The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-07
TUESDAY GLOBE CHANCES.


All doubt as to the claim of st. Paul
as fruit distributing center is dispelled
by a visit any morning to East Third
street. Once it was the fashionable shop
ping street. but now hundreds of cars of
apples, pears, peaches, and all the varied
products of the orchard and garden are
trucked every month up and down that
thoroughfare.
The papers of the state are discussing
DR.. Smiths recent sermon at the Peoples
church in this city on Bryan and Roose-
welt, and wondering why he left Nc
Kinley out. He placed the two men side
by side and eulogized them for their
purity and strength of character, but had
nothing to say for the head of the Repub-
lican ticket.
Two years ago today Spain accepted
the terms Of peace imposed by the United
States; which terms called for the evac-
uation of Cuba, cession of Porto Rico,
and the surrender of the Philippines.
The Mississippi river Is very low and
confined to its bed, the lowest in many
years. The recovery of its wonted vol
ume. width and depth is looked for with
the autumn rains.
An Eastern physician has just dtscoV-
cred a new remedy for insomnia. 1t is
simple and easily taken. Just before bed
time take a ride on the street car, and
ride until drowsy1 and a good sleep will
usually follow in bed.
August in the Catholic church Is
sacred to the memory Of st. Cajetan,
confeSsOr.
Men are now seen in shirt waists in
the Eastern cities They simply appear
on the streets without coats or vests. At
first there was opposition at some of the
first class cafes about allowing men to
enter in their shirt sleeves, but it has
ceased. The women wear mems hats,
ties, collars, etc, and why shouldn't men
wear shirt waists?
Our good Professor Lugger, Of the
state experiment farm, thinks Minnesota
will be overrun with locusts next year
unless the eggs laid this year are des-
troyed. He has prepared and distributed
Illustrated posters over the state explain
ing how to destroy the eggs.
The increase Of one-tenth of cent per
pound in the price of sugar gives the
Mr. Hanna expects to get one big cam
paign contribution. And the sugar trust
is only one of hundreds Of trusts made
possible by Republican tariff laws.
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The famous natural bridge of Virginia,
once the property of Thomas Jefferson
and where Washington, when boy,
climbed up and cut his name in the rock,
has been sold to stock company and is
TryifI hnf al
beer garden, etc.
A man who spent couple Of hours the
other day waiting for his wife at bar
gain sale was asked by his better half
after they had escaped what he thought
was the cheapest thing he saw, and ho
was not far from right in saying that he
was.
The last volume of the biggest literary
work ever undertaken in the world is
finished. 1t is devoted to the records of
the American Civil war, and consists of
1913 volumes of LOCO pages each, and an
atlas of thirty-five parts. 1t was begun
twenty-six years ago. A single set we CHS
TOO pounds and extends along a shelf
forty feet long. 1t was turned out by
the government printing Office. 1t will be
found in the State Historical library and
other libraries OF the city.
The nail trust put up the price per key
between Jan. 1, 1899, and Jan. !, 1860, from
s1.10 to $3.50. The Republican tariff makes
this possible. The price of coal, glass,
paint oil and other products went up dur
ing the same time from so to 200 per cent.
No doubt the world has moderated the
fighting qualities of the Chinese. Tough
ness, patience, endurance and stubborn
ness are national characteristics. The en-
pire is honeycombed with secret societies,
and these will unite in facing the armies
of Christendom.
Lombroso, the Italian criminologist, is
now engaged in tracing the origin of kiss
ing. The height of absurdity into which
scientific men sometimes follow their re
searches opens the way to ridicule from
unscientific but none the less sensible
men. The osculatory practice goes back
into prehistoric ages. and men and women
didn't learn it from BIRDS feeding each
other.
The papers are beginning to print the
details of foolish election bets A Mich
igan man has just bet that If Bryan Is
elected he will support his contestant
mother-in-law for life.
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That's rather a confidence game the adj
ministration is playing on the sultan Of
Sulu and our other salaried native rulers
in the Philippines by paying them their
salaries in Mexican silver dollars, which
we buy two for one.
The platform of the Third congression-
al district of Minnesota indorses the
course of Congressman Heatwole for tot-
ing against the Porto Rico tariff bill;
Joel is one of the few Republican CON
gressmen who refused to obey the whip
of President Mckinley, whose change of
front on this question is one Of the many
weak spots in the administration policy.
or want Of policy
Carl Schurz says he does not want to
live to see the day when the American
citizen will be like his fellows in Eu-
rope, every man as he goes to his work
carrying one soldier on his back
Two noted Americans are about to re-
turn to their native land-The dore Tiltoq.
after an absence in Europe for seventeen
years. and Moncure D. Conway, after an
absence of thirty-seven years. Each in
his way has led strenuous life.