The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-20

10 mat country supplies Its own mar
hee' ana has lot to export.
The Republicans are concentrating
speakers both in Ohio and New York, the
nome states of their candidates being in
doubt.
ne saw Palmetto, very common in the
south, and long considered nuisance,
- now oeihg made into paper, and
Ineolcine IS 4being made from it which
has been discovered very valuable in
Kidney disease. Everything has a use
if we only knew it.
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A year ago today the British and Beers
fought the battle of Glencoe, during
which "a English, including Gen. Symons,
We're Killed; on the same day Gen.
Young's forces had a fight with the Fill
pinos.
Judge Miller visited the Mercer county
(Pa-) Iair last week, and found a wheel
OF fortune In operation. He did not go back
to his office and issue an order to have
the gambling investigated. No. he merely
picked up an ak, walked over to where
the wheel was running, and with few
well directed blows put it out of commits
sion. Is y
The new king of Italy says: ST will
not give up one of the royal prerogatives.
On the day when I cannot maintain them
I will abdicate' This belief in the "di-
vine right of kings is the rock on which
many royal hope has gone to pieces. The
people begin to have something to say
about how they shall be ruled. The king
| of Italy must adapt himself to the change
or he will lose his job.
Six years ago today James Anthony
F'Foude, the English essayist and histo-
rian died, and just year before that DR..
Philip Schaff, the noted Biblical writer
and church historian, died in New York.
Alfred Vanderbilt had no trouble recent
ly to get job in the office of the New
York Central railway. This incident Is
not heralded as result of prosperity.
The young man went to work to try and
learn the business, so as to boss 1t after
| a while.
There are 155 cites in this country with
| population each exceeding 25,0O0, accord
ing to the new census.
A man down East tried to read ali the
campaign literature sent him, and the
other day he committed suicide.
There be three hundred different ways
OF speaking. but of weeping only one,
And that one way the wide world Ger
Is known by all, though it is taught by
none.
No mar is master of this ancient lore.
And no man pupil Every simpleton
! Can weep as well as any sage. The man
| Does it no better than the infant can .
e. Lytton BulWer.
A year ago today the Columbia won the
decisive race. with the Shamrock, Lip
tons English yacht, for the American
cup by 8 minutes and IS seconds. Now
Upton is to try again.
The allied powers have seemed to have
organized a grand international cores
pondence bureaus and as the correspond
ence is mainly by cable the frequent ex-
I change of notes comes high.
John Morley the English historian and
/ NJ. P, is not satisfied In a late mani
] festo he declares: 81 regard the South
African war as. a baleful incident of a
retrosrade policy. TIE incorporation of
! the two Boer states is one of the most
evil blunders of our history.
| Today, Oct. 20, is the anniversary Of
the birth in 1892, of Sir Christopher Wren,
| the architect of St PauFs cathedral,
| Westminster Abbey; of Henry John Tenn
|. pie Qord PaImerton), the English States
man, in 1884; of Thomas Hughes, in 1923,
I author of '@Fom Brown at Rugby and
| other books. In 1881 he came to Ameri-
ca and attempted to start a model COM
/ munity at Rugby Tenn.
/ The c., B. & Q, railroad company
| gave Express. Messenger Baxter $500 for
killing a train robber. So
| Spain does not seem. to care to take
part in the international squabble in
| China. She had her inning years ago,
when she pretty nearly owned the world
Queen Victoria has a new ''gillie" or
| personal servant. HIS name is Donald
Gordon, a Scotchman.f She has three gill
lies, one each from England. Scotland
and India Her favorite gillie was the
| late John Brown.
Today, Oct 20. is the anniversary Of
the death in 1910, of Lord William (''Bel-
ted Wil13 Howard, one of the pictur
esque characters of old England and
known as the ''Cfvilizer of the Border
Also in 1914, of Philip Ashley. the cele-
brated English horse trainer; and in 1912,
of Grace Darling, the heroine of the
F'orne Islands
The new minister to Italy is George Won
Leiningen Meyer of Boston. The tele-
graphic announcement of his appoint
ment said: Mr.. Meyer is a very busy
man of affairs, fer he is interested in
half a dozen trust companies and other
concerns. " Being a trust man accounts
for his selection.
THE great and good Ignatius Donnelly
in his book, "Ragnarok, of The Age of.
Fire and Gravel, says that the 400 or 500
feet of silt which compose our upper
stra alum was once the tail of a comet
which struck the earth, and Of which the
larger portion remained on our planet.
If his view be the correct one, the tail