The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-18
MONDAY globe CHANCES.


MONDAY globe CHANCES.
Last year there were 152 new school
houses built in Minnesota, making the
total in the state of 1903, with accommo-
cations for about 100000 children.
Medicine Hat uplnorthwest, where we
suppose all the cold comes from, is
smart town, and is making an offer OF
ten years exemption from taxes to all
manufacturing plants. 1t also offers Tree
water from the public water works.
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One match is not very large, but the
total used in the country in one Gay
would make several big trees. An idea of
what is being done is shown by the re-
cent purchase of SO,000O60 feet of lumber
by the Diamond Match company from
the Wausau (Wfs) Lumber company
This represents all the lumber the COM
pany will be able to cut during 1901.
Mice are being bred in England for pets.
A. fancier in London recently paid $l25
Tor black and tan mouse.
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The recent census found out that there
were 1l1,05 deaf mutes and 8S,924 totally
blind people in the United States.
T, Gen c. c. Andrews, chief fire warden.
Who tray eled twelve days along a river
little known to the world, says: THAT
there should be IN our state river $50
miles long, with densely wooded shores,
scarcely known to the public, is a strik-
Ing indication of Minhesota's yet unde-
veloped resources. This. is the Big Fork,
a stream everywhere crooked, and which,
taking it's rise in the Little Bow String
lake, makes two great bends, one west
and one east, and with a generally north
ern direction traverses thirty different
townships before it's confluence with the
Rainy river"
The board of geographical names, in the
city of Washington, has been taking
turn at names in the state of Washington,
to the effect that it is '.Spokan,' not Spo-
kane; Lake Kootenai," not Lake Koote-
nay; pend Oreille," not the real Pend
dOreille; .'Clealunl," not Cle-Elum,
which is the name of famous Indian
.'sanpoil,' not Sans Poll; and, finally.
"Okinagan' for, Okanogan.
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John WaltersI of Paint township, Blair
county, PENNSYLVANIA, is the head pie
eating family. He claims that during 1899
his family of father, mother and seven
sons, consumed S;;s69 pies, all baked by Mrs.
Walters. The pies were baked by months
as follows: In December, 1885, Mrs. Wal
tiers put out 764 pies; January, 1860, Gil;
February, 10; March. rs; April, 610; May,
749; June, $40; July, 800; August, $50; Sep
TENDER, 70S; October, T57, and November,
6G3. July was the prize month, because
that was harvesting time, and there were
several extra men ito help consume the
pies. He is sixty-five years old, and dur
ing his married life claims to have helped
eat over 0,000 pies
The catacombs of Paris and Rome can
now be seen by electric light, which,
piercing the gloomy passages, reveals
long and startling rows of skeletons and
grinning skulls.
Tits estimated that the. death-srate Of
the world is sixty-seven, and the birth
rate is seventy a minute. Put your fin
ger on your pulse and think that every
time it beats that some one leaves this
life and a new life begins.
Justice Brown, of the United States cir
cult court. a few days ago decided that
the Berliner telephone patent was void.
An appeal has been made to the highest
court. The Berliner was owned by the
Reil company, and when it's own patent
was about to expire it sprang the Ber-
liner patent, which it had quietly with
held some fifteen years, upon the public,
thus virtually acquiring over thirty years
of telephone monopoly should this suit be
formally decided in it's favor. Such a
course is against public policy, and gen.
eral satisfaction will be. experienced
should the patent be voided and the in
.vention be thrown open to the public.
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The best way to give a city good
name with visitors is to furnish them
with comfortable entertainment while
they stay ST. Paul has the reputation of
taking good care of visitors, whether
delegates to conventions-and our city is
known as offering climatic and scenic ad-
vantages, not to speak of halls-and gen.
eral tourists and sightseers This season
will test the capacity of hotels and board
ing houses. as several large and impor-
tant conventions are to be held here,
with attendance from all parts Of the
land.
The Seattle assay office handled forty
six and one-fouth tons of gold, having
an assay value of $22, OBS, rs. Forty-six
tons of yellow metal, the yellow dross
that moveth nationsrri1ed from North
ern rivers, creeks and lodges during one
year We talk about millions of dollars
iE gold, but when we put into the form
of tons, like coal, computations are
vague. Forty-six tons of gold would oc-
cupy but insignificant floor space In a
warehouse. but at first thought the guam
tity assumes immense proportions. After
all it's not much. it's less than John D.
Rockefellers annual income from Stand
ard Oil stock.
Astronomers and students are talking
about a new star recently discovered II
the constellation PerseGs. 1t has increas-
ed so in brillancy that the belief is that
it may belong to the class known as var
liable stars and that this star may now
have reached the period of sudden bright
ness for the first time since men have
begun the study of the heavens. How
ever, the discovery is an impressive one,
and serves, if nothing else, to remind us
of the immense vastness of the universe
of worlds, and also of the fact that as
in the case of our earth the same pro-
cesses are going on that have been con-
tinued through countless ages.
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A radically disposed doctor. out West.
declared in print recently, what a good
many doctors and others think. that 1t
is not only right, but humane, to make
death easy for persons incurably i'll or
fatally injured. He adds: 81 am glad to
say that physicians and surgeons are TAX
ing this view. A human being afflicted
with fatal disease NAV suffer thousand