The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25

ton of Italy still live in a serni-savage
state, dwelling in miserable cabins, eat
ing refuse food, and having ideas OF life
scarcely above that of The American
blanket Indian.
An organization called the American
Society for the Prevention of Premature
Burial has applied for q charter in
New York. The theory on which the
society is founded is that doctors and
surgeons are prone to issue certificates
of death without subjecting the body to
complete physical test &C prove whether
life has actually departed. This is to be
avoided by requiring physicians to deter
mine the abserce of life by some of the
following certain means: 1.-TWO or more
ineisions in an artery; the palm of the
hand exposed to the flame of a candle
not more than five inches away; a mirror
or crystal held to the lips and no sign
of respiration; hot iron or steel placed
against the flesh without producing Bills
tiers.
The country produced last year an av-
erage of 22,22O pounds of grain of all
kinds for each inhabitant, as against $50
pounds for each person in England.
The government transport r. A. Cous-
ms, filed with supplies for troops in
Alaska, was wrecked a couple of weeks
ago and is a complete loss The crew
was saved. Another report from Alaska
Is to the effect that the Indians are starv-
ing owing to the killing off of game by
the whites.
The vote for John G. Woolley, the Pro-
hibition candidate for president, is much
larger than in 1895, The vote this year
Will nearly reach the half-mtllion mark
Belmont's illustrated political free sill
yer weekly, The Verdict, has suspended.
1t was in existence two years, and Mr..
BIS total loss is about $4,000,
One of the causes of the Revolutionary
war was the tax on tea, the tax amount
ing to about one-third the tax we now
impose on tea to help pay the expenses
OF war on the. people who raise tea
o.
In a discussion the other day on the
subject of trusts, one man said in his
experience that the poorest trust he
knew OF was to trust to luck.
France is all excitement over the pres
e:ice of Kruger, and ]. Bull is not pleas
ed. U. Sam is not especially concerned
until some country welcomes Aguinaldo
Today, Nov. %, is the anniversary of
the evacuation of, New. York by the Brit
1sh in 1888, and Is known as ''Evacua ton
Day" the last post held by them in the
United States Also of the battle Of Mis-
slonary Ridge and the defeat of Gen
Bragg in 1863.
The American Bible society has sent an
agent to the Philippines who is dfstribut-
ing the Scriptures in the dialects Of the
natives, and he reports that they ere
cetve reading matter of this sort with
great eagerness.' Few people refuse
gifts.
It's regular thing now to read in
Washington kilograms of the needs" Of
the Philippines, the needs of Guam, or
the needs of some other distant pos
session, when we have plenty of neglect
ed needs at home.
''They say there are no saints today,
l don't believe it, though
They say we tread downward way,
[ don't believe it, though;
They say there's only gloom ahead,
They say that. all the knights are dead,
They say mems sweetest joys are fled
[ don't believe it, though"
Chicago Herald
Now that the election is over" said
the man who had been disappointed by
the result, slet as ask ourselves calmly:
What is the question of the hour with
the workingman?' -
Usually, replied the observant citizen,
tits: Say, is it u o'clock yet?' Chi
cago Evening Post.
The late Henry Willard was the princi-
pal owner of the New York Evening
Post.
If the fusionists control the Nebraska
legislature it is said Gilbert NJ Hitch
cock, editor OF the Omaha World-HeraId.
will be elected United States senator lie
is the son of a former senator.
Charles Hacker Pinkham, proprietor
and business manager of. the Lydia b
Pinkham Medicine company, Lynn, Mass,
is dead. He began business in a small
way, and by advertising accumulated a
large fortune. He was highly esteemed
and very public-spirited. He was fifty
three years Of age and a sou Of Lydia.
Today Nov %, is the anniversary Of
the BIRTH in 1862, of Felix Lope de Vega.
famous Spanish poet and dramatist,
author, it is said, OF over 2,GGO plays; OF
Henry Sargent in ITO an American art
list; of Henry Mayhem, in 1872, distln-
guished English author and the first ed
itor of Punch.