The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-19

.0BE, WEDNESDAY,
an insurance exhibit at the Paris exposi-
tlon, Wnlch shows that within a decade
1 ene disease ss has become of greater i'm
POI laf'.e' from an insurance standpoint,
than either smallpox or cholera 1t at
tacks persons of all ages.
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On sept. Is, 1856, occurred the second
great battle fought by the English on
french SOIL. 1t was the battle of Poitiers.
pe,weeh Aing, John, with $4,000 French
soldiers, and King Edward, with 10000
EhsHSh troops. The former believing in
the superiority of numbers, was defeated
through ms QYer7confidence, and not on
~ was MS army destroyed, but he was
taken prisoner and carried off to Eng
| land.
The National Ancient and Accepted
Scotash Rltee Supreme Council meets in
annual session at Boston, Mass, today.
The war department is making active
prepare lions for q winters stay In Chi
ma of the present force.
The Chicago Journal thinks that "by
the time Generalfussirno Won Waldersee
reaches China the allies may be some
thing else
Today, Sept! 10, is the day of st. Janu-
arius, in the Roman Martyrology. He
is the patron saint of Naples, and it's
| protector from the eruptions of Mt We
| suvius. Many remarkable stories are
told of him. His relics are in the church.
es of Naples, and the day in that city Is
| observed with much oonsidera ton
among the faithful. A magnificent chapel
in the Naples cathedral is named in his
honor.
Joaquin Miller, the poet, went to the
! Klondike and had his fingers and toes
| frozen, and he told all about it in his
newspaper letters. He is now in China az
a correspondent and in his opinion there
i will be wars in China for a thousand
| years, and I'VE better pick up our hat and
| go home; we don't want that sort of a
/ thing at all. 1 invoke, 1 implore my
country to get out of this rotten and
moldy land, and keep out of it. It is not
| fit for a white man. I do not believe
a white man could live here a thousand
years without being exactly like a
! Chinalnan. How tantalizing those diff
ferent reports from foreign lands. One
man asserts one thing and the other man
absolutely denies it..
| 0dINCSeO1l StdHQS OH d Sdnu 1SldnQ, no
point of which is over eight feet above
high tide, and it is two miles from the
main land. The wonder is that it has
| not been hit and washed away by a trop-
ical hurricane before this.
! %
The governmental organs of each coun-
! try having troops in China deny that it's
soldiers engaged in footing in Tien Tsin
| and Pekin, but lay the vandalism upon
the soldiers Of other nations. There was
no doubt about footing, however.
/ O.
1t is most, convincing proof of the
| soundness and soldity of the financial con-
dition of the country that neither the out
now OF gold to Europe nor the customary
shipments of currency to move the crops
! nor the political perturbations- of a pres
idential year have availed to shake the
| public confidence or disturb the ease OF
the money market. Whether Mckinley
or Bryan shall be the next president, the
business of the nation, swollen to impe-
rial proportions, will go prosperously on
ward The country is bigger than official
q Philadelphia Record.
] After all the hasty jumping to conclu-
stems it may turn out that Ii Hung
I Chang is all right. The world is toe
ready to condemn-the habits and ideas
of generations cannot be changed be-
tween the issues of daily papers.
The proposition to dispose Of express
idents by making them members of the
international board of arbitration under
= The Hague treaty does not meet with
Mr. Cleveland,s views, and he declines
the offer. Mr.. Harrison, however, &C.
eepts.
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Today, Sept IS, is the anniversary OF
the birth, in 1749, Of the noted French
astronomer j. b. j. Delambre; OF
q Lord Henry ughanlsQ779), the learned
British orator and writer; of c. H f
Peters, the astronomer long connected
with the Rochester IN. " observatory
the dlscoverers of many asteroids
The offfeialsdgures given out to Sept !
sshow that the Beers have captured dur
ing the war Isl officers and 1928 men, OF
whom 235 officers and B,196 men have es
capped or been released. One officer and
eighty-five men died in captivity. The
number of British remaining In the hands
of the Beers is 1,052. 1t Is reported thai
Gen. De Wet has informed his friends
that he will fight to the end. His sons
have been killed In the war, and his wife
has died Of a broken heart
Michael Carr, for fifty years kept q
grocery in Philadelphia. He died recent.
ly and left an estate of $125, 900. or this
he divided $4,000 among relatives, and
! then gave $4,000 to twenty-three different
Catholic schools. asylums and charitable
| institutions. Was not this humble man
with his modest fortune, as useful a citi-
zen and far more public-spirited In his
opinions as to the responsibility and obli.
cations of wealth than the late c. P.
| Huntington, who accumulated over S7O.-
0o0,0W and made no public bequest com
mensurate With his vast proner+v.
Huntington's sole bequest Of real impor-
| lance was 100000 to a school in q vir-
ginia town where he made many times
the amount in the sale of property.
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THE day is not distant when we NAV
formally require meridian of partition
| through the ocean which separates the
two hemispheres, on the western side
of which no European gun shall ever be
heard, nor an American on the other
| Thomas Jefferson.
The National Municipal ieague meets
at Milwaukee, Wis, today, for a session
Of three days.
AT the recent meeting Of the American
! Social Science association In Washington
an address was made by F. B. Sanborn.
in which he called attention to a new
| feature which has ATTENDED the added
| Importance Of woman In the business life
| Of the nation. Increased Independence
| OF one sex or the other in the marriage
! relation" he says, has deferred mar
riages and hastened separations, has
made the families of the middle classes
smaller, and will have the same effect on
| the more laborious classes
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