The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-29

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several years in. poverty while expert
menting with India rubber, which is now
applied to hundreds of uses; of Andrew
Johnson, in 1908, seventeenth president
and whose wife taught him how to read
and write; Of William Ewart Gladstone
the eminent English statesman and au-
thor, on Friday, Dec. 20, 1909.
st. Paul theater goers of decade ago
will recall Rev. George C. Min, Chica-
go Unitarian preacher, who went onto the
stage to play Shakespearian parts, but
did not meet with success in the ceun-
try. Since then he has been playing with
success in Australia and India, and has
just reached England.
a New York druggist has been sued
by Lille Verona, soubrette, for $1,000
damage for selling her a chemical that
turned her hair green instead Of auburn.
The English government has asked
Canada for 1900 troops for service in
South Africa. The pay is-to be $40 a
week and all expenses.
In the mission schools in China and
Japan, parents and children are often
icund studying the same books.
Most people who have paid any att n
ton to the matter will have come to the
conclusion that the removal of District
Attorney Gardner, by Gov. Roosevelt, is
a rather small manifestation of purely
partisan malice The vice president
elect continues to justify the opinion
formed of him during the campaign-that
he is Subcaliber statesman Of the adj
Yerdsing Variety.-Chcag Chronicle.
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Tie 500 canals handled an enormous
traff1c in 1905, the total amounting TO E5.-
643.Of3 net freight tons, of which 20 532 493
were east-bound business and 5.110, $50
were west bound. The American canal
passed " per cent of the traffic and the
Canadian canalsS per cent. Of the reg
lstered tonnage 2O,136, 1S2 tons went
through the American and 2179 052
through the Canadian. Iron ore led in
quantity, 1900 600 tons, with coal in sec
ond place. 46ee,000 tons. Wheat shipments
amounted to-4 OOo0 600 bushels, and lumber
nearly one billion feet.
Grover Cleveland in a letter to the At.
lanta Journal says he did not vote for
William Mckinley for president. but
did not say he voted for Bryan
Gov. Pingree, on returning from the
governorship Of Michigan says: 1--WE got
Dig list Of ingrates hypocrites and hood
Iefs VINO have pretended to be my friends
and then betrayed me-" Well, he ought
TO know, ne picked them out And pcssi-
they think the same of him.
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Even Europe's crown wearers are in
terested in American prosperity Many
or them, 1t is known, have made heavy
investments in United States securities
or one sort and another The Russian
car the German kaiser. the queen of
Great Britain, the kings of Italy, Bel
glum and other European countries, have
large sums of money, In some cases
well up into the millions. in railroad
bonds or stocks and other kinds of Amer
lean properties.-St. Louis GIobe-Demo-
crat. t
The medical department. of the army in
the Philippines reports that there are
thousands. of Iepers in.sthe islands. and
that an island should be set apart for
their use
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Germany has made a claim for damages
to her subjects in Cuba during the in
surrection, and other European govern
ments will follow. The subject promises
to assume great Importance when the
Cuhans establish their right to indie
pendence by forming a stable govern
ment, and being released eventually from
the supervision of the United States.
Foreign ships of war will in time come
TO force payment if nee arranged peace
ably. Either this government will have
to take the responsibility for the acts
of Cuba which affect the interests of
foreign subjects, or else We shall have 20
permit her to-; take the consequences
whatever they may be. Under the prin-
clpie OF the Monroe doctrine, it is said,
we would haVeii no right to interfere,
unless an attempt were made by a for
eign power to seize the territory. In that
event this government would probably
become involved in a war, though the
Cuban government might be at fault
1t will be remembered that several
years ago rain making was attempted in
several states by, shooting into the air
In France and Italy the same thing is
practiced to prevent hail stones in the
vineyard districts Long funnel-shaped
cannon are used and, when clouds threat
ening hail are seen forming, vigorous
cannonade is begun, and it is held that
the clouds are broken up, hail prevented,
and rain brought down. 1t is estimated
that one cannon viii protect seventy-five
acres of land, and the grape growers
have such faith in the process that in
Italy alone last year there were Is, 900
cannon engaged in cloud shooting
A man named Pat Grove is wanted in
Omaha. The detectives down there
think he was engaged in the Cudahy boy
kidnapping case. His presence is anounc-
ed in all parts of the country, including
the Twin Cities.
In one of the Australian states chess
is taught in the public schools because of
the mental discipline.
A newly married pair boarded a train
at town between here and Chicago
the other day, an dtheir friends distrib-
uted a small hand bill through the car
reading: This nice young couple are
newly welded. Please do not notice
them, as it will greatly embarrass them"
Boer Commandant Snyman, of Gen.
Dewet's staff, says: Rhodes fiatters
the British by calling their flag the
greatest commercial asset in the world
Some day he will tear that flag down in
South Africa and replace it with one OF
his own design. He also says that
"Dewet is as far superior to Kitchener
in military strategy as Napoleon was to
the most ignorant soldier in his army
Since last June the entire Boer
army has been supported by the British
taxpayer. Whenever there is
lack of anything in our camp, we sally
forth and take it from the British Even
now, six moRths after the annexation
fthe republics, the Beers are in such
complete controIffof the whole country
that the 100000 soldiers of the queen can
not wander from their garrison towns
except in bodies almost as large as our
whole army''d
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Miss Alta Rockefeller, daughter of the
richest man in America, has returned
from abroad where she was under treat
ment COR deaRnesS She was treated hu