The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-07

Inc patron saint Of Milan, ITALY. Many
wonderful stories are recorded concern
ing this saint.
The whole state Of wyoming as well
as Nevada, cast fewer votes than in
ramsey county at the recent presidential
election.
On Dee. T., 1885, Luther, Melanchton.
ana other doctors of divinity signed a
warrant Of approval giving Philip, land
grave, OF Hesse, a staunch friend of
Luther' the privilege of having two
wives 1t suggested in the warrant that
the second marriage be in secret, SO
that the people be not scandalized," and
II any question the story, it will remain
with them to prove it. This was fol-
lowed by more liberal dispensation
from the ordinary rules of morality when
the Calvinestic clergy of Prussia gave
70 the reigning king, Frederick William
ILL., the privilege of having three wives
at one time.
Carmen" with a real bull fight, is the
latest european operate innovation.
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The regular army Of the United States
IN 1889 was 74G men; on Jan. J. 1904, it
consisted of 3,2SF men; on jan /, 1874, of
S,al3 men, and on Jan. l. 1851, of 1922
men. AS the world becomes more en-
HShtened 1T seems that more soldiers and
battle ships are needed. The sweet reign
OF arbitration seems only dream of tho
sentimental
A German scientist declares that yawn-
ing is a healthy pastme. It-is whole,
some, like oatmeal and brown bread.
YaWn1ng, it is said, stretches the muscles
maybe or the tendons of the head sends
the blood to the jaws and sharpens appe-
tlte and intellect. It is a cheap remedy,
accessible to young and old, rich and
poor, and can never be controlled by a
trust.
All is good as we go through life,
If we only stop to find it:
In our deepest grief, in our hardest
strife,
There is something good behind it,
In European countries cheese is largely
Substitute for high priced meat which
the poor cannot buy. The Dairy Age
says that in purchasing sirloin steak at
% cents a pound we get one-thfrd Of a
pound of digestible nutrients for our
money; in whole milk at s cents per
quart we get pound of Gigestible nutri-
ents for p cents; in cheese at IS cents
per pound we get 1-3 pounds of digest
ible nutrients for 25 cents. Cheese gives
the eater more food for his money than
does beef. AS surely as the American
laborer lives so will he use more cheese
year after year"
We note in an exchange that a young
lady desiring to know what would keep
her hands nice and white answered an
advertisement, and sending some money
along, she received this receipt: Soak
your hands in dish water three times per /
day While mother rests.
Is the little toe disappearing? This is
answered in the affirmative by a writer
in the Atlanta Journal-Record Of Medi-
cine, who is convinced that when our re
mote descendants play "This little pig
went to market: with their babies, the
little pig that .tcried wee weer" Will
have to be omitted. The little toe, he
says, is degenerate and must go. He
quotes cases where organs once indis-
pensable have disappeared in the march
Of progress, such as the hairy coat OF our
simian ancestors, and notes others that
are fast going, such as the vermiform ap-
pendix.
The Washington Times predicts that
this session of congress, with its many
bills involving enormous expenditures,
will see q liberal use Of money in con-
nection with legislation. It says.
Champagne, burgundy, terrapin, birds 1
Holsters, and those delicate green salad
leaves that grow SO opulently in the
bureau of engraving and printing, will
be plentier III this capital during the
next session than ever before. Oppor-
tunities for impecunious young members,
whose votes are desired, to win large
sums at cards with nothing to go in on
but the traditional peppermint lozenge,
are to be too numerous to mention. Rep
resentatives with conscientious scruples
about gambling will be accommodated
at any one of several stock tickers, and
ultra good, pure, and pious senators, who
are not to be had in either way, will be
presented with handsome copies of the
Bible, between the leaves of which they
viii be apt to find most comforting and
useful paper bookmarks.''
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Intelligence and application can work
wonders. The field of opportunity is open
to all An instance Of what a man can
do in connection with nature is shown
by Luther Burbank, who mas just de-
veloped a new fruit called ''pluncots."
which have the good qualities Of the
apricot and plum combined.
There is only one nation in Europe with
more people than the United States and
that is Russia.
The Speaker, a LIBERAL paper of Lon
don, in discussing the presidential cleo
ton in this country, quotes the follow
ing lines from Emerson as applying to-
day:
IT'S the day of the chattel,
Web to weave and corn to grind;
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind
The wooden tooth pick industry is a
large one. Hundreds of millions are
used annually in this country 1t is esti-
mated that 5000 cords Of wood are used
in Maine alone every year for this pur-
pose. Machines turn a butt log into picks !
at the rate of 1000 a minute The finest |
picks come from Japan and Portugal,
where they are Whitfield out by hand.