The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-30

hour, not only injuring the product itself
but interfering with the growth of our
exports of these things.
The national debts of the great nations
at the beginning of 1900, were as follows:
l. France 49,. $40 e65 600
8 Great Britain and Ireland. 38Ss,, SI9SSS
Z. aust Aau1strla-Hungary $3.50. 2,574,o7S, 500
G. 10y 10y '..'.......ss......... 49,, SI48 12
:. Tpatn IN 1919 ............... 719, 600 GOO
TIL nl e STATES ..;:...:..;... 1885, 21, III
Per capita but nationality is as follows:
T Tm5reo 81 states %, Great Britain (2).
rance t.Ia &c ~, Germany a., Russia 90, Aus
lrla (6)' Italy CD, Spain (S).
Alvin Williams was the Republican
canoldate for county commissioner in
osborne county, Kansas. He died at noon
election day, and when the news of his
death reached the polls the Republicans
were greatly perplexed as to what to do.
upon looking up the law they discovered
tnat II they should succeed in electing the
dead man the duty OF selecting a live
commissioner would devolve upon the
| two other commissioners and the county
clerk, all of whom were Republicans So
! they continued to cast their ballots for
/ Williams, and defeated his opponent by
! plurality of g. This is probably the
| only instance in the history of the United
States in which men knowingly voted for
candidate who was dead.
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| William j. Bryan has been appointed
| postmaster But it was not the w. j.
B. you may at first think. This one is
farmer and the postoffice, Moselle, Mo,
| is in his house.
A Binghamton, N Y woman, to sur
| prise her husband, Borrowed two babies
| and placed them with her own. 1t was a
! lovely joke to begin with. The three in
! fants were dressed alike. But it did not
| prove such coke when the identity of
the three kidlets could not be distin-
! guished from t'other. The joke was
| staged ais a farce but it proved to be a
melodrama, or problem play, with six Or
| eight feet Of gloom. Three families are
now in trouble about their respective
baby.
The Standard Oil company owns a ma
jority of the stock of the large banks of
| New York City. One of the company's
banks, the National City, has been des-
| ignated by the national administration
the depository for United States Internal
| revenues This bank has large portion
! of the $90,000,0 900 of United States money
which, according to the last treasury re-
| port, has been lent to the national banks
l
they may in turn lend it to the business
| interests Of the country and make a profit
| from so doing.
The presidents annual message will
soon be in order. Congress meets next
Monday. The document will probably
be a long one,
zone reason why the constitution
doesn't follow the flag to the Philip
pines, said the invaded soldier, "is prob
| ably that the climate OF the Philippines
| is ruinous to the strongest constitution
Philadelphia North American.
Today, Nov 90, is the anniversary of
| the birth in 1867, of Jonathan Swift,
known as Dean Swift, celebrated Brit
| ish humorist and satirist; of Theodore
| Mommsen, in 1917, German historian and
| jurfst; of Cyrus West Field, in 1919, pro-
| jectoT of the first Atlantic cable; of An
| ton Rubenstein, in 1880, the noted Russian
musician; of Samuel Langhorne Glenn
ems, Mark Twain" in 1880, American
! humorous writer.
| Quay wants to be senator again from
! Pennsylvania. Reports differ as to his
| strength among the new legislators. 1t
| is said to be about a tie He ought to
be able to influence a few Republicans
as Hanna did in Ohio, and scratch in.
| The European papers as a rule COM
| pare the war in the Philippines with the
| South African war, and profess to find
many points Of similarity. The West
minister Gazette, of London, thinks the
| British chances in South Africa, much
| better than the Americans in the Philip
| pines. The Manchester (England) Guar
| dian does not blame the FiIipinos for
their resistance to any invading foe The
Berlin Germany correspondent says
| that the best military authorities declare
| that it will take many years and large
army to crush the Filipinos. That there
is no lack of money for the insurgents,
and the large coast line enables the ma
| tives to smuggIe in arms and supplies.
The Filipinos in Manila, many of whom
are in American employ, sympathize with
Aguinaldo and contribute freely of their
incomes to aid him.
The people Of Iceland have been hold
ing an election, and by large majority
it was decided that the island should
have an autonomous government.
The world is fast depicting its supply
of wood. The demand for wood for the
manufacture of paper-puIp has become
very large, and 1t is a new factor in
| the problem of the future.
There are 40 Afro-American papers
printed in the United States. OF these
about 30 per cent supported Bryan dur
ing the recent campaign.
Gen. MaeArthur's report on the con-
dition of things in the Philippines, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Times. cab
solutely destroys the pretense put for
ward in the presidents letter of accept
ance that only fragment of the popula-
ton are at war and that they are not
sustained by the rest Of the inha bitants,
who would be pleased to receive the pro-
lection of the United States. The pres
| ident may or may not have believed
this, but any Of his officers could have
told him better" Is the game worth
the candle?" inquiries the New York
Evening Telegram, while the New York
| Evening Post says: "a bill of over $1O0-
100000 a year is to be presented indef-
nitely to American taxpayers for these
gems and glories of the tropic seas as
Mr.. Mckinley called them two years
ago Just now they look, instead, I'M