The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-23
SATURDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

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SATURDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
| In accordance with the action of the
recent annual meeting at Columbus, y.
| of the National Association Of Co-opera-
| tive Mutual Insurance Compares. the
next meeting will be held in st. Paul
during the first week of March, 1902.
Just six weeks to the beginning of the
baseball season in st. Paul, the opening
day being May g. a Friday, the visiting
team coming from Des Moines.
Carnegie's donations are all condition
al. His gifts are solely to libraries, with
an occasional organ for church. All
| gifts must be supplemented by local
| contributions or offerings of mainten-
ance. In his last gift before sailing for
| Europe, he offered to build srxty-five
| branch libraries in New York city. to
cost $4,000 each, provided the city gave
| the sites and maintained the branches.
| This is broad application of the prin-
| c1ple that the benefits of giving are
! largely measured by the self-help that
| is required or made possible on fne part
of the beneficiary.
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language of the street-n1ust go, that Is
our legislature has passed a law prohib-
| iting their sale to youths under twenpy-
| one. AS long as they are offered to
! youths over twenty-one, youths under
twenty-one can get them. Cigarette
smoking is injurious to boys, and this
| law will probably cut off the supply to
kids. Restrictive legislation breaks out
In spots, and the proceedings of the vari-
Gus legislative bodies now in session will
show the reform movement mas assumed
freakiness in a number of cases.
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Congressman Joseph c.. Sibley Of Penn
sylvania, has political career notable for
the fact that while representing one party
in congress he was in the same district
elected by the opposite party to succeed
| himself. Except in times of political reyo-
lutfon-as, for instance, at the formation
OF the republican party-that never hap
pened to but one other man. AshbeI P.
Fitch, of New York. He came to con-
gress as a Republican and succeeded
himself as Tammany Democrat He be-
gan his career as a radical Cameron Re-
publican, then went with the Democratic
party, then with the free silver party.
and was elected the first time by combi-
| nation of the Democrats, Populists and
Prohibitionists. He was elected last fall
by the Republicans. Few men in the
country have been in all the parties and
still so popular.
An eagle was captured and wolf
killed inside of Chicago's city limits re-
! Gently, and is now proposed that Vice
| President Roosevelt be invited there, in
| stead of Colorado for his next hunting
! trip
| The new statistical abstract just is
sued by the treasury department fixes
/ the per capita of money in, the United
| States in 1860 at $30.66, the largest in our
| history, as compared with S1S.5S in 1873
| The cash in actual circulation in 1900 was
! S26-93 per capita, against $22.S2 ten years
! ago; $t941 in $780, and S1SO4 in 1873 The
net public debt in 1858 was $67. 10 per citi
| zen, and the interest charged was sS.4S
whereas in 1900 the net debt was $14.o2
! and the interest charged A cents per citi-
| zen. The net revenue last year was 81. 43
per citizen. against $40 in 1894 and s10.97
in 1868, while net expenses were last year
! $3.50 per citizen. against SOL in 1896, 1922
in 1886 and $l0.2 in 1868
| The Devils Lake Chautauqua has ar
! ranged with Gen. Joe Wheeler and II Nv
Watterson to speak at the July assembly.
! Every year our North Dakota friends are
making their summer school more at
/ tractive and useful
! Today, March %, in the Greek calendar.
| is observed as Great Friday, or Good
| Friday, in conlmemoration of the cruel
| fiXion of Christ, in the Russian and
] Greek church. In the new style is comes
i On April s.
The traffic in human hair in Europe
! runs into millions Of pounds every year.
| The finest supply of hair comes from
Switzerland. Germany and the French
provinces. There is human hair mar
! ket in Merlans in the department of
! the lower Pyranees, held every Friday
! Hundreds of hair traders walk up and
/ down one street of the village, their
/ shears dangling from their belts, and in
spect the braids which the peasant girls,
standing on the steps of houses. let down
for inspection. Prices range from so cents
| to IS. The best hair is made up into
wigs and fringes. large quantity Is
| used for scientific instruments and for
! supplying the best and most expensive
| dolls with wigs. The longer hairs are
! often used for embroidery, and many Of
| the elaborate altar cloths in European
| churches are decorated with designs
| worked In human hair. The shortest and
| least valuable hair is used for stuff1ng
cushions, it being much superior to any
thing else for this purpose.
Nearly every general reader is familiar
with the poem, MEN Wanted Now
somebody has written Girls Wanted"
| the last verse of which is as follows:
''The girls that are wanted are good
Good from thesheart to the lips;
| Pure as the lily is white and pure
| From its heart TO its sweet leaf-tips.
| Girls that are fair on the hearthstone,
Ready and anxious to please.
| Kind and sweet to their own folks.
| And pleasant. when nobody sees.
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| President Jordan. OF the Leland Stan
| ford Jr university, says that the song
birds of Japan have been practically ex-