The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-26
TUESDAY GLOBE CHANCES.


The next legal holiday in Minnesota is
Arbor day, the date of which is set by
the governor. 1t will probably be some
time IN April.
Albert Johnson, brother of Tom john
son, of Cleveland, is after streets in
Philadelphia, not already occupied with
trolley lines, and says he will make a
three-cent fare. He also proposes tb
build line from Philadelphia to New
York and charge so cents fare He is
brother-in-law Of T. B. Lynch, formerly
OF the Great Northern of this city, and
Mr.. Lyncn is to be a factor in the pro-
posed crusade for low fares.
A st. Paul man who is just back from
Kansas, says the Carrie Nation crusade
has closed the open saloons In nearly
every town and city in that state
The rush of new settlers to the coun-
try northwest of the Twin Cities cannot
help but be Of great benefit to ST. Paul
and Minneapolis
The government forest reservations
now cover 600 acres, divided into
fifty-one tracts. These are now to be
turned over to the control of the division
or forestry of the agricultural depart
ment.
A cow down in the short-horn record as
Sweet Violet H." six years old, born
and bred at Harlan, To-, sold a week
ago at a sale in Omaha for $3,705, the
highest price on record for a cow.
Thirty-four other cows brought an aver
age of $48550 each.
The Duke of Argyll, better known as
the Marquis of Lorne son-in-law of
Victoria, is the only member Of the roya
family with literary pretensions OF.
ability, and he has been selected to write
the court biography of the late English
queen.
1t is said that on April the window
glass trust will shut down eighty plants
in order to curtail production and keep
up prices. About $1,000 men will be
thrown out Of employment And, accord
ing to Mr.. Hanna, there arc no trusts In
the country debating prices.
The first state to pass a state aid law
for roads was New Jersey, in 1891. This
law provides that the abutting property
owners along the improved roadway pay
10 per cent of the cost, the state SO 1-3
per cent and the county the remainder
of the cost and the maintenance Of the
road. Under this law ABOUT 900 miles OF
improved roads have been built in
which the state invested about .$715, 900.
Five other states have adopted the fea-
lures of the New Jersey law.
The Hawaiian legislature has passed a
bill giving an annual pension of $4,000
to ex-Queen Liliuokalani. Hawaii will
have to pay that tribute to royalty, but
the United States treasury gives UP the
salaries of the sultan of Sulu and his
court officials and slave overseers.
George Alfred Townsend hits the nail
on the head in the following declaration:
THE United States government has no
business sense, with it's sections and
parties. The Standard Oil company
holds board meeting every day where
all the directors put forth all their best
thoughts for the common advantage, and
those who oppose the policy of the ma
jority turn in and work for it just as
hard as the others. But, in congress
the policy one introduces Is antagcss3zed
for long by many others. AS working
corporation the United States is little
more than an exaggerated copy of the
state legislatures. The lobby is the mo-
tive power. 1t has nothing of the GER
tainty of the old Venetian council of
thirty, controlled by council of ten, nor
yet Of the acute Swiss republic, which is
operated by board of directors i'm
perceptibly going out while others come
in"
It was nearly two years ago that our
sanguine chief executive declared at
Omaha that only a small part of one Of
sixty or eighty tribes in the Philippines
was opposing our military forces, yet the
army there is as large as ever and the
naval force is larger. The people of this
country accept statements like these
without question, just as they do in
England, where the war department de-
clared $4,000 men would clean out the
Eoers, but instead there is an army of
zoe, 600.
Members of the English house of COM
mons wear their hats all of the regula-
ton tall style, and the speaker will not
recognize member not so covered"
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The last annual report of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs shows that
it has thirty-six state declarations, with
Este clubs, enrolling 155,G00 members.
"Cadmiral'' Sampson is what they are
now calling the "navee" gentleman.
Sockalexis, the well known Indian base
ball player several years ago, is now
wreck on account of too much frewa-
ter.
It is said that the two United States
senators, the congressman and governor
of Nevada practically own all the min
ing industries of the state The popula,
ton is gradually decreasing. Under the
constitution there is no way to abolish
the state, but it is suggested that an
amendment be made that congress shah
have power to annex one state to another
when the ratio for member of congress
falls below the average. The vote Of
Nevada at the last election was about
10000, much less than the average large
city, and yet the pocket borough state
has three representatives in congress.
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John L. Sullivan was thrown out of
hall III New York the other night where
an Irish society was giving dinner
John walked in without invitation and
wanted to run things 1t took four or
five men to convince him that he had to
go out.
There is a law In the state of Maine
that makes citizens personally response
BILE for the debts of municipalities. Re-
Gently the town of Otis being out of
funds and unable to pay claims, a credit
or seized COWS and horses belonging to
officials and citizens and drove them
away. And now the people of Otis are
somewhat alarmed because there are
other claims and a few more cows and
horses left in the town. The law was
an old one and had been forgotten.
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