The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-22

sues involved lie at the foundation of
republican government.
SATURDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
Today the turn is made in the suns
march and the days will grow longer.
Yesterday was the shortest day in the
year. AS the days begin to lengthen
the cold begins to strengthen, is an old
saying.
If the mail man is late remember that
the holiday mail is heavy and he is do
ing his best.
It is suggested by a short woman that
the straps in the street cars be lergthen-
ed for the benefit of women not endowed
by nature with sufficient height and ath-
letic poise to reach and hold on to a
strap without fear of dislocating their
shoulder blades and incidentally sitting
down in some ones laps.
HE thought he thought great thoughts
and thought
No other thought thought.
IF others ever thought he thought,
They thought he thought he thought"
Chicago TimeS-Herald.
in athletic sports and engage in record
breaking feats the overweight practice,
instead of health preserving, degenerates
into health destroying.
The president declares that the result
of the election means peace in the Phil
ippines 1t will be a glad day when the
Philippine death lists" are no more,
and it is to be hoped that the peace
tI1,3
is at hand and not to be postponed until
another presidential campaign.-C Chicago
Record.
A Missouri paper in commenting on
M. Cleveland's plan to reorganize the
Democratic party, says: "For president
in 1904, Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee
We've got to get back to the old land
marks or we are wiped out"
There will be lots of Christmas do
ingS this year from all appearances and
reports. The stores never displayed a
greater variety of pretty things fer gifts,
and large sales are reported
Mrs. Carrie Catherine Gait, president Of
the National Woman's Suffrage associa-
ton, thinks that before the year 1900
there will be woman president
If the supreme court decides that the
constitution fellows the flag to the Phil
ippnes the presidents expressed opinion
as t. cur duties to the heather ana
colonization will probably change-thvre
won't be any money in 1t.
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1.-THE Debutante"-a parody on "The
May Queen'-has made it's appearance.
The first verse is as follows:
Have you got the jelIies made, Mother?
q
Are the salads wrought and the wine all
bought
For The splurge on New Years day?
\ ou look serene as regnant Queen,
But there'I be some hitch, [ fear,
For I'm to receive this year, Mother
I'm to receive this year"
The fact that you see .'Made in
France" or MADE in GERMANY on an
article is no guarantee that it was made
IN either country. And the fact that It
appears on the article should be no in
duccment to buy it.
City government is no longer the simple
thing it was in the days Of our grand
fathers, or even of our fathers. Civilized
man is demanding more and more of his
community. The kind of streets sewers,
parks, schools and lighting that would
have pleased men of fifty years ago
would now be denounced as relics CT
barbarism. The qualification of each
need Of civilized life at once raises
another need, and municipal work not
only augments in magnitude but in
creases in variety and scope-San Fran
cisco Call.
From the discussions in congress one
would infer that the Nicaragua canal Is
to be a strategical point in future wars,
instead of a peaceful route Of worlds
! commerce.
New York city is densely packed in
some parts of it. ''In the one block be
/ tween Sixty-frst and SixtX-second
streets, Tenth and Eleventh avenues,
are lodged $3.50 persons in 1858 rooms,
only 1880 CT which have access to the
outer air. The West side block is 200
by 800 feet has a surface area of 160 O0O
square feet, or 367 acres, so its $3.50 of
population represents a density Of 97fS
per acre.
The Cudahy boy stealing case at Omaha
is queer incident, carrying $4,000 in
| gold-125 poUnds-is no easy task, but
| this is the first time a bacon and lard
man has attempted that kind of pub
| licity.
It is said that 14O factories in this
! country engaged in making jelIies from
! ali kinds of things turn out over zoe, 000,-
! 600 pounds a year.
! Imperialism does not necessarily i'm
! ply government ruled over by a per-
! son denominated emperor Colonistss
satrapies, armies to keep them in SUB
lection, an aristocracy arising therefrom
and from government pampered wealth
mean The substance of the thing. Names
! &c for but little at the best.-Kansas City
/ Times.
There is a circulating or lending library
of bones in London for the use of medi-
cal students. The entire collection is
] valued at $4,000, and contains be lies
human bones the skeletons OF horses
! dogs, cats. oxen and sheep-all animals
that the veterinary surgeon is likely to
be called upon te treat The present
market prize OF human skeleton is