The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-28


OF Gen. OTIS and the result is long
drawn out war. The great nation could
nave afforded to have been magnanimous
10 weak people, even If they We're in
the wrong. We were in thsir country
and the Filipinos, like any people of
spirit, thought they had some rights in
their own land.
Gen. MacArthur's last list of deaths
among soldiers in the Philippines shows
more fatalities from disease than from
bullets.
Perhaps sodlhave not noticed it, but
the broom is gradually giving way to the
carpet sweeper. The broom was useful
IN its day,sbut the patent sweeper gath
ers up more dust without distributing it
imam the broom, and the latter must 60
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NO wonder the dictionary is growing;
that the latest one contains $3.50, 900 words
somebody is getting up new words and
morse leg,s the bicycle face" writer's
cramp, operators wrist''-aI these are
fuiiy established and now comes forward
tEe pet aHeetien of the bowling novice to
claim the attention of the curious public
as Well as Rerchance that of the medical
fraternity. lit is the ''bowler's neck.
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1891 culture las DceH auQed to the
regular course of study in the Phila
deiphia public schools.
Inc courts sustain the suicide clause
IN the Modern Woodmen's benefit GER
unoate The widow of a Woodnlan in
iowa brought suit before the United
states court recently at Council Bluffs.
TO collect $4,000, but the jury decided the
certincate was Noided by self murder.
FROM all the reports about the good
roads and good schools that are being
estani1shed in the Philippines, Cuba and
Porto Rico, it would seem that our
soldiers were doing nothing but make
reads and build school houses We need
both IN the United States, and perhaps
When the troops come home they wilt
DC able to teach the citizens how to do
the needed work in this country. But
maybe these good things In our colonies
are pipe dreams of administration cor
respondents
The Royal Arcanum according to last
report, shows 1,7S7 councils with 204, 5a2
members. The twenty-ffth anniversary
OF the founding of the order will occur
June g. 1862
A national championship bowling match
IS to come off in Chicago, Jan. 7-12.
Nearly 100 teams have signtfed their in
tentions to take part, including repre-
sentatlVes from the Twin Cities
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Commenting upon the action of the M.
a. llama bclub of Cleveland. asking
Marcus Aurelius Hanna to become candi-
cate Tor president four years hence. the
Kansas CityrsTiues says: MARK Hanna
is and will be the logical nominee of the
tsepuhl1canSifer president next time, If he
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civil war to do his soldering for him,
1t is hardly probable that he will send
second substitute into the White house.
he Will try to get there himself next
time = y
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There are four well established species
of grasses offered by seed men under the
general name of blue grass. The we'll
known blue grass of Kentucky is the
June grass of Northern states and the
smooth stalked meadow grass of Eng
land. -
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Maj. Mckinley and Col Bryan are both
members of the A. o. L. w But they
are not united workmen in politics.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department, in his annual report, counts
the shipments of supplies to the army
and navy in our new colonies as a part
of the new trade. That is a good deal
like the hahit OF brothers trading knives
on rainy days.
Today, Dec. %, IS the anniversary OF
the birth. in 1880, of Catherine M. sedg-
wick, an eminent American author and
novelist; of Charles Hodge, in 1872, a
noted American theologian. for fifty
years professor at Princeton; of Alex
ander Keith tombstone. in 1904, tho
famous British geographer