The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-01

IN the Union. We were the thirty second
| in order of admission into the Uni6n
| FIFTY years ago we were thirty-third in
| population. Now We are eighteenth.
| The last issue of the ST. Paul Medical
Journal says that Hitler Horizons opposi-
ton in the state senate to the medical
bill during which he offered 'gratuitous
| insults to the medical profession will
not be forgotten
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Hunter, of Lib
| erty township, Jefferson county, TO-, have
| been married gseventy-two years. Until
| others are heard from they are the
record bearing married couple in the
United States.
| Our legislature SO far has passed sew
I enteen bills making changes in the pure
! food laws. Hereafter parties who make
| imitation or adulerated vinegars or
! liquors are liable to both fine and i'm
prlsonment. Heretofore it was only o
| fine.
The British war office ordered 5000 axes
! from New York factory, recently for
use in the army in South Africa. Eng
| fish firms not being able to fill the
| order promptly
! bill before the New Jersey legislature
| provides that any person killing Or
having In his possession, living or dead,
| any wild bird" shall be liable to a fine
| of IS or five days in JAIL Nor can the
body of wild bird be brought into the
| state, and persons selling or wearing
any part Of the skin, body or plumage
of birds so protected can be arrested.
| lined or imprisoned. This is aimed at
hats trimmed with birds. Such a law
! cannot be enforced unless public opinion
| sustains it.
The movement in Eastern cities against
! bill board advertising, which has become
| a regular nuisance is bound to increase.
! and like other public nuisances, the
| boards must go, and the AK cannot fall
| too soon.
| A Socialist is lecturing in the East
on the subject of Wealth is Disease
| 1t has not become epidemic out here,
| but it has several victims in New York.
The great dam across the Nile is finish
| ed, at a cost of $10,000,0O0 It raises the
river about sixty-six feet above it's usual
| level and will practically have the eff
! feet of creating lake IA miles long and
| fifty-four wide, and-storing up a billion
| tons Of water. There will, therefore, be
! no high Nile" or Glow Nile hereafter.
| Over 100000 acres of land, now under
| fair cultivation, will be converted into
| land Of the highest quality for the pro-
| duction of ceEn! sugar, cotton and rice,
| with no danger from either flood or
| drought. Egypt will now become a
| formidable campetitor in the markets Of
the world It's people will dread no fam
| inc. III
The census neff 1900 shows that the In
| dians are not becoming extinct. 1t is
generally believed by government ex-
| perts and officials that there are more
! Indians now than when the country was
| first occupied by white men. In early
| times the Indians lived almost entirely
! along the sea- coast and water courses,
| the vast interiort being entirely unoccu-
| pied Explorers never found the villages
of the red mend away from ocean, lake
! or river shore. 70
| !. Chicago Judge recently declared that
| women were not as trustworthy W.T.
nesses as men. This stirred up good
| deal of discussion, and among other
| things it was discovered that an old
| law of Louisiana prohibits a woman
! from being a witness to a legal docu-
ment.
| A bunch of swords standing in one OF
/ our city store windows, and offered for
| sale at $1.50 each, recalls the fact that
| there is only one sword factory in the
| United States, and that is in Massa-
! chusetts, and that one has ample ca
pacity for supplying the domestic de-
mand for swords. The saber- lost its
| efficiency as cavalry weapon as far
| back as the War of the Rebellion, and
! the increased range of rifles has made
| the sword equally obsolete as an imple-
ment of actual combat.
George Lockhart, of Tower City, N. D.,
| hoc rail fOr
! fifty years, twenty-five Of the time with
the Northern. Pacific. That's pretty
| nearly record.
Since the patent office was established
575f patents have been issued to women,
| and 415 to colored men.
| A recent issue of the Herald. published
at SrnfthviIle, Ind, contains the follow
| ing notice: There Will be an ice cream
supper given by Mrs. Susan Howard
next Thursday night in the Christian
| church parlor,3 to assist in raising funds
for the funeral expenses of her hus-
band"
The Goulds, Morgans and Rockefellers
can have full dinner pals for some time
to come. The watering and booming Of
| railroad stocks have added several
| hundred million dollars to the bank ac-
counts Of the three families.
The we'll known. British scientist, Lord
| Kelvin, recently .fdeclared that he had
not read a book for thirty years, and
in reply to an. interview said: 81 read
nothing but the daily papers Well, per-
! haps this is an loverstatement; it may
| not be thirty years, but it is along time.
OF course, am continually referring to
| books. but i have not the time for
| steady reading, except the daily papers"
| Read the CLIO regularly and you
| will find out a good deal about every
| thing.
| Experimenters in Southern California
! have succeeded in producing a navel
| lemon, absolutely seedless, and possess,
| ing the characteristics and advantages
| of the orange after which it is named
Last year the United States imported
| over $5O0.0N0 worth of kangaroo skins
| from Australia.
A million pounds of copper wire was
shipped from Connecticut recently to be
used IN building a trolley road in India
| The consignment filled twenty-sevan
| cars. The factory underbid English
mills India is controlled by England,
but Germany and the United States are
| beginning to get the trade. The open door
policy makes colonies an expensive lux
| ury.
The Calcutta Qndia) commissioners re-
| Gently advertised for bids for locomo-