The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-09
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THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
august is the anniversary Of +ba
pirthoay OF Nelson Appleton Miles cav
eraI OF the army 1880. Adonirarn md
Son, missionary to India Q7S8): Francis
HootI hey' author Of the sStar Spanp-
Iee Banner Q7s0); John Dryden, English
peet tloSD; Izaak Walton, patron saint
OF anglers Q593J. 0'----'
me wife Of Senator Jones. of the
democratic national COMMITTEES was osJo
ca her opinion of the money question.
70 winch she replied: "That doesn't
Dother me at all. So long as there Ia
plenty OF money I don't care what kind
IL is. Besides, I am for whatever kind
my husband wishes. 1 never saw a man
VINO thoroughly understood the money
question:
isn't 1t possible that when the Japan
csc discover that the white races have
set out to down the brown races that
| they Will link their interests with Chit
ma? The emperor of Germany says the
christian races must combine to meet the
1rrepressible conflict" between heathen-
dom and the followers of the cross. I'm
which event Japan will take it's place
with the Asiatic family.
Capt. Clark, he who brought the Ore
| gon around Cape Horn, making the most
remarkable battleshfp sailing record
known, reaching Santiago to take part
| IN that battle, does not seem to be I'm
| favor at the navy department He's a
Democrat, like sch1ey.
| During the last 35Iyears, eighteen ca
| bles have been laid across the Atlantic
ocean, and another one will soon be laid
connecting Germany, and the United
States A question OF a cable to Hawaii
and the Philippines Isl now discussed, the
cost being estimated at $12,OO0,OO0.
D.
| Down in Mexico, as an incentive to
study, school children are allowed to
smoke cigarettes during school hours
| when their lessons are well prepared.
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| Porto Rico. which appears on the
maps as singularly square, will take an
| other shape when the new government
chart appears A surveying party Is
now at work, and ftsis said the island g
appearance on the new maps will be
much changed. -
The original copy Of the Declaration of
Independence has so faded that the
words and signatures cannot be legibly
read. It is now kept locked up in a
safe in the state department at Wash
| ington.
| It IS estimated that the Mississippi riv-
er carries to the Gulf of Mexico every
year an area Of soil equal to a town
| ship 100 feet thick
| All the factories in the London glass
| trust have closed, and over 10000 work
men are idle.
China, in art, religion, literature and
politics. Is like a precocious child 1t de-
veloped early, but for centuries has been
at a standstil1, or, in a military sense,
has been marking time.
The National Sociological society is in
session at. Lake Bluff (near Chicago and
will continue until the 18th inst.
They say the fashion in shoes is chang
ing and the taHs must go.
The trouble in China has already adj
vanced the price of chinaware from 20
to 80 per cent. The best grades came
! from that country.
Today in the Roman Catholic calendar
is sacred to the memory Of ST. Romanus,
martyr at Rome; St. Nathy Cor DAVID.
an Irish priest; and st. Fedlinaid. a bishop
of Kilmore.
School directors and teachers will find
a document issued by the U. 8. depart
nlent of agriculture upon the School
Gardens of the Rhine" full of valuable
suggestions in the matter Of making the
school house and it's surroundings more
attractive.
Seventy years ago today was gala. day
in Paris on account of the coronation Of
Louis Philippe l. as king of the French.
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The Globe hopes that out-of-town read
ers will avail themselves of the excur-
sions given under the direction of the
Twin City Jobbers between Aug. Ii and
"a. Come in and see our cities in summer
dress.
A good deal is said about the extent and
richness of the Johannesburg gold fields
the main reef being fifty miles long and
seven miles wide. That's nothing com
pared to the fields along the boundary of
Minnesota and Canada Cake Of the
Woods DISTRICT, where gold is traced
for distance Of $50 miles east and west
AMI $50 miles north and south