The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-01
THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
The sidewalks have depressions in
them which, when filled with water On
rainy days, make it little unpleasant
/ for pedestrians. This could be easily
obyiated in front of stores If an employee
could be induced to go out with a broom
occasionally and sweep the water into
the street. 1t would be a Showing Of
at least a little regard for passers-by
on the part of the merchants. There
/ will probably be a good deal of rain and
| sleet this month and next, and a few
minutes of work on the part of a store
boy will make impossible places pass
able.
November is so called from being the
month in the Roman calendar Ono
ven1," nine). The Saxons called it the
''Wint-Monat," or wind month, from the
gales of wind that prevailed at that
| season. The name was retained after
the change from the ten-month calendar
The Emperor Tiberias was born in this
month. The Roman Sena tie proposed to
name this month in his honor, following
the precedent set by Augustus, but he
declined, saying: 'sNYhat will you do
censcript fathers, when you have thir-
teen ECaesars%'
The Catholic church honors on Nov. 1
the reasons given being because we
cannot articularly commemorate every
one of those saints in whom Gods grace
have been eminent, for that would be
too heavy q burden; and because those
particular feats which we do celebrate,
we may justly be thought to have omit
ted some of our duty through inffrnity
or negligence; therefore holy church
appoints this day In commemoration of
the saints in general" The festival was
instituted in COS. when the Pantheon at
Rome was consecrated as a Christian
church
The Republican state of Oregon ex-
cludeS by constitutional provision all
persons of African blood from her bound
aries, and vests her legislature with au-
thority to provide by penal laws for
the removal by public officers of all such
negroes and pnulattees, and for their
effectual exclusion from the state, and
for the punishment of persons who shall
bring them into the state, or employ
or harbor them" This has been the
law of Oregon since before the Civil
war and no effort has been made to
rerea-it nor enforce its provisions.
The wheat crop in Kansas this year
is 7S,e60,000 bushels, the largest quantity
ever raised in that state or in any other.
All the samples of vinegar anaIyzed
in Maj. Bowler's dairy and food office
for the last two months Were illegal, and
so was all the honey, jelly, and about
half of the pepper and cinnamon. Ten
persons were prosecuted and fined for
selling adulterated goods.
Dried beans are the highest in price in
ten years, the latest quotations per bush
ell for the hand-piclzed navy being 50 so
and it is thought prices will go higher
for all grades. It is scarcity, and not
the administration, that has caused
prosperity in the bean trade.
An International peace congress was
in session recently III Paris This inn
portant subject may be little needed now.
when the tramp of armed men is heard.
and when battleships cover the seas,
but in every land there are earnest adj
Vocates of the method of settling inter-
national quarrels by arbitration. and
they are growing in numbers and in
influence 1t may be long before the
era of universal peace daWns on this
auarrelsome world, but it is coming.
coming when right triumphs over greed,
when '-plain duty" gives every race
what it is entitled to.
The census returns show that 35 per
cent of our population is living in cities,
against 20 per cent ten years ago and 5
per cent 100 years ago. Thus the entire
country is drifting toward condition
when it will be governed by city legis-
lators. For instance. the cities of New
York and Chicago will have nearly one
half of the membership of their state
legislators and of the representatives in
congress to which their states are en-
titled. Here is a growing problem for
students of political economy.
Sir Charles Upper, leader of the Con-
servative party in Canada, Is eighty
years old and still active, and predicts "a
victory Tor his party in the election OF
Nov. z. -
Three states. illinois. Ohio and Mary,
land. have Etat5 employment Hgsrsr.--.-
The .plans of the men at the head of
these agencies are far-reaching. looking
to the possibility of chain Of these
employment bureaus in. every state in
the Union by which surplus labor could
be evenly distributed throughout the
country. and every section supplied with