The Saint Paul globe., 1901-04-14
SUNDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

Today Sunday, April A. is the 10 .th
s%day of the year. 1t is the first Sunday
after Easter The sun is due to rise at
5:23 a. M, and set at $40 p m. In Eng
lish history the title of Black Monday is
attached to April IA, for on this day in
1860. Edward Ill, with his hoast lay
before the city of Paris, which day was
full darke Of n1iste and halle and 50 bit
ter of cold that many men dyed on their
horses with celd: wherefore unto this
day 1t hath been called Black Munday'
Shakespeare. Dickens and other writers
speak Of Black Monday.
While we are patting ourselves on the
back as being large exporters Of agri-
cultural products, it may be a source of
surprise to some that our importations
of foreign-grown products exceed in
value all of our vast exports of grain
and flour by $4,000 900. The report of the
agricultural department for the year end
ing June so, 1900, places the total value
Of the principal agricultural imports at
$420, 0,139, 2SS. Were it not for cotton our
exports of farm products would be less
than our imports, but with that Southern
hber excluded we fall short. Almost
half OF the total value of our imports last
year was for something to eat produced
on foreign soil. OF this sugar led. at a
value OF little over $1o0, ,0O0,0 ,0O0
Nahum H., 4, reads: ''The chariots shall
rage in the streets, they shall jostle one
against another in the broad ways thew
snail seem like torches, they shall run
like the lightnings" Is this not q.
prophecy Of the trolley car and automo-
bile?
Build as thou wilt. unspoiled by praise
or blame
Build as thou wilt, and as thy light is
Then, If at last the airy structure fall
Dissolve aye and vanish, take thyseif no
They fan and they alone who have not
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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The president Of the South Carolina
senate and the speaker of the bousa
wear SILK robes while presiding over their
respective houses. For many years the
color was blue, but during the recent
session the president of the senate chang
ed his gown to heliotrope, while the
speaker donned royal purple. The pa-
perS OF the state are all torn l1p over the
radical innovation, and demand that tbe
ola color be retained and established by
law. ~
1t Is estimated that Andrew Carnegie
retires from active business life with
an income Of not less than $l0,00O.00o a
year. Ih1s is in excess of the incomes
oI the z5,OoO pastors of the Methodist and
Freseyterlan churches of the country. Il
would maintain a city of 1900 ponula-
tion. 1t would give 10000 men a salary
of $1,000 EACH
OF the "a presidents of the Tinted
States 8 were Episcopalians CWashingson.
Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harri-
son, Tyler. Taylor, Fillmore. Pierce and
Arthur; Methodists Lincoln. johnson.
Grant, Hayes and Mckinley: 5 Presby-
terians Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Cleve-
land and Benjamin Harrison); Congre-
gationalists (John Adams and John Ouin
cy Adams; Reformed Dutch (Van Bu-
rem. and a Liberal Crhomas Jefferson).
Garfield belonged to the Church of Dis
eiples Vice President Roosevelt be-
longs to the Reformed Dutch.
Two boys by the name of Gordon. at
Findlay. O.. stole so from a newspaper
Office the other day. They were ar
rested and brought before the mayor
who ordered them whipped And the
father whipped them in the mayors Of
fee in the presence of a crowd The
mayor thought this better than to send
them to jail, and then the reform schoo,.
Today, April IA, Is the anniversary Of
two fateful events in American history
the surrender in 1861 of Fort Sumter to
the Confederates, the Union troops leav-
ing with the honor of war; and that in
1866. when Abraham Lincoln was shot
at Ford's theater in Washington by
Wilkes Booth.
John Plunkett, an old gardener OF Ger
mantown, Pa, had two dogs of whlck
he was very fond. One WAS a New
foundland and the other a black and
TAM For years the three were familiar
objects about the STREETS and lanes of
the town. The big dog, Rover, ever
walked proudly in front, while Prince,
the little fellow. tr5tt5d at his master
heels. Recently the old man was taken n
i'll and went to the hospital. The dogs
missed him. refused to eat. and last
Monday, when the old man died. singnla