Paris was in 1856.
| At the exposition Of 1889 there were S. ass
| exhibitors, and 32.5e8,0OO visitors.
The Brooklyn Eagle Dem.) says: EFT is
an internal outrage that the medical depart
| ment of the army virtually broke down, at
| just the time need for it's efficiency was ex-
| IRENE A tenth Of the ability used to deny
| or to explain its shortcomings would have
| prevented them. The state Of things on the
Seneca and on the Concho was disgrace to
| the United States. 1t made the army bureau
OF medicine and surgery worse enemy to
the SICK wounded and suffering by the war
than Spanish Mausers, Cuban filth, yellow
| fever or tropical typhoons were-combined.
There must be searching investigation. No
| culpr1ts or imbeciles responsible for the
wrongs must have to do with that investi-
cation in any other role than that of accused
defendants. The press will soon begin this
investigation. The committees of congress
can be trusted to finish it. We know that
for this devilish condition of cruel neglect AID
heartless unreadiness: We are net quite pre-
P par today to say who should be shot for it.
ferings. They are criminal because largely
preventable sufferings. We dare not lift the
VEIL The facts are awful. They ought to
sible. Beware. lest that agony and horror
convert TO- Intelligent indignation! The re-
| tributton that would then fall on bacterio-
| logical fossiliferous medical incompentency
would be terrible"
Elisee Reclus. the celebrated geographer
| oiiu ofoiSutst, HaS ue6u p.eaUluS DSf0r6 tho
royal geographical society for the construc-
tion of a revolving globe on the scale of one
In 100000 or eight miles to the inch, which
would make It possible to represent every
marked elevation or depression on the eartff's
surface. The diameter Of the globe would be
eighty-four feet. His project is modifca-
ton of the plan he proposed for the Paris
exhibition of 1900. for which he could not
obtain the needed money in France
In his speech to the Texas Populist con-
vention, Barney" Gibbs, the nominee for
governor, in the course of an anti-imperial-
ism speech, said:
You set hen on too many eggs and She
| will spoil the Matching. The eagle is a big.
proud bird, but ought not to be forced to
| have nest that covers more than one con-
| tinent. Texas has Imperialism to spare. Her
county commissioners, legislators, and alder
men can bond and mortgage the mudsilIers
home without his vote, when he and the old
woman can't mortgage 1t for meat and bread,
| This ought to satisfy even a Russian imper-
ialist. II the plain people have not domina-
ton over their own coast, what in the devil
do You want with more oceanf The rsinbow-
chasing Democrats, after backing and flline
farther than Mckinley and spread their
clipped wings over Malays and worshipere Of
wooden gods. Any old mudsiller mother WIN
tell you that good soap can't be made in ave