The Saint Paul globe., 1900-12-11


to buy up the idle mills that are there
| now and set them grinding?
TUESDAY GLosE CHANCES.
State Superintendent Lewis will ask the
legislature for $1O5, 600 in aid of the nine
ty-seyen high schools of the state. Dur
ing the past year there was a deficiency
! Of $1,000, on the basis of aid to the
amount Of $500 to each school.
The latest attachment to ornamental
clocks is photograph which speaks the
hours and quarters.
The French language has been taught
in the schools of Germany for many
years, but Emperor William has ordered
that English take its place.
Today, Dec. II, is the anniversary of
| the birth, in 1857, of Charles Wesley, one
Of the original Methodist preachers; Of
Sir David Brewster British philosopher
and author and editor OF the first edition
Of the Encyclopedia Britannica
'fWhe plants flower
Who doth a weed supplant
By sweet-smelIing, delicately tinted,
Delicious blossom
| He serves God nobly;
On O1V1ne service he attends,
Ihough never entering church"
Walt Whitman.
The Review of Reviews, in "a sketch of
! the late Marcus DAILY, says: "Daly's sex-
perience ought to encourage young men
who think that fortune is too slow in
coming; that the best part of life is past,
and that there is really no use in hoping
for anything more. DAILY. like Cromwell
made no striking success until he was
| forty years DID, And this is true of
many other notable instances Of success
full lives.
Today, Dec. II, is the great. festival of
Geneva, Switzerland, city's thanksgiv-
ing day. The festival is called 'Esca-
lade," and has been regularly celebrated
since 1902, when the citizens of the city
repulsed the Savoyards, who attacked
them in strong force but were repulsed.
1t also takes the form of street carni-
val, and extends until the evening of the
18th
Rev. G.. Campbell Morgan, a famous
London preacher, who declined a call to
John Halls Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church. New York city, has accepted a
call to take up Moody's work in the
United States. The Christian Nation
says: 1T is hint of Mr. Morgan's char
acter that he declined the election to the
pastorate Of one Of the Wea1thiest Pres
byterian churches in America, and now
accepts, as satisfying the 1ongings of his
nature, the place Of an uneducated and
unerGained layman, whose greatness was
his serFiceableness. He manifestly be-
lieves in the wisdom OF exchanging the
trif1eS of earth which we cannot keep for
the treasures of heaven which we cannot
lose;' and could anything be more Moody
like and Ghristlike than that?"
The census shows that the cities are
developing park systems. Los Angeles
is the first in parks, having one acre
Of park to every twenty-eight of her in
habitants. Washington is the great park
city Of the East; she has an acre of
park to ever n of her population; Min
neapolis, Indianapolis and Louisville are
next; Boston has an acre of park to
every 214 people; st. Louis to every 264:
Detroit to every 30; st. Paul to every
273; Milwaukee has an acre of park to
every 655 of her inhabitants; Chicago
one to every 7S9 people.
If American girls who marry silnpe-
cunious dukes, says the Troy IN. W
Times, would not make such a parade
Of their captives after they have bought
them much might be forgiven There
certainly has recently been a nauseating
suf6ciency Of ducal doings, none of which
was OF particularly elevating sort. Now
If their graces and disgraces will only
keep quiet the American people will hold
their noses and say no more about it,
o.
The 1ooting Of the famous Pelzin OBJ
| servatory by the allied troops. and of the
libraries containing the records and lit
erature of China for thousands of years.
is only another Of the wicked Gfbbon
cursed the vandals who DESTROYED the
Alexandrian library. They were bar
barians, but the allies call themselves
/ Christians. When Europe and America
1 sent soldiers to China it was not to give
the Chinese lessons in thfevery and bru-
| tality.
'.No theory Of germs to chill
| .Affection's budding blsses;
| When ardent lovers took their fiji.
No microbes, on their kisses.
How happy they We're not to know
The germ-fad-dfty years ago.
The Kansas City Journal wants two
new words, one of them is '1aughiest :" .
It is applied to show, and is merely a
! variation Of funniest" which has be-
come too common while the other ia
! 'tmortican,' and means an undertaken.
The pioreers Of the woman suffrage
movement held a meeting in New york
city last week. Among those present
| were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who is
eighty-f1ve; Julia Ward Howe, eigbtv-
one; Mary A. Livermore, eighty: Susan
E. Anthony, eighty, and Isabella Beecher
1 Hooker, seventy-elght. These figures
suggest the query: Us working for
/ woman suffrage conducive to fongevitv?''
! %
According to the Boston Herald women
/ have reached the period Of good sense at
/ which they no longer take their cue
| from the stage in the matter of clothes.
! The day has gone by when an actress
! can make the fashion or set all the
women agog by new way of wearing
! her hair.
The national agricultural department
] suggests that eggs be sold by weight.
| There is great variation in the weight
/ of eggs. A department official saws. ''on
| what other article Of food viii peopIa
| be content to pay the same price for
| what may vary over 80 per cent In value?
! Or what producer of merchantable prod
| uce of any kind will consent to supply
all the way up to IS per cent more than
market value and not think to add to the
| standard price for additional value? An
| apparent objection to selling eggs by
weight is that they are generally used
In the household IN this way Most rec
ipes call for eggs by number and not by
| weight"
The United States leads the world in