The Saint Paul globe., 1900-12-25

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the moon has passed so long unobzerYed
is a mystery.
The 1886 bankruptcy cases filed last
year under the national law, represented
$265, ,0OO 000 liabilities. and $3S co., 900 assets;
S3S were in Minnesota, representing S.
1850 liabilities, and $1,524,926 assets.
Miss Alta Rockefeller, daughter of the
richest man in the United States, was
asked recently if she was not happy with
such fortune in view. Happy? Can
happiness be bought with money? Are
there not many things which can make
us profoundly unhappy, and which
money cannot avert. And, besides, is it
not well known that just those pampered
by fortune are more sensitive to the
needle pricks of life than other people?
No; 1 am not happy! Say so TO all who
perhaps envy me-
The second annual cat show Of Chi
cago will take place Jan. 2l-26 II Is said
there will be on exhibition more different
sorts of cats than are dreamed of in
the philosophy of the INITIATED. The
average mortal has no idea of the va
r.ety of cats bred by connoisseurs, or OF
the fancy prices paid for little purring
sired pedigree. From $25 to $50 are the
usual prices, and $75 and even S10O has
been paid for seven months old kittens
of unsual pedigree or personal attrac-
ton.
"Once he sang 9of summer,
Nothing but the summer;
Now he sings of winter
OF the winter bleak and drear:
Just because there's fallen
A snowflake on his forehead,
lie must go and fancy
lis winter all the year!''
The first newspaper in Minnesota was
established in 1S49. The beginning of the
twentieth century will see 579 papers
published in the state that a half CEN
tury ago was considered a part of the
great American desert
The imperialists say they will abandon
the Philippines if the supreme court
shall SO decide. But that is more easily
said than done. There are people who
ask what power congress or the preSi-
dent and the senate as the trea ty-mak-
ing power have to cede territory which
has been acquired by treaty to any coun-
try or set it off from the United States
as an independent nationality Thus at
every turn We are reminded what a
piece of foolishness it was not to have
gone into this whole matte carefully
before agreeing to buy the Philippines
from Spain.-Hartfosd Conn.) Times.
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Senator Tillman has presented a pc
tition signed by the farmers of several
Western states asking that a subsidy be
placed on all agricultural products in
line with that proposed to be placed on
the merchant marine. What logical OBJ
lection can the ship subsidy advocates
offer? Why not subsidy for all kinds
of enterprises and projects, on land as
well as the sea?
The shortest biography in the new con-
gressional directory is that of Congress-
man Allan Langdon McDermott DemD,
of New Jersey. 1t is three and a half
lines long. The sketch of Senator De-
pew (Rep), of New York, is the longest
fifty lines.
j. E. Scripps, the Detroit newspaper
man, some time ago gave a $10O, 90 church
to the Episcopal diocese of Michigan,
with the underst tanding that services
We're to be conducted in accordance with
the practices of the Protestant EPISCOPAL
church. Recently a high church rector
has been in charge and his methods dis
please Mr. Scripps, who has instituted
suit to recover possession of the prep
erty.
The finding of an infant not a day old
in an ash barrel in a fashionable part of
Washington city the other day. proves
that inhumanity still continues, even
within the shadow of the natiS nal capitol.
The child was alive and still NFes There
is need of education in this country as
well as among the mothers of India, who
sacrifice their babies in the river Ganges.
in the latter case as a religious duty,
in the former mere murderous abandon
ment.
The active newspaper correspondent is
making up new cabinet for President
Mckinley, and ex-Gov. Merriam, of this