The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-29

len years ago today William Window,
secretary of the treasury, died suddenly
in New York city.
The commercial phase of legislation
has. shown itself in the North Dakota
legislature by movement on the part
Of hotel keepers and others to reduce
the time limit of the divorce law to its
former short period SO as to attract I'M
happy married Eastern people again.
The car load receipts and shipments
of the various st. Paul railroad lines, city
business, for the year 1900 was as follows:
imports or receipts, 154,609 cars; exports
or shipments, 1913 cars. The average
annual increase for the last six years
was 1900 cars of receipts and 5000 of
shipments.
The Twin City merchants are perfecting
plans for spring excursions from trib-
utary territory for the benefit of country
dealers. The first one comes off in Feb
ruary, with tickets good from Feb. Is to
March l.
Italy is one country without a national
hymn, and the new king is inviting au-
thors and composers to try their hands.
1t was Lincoln who said: God must
love the common people, because He
has made so many of them" This in
reply to a remark of depreciation made
by a senator against common" man
the president had selected for an office.
Lincoln's birthday, Feb. II, is a legal
holiday in Minnesota and seven other
states.
Every large city hospital has more or
pretend to be sick so as to get the use
of free lodging, food and attention.
The 1901 styles of bicycles do not
show any particular improvements over
those Of 1900
The English court will be in mourn
ing one year. 1t is said that the kings
horses will not run In any races for that
period. The Prince of Wales was quite
a horseman, but it is not known what
he will do now that he is king.
The consumption of sugar in the United
States reached it's highest point in 1900,
the total per capita being 664z pounds.
This consisted of 17454O tons domestic
cane sugar, S2,736 tons domestic beet
sugar, 5000 tons maple, 1871 tons mo-
lasSes sugar-a total of 269, 1913 tons do
meStic production; and 1869 1874 tons of
foreign cane sugar, 373,077 tons of foreign
raw beet sugar, and 17,743 tons of foreign
refined-a total of 1,969,G14 tons of foreign
production. The crop of the world reach
ed grand total of s,S755O0 tons-an eS-
timated Increase over the previous year
Of 1,037,170 tons. The tota' IS the largest
worlds production on record
Astorologers claim to have learned
from Babylonian tablet that the world
will be deluged in December, 1901 Pre-
dictions of world disasters have been
common along the track of history, and
still the old thing goes right on.
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It is claimed by those who S.1nk they
know that the infusion of true coffee
contains very little nutritive matter
However, it is ordinarily consumed not
on account of it's food value, but its
agreeable flavor. It also contains small
amount Of an alkaloid, caffein, which
has stimulating properties This is en-
tirely lacking in cereal coffees If they
are, as they claim, made entirely from
cereal grains.
Gerald informed the Minneapolis
Tribune on Sunday, 'by wire from WASH
ington," that the secretary of the navy
had recognized the request CT tile officers
and crew of the battleship Wisconsin to
change the date of it's going into com
mission from Friday. Feb /, to Monday
Feb. 4, because of the BELIEF in Friday
as a day OF ill-luck. The fact that
change had been asked and granted was
noted in this column of the Globe a
couple of weeks ago.
When the lady reader of this hands the
street car conductor five pennies for her
fare let her remember that pennies Go
not consist of copper alone, there being
in them 2 per cent of tin, 3 per cent of
zinc to 90 of copper They cost the gov
eminent about AZ cents a pound, exclu-
sive of stamping, and there are 14S in
a pound, SO that the government makes
a fair profit on every pound minted,
since. while they are redeemahe IN gold,
but few are ever presented. And the
mint Keeps stamps busy every day in
the year making them
1t is said that there are over 5000
French words now used in the English
language without any change In the
spelling. the difference being IN the pro-
nunciation.
Congressman viii have more seeds to
distribute this year than ever. The APP
preparation for this purpose having been