The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-13

| tells how -1 az in the country. One man
~. 80, me farmer with whom he and
| as. .as,- I~ 49,, and others stopped kindly
eror5er, lie young folks to work in the
| $780,, rp water for the stock and.
| boardars ~ yDody. managed to get his
| labor. SNARE " lug ! 80 -
structivs as er ago today there was q de-
ooad;nos 30 nr re- In Minneapolis, the loss ex-
b beTohg sz'OOOooo with 1900 persons left
After Sept the TAI oon,n,,.a,o, 1v,,,
become the legisIativa com MISSION WIN
tnor1ty In the Philippines. It VIII appoint
oilceIs, impose and collect taxes, and
PIIc lically run things Gen. Macarthur
WI remain at the head of the army, and
ENFORCE the mandates of the commission,
anu Keep up gun practice, with F1lipinos
Today, Aug. 10, is the anniversary of tho
plrtn at Newark, N. J., in 1929, of Michael
A9susune Corrigan, the well known Cath
ono preiate. Also of Felix Adler, the eth
lcaI lecturer, IN. 1851; Of Sam r. Clover,
managing editor of the Chicago Evening
los" IN BOB; OF Goodwin Smith, the histo-
ran, In 1923; Of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
| books.
In the New York city directory of 1900
the name Vanderbilt appeared as Ivan
der Bit and belonged to a prosperous
drayman Of that day. The ancestors Of
the present railway kings OF that city
were then farmers on Staten Island.
Two years ago the last battle Of the
Spanish-American war and the capture
Of Manila took place.
In England Aug. 10 is celebrated in
many localities as Lammas Day. "It Is
a day full Of antique survival, but the
one great custom which marks it as a
link with the remote past is the removal
of fences and throwing open to common
| pasturage of lands which till this day
from the end of last Lammastide had
been used as private property
A short time before his death, Bob In
! gersoll said in a letter to friend who
/ had asked him about the Republican pol
| icy of expansion, that Il believe in eX-
pansion, provided the people want US
| and we want them"
Visitors to the Pacific coast cities are
! usually interested in finding the wharf
| age portions of seaperts largely built on
piles over the tides We have nothing
! in this country, however, like Venice,
Italy, built en- eighty islands connected
by 400 bridges, and ten miles of watery
| streets, and Client, Belgium, built on
/ twenty-six islands connected with over
300 bridges.
The play of Cyrano de Bergerac has
! the largest numbersof lines of any drama
ever written, u, 000,i while the actor who
attempts Hamlet has the next longest,
| 157O; then Richard III. comes in with
116O, and Iago is next with LII. Each
line contains from 4seven to ten words
Aug. Is is the anniversary of the birth
| in 1743 of Antoinea Laurent Lavoisier an
illustrious French zichemical philosopher
zone of the fathers of modern chemist
ry." He discovered. the composition of
water in 1888 sand was the principal in
ventor Of ther- system of chemical sym
bols and nomenclature. He was gufllo-
tined in 1874 during the reign of terror.
10
The Irish World, Patrick Egan and
| the Blaine Irish Republicans have de-
clared themselves in favor Of the Kansas
City ticket.
The common idea is that the prosperity
in this country is due to the Republican
administration In this connection it
might be noted that our Canadian neigh
| bors have been doing well themselves
! in their own way with exports for the
past year exceeding $1,000, 900 a day, and
t great activity is manifested in manu-
featuring, mining. numbering and farm
ing. The government for the fiscal year
/ ending June 80, 1900, shows a surplus of
about 100000. Things are also prosper
I Gus with our Mexican neighbor.
- e2 tits o. f~
Aug. 10 in the Catholic church is sa-
cred to the memory Of ST Hippolytus;
st. Cassidn, St. Radegundes and st. Wig
| bert.
All the states of the union except Ore
/ gon will choose presidential electors and
members of congress on Tuesday, Nov.
| g. Oregon elected congressman June 4.
State tickets will also be chosen in over
] half the states.
The Idea Is common in China that re-
| ligion is being used by the great powers
for the purpose of securing territory
and this view is sustained by the rapac-
/ ity of several of the European countries
! 1t was not long ago that China was fore
| ed to give up Kiao Chou Bay and adj
| jacent territory half as big as Mnneso-
ia. for the lives of two obscure German
missionaries. France also took slice
recently in payment for murdered mis-
sionaries.
! There are lots of comets in the skies
but they seem to be on trips far off in
! space as only one has been seen this
year. This was discovered by Giacobinl
at Nice, Jan 81. 1t. has passed in a north
east direction, through the constellation
Andromeda, and will soon enter Cygnus
! On Aug. %, according to It's ephemeris, 1t
will be about, two degrees directly north
| of the star Alpha Cygni-the bright star
| in the head Of the Northern Cross. The
comet is visible only through a fairly
large telescope.
Nearly all the towns in Alaska have in
| corporated under the new code, and can
now receive half of the government tax
! for municipal and school purposes The
Treadwell gold stamp mill. on Douglass
! island, opposite Juneau, has $50 stamps,
! the largest number in one concern In the
/ world. and handles $500 tons of 81 ore
daily.
There is a Chinese proverb that says
"a mans character can be pretty we'll
| judged by his opinion of women" That's
not so bad, to come from heather"
| sources
The love for title Is shown in move
ment to change the rank OF brakeman
on passenger trains. who no longer Is a
brakeman in the old sense. to assistant
| conductor
STORIES OF THE STREET.
One Of the railroads recently got out
! an advertising puzzle. promising round