The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-15


other dignitaries were present Eight
locomotives, built like the well known
as1cHel' TOOK part in the procession,
eacn hauilhg four coaches all filled with
olstlngushed people. During a stop to
take wafer Mr. Huskinson, secretary Of
state Tor the colonies, was run over by
locomotive and fatally injured.
The Chicago Inter Ocean Is a n7p,~sn9-
mean paper, but it has some inde-
Penoence OF opinion. 1t terms the state
ueparlhents handling of our foreign
matters as 'idyllic diplomacy and then
IL apphes the lash to Mr.. Hays back
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Iooay is the anniversary of the birth,
IN 1868 OF Samuel Horsley, who demand
ed TO know in a speech in the English
mousse or iords:s What have the people
TO do with the laws, except to obey
them?"
Inc Illinois Steel company, at Chicago,
has just put in iabor-saving machine
handleo by six men that does the work
OF zoo. AT the present gait shown by
American inventors it will not be long
until machinery will do pretty much all
the labor, and few men will own all
the machinery
The storm of Sunday at Galveston was
me great tragedy among all the great
disasters in American history. The less
was greatest at Galveston, but not less
than lO0 other towns and villages suffered
death and destruction of property. The
cotton and rice fields were ali badly
damaged. The real loss of life will prob
ably never be known, but it runs into
thousands, While the property loss will
l-af91 into Will
No loyal citizen desires to detract one
bit from the proud position now attain
ed by the United States among the pow
crs of the world. We are world power,
and no one wishes to keep us so more
i heartily than a Democrat. But we reach
ed our proud position by attending to our
| own business and defending our rights.
A continued attention to money making
in the natural channels of the world 5
trade, with an army and a navy big
enough to protect us in our legitimate
pursuits, will fast push the nation, which
is now lending gold and selling coal TO
Great Britain, into the first position in
the rank of world powers.-Seattle Times.
The first balloon voyage in England
was taken Sept. Is, 1884, by Vincent I.u-
narGi, an Italian, from MoQrsfeld to
Ware.
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The Minnesota State Horticultural So
ciety, with SEQ members, is the largest
organization of the kind in the Union.
A Pittsburg [Pa) man by the name of
hajoris, had beenJ following so intent
~ the speeches of. the Republican candi-
dates for the Presidency and vice presi-
dency in their iInpassioned appeals to
Americans to reverence the flag because
trade follows the flag" and a lot Of
other things, that he put flags UP in
| every room in hislbouse, and three times
a day compelled his family to go from
room to room and bow to the flags. His
| wife finally febelled, and one day last
! week he beat her so badly that medical
| help was requiIed. and then she had him
! arrested An examination showed that
he was crazy on the subject and had to
| be sent to an asylum. There was not as
much method and money in his admira-
ton for the flag as for the teachers.
The practice of tipping in spite of op-
/ position is growing. 1t is hard work for
any one in an Eastern hotel or restau-
rant to get attention without advancing
/ fee to walters and servants. The
/ origin of the word tip comes from the
old London coffee houses. A box placed
! in front of these houses had engraved
/
ITO insure promptness,' and patrons
were supposed to drop coin in the box
as they left, and the total was divided
| among the walters. Now the waiter
| takes it personally.
Today, Sept. Is, is the anniversary Of
! the birth. in 1925 OF C. E. Leasing, an
/ eminent German author, swflose Emilia
Galotti" has been styled ''the master
piece of German tragedy and whose
LAGOON" 1.-The masterpiece of German
critioism;' of Jean S. Bailly d7S6), a
distinguished French astronomer and
author, wickedly executed in 1898, and
| whose name" says Lamartine, was
an Inscription on the frontispiece of the
RevoJution;" of James Fenimore Coop
| er Q799), the noted author who SO truth
/ fully ard glowingly wrote Of American
character and scenery, and of Mrs. A.
/ D. T Whitney (1S29), a popular Ameri-
can writer OF stories.
People who get the blues and want a
| home far from the maddening crowd off
! in some vast wilderness, can be accom-
modated now that we have the Philip
pines, as there are about 600 uninhabited
! islands. And in the Indian ocean, be-
tween South Africa and India, there are
said to be 10000 or more uninhabited ISL
ands open for settlement