The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-11
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FRIDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

FRIDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
The practice of lynching is one in
which America stands alone among So
called civilized nations. Last year 10 less
than q dozen persons were ruthlessly
killed by mobs in this country for minor
crimes. One negro was filled with bullets
for the Crime of stealing q bunch of
keys. 6b
Miss Ella Boone, at Prescott. Wash,
told Frank Sloan, in fun, that she had
never been 6kissed-and he kissed her
She resented it by sticking him in the
leg with a hat pin. The pin was broken
off in thesi'wound, followed by blood
poisoning and death. She is grief strick-
en- over the result.
Mr. Roosevelt is out in Colorado hunt
ing mountain lions. In Chicago the other
day he had a talk with George Siler, the
referee, on pugilism. Teddy said he
knew all the famous pugs, and took an
interest in the strenuous life. While
governor of New York a boxer and a.
wrestler visited him several times week
for bouts.
1t looks as if another smallpox scare
is to be worked up. Cases are reported
in all of the principal cities.
The Chicago Evening Post of Tuesday
asks. Has any person heard anything
of Senator Towne lately?" This is sup
posed to be sarcasm. Well, who has
heard of Senators Cullom or Mason
lately?"
Cen. Macarthur is sending insurgent
Filipinos to Guam, so as to give ths
governor of that island something to do
to earn his salary. Then it will require
more troops there and another war ship
Or two.
The close alliance between the leading
railway lines has in view the ending OF
rate cutting. 1t will get around the anti
pooling law of congress, and attain the
same results. 1t will probably abolish a
good many minor outside positions. For
example, the Vauderbilts control a half
dozen large lines, each of which main
tains an, Office in Chicago and other large
cities. One Office can be made to do the
work of all. 1t seems mere business
proposition.
Philip Danforth Armour was sixtv-
eight years seven monih rs and twenty-one
days old. He took pride in declaring
he had s the biggest butcher shops in
the United States"
Mr.. Bryan is in Chicago to consider
the question of publishing his new paper
simultaneously in that city, New York,
Washington, New Orleans and San Fran
cisco. r.
Mr.. Hanna owns an opera house at
Cleveland 0. In releasing it the other
day he reserved the right to censor nlays
that did not come up to his idea of moral
1ty. In this case anything on the road
is good enough.
The speculative stock sales in the New
YORK market last Monday aggregated
2259,900 shares, beating any previous rec
ord.
Bryan is to remain in politics. He says
he would rather lose again than to give
up principle. If the platform at Kansas
city was right then 1t is right now.
Prof. Loeb and other eminent educa-
tors connected with the faculty OF the
Chicago university. having discovered
that salt is the elixir Of life, now de-
clare that they are about to discover
means to arrest the process of decay in
the human body, and that facing about
is possible, so that one will be abe to
grow young again. Prof. Loeb has pre-
pared a paper upon the subject If re-
Versing dissolution, and in his own sim
pie way says: I'VE generally consider
developments as process which can oc-
cur only in one direction. or, in other
words, as iTreversihle. But this appar-
entity is not generally the case. I showed
in a recent paper that the morphogenetic
process in hydroids is reversible. If ire
polyp Of the eompanularia Is brought into
contact with solid body it is transform
ed into undifferentiated material and
later into stolon.''
Richard A. Tubbs, mayor of Alcester.
s. D., afterfA long contest in the United
states court. has been sent to the peni-
tertiary a Sioux Falls for two years for
sending Questionable matter through the
mails
John L. Kasson, the Iowa statesman.
mas been q busy several years nego-
dating reciprocity treaties with various
foreign countries, dozen or more, along
Blaine, N but it looks as if his
work would come to nothing
owing to the failure Of the senate to
approve them. Personal interests" Of this
or that senator Will be affected by RECT
procity!uc
President : Mckinley is suffering from
the prevailing epidemic of grip. So is his
secretary of state
The copper district of Northern MichI-
gan is flooded with counterfeit small
coins, mainly scent niel5els, made of an
alloy Of lead, zinc and iron
1t is suggested by a friend that persons
who make too many good resolutions
for the new year should not throw up the
whole lot of them because they may
weaken on few.