The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-06

likely that he will allow this one to pass
unimproved. One Of his predecessors
found post-tradershps a lucrative per-
quisite.
1T only needed the notice sent round to
the schools by Supt. Smith Tuesday to
turn the smallpox scare into farce COM
edy, and that not of a very high order.
Pursuant to a rule adopted by the board
of inspectors pupils In all the schools
were notified, just before the close of
term. that none would be admitted this
week who had not been vaccinated with
In five years. And during all of last
week there was a tremendous rush to the
vaccinators' offices. Monday 1t developed
that there was such an epidemic of sore
arms that attendance was diminished
thirty per cent. Tuesday the superin-
tendent notified the schools that the rule
of the board could not be enforced and
that pupils should be admitted whether
their arms had been pricked and pointed
with vaccine or not. Some day, let us
pray, common sense will triumph over
this hereditary horror of a disease whose
horrors have been eradicated
Since Homer nodded. drowsiness has
ceased to be a mortal sin, and become
occasion for jocularity. If none of our
houses are wholly of glass nowadays,
they are still plentifully Widowed and
invite the stone reciprocal. Conscious
ness of this makes for tolerance. But
when the Critic, declaring its function in
its title. mods, tolerance takes to the
woods and stones may fly. The Lounger
of the Critic. making comment on Weir
MitchellS celebration of his SEVENTEEN
anniversary, notes the peculiar fortune
of February as a birth-month, and cites
the instances Of Lincoln, Darwin and
Lowell, whose birthdays, she says. were
the 18th. The Critics Lounger should
have known that Lowell was born on the
I'd of February
A member of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture has testified that he was twice Of
fered 5000 to vote for Senator Quay,
but declined That couldn't have hap
pened in some of the states West of the
Mississippi. The offer wouldn't have had
to be made but once
~ 4NC" IOih 1iuci IidS OncfHO 40U,vuu
fer a son-in-law. And 30 per cent of the
eligible young men of that and adjoining
states are ready to take the girl with
out asking questions as to her beauty
or temper.
Hardly a day passes but somebody In
Minneapolis inherits fortune of humid
red thousand or SO. Nobody ever hears
OF one Of these heirs getting the cash
In hand, however.
And now Mr.. Cookers $40 claquers are
gleefully chucking themselves in the
ribs because the 81 dinner fellows cannot
buy meal at any frst-class New York
hotel for 81. ...
/ Yes, 1t is very Ear cry from DR..
Watts to William Cowper, but we have
the consolation. such as it is. that 1t is
much farther cry from Watts to the
Bible
The Rochester Post and Record has a
column "Idyl of Spring. That's right,
brother. Use your influence, and get
the weather clerk to do us Justice
Agoncillo is talking in Paris His in
terviews are just about the same kind
of wind storm as those of the late
James J. Corbett
Chicago university wants So. 900. 900 at
once. Do you hear this distinctly. Mr..
Rockefeller?
Gov. Forget. of the Northwest Terri
tories, has a good memory in spite of
his name.
Dear sugar will you kindly quit boom
ing until after the strawberry season.
Spring must be near at hand Nine new
+ kinds of bicycle saddle are advertised.
How would you like, Aguinaldo. to be
made dog catcher of the Philippines?
Carter Harrison was real mean. He
carried Tina r. Carter's ward, too.
A Texas town has elected a Mexican
mayor. Is Texas going to secede?
Well. let's drop. "embalmed" beef. and
take up base ball.
BY the way, has anybody heard Of
Trilby lately?
Mr.. Quay has given up the plum crop
as lost.
THE CHICAGO ELECTION.
II is not given to many men to receive
such sweeping Endorsement as that &C
corded to Carter H. Harrison yesterday
by the voters of the second city in the
nation. 1t is a triumph of which any
man would have reason to be proud
1t Is an evidence, moreover, that the
people will uphold the public servant
who is faithful in the main, though he
be lacking in complete fulfillment of his
trust. MIR. Harrison's victory is due to
the fact that he assumed and maintained
from the first the determination to allow
no grants to the traction companies
without adequate compensation to the
municipality. Later he added to this
platform declaration against grants
OF more than twenty years and later