The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
The invention is the result of four years
of hard work on DIR. Sargent's part.

Inc invention is the result of four years
of hard work on Dr. Sargent's part.
The ease with which the army reorgan-
ization bill slipped through the house
suggests that the way was creased The
fact appears to be that 1t opens the way
for lot of patronage and the infuen-
tial friends of promising sons of distin-
gu1shed sires will not be apt to miss
the opportunity. There will be a large
number of staff appointments to be made,
such as paymasters, surgeons, commits
saries, quartermasters, veterinarian and
the like. and the eagerness for the crea-
tlon OF these places may be understood
when it is recalled that they are life ap-
po1ntments.-Rocheste IN. W Herald
A hundred years ago, according to his
tory, Thomas Jefferson rode to his in
auguraI ceremony on horseback 1t is
now proposed that Mr. Mckinley go to
his in horseless vehicle-an automobile
The fourth decenniaI census of Canada
will be taken in the first week of next
April. The first official census of New
France, as it was then called, was taken
IN 1000, little more than half cen
tury after Champlain laid the founda-
ton of Quebec The population of the
country was found to be S,215 souls. Dur
Ing the remainder of the seventeenth
century eight censuses of New France
were taken, and twelve in the eighteenth
century. In 1880, when the first census of
the United States showed the population
of the American Union to be 8, 929. 214 the
population of Canada was 220, 600. The
census of 1891 was disappointing, the in
crease was small. Better results are
expected in 1901, as the western provinces
have grown.
New Year coming on apace
What have you to give me?
Bring you seattle or bring you grace,
race me with an honest face;
You shall not deceive me:
Be it good or i'll, be it what you. will
1t needs shall help me on my road
My rugged way to heaven. please God
Christina Rossetti.
1t is estimated that the Chicago drain
age canal can be enlarged for nayiga
ton between Chicago and the Mississippi
for $35, O00, 900. The big canal which has
only been allowed to carry little more
than half it's capacity since it was open
ed, has now had the throttle pulled
open, and is tearing along at the rate of
four miles an hour and 100000 gallons a
minute. Now st. Louis wants an ap-
preparation so as to utilize this large and
regular supply of water by making a
deeper channel to the mouth of the
Ohio.
The Chicago Evening Post has been
interviewing the physicians of that city
on the gro With of the drug evil The
opinion was general that drinking liquor
was increasing rapidly among society
women. During the last ten years
drinking among American women has
been steadily increasing" declared Dr.
Sarah Hackett Stevenson. Formerly
American women were not given to wine
drinking. Now not a dinner is served
without it, and at every reception there
is the punch bowl. These customs de-
velop the taste. There are cases of ex-
IRENE drinking among society women as
we'll as among the men. The increase
has been greater among the wealthy
classes and the younger social sets than
among the lower strata of society,"
Joe" Chamberlain is being pretty
thoroughly abused in England, more
than all members of Salisburys cabinet
combined. He has been called enough
names to have filed graveyard-had he
been Texan or a Kentuckian He
has replied to some of the attacks but
let the majority go apparently unheed-
ed. He has been particularly slow in
answering the charges of using his Of
fetal position to help fill his own and
his family's pockets, notwithstanding the
most energetic proddings by the Liberal
press.
The scientific men have figured out that
the earth weighs {, S43 600, 900. 000. 900 tons,
while the atmosphere weighs 1928, Ices, &c.,.
100000 tons, the airy cushion weighing
more than the solid. without which the
solid would fly to pieces s4.-z.
The following little poem tells IT
'aughI:''
There was a young man in St PaughI
Who went to his girls house to caught;
Shes was berating the servant
In language quite fervents
Now he doesn't go near at aughl''