The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-12

DusheiS TO the acre, or about l-3 bushels
less than the average of the GIFTED
states. The largest average yield to the
acre was In Montana, 26 bushels, and the
smallest in North Dakota a little over s.
According to the report of the city
electrician of Chicago, that city has made
money by doing its own lighting by
electricity during the past thirteen years
The total amount paid for construction
operating and repairs and rebuilding in
this period was $2,7S6 1OO.12, for which the
number of lights has been increasbd from
1873 to 4,239 If the city had rented prI-
Vate plants, the cost in thirteen years
would have been 81, 1850, but the city
now has three power plants, Us miles Of
conduits, 400 arc lamps and two power
stations, worth 600. The electrician
says: I'm two more years Chicago should
not owe itself one cent on account of the
1t has acquired In constructing the
plants"
Every legislative body in the land has
some reform members, who, for spite
work or notoriety, introduce special bills
to attack what they consider evils, which
can be corrected by the application Of
existing general laws.
Eastern dealers In horses say there is
more inquiry for animals with long tails
than was ever known. The highest
priced horses of the winter had the long
est tails. The day of locked horses is
past for the present at least.
The Minnesota farmers Institutes this
season are reported to be fully up to the
old standard, and the standard Is the
highest in the Union No money ex-
pended by the legislature is productive
of more general good than to carry on
this institute work.
Our trade with Australia during the
last six years has increased over six
times. And to a land where the British
flag flies. The country with good goods
can sell them to the people of other
lands If the prices are right. 1t did not
take war ships or troops to increase our
trade with Australia. 1t is all a mis-
take about forcing trade with the
musket upon any people It's expensive
too, and usually dishonorable.
o.
The Belgian hare fad has about run It's
course, and the owners Of the $50 to $500
pedigreed animals still have them on
hand
A writer in the Philadelphia Medical
Journal says that moderate smoking Is
vised. Better a few good smokes than
many bad ones.
If the United States supreme court de-
cides that the constitution follows the
fag-a proposition opposed by the ad-
ministration-the inha bitants of the Phil
ippine islands will have the same re-
lations to tho government as the white
people and Indians of Arizona, New
Mexico and Alaska. Like the territories
they will have non-voting delegate in
congress.
Joe Chamberlain, who Is held respons-
1ble for the Bocr war made a speech in
the house Of commons on May g. 1896,
during which he prophetically declared
that "A war In South Africa would DE
one of the most serious wars that could
possibly be waged. It would be in the
nature Of a civil war, it would be- long
war, bitter war, and costly war: and,
as I have pointed out already. it would
leave behind it the embers Of a strife
which believe generations would hardly
be long enough to extinguish To go to
war with President Kruger. in order to
force upon him reforms in the Internal
affairs of his state, in which secretaries
of state. standing III this place have re-
pudlated all right Of INTERCHANGEABLE
would be course Of action as immoral
as it would have been unwise."
Today. March u, is the anniversary of
the birth. in. 1854, of George Berkeley,
the English bishop, who, while in Amer
lea; wrote the poem containing the lines:
westward the course of empire takes
its way of Maria Louise, in 1871, second
wife of Napoleon Bonaparte; Of Thomas
Buchanan Read, in 1922. American poet
and artist; of Commander J. L. Worden
in 1918, commander of the Monitor. in
the famous fight with the Merrimac, the
FIRST fight in the world between IRON
clads.
The celebrated English race horse, Fly
ing Fox, was recently sold to a French.
man, M. Edmond Blanc, for S1S5,5O