The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-27
WEDNESDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

If DR.. Northrop is appointed one Of the
commissioners of the st. Louis exposition
it will not as much a recognition of his
ability as the insistence Of the Mime
sofa congressman, to Judge from Wash
ington correspondence.
1t was Marshall Field, the great mer-
chant of Chicago, who said that he would
rather have his advertisement in one
paper going into a home than in a dozen
sold on the street. The Clio b is
home paper.
st. Paul people will recall a visit from
Sir Edwin Arnold and the reception
given him by the press club. IIe is now
totally blind, and since his affection has
dictated a poem Of 1000 lines, an epic
descriptive of the Phoenicians in 600 B.
C. 1t is entitled, 1.-The Voyage of
Ithobal'' The hero is a sea captain Of
Tyre, who in the employ of an Egyptian
king explores unknown waters.
Under the head of Sporting Summary
the Pioneer Press prints map Of the
proposed news Minnesota congressional
districts. Ut is claimed that the new dis
tricts are apportioned with regard to
population as nearly equal as possible
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Republican delegation in congress is to be
maintained" We doubt if any well set
tied state in the Union has larger dis
trfct than the Eighth, running as it does
from Anoka to the Canadian boundary.
After while it will be a, case of
Who says I cannot meet my bills?
Of libelS that's the worSti
Why, sirs. 1 meet them every day,
Unless 1 see them first.
If the coming baseball season is as
expert in the field by the men as it has
been wearisome the past winter by the
magnutes in figuring, talking and bluff
fng, there will be good playing,
Alex. Mckenzie, the North Dakota poll
tician, now in jail ait San Francisco, for
contempt of court, cannot get out under
a writ of habeas corpus says the SUI
preme court of the United States.
The death of Queen Victoria will bring
about change in about 1900 different
kinds of postage stamps in sixty-four
states and colonies of the British empire.
The portrait of the late queen will be
replaced by that of Edward VII.
O.
1t is reported that Charlemagne Tower,
formerly of Duluth is to be advanced a
step on the diplomatic ladder by being
given the mission at Paris.
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There is a bin before the New Jersey
legislature making it misdemeanor for
one man to buy another drink of any
intoxicating liquor,
There is talk of peace in South Africa.
Negotiations to- that effect is going on
between Botha, kitchener and Miner,
but they do not seem to reach salts
factory CONCLUSIONS England is no
doubt anxious ito end upon any terms
which do not involve humiliation. war
which has cost her so much of treasure
and blood and jim which there has beeen
added so little. of luster to Anglo-Saxo
arms. The cost of the war in money has
been enormous something like a quarter
Of the total cost tps the United States of
our Civil war Sin which more than ten
times as many men took part and which
lasted more than twice as long. But
there has been a still greater cost, and
that is in the loss of prestige, which will
make it necessary for the British en-
pire hereafter to do by actual force what
she could have done before by moral in
fuence in so many matters of imperial
import.
The maple sugar makers are busy in
the camps down East, but the factory