The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24


band. In England a hundred years ago
men sold their wives Today a man may
not under any circumstances open his
wifes letters without her permission.
She has her legal rights and controls
her own property in most of the states
of the American Union.
Flour was produced in the early days
OF the colonies by breaking it with a hand
pestle in mortar. The white man i'm
proved upon the Indian method by rig
g1ng UP an apparatus Nike wind mill was
which held the peSt.e. Yhe wind mill was
then Introduced, and finally the grist min
run by water power and tie grindstone
superseded the laborioU5 pestle and NOR
tar. The e was no knowledge OF yeast.
baking powders and light bread, as cooks
and bakers understand It GoW.
Fish was wonderfully abundant a CEN
fury ago, and the fishing season was
OFTEN time of merry making as we'll as
drinking. Big fish stories are told of
those days Fish was taken with SeineS
traps, spears and hooks. All the whole
sale ways of fishing were practiced with
out remOrse and with small hinderance
from the laws. Beverly, the Virginia
historian, speaks of the abundance: 81
have set in the shade al the Heads of
the Rivers Angling, and spent as much
time in taking the fish off the hook as
In waiting for their taking il"
Andrew Branning, little boy no
more than thirteen years old, was tried
for burgiariously breaking and entering
the dwelling house of Sarah Dane. ana
stealing therein q silver dessert spoon
Guilty. Death It is an extract
from the London Times of 1901. Perhaps
no other Of the interesting questions
which the Times has lately given it's
readers could show so convincingly how
lar we have Travelled since then Only
eighteen years before Victoria was born
this happened, and who supposes that in
1901 people in their private homes were
less Warnl-hearted or foad of children
than today? 1t was the law of the
land. and sentence had to be carried out,
and stealing to the value Of a shilling
was only one of 223 crimes up to 1924
for which the penalty was death.
The century was twerty years old when
Sidney Smith Sneeringly said in the Edin-
burgh Review: In the four quarters OF
the globe, VINO reads an American book,
or goes to an American play, or looks
upon an Ameri 1an picture or statue?
What does the world vet owe to -Aneri-
can physicians or surgeons What new
substances have their chemists discover
ed or what Old ones have they analyzed?
What new consultations have been dis
covered by the telescopes of America?
What have they done in the mathemat-
lest Who drinks out of American glasses
or eats from American plates, or wears
American coats or gowns, or sleeps in
American blankets2''
Sidney should see us now.
The use Of the ''E Pluribus Unum' on
coin was never authorized by law. Its
first known use was on a New Jersey cent
struck off in ZIG. The word dollar cams
frcm the German thaler; Dutch, daal-
der; Danish. daler, and Italian, tallers.
The word dime is from the French dix.
1eme "a tenth1, expressing the tenth
part of the standard dollar, and first an
peared on sample coins made for con-
gress, and spelled 'disme." When our
coinage took the place of Spanish coin
age the dimes supplanted the real. known
as a shilling in New York, in Virginia
as a levy, and in Louisiana as bit. The
The word cent comes from the French
Centime (lundredthl derived from the
Latin centum, one hundred.