The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-12

Prof. Lugger, of the State Experiment
tai station, says Minnesota has lots of
bugs in and out of the house, and now he
announces a new pest known as the
buffalo moth,' but in reality a beetle
Its business is to eat up carpets and
WOODEN goods. 1t is a small oval insect
aeout tWo-sixteenths of an inch long of a
marbled black and white appearance
When discovered they ''play possum" by
Ioldlng their legs and feelers and pre-
tend to be dead. They are most nu-
merous in the autumn and have two an
nual, broods a year.
Prof. Hacker of the State Experiment
tai station, says the creameries of Min
nesota are using the milk produced from
45e0O0 cows, and the value of the milk
is 600. He estimates that
there are 100000 additional cows,
for which the returns are moi
valuable The average return for the
cows reported is only $22 per head, and
the professor declares that this should
be doubled, and would be, if farmers
made study Of the feeling problem and
pFaeticed it.
Today, Nov. IL, is the anniversary of
the birth, in 1915, of Richard Baxter, d
famous English divine an author of
Saints Everlasting Rest" and other
ooOhNo' VI <AAi1tIid Ople, IN 1f6J, popular
English writer; of Dr. Ray Palmer. IN
1903, an American author and hymn
writer. among other Well known lyrics,
My Faith Looks Up to Thee" of Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, in 1915, the eminent
American advocate of womans rights.
A state School of Household Science
being considered by the women's clubs
of Minnesota. A great need of the
homes tot
we'll equipped domestic help. It is thought
me next legislature will be asked to con-
slider the matter In connection with the
State Experimental station.
The Eighth congressional district of
Virginia took the lead this year in the
number of aspirants for a seal in con-
gress, there being fifteen candidates.
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A continued story in a magazine is like
popular man-it is exploited awhile i'll
the first pages, with many pictures, but
later on it appears in the back pages
without pictures.-Atchison Globe.
Mohammedanism has made immense
progress in Oriental countries during The
past century, many times more than
Christianity We have quite bunch
of Mohammedans on the SuIu islands.
They are polygamists, slave holders and
pirates and it will be a big job to con-
vert them.
Speaking Of Indian summer, which is
about due, an exchange says: 1.-The
Indian summer comes in November III
got its name from coming so late in the
autumn that the shiftless red man could
: complish his tardy hunting and crop
gathering in season to be ready for the
first SHOWS when they fell-playing the
limit, I might say This will answer
for time and reason until a better guess
is given.
Count Boni de Castellane, who swanped
title for Anna GouId's wealth. is said
to have 1000 pairs of trousers. He has
been spending the money Jay Gould
''swiped" in railroad deals at a very live
ly rate.
Remember that zero weather is near
and there will be a good deal of it maybe
before spring. Water pipes, and even gas
pipes, are susceptible to low tempera-
lures, and now is the time to see that
they are protected from the danger OF
freezing.
Frederic Godet, a venerable and not
able figure in the Protestant world. il
dead. He was a Swiss and eighty-eight
years old. He was tutor of Frederick
III. of Germany and the writer Of many
theological works
Spain is having some trouble over Car
list uprisings. These revolts will be put
down, but there is danger to the present
dynasty, owing to the large number of
idle men from the late armies, many Of
whom seem willing to join the revolution
lists just for the pleasure of giving some,
body trouble.
when folks thank God that they are not
AS other men, no doubt
The others thank God for it, too,
In language as devout."
A plausible speaking gentleman induced
120 citizens of Chattanooga, Tenn. to nav
$6 initiation fee each preparatory 20 the
establishment of a lodge of the Protective
Benevolent Order of knights of the Afys,
tic Chain, and now they are wondering
if the stranger has gone with their
money
In CHANGING over the columns of q, Chi
cago paper yesterday We counted forty
one advertisements of clairvoyants
card fortune tellers and other kinds of
mysucs, who, for consideration, tell peo-
pie what has happened and Will happen.
How some people like to be humbugged.
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GAS regards the $40, GEO 900 paid to Spain
for the Philippines, everybody knows
that an independent Filipino government
would gladly assign to us the revenues
Of the Manila custom house for a term
Of years. until the sum should be repaid.
The sum, after all, Is a bagatelle COM
pared with the hundreds of millions of
dollars which the war. professedly I'M
dertafen for the liberation of Cuba, cost
us.'-Collier's Weekly.
If election figures could keen coming
In for few days lcnser, Gov Lind
might yin ont. A prominent Republican
said yesterday that Van SAINT had won.
and the ambition of years had been graft
ned, but not with a majority that most
men of spirit would like.
cit ought to be serious offense to
start race riots in this country. When a
rough pitches into a negro, or a China
man, or an Italian, and begins to hammer
the life out CT him for reasons relating
solely 10 his complexion, it is not mere
assault. It is more like arson, for it
tends to fire the passions of the crowd.
and lead to murder To fine him SIC dol
lars amounts to encouragement" Life.
$4,000 statue of Robert Morris the
great American fnancier of the revolu-
ton, is to be erected in Fairmount park.
Philadelphia. A fitting tribute to a ma1
who suffered indignity in that same city
by being imprisoned for debt.
Peanuts are rated as containing a good
deal of food values. The peanut is not
a nut in reality, but kind of pea in a
heavy ped. The peanut is the Cheapest
of all foods relatively to the amount Of