The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-07

husbandrv will meet in thirty-fourth an
nuaI session in Washington city Nov.
1924
The Count Zeppelin's air ship, cigar
shaped, and 400 feet long and 81 feet in
diameter seems like a success. During
The last trial 1t sailed seven miles.
against and across the wind. at an eIe-
walton of 800 feet and obeyed the pilot
in every particular.
The medallion just put in Westminster
Abbey. in honor Of John Ruskin. is in
seribed: ''He taught us to hold in loving
reverence peor men and their work.
great men and their work. God and His
work" This epitaph was suggested by
]. r. Anderson. and won the prize o.
fered by the London academy
November, like March, is a struggling
mixture of winter and summer.
1t is said that it costs seven million
francs ($1, 400, 000) annually to maintain
the Vatican at Rome, that including all
of the expenses of the cardinals as well
as the pope.
Today, Nov. T. is the anniversary Of the
birth, in 1900, of Plat R. Spencer, orfgi-
nator of the Spencerian System of Pen
manship; of Robert Dale Owen, in 1901,
the noted political and social writer. He
introduced the bill in congress to organ
ize the Smithsonian Institute and was
chairman of the building committee.
Minnesota is not know nothing
state, to judge by the tickets this year.
The Democratic candidate for governor
is a Swede his republican rival is a ma
tive of Holland; the leader of the republt-
-ba &c fOhf LOT
to return him 10 the senate. IS Knute Nell
son, a Norwegian. And Ignatfus Don
nelly, Minnesota, representative on a
presidential ticket, is Irish.
There has been a gradual advance in
the price of silver of late due to large
purchases for Oriental countries. Inc
Mexican dollar, which is in extensive use
in China, India, Japan and the Philip
pines, is disappearing from circulation
owing to it's increased value, it having
more silver in it than the American dol
lar. The government is using Mexican
silver in the Philippines, and the adj
vance in its value has raised the question
of supplying some other form of token
money Just as we have apparently
gotten rid of the silver question here
we are up against it on the other side
of the earth. We have been paying the
salaries of the sultan of SuIu and hts
datOs in Mexican dollars, for which We
pay fifty cents in gold, and the sultan
thinks he's getting a full dollar and
now Wen have to pay the advance in
the price.
During his campaign, Gov Roosevelt,
was the target of two turnipS, three small
sticks, four cigar stumps, two cfnders,
three tomatoes, one tin can, one egg,
fortynine questions and PIT haw-haws
(aIl estinated.) And he passed through
it all unscathed. Portland Telegram.
Archbishop Chappelle, papal delegate
to the Philippines, recently baptized $500
Filipinos. at one town in Northern Luzon.
That's better than shooting them.
The steamship Cumberland with Presi-
dent Kruger aboard, is expected to reach
Marsailles, France next Sunday.
A couple of men were arrested and
fined the other day for kissing in a Kan
sas City theater.
False ideals have often, in the course
of history, made education an inhuman
process. Nicholas Murray Butler
The business of robbing railroad trains
has not yet gone out of fashion. For
the year ending Oct. 10 fourteen success
full and two unsuccessful ho4d-ups have
occurred with over 100000 of loot for the
robbers and very few of them captured.