The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-15
THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.


Prof. Winchell, of the State university,
mas rendered a service to the state little
ulioefStood and appreciated in his re-
ports on Minnesota geology.
Is there any good reason why some of
the magazines leave their pages uncut?
1t IS an annoying task to cut a hundred
or so pages to find out the contents. 1t
is noticed, however that the advertising
pages are cut. 1t looks as if the adj
Yertlsing pages had more value than the
reading matter, for which people are
supposed to buy the publication. 1t is
probably a scheme to get people to look
over the advertising pages first.
Our old-time Minneapolis newspaper
friend, A. J. Blethen now of the Seat
tie Times, takes the defeat of Bryan SO
seriously that he says t'there will never
be another presidential election in the re-
public"
Nevada should be abolished as a state.
1t had 42,S54 population by the recent
census, the loss in population since 1880
averaging about LOGO a year. 1t has one
Congressman and two senators. and there
fore as much voice in the United States
senate as Minnesota with nearly forty
times as many people. Make it a ter
ritory, or a county attached to California
or Utah.
The military spirit has struck the toy
trade and it is said that the holiday
toys on exhibition will be long PAN
Drama of war and munitions of war.
1.-The Advisor, a magazine devoted to
the interests of advertisers" published at
A4a9 Broadway New York, by David
Phillips, hustler, known in st. Paul
and the Northwest, is one of the best
things of the kind now published
On Nov. Is, 1885, Old Parr .crhomas
Parr) was buried in Westminster Abbey,
London. He was the noted old man of
England. He, did not marry until he
was eighty, years of age, and, becoming
a widoWer, he married again at one hui
dred and twenty years. He died in 1875,
at the age, of one hundred and ffty-two
years.
national good roads convention will
meet in Chicago, Nov. IS to a.
= he Pioneer Press from what it knows
of Arles adnnires neither him, his meth
DDS, nor his policies. Pioneer Press. Yet
that paper did not put a straw in his way
to the mayors office of Minneapolis.
deposed from the throne of Brazil and
--re republic proclaimed.
visitor to a Chicago pie bakery,
where the output is $4,000 pies day,
found out that pumpkin pies are made of
"a mixture of sweet potatoes, apples and
cheap -four, favored with a chemical
extract, Cranberry pie contains only
enough eTapberries to make a showing
after the manner of the oyster in the
church fair stew. The rest is apple jel-
~, colered red and favored. I have for
gotten the other substitutes employed,
but. these will give you general idea
of the morality of the business"
On Nov. Is, ZIP, a duel with swords
took place in Hyde park London, be-
tween the Duke of Hamilton and Lord
Mohun, leaders of opposing political
parties in England, and both were ki led.
and then the seconds fought and were
badly wounded. The duel created a great
cOmmotiOn.
o
1.-THE imrostor employs force instead of
argument, imposes silence where he can
not convince, and prOpagateS his char
acter by the sword '-Jupius, Letter XII.
Z rocking chair with rubber tires, has
just been patented.
IT is said that 10000 Americans scent
the past summer in Paris the total num-
Der OF visiting, Americans, however, run
ming to about 20t,G0O.
Today, Nov. Is, is the anniversary of
the birth of Johan Kepler. in 1850, the
astronomers of William Pitt in 170S an
illustrious aEngIish 'commoner" states
man; Of Baron Stuben, in 1870. a Prus-
sian general who served the Americans
during the Revolutionary war; of William
Cowrer, iTlf3ly English poet; of Sir Will
liam lIerschei, in 1888, an eminent astron-
omer and. dfscoverer; of Richard IL
Dana, ir 1881, an American poet and
essayist: OF Eliza Leslie, in 1877, one of
the early popular American story writer;
of ThurloW Weed, in 1877, famous
American editor and politician.
The Suez canal is ninety-two miles long
ami it costs a ship at the rate of 81 to
$50 a ton, depending upon the tonnage.
to pass through. The original cost of the
canal was S0,0eC, 600.
The man who makes figures figures out
that quinine to the amount of 1000, 600 600
grains came into the United States last
year. That amount ought to kill lot
of fever.
"A
years of church work in the Philippines,
was asked to write book describing his
impressions of the habits and customs of
the Filipino people He agreed It do 50
if no one would look at if until his death.
He died recently at Manila, and the
much sought-for book was found among
his effects. On the first pase was the
title. and all the other 800 pages were
blank except the last, on which was
written: "This Is all I know, after forty
years study of the Filipino people.
Well, the Americans are different. They
are curious TO know all about them, and
will do So regardless of cost and regard
less of what it will all amount to after
finding out.
'"The little things in life 1 love
A song, a word, a smile,
An hour of happy blue above
Meath which L walk the while.
For at the best, tho be our state
The peasants or the kings,
This life is mosaic, great
But made from little things.