The Saint Paul globe., 1900-12-05

danger reached 364, and of the S,496 per-
sous who We're placed in peril by eastlal-
ties within the field covered by the life
saving service all but 5S were rescued.
The vessels involved in the S64 disasters
to documented craft were valued at
$6,127,5O and their cargoes at So, ,342, ,6ea, =
total of 49, 47o, ,19O The total loss of
both ships and cargoes amounted to 81
z3o,5eo, leaving saving of $7,23t,690 to
the credit of the service.
Singular to say the most extensively
ones of vast value According to the
report Of the treasurer of the United
States, during the past year there were
detected and destroyed at the offices of
| the treasury $11 ,146 in counterfeit silver
coins, notes and certificates, 3,277 s.
cent pieces and 121, ,652 1-cent pieces,
and the number of spurious minor coins
in circulation is rapidly on the increase.
! Counterfeit gold coins are rare, only 13
! having been presented at the treasury
! during the Year
A bulletin just issued from the census
| cflice shows q grand total of Is 73S 302
persons, one-fifth of our population, in
the schools Of the United States This
| great and grand army, in whose hands
will rest the future destiny and welfare
of the republic, is thus distributed among
our institutions of learning:
Public Private
Schools. Schools.
High schools and acad-
7reG1eTstt;as eniss aad ;;a 4SS549 1essaS sa8
Professional schools -. $50 1854
Normal schools 4,SO8 23.572
Total ............. Is 234, 435 l BOB S67
An outline of Lord Kitchener's plan
| OF operations in restoring order in the
late South African republics is given out
in London in these terms: 'He will en-
deayor to isolate the commands and to
move suspected Boer families into garri-
soned towns. He will clear troublesome
districts, combining the population in Iaa-
ger, If necessaay and will take or de-
stroy all food supplies, punish treachery
by death or transportatio raze villages
guilty Of treasonabIe acts and destroy
all farms in the vicinity Of railway or tel
eSraph cutting This is identic9Ilv the
same as WeyIer's infamous reconcentra-
do order in Cuba, which aroused the in
dIgnauon of che United States, and even
England.
Advertising is not necessity; neither
IS the telephone nor the telegraph, nor
The limited train; but they are mighty
convenient when you want to get there
quick.-W aterloo Go.) Tribune
lie He was said to be sharp as a lynx;
LIS pTaln was not troubled with Kynx.
He advertised we'll
His Golfers to swell
Which was the whole secret, methvnx."
Printers Ink
| S1gnor Marconi, the wireless telegraph
| genius, has given out the statement that
According to reasonable calculations we
! ShaH have America and Great Britain
! upon speaking terms before the first
Christmas Of the new century," This Is
! apparently g strong claim, but nothing
seems impossible these days. Should the
! slgnor's assertions prove we'll founded.
| the discovery will be of the greatest COM
merclal interest. 1t would mean The
| superseding of submarine cables, and that
! at an inhnitesimal part of the cost Of
the present means Of transoceanic COM
munication.
Finley Peter Dunno, author of the
Dooley letters, is sick in Chicago with
pneumonia.
The Methodist Episcopal church is 10
nave new hymnal. to be prepared by
the following: S. f. Upham, OF Drew
! Theological Seminary, Chairman; S. G.
Nutter, Of st. Albars, Vt; Prof c. T.
! Winchester, of Wesleyan University: M
| v Simpson, Of Philadelphia; DIR. r. ].
| Cooke OF Grant University: w A
! Quayle, Of Indianapolis; Charles w.
Smith, Of Pittsburg; Prof. Charles NJ
Stuart, Of Garrett Biblical institute, and
Dr. G. NJ. Cobern of Denver.
The total expense Of the government
in 1898 was $11, OF, 900. In the session cf
! the congress now meeting for the second
and last time, the appropriations reached
nearly $6l5,000,O0o, divided as follows:
AAgr5cuture Agn1G - ......'......... $$, ,726 022 90
army ....s.................. so 4S0 20i 06
| DIPLOMATIC and consular ..... 1,Tl4.533 76
District Of Columbia. 6,S34, ,535 n
Fort1ncatIOn -. -............... 4909 902 90
! 1holan -. ...................... 7,004.7T5 81
legislative, etc. ................ %, 40 SO 70
Mlhtary academy 1900. 575,774 At
Navy '....................... 48 099, ,969 IS
/ Pension :. ..............,.. 145 233 $40 IN
PostoIhce ................. 105,634,1 IS
dtIFer ana nafbor............... 1G 091, ,S41 81
5undiy civil .................... 48, 3S5 1876 S6
j!ellclencIeS ................ 25005, ,9f2 &c
MIsceIlaheous 49,. ......-...... 2S IA $50 q
! Permanent annual .......... 12S67S. 220 on
Total ...... .......... .S674 92f 022 90
More money will be asked this session
| for the army and navy, while the Phil
! ippines cable, the canal bill and other
schemes, if passed, viii add large sums
to the total
| George Nell1en, Of Waldberg, has started
| an eight page newspaper in Washington
city printed daily in four Ianguages-
| English, German, French and Spanish
| each news item being repeated four
times.
| T. ]. Geary, author of the present Chi
nese exclusion act, which is about to
expire, says: '"The Chinese exclusion
act should be not only re-enacted, but