The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-03
GLOBE CHANCES.

st. Paul has the longest high bridge In
the country; Jefferson City, Missouri, has
the largest penitentiary (aud from the
way they are cutting UP In st. Louis
1t Is needed); Fairhaten, Washington, has
the largest salmon cannery; While the
largest number and most powerful arte-
sian wells in the world are In the James
river valley Of North and South Dakota.
The special census agents now engaged
IN gathering the statistics of manufactur-
ing In the country will discover that
the Twin Cities nave made notable addi-
tons to the number of smoke stacks
during the last decade.
The Chinese in this country are almost
entirely from Southern China, provinces
remote from where the Boxer troubles
exist. The people Of the two sections are
quite unlike Their written Language Is
alike. but the spoken language is quite
different. The Northern Chinese are Of
Tartar origin.
The United States has natural resources
sufficient to give employment ana support
to hundreds of millions Of people, and
above the forty-ninth parallel is the Do
minion Of Canada, with room for many
more millions. North America affords
ample room for expansion for long years
TO come.
August 8 is celebrated IN the Catholic
church in honor of finding the bones or
st. Stephen, the fret Christian martyr.
The people of Connecticut are Disguised
with the navy department giving the
name Of their state to 3000-ton coast de-
Tense monitor, while that of Rhode Island,
their little next door neighbor. was select
ed for a 14,OO0-ton battleship.
Rich folks are having their troubles like
the rest Of US. John jacob Astor and VIM.
Rockefeller were recently hurt by the
OvertUrning of their automobiles; Young
Vanderbilt was arrested and fined SIS for
running his automobile too fast; Waldorf
Astor is having hstpeck Of sorrow; How
ard Gould's yacht is on rock off the
Norway coast and. Mrs. Potter Palmer
has had a $4,000 diamond necklace stolen.
The Chinese tempest has for the time
being obscured the awfulness of the In
Ola famine. Reports from that unfor-
tunate land say that there Is fear of an
other crop failure by continued drought,
which must add to existing horrors to a
degree beyonds comprehension.
During the last two years congress pro-
vided for the erection Of no less than
seventy new public buildings, with appro-
priat1ons sufficient to purchase sites and
begin, but work on all is now at stand
still owing tot the advance In price OF
material.
Coin dealers estimate that million for
eign coins, Spanish, Indian, Chinese and
Japanese, have found their way into the
United States as a result Of the return
OF American soldier boys from the Phil
ippines.
For one reason or another Friday has
oeen reckoned an unlucky day Accord
ing to Usher's chronology Christ died on
the cross Friday, April 8. A. D. So Ac-
cordtng to Blair's chronology Adam and
Eve were created on Friday, Oct. 81, 1904
=: c. Presidents Washington, Monroe,
FIERCE and Hayes, and three vice presi-
dents, Burr, Gerry and King, were all
porn on Friday. Perry's victory on
Lake Erie occurred on Friday. Friday
Is considered a lucky day among the
Mohammedans. s"0't-~.i
The treasury vaults at Washington now
contain over s45O,0C0, 600 in gold coin and
bullion. the largest amount ever on hand
IN the history Of the government.
Too much rain South and too little
North has cut short the watermelon cron
The shortage from the South is estimated
at 1900 car loads.
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some bad boys played a trick that
might nave proved troublesome to Charles
Moy' Chicago laundryman, by attach
ing the following notice to his door.
Hurrah for the Boxers! 14O Christians
killed IN Pekin! This shop will close
aug. 10 TO allow me to go to China to
help my countrymen, the Boxers {" po1ioe1
men arrived In time to explain matters n
a threatening crowd. -