The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-18

Not everybody here knows that up on
"West" Third street is located the larg-
est law publishing concern in the world.
The Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific have had this week the largest cat
tie shipments from the West of any
similar period in the history Of the
roads.
The National Newspaper Directory
and Gazetteer for 1900 says: est. Paul is
one of the most beautiful cities in Amer
lea" Right you are. Mr.. Pettingin.
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The morning daiIies Of yesterday head
ed China news as follows: GIob e.,
"Allies Said to Have Taken Pekin;"
Pioneer Press, "Pekin Reported Taken"
Tribune. "Allies Capture Pekin;' Times,
Ministers Rescued" Characteristic, are
they not2
Today, Aug Is, is the eightieth birthday
of DR.. H. B. Wilbur, founder of the
first school for Idiots and feeble-minded
children In the United States at Syracuse,
n. Y. DR.. o. w. Archibald a practleing
physician Of this city. founded the Iowa
| school for feeble minded. and DR.. Rog-
ers, superintendent of the Minnesota
school, began the work under DR.. Archi-
bald.
The Great Northern yesterday took the
| first shipment Of wheat from this years
crop. 1t was on the Aberdeen branch
in South Dakota. It was the first ship
ment received this season by any line in
the wheat district.
If there is one food or dish that is dis
tinctly American 1t is pie. It is found
everywhere between the two oceans, and
the lakes and the gulf. In the large
cities the ''pie wagon" is as dangerous
in its speed along the street as the meat
cart or beer wagon.
One hundred and eghty-six years ago
today the Elector of Hanover, now styled
George L. Of Great Britain, landed in
England and was escorted to London to
take the throne made vacant by the
| death Of Queen Anne. He was fifty
four years Of age and during his reign
never was able to speak English Queen
Victoria is a descendant of his.
Deaths in Chicago last week. SIT; births,
GIL More deaths than the entire popu-
lation of some Western "cities"
Dom Paul has established another cap
ital and says the war must go on.
WARS a game which, were their SUBJ
jects wise,
AAAAAoh' "ONAO AAOI pay dI
There is good deal said about lives
that are beds Of roses" lives without
trial or trouble. Longfeliow says that:
Life is real. life is earnest"
AND so 1t is, the rose-couch existence
Is only figure of speech. 1t
takes combination of shade and sun
shine to make the happy life
There ara sa1ant,,-tu,o -,rb;
construction in England, and sixty in the
United States, while reports are not in
from other warlike nations The TWEEN
teth century is to be ushered In at the
muzzle of cannon.
Geronimo. the famous Apache chief
whose war cost the United States q mil
Ion or more, and hundreds Of lives. has
become insane after fourteen years of i'm.
prisonment. Confinement of years, after
the wild life Of the mountains has broken
him down.
Aug. IS is the anniversary of the birth
Of Capt. Meriwether Lewis Q77N, who.
with Capt. Clarke, made the memorial
journey to the Pacific in 1S03-5, to explore
the new territory acquired from France:
of Charles Francis Adams, American DIP
lomat and statesman QS07); of Franz 10
seph, present emperor of Austria-H1n
gary. One Of the first acts of his reign.
which began in 1885, was the subjugation
of Hungary.
The festival of st. Helena mother of
Constantine the Great, is celebrated on
Aug. is in the Catholic church. She is
reputed in her old age to have visited
Jerusalem in A. D. 326 and discovered the
cross and sepulchre of Christ, and revived
interest in and reverence for these sacred
localities, their remains and associations.
She brought the cross back to Europe
with her. and portions of It have since
he"H distributed all over the earth Por-
tions Of 7 were sold TO wealthy pucct ase-s.
owing to It's healing qualities. and 1t is
said to have the power of "self-multipli