The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-10

The man who has just begun his fourth
term as premier of Great Britain is Rob-
ert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, third
Marquis of Salisbury. He Is seventy
ana private annual income of $3.50 900
from estates.
The only crime in China for which the
thief may be Justly killed on the spot by
any one finding him is robbing graves.
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Maritime experts expect In the near
future toE make steamships possible of.
crossing the Atlantic ferry in four days,
or 100 hours. This will be reduction of
over one day in the present schedule
1t is not every one who uses a sponge
Knows that sis the body Of an animal.
Inc surface of a sponge Is covered with
little holes that are larger at the ton
than at the bottom, while the whole
mass contains system of channels
When the animal is alive water is kept
flowing constantly through these chan
nels by means of minute, hair-like appen-
dages, which the little polyps agitata
The water thus drawn in brings with it
the food required for the sustenance of
the sponge.
In China the physician gets his pay
while patients are In health. When thew
are sick his pay stops
Helena Modjeska recently said to a re-
porter: 81 hope that the twentieth CEN
fury viii witness renewal of admfra-
ton for Shakespeare which will lead
to the further development of dramatic
literature and dramatic art
Athletic sports in every field enjoyed a
boom in 1890. The contests held at Paris
last summer in connection with the ex-
position, at which American athletes
practically defeated the world, did much
Tor track and field games in this coun-
| try During 1901 the interest will I'M
doubtedly be far greater because tha
scene of international action Will be laid
IN America instead of abroad.
There Is no trouble in any country for
relic hunters to secure ali goods in that
line that they have the price for Wis
ltors TO the western Fart of America who
want indian relics to take home with
them can find them ready made and
much prettier than if they had been made
a hundred years ago. Relic makers have
a secret process by which an ancient an
pearanee is impaired to bones, pots,
arrowheads, etc.
1t is said that the value of the chicle,
the basis of chewing gum, that is pro-
duced in Mexico is three times as great
! as that of the country's present rubber
product.
Mark Twain declares that geine. to bed
is the most fatal of human habits in
asmuch assfuly go per cent of all deaths
take place in bed.
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If you go abroad this year 1t might be
wei to post up on foreign names for the
bicycle: Ce3erifere velocifere, yeloce and
veto, IN French: velecifero and bicicletta
III 1talians sfahfrad, in German: euagrna
feiehai ana tzaI-tzun, in Chinese, and
sneiWiel and yoetwell in Flemish
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A recent directory shows 2,052 wholesale
grecers in the United States, of whici,
number Minnesota has Is. doing business
IN IL different places in the state.
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An authority writing on the deformf-
ues OF the human foot says: parents
should give much more thought than.
most do to the feet of their children. .
that they may preserve them from tha
delormit1es and disease which so marv
have to endure
The Duke of York has been appointed
commander-fn-chief of the RoyaI No
rines in the British navy. being advances
over sixty-three officers in line of prn-
motion. The duke had the advantage If
being near the throne But there is
much disapproyal of the appointment.
To-day, Jan. To- is the anniversary Of
the birth, in 1851, of Gen. Ethan Allen.
or Revolutionary fame; of Michel Ney. in
1862 a famous French marshal; of Dan
lei Wise. in 1913, a famous American d.
Vlne-and writer of books for the young.
The quickest train In the world Is said
70 he the 'tier' on the Philadelphia Il
Reading railroad, between Camden and
Atlantic City. The Northern railway OF
france contends that its recent run Of
ISo miles in 1S4 minutes and 80 seconds
breaks the worlds record and transfers
the honor to Europe The distance from
Camden to Atlantic CITY is 55n
miles, and the train runs at the
rate of G66 miles an hour The Penn
syIvan1a covers the run between the
same points at the rate Of 643 miles an
hour The fastest long distance tra:n
IS the New York Central, New York to
Buffalo, 44O miles, at the rate of SO 93
miles an hour
Inc car of Russia is represented on
the nelly synod as the secular head of the
Greek church by M. Pobyenotostseff. It
was through him that Count Tolstoi was
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