The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

east winds
Iowa-Rain Sunday; probably fair
Monday; easterly winds
ST PAUL.
Yesterdays observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau. st. Paul,
p. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty.
four hours ended at Z O'Clock last night
Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature .......-......-....~ TO
- Lowest temperature -..-......-..s.-..".-. 80
Average temperature Observation-Disclosures 90
Daliy range ga ~ "a
Barometer 90. 10 10
Humidity ........... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4S
Precipitation ..........- ..,.............' "
Z p m, temperature. ...,....--....-:S Oh
D. M, wind east: weather partly cloudy.
RIVER AT A. NJ
Danger Guage Change In
Station Line Reading. "a hours.
ST P Paul: s'--.'''-.'. u 80 80 "a "a
Davenport ..., ,l5 So "a
st. Louis ...........3 80 ll9 -0S
The river will change but little In the
vicinity of St. Paul from now to Sunday
night.
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURES.
Highs PM High-Spm
Bismarck .66 s Helena ;..4s =
Chicago ....4S 41Philadeiphia So S.
Cincinnati - col Pittsburg ....65 81
Cleveland 81 sis. Francisco. Sc So
B etln9F % Wasb 3iup1 &c 20
Duluth Duluth .......SS sd Winnipeg 70 6
washington time e p. m. st. Paul..
But let it be remembered that Paul
Kruger isn't at the peace congress.
OF course we are all ready to disarm.
but who'll do it first? = Concert of
powers.
Corsets are going into a trust. too.
They'll be squeezed all right enough
eventually.
Brooklyn has a ball player named
Casey. He is hitting things besides high
baIls.'' too.
George Gould Is declared to be the most
overworked man in New York city. Who
is working him?
After we get through with Dewey we
may conclude to be real generous and
buy Spain home
True, our army swore terribly at en-
balmed beef, but what would they have
done to renovated" butter?
That ten-year-old musical prodigy from
South Dakota. Vernon H. Alger, Is Sc
riously handicapped by his name.
Eighty seven trunks in a bunch have
been sent from New York to London.
The Bradley Martins went with them.
Dear Thirteenth Minnesota, you'll have
to hustle now If you get home to help US
celebrate the Fourth of July in the best
possible shape.
The fact that one William T. Stead is
lettering in the vicinity of The Hague
peace commission indicates that the
whole affair may terminate in a row.
1t is stated that the Filipino peace COM
missioners were driven through Manila
by carriage to the Ayuntamiente. That
settles it. The war must be about over
Former Senator William Alfred PETER,
Of Kansas. has returned to the Repub-
lican party. AS though the Republican
party din't have troubles enough already.
Has Kansas gone out of the Union with
New Jersey? A Chicago dispatch says:
Rains throughout Kansas and South
eastern Europe removed apprehension of
drought
The question of alimony is driving some
men to drink and others to bankruptcy.
Robert Mantell has filed a petition in
bankruptcy to get rid of a $40 900 alimony
judgment.
ho @ho4
gle has $500 900 to give away before he
= dies suggests the possibility that he is
preparing to SOW his wild oats in the
sunset of life.
= There is but one vacant building lot
left on Commonwealth avenue, In the ELI
gible residence district of Boston, and 1t
has risen to a fabulous price Here Is a
case in which money talks louder than
blue blood.
The suggestion of the St Louis Globe
Democrat that Gen. Funston be pre-
scented with a vjne-embow cottage
with a little river meandering peacefully
through the grounds. is an excellent one.
Push 1t along.
Business is business, but that st. Louis
syndicate that charged people so cents
apiece for a glimpse at the United States
cruiser Nashville was altogether too
thrifty. When did United States property
become capital for bunch of skin-game
sharpers?
The Boston Post says: What is need
ed in Cuba, on the part of the represent
atiyes of the United States, is tact and
discretion" But how can there be tact
and discretion among military men sub
ject to orders from Washington A
q stream. cannot rise higher than it's source
If there be no tact and discretion in
Washington. there can be no semblance
of them in Cuba.
FOR PUBLIC FAIRGROUNDS.
The Civic league takes the initiative of
planting the public playground among the
features of our civic life. Elsewhere these
have begun in like manner, by indiyid-
ual. then organized effort, and, having
demonstrated their right TO exist, have
become incorporated as public functions.
figuring annually in the budget st, Paul
lags, but not superfluous on the stage. IF
Is proposed to make a beginning on the
lots at the corner of Jackson and Ninth.