The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-30
TUESDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

That was a great CD speech of Tams
Bixby at Red Wing Saturday, but he
didn't explain his former opposition to
Van SAINT, the ''Winona raftsman, a.
he called him two years ago, when he
thought the raftsman was not fit man
for governor. Van secured the nominal
ton this year. however, while Tams was
away, and Of course Tams couldn't so
back on the machine.
The government is buying hay in the
Mississippi valley states and shipping it
to the Philippines. During the last two
months over 800 tons of hay have gone
to Puget sound ports, for shipment to
Manila. Large quantities of oats, too
have been bought in this region for army
use in the Orient.
By the census of 1850 there was a ratio
of l lawyer to every 1000 persons. In
1890 the ratio was 1 to every 703. 1t is es-
timated that the census this year will
show L lawyer to every 600 persons.
1t may be news to some of our readers
to learn that the presidential day was
not uniform in the early days. In the
''Tippecanoe and Tyler too campaign
Of 1910, the balloting began in Pennsylva-
MIA and Ohio on the Both of October, and
did not end until North Carolina finished
on the 18th of November. New Jersey
took two days and New York three Such
system would have rendered it possible
for the result to depend upon a close
state voting last of all, and the people
had the good sense to insist upon a uni
form day before the Civil war.
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The death of Max Muller, professor of
comparative philology at Oxford, Eng
land, takes away man who had a wide
knowledge of Oriental languages He was
seventy three years of age, and a native
of Germany.
The egg testers of Chicago have or
ganized a union with over 200 members
Their business is to candle" eggs. Last
year they handled 252. OOO 900 eggs, or 7OO.-
600 cases of thirty dozen, or $50 eggs to
the case.
The biggest nugget of gold ever re-
ceived at the New York assay office ar
rived last week from mines in British
Columbia. 1t contained a fraction over
159 pounds of the solid yellow metal, and
is valued at $lo4,000 1t came in a solid
cone, the shape of beehive, and stood
about two feet in height.
Straw votes are appearing. Those where
Mckinley leads appear in Republican
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cratic papers.
There are 159 cities in the United States
with over $4,000 population New York is
first, Chicago second, Philadelphia third.
st. Louis fourth, Boston fifth, Baltimore
sixth, Minneapolis nineteenth, st. Paul
twenty-third.
Today, Oct. 80, is the anniversary of
the birth. in 1735, of John Adams. sec
ond president; of Andrew jackson Down
Ing, in 1915, the noted American Iandsea be
gardener and author; Adelaide Anne
Proctor in 1925, the English poetess: of
Roscoe Conlzling, in 1928, an American
senator and lawyer; of John Rogers. in
1923. the American sculptor and modeler
of the famed Rogers Groups
With a pension list of SAC. 900 900 a v-ea,
and growing, and 100000 asked for bv
the army and navy next year, Demo-
Gratis and even Republicans ought to be
forgiven for occasionally mentioning mil
itarism
Bank defalcations are getting pretty
common down East 1t is time that an
example was made of bank wreclers
Over in Glasgow, Scotland, the president
and directors of bank, who denied