The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-08

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where public-spirited citizens wore Ask
Me buttons, the wearer answering all
ansWerable questions propounded by
strangers during convention week.
The native born and naturalized
Chinese of Hawaii have organized and
will demand their rights as American
citizens. There are thousands of them
they were citizens under the former gov
eminent, and cannot see why they are
not so under the new.
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The great land values In London can
be judged when the Southeastern Rail-
way company was asked at the rate of
$65. 0C0.000 an acre for a piece of land in
Bermondsey, which had a depth of six
teen feet only. This price was too costly
for even a railway company.
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The Japanese now focking to the Pacific
coast states are not as desirable a class
as the Chinese. The latter apply them
selves to few employments, while the
former take hold of everything. and those
now coming in work for about half as
much as the Chinese get.
A person cannot always tell how a word
is pronounced by the way it Is spelled.
To try to pronounce Chinese words as
the Chinese pronounce them would soon
give white man spasms Of the vocal
cords. Try your voice on Tten Tsin, Isl
An (the empress), - e-Chi-Li (the gulf in
which the Oregon went ashore), Pak-Hoi,
Kwang- ChuWau, and so on through a
long list.
Fred Lell was sentenced to the Mis-
sissippi state penitentiary at Jackson in
1876 for five years for larceny. He was
leased out under the infamous contract
system in vogue in several Southern
states, and kept at work on a plantation
at hard labor until 1897, or sixteen years
longer than his sentence he was locked
up at night with other convict laborers
and denied access to officers, and not I'M
til he was blind and disabled was he re-
leased. Lovers of justice became interest
ed in his case, and applied to the United
States supreme court for the right to sue
the state for false Imprisonment, which
request was recently denied.
1t is the opinion of Oscar Straus,
our minister to Turkey, that it is not
possible for outside nations to produce
much change, without long and mighty
effort, in the Chinese. 1t will require
both time and work to transform a peo-
pie so vast in number, and whose tradi-
lions and habits go back thousands Of
years. Mr.. Straus puts 1t in this way:
China cannot be- Europeanized, CT
Christianized. One might as well think
of converting -the great ocean into a
fresh-water lake"
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Judge o. N Denny, who died in Port
lana, Or, last week, was long prominent
in Pacific coast political life. For many
years he was a representative of the gov
eminent in China, and while consul gen
eral at Shanghai introduced the ring
necked pheasant, a Monaghan game bird,
to Oregon, which is now the principal
game bird in Oregon and Washington,
and by common consent of sportsmen has
been given the name of the Denny pleas
ant. Judge Denny was a native of Ohio.
| When the sun beats down upon the city
| in midsummer there is a longing to get
I away to the mountains or to the sea
shore. In Europe, where much attention
| is being paid to the influence of climate
upon health, a careful study has been
made of the treatment of disease by sea
] air and sea bathing-thalassoth as
| it is called. That air blowing off large
| bodies of water or coming from the
mountains, through pine woods, imparts
vigor to invalids is well known fact.
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