The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-19

| OF Cassius M Clay, in 1910, the Kentucky
statesman and politician.
state Supt. Lewis is preparing q plan to
teach agriculture in the country schools,
ana impress the usefulness and attrac-
uveness of rural life.
RUSSIA has a little sugar trust Of its
own. Each year the minister of finance
@ 1xes the amount to be sold and the price
| I ne average domestic consumption is L.
VVV'uVu'oVV pounds, on which the excess
tax Is 2ls cents pound. One billion
pounds IS the limit of production, but it
allows an additional 1870, 600 900 to be made
and stored to be used in the event of a
shortage,Which has occurred twice in the
past ten years
Today Oct 1s is the anniversary Of the
nirtn and death of Sir Thomas Browne,
tne English antiquary and philosopher,
VINO lived from 16O5 to 1882
Inc United States, England and France
All use red white and blue in their flags.
felloW IS disappointment color of Spain
II o.
me Japanese sdse straw horse shoes.
which cost aboutl one cent a pair. They
are ued around the ankles of the horses
We know the Anglo-Saxon
Is toreordained to thrive,
Anq doubt If other races
Should longer be alive
JehoVah Is our leader,
AND bids his saints advance
take the horded Heather
FOR their Inheritance
New York Life.
Boston has just adopted an English
loea OF public wash house, where a
woman. can work for an hour for ten
cents getting everything she needs to
wash clothes.
Today. Oct 10. is the anniversary OF the
death. in 1745 of Dem Jonathan Swift
pest remembered by his story of "Gulli-
yer 5 travels He was born in Ireland
NOV. ~, l601, in poverty, but took high
ity.
Hundreds of columns have been writ
ten IN the discussion of trusts. And it
can all be summed up in few words A
trust IN the general understanding of the
term is a combination to control 'commo-
oltleS, TO limit the production if the price
goes down because of an over supply or
competition, ard to increase the price, it
the raw material becomes scarce II
means IN each case tnat a few men Sc
OIL Hour aud other staple supplies and
can Increase or reduce prices as may bes.
serve their interests.
Oct. l9 is dedicated to the memory of
Saint Frideswide, patroness of the city
and university of Oxford. England. Her
chufch, after several changes III name, is
now oxford cathedral. Her day was
formerly celebrated with much pomp in
Oxford -
a girl in one of the schools had an
essay on Boys. 7 in which she said that
boys when they grew up were called
husbands She was beginning to think
of the serious duties of life.
We use. 2,00o o66e,Ce0 2-cent stamps in THIS
country every year. just run 2,GNO coo, 90
over in your mind and figure cut how
many years that number of seconds
would make. =
To-day, Oct 10. is the anniversary of
the death, in t606s of Henry Kirke White,
the youthful Englisa poet. of George
Mortimer Iullmsn. ins 1857, the sleeping
car magnate; of Harold Frederic in 1898,
the author; offW. IF. Appleton, in 1899,
the New York publisher.
X
ing time is coming into use again They
are to be had in TO-, Is, 80 ard 60 mfnute
glasses.
Today, oct 19, is the anniversary of the
surrender OF Lord Cornwallis at York
town. in 1851, and of the battle cf Cedar
Creek in 1874
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The American Gas Light association is
holding its twenty first annual convention
1T Denver. and the nineteenth annual
meeting of the Womep's Home Mission
airy society. of the NJ. F. church, is being
held in Chicago.
1t is renorted that Lord Roberts has
declined the position of commander in
chief of the English army, because The
war Office has, a string attached to the
duties. And Gen. Butler is to be offered
the place.
The death of William L. Wilson at Lex
ington, Va. removes a prominent actor
frCm this stage of action, He was form
erly a congressman and postmaster, gen.
erat. and at the time of his death was
filing the position of president of the
Washington and Lee university, one OF
! tie Oldest educational Institutions of The
country.
Gov Roosevelt has been .'4nobbed'
again. A boy at Newbury, O., threw
stone at him.
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