The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-13
WEDNESDAY, GLOBE CHANCES.

WEDNESDAY, GLOBE CHANCES.
Next Sunday is St Patrick's day.
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Former Chief Justice Logan E. Block
ley, OF Georgia, seventy-six years old, Is
taking course in mathematics In his
state university.
Pope Leo XIII. has surpassed by ten
years the age at which Queen Victoria
was thought to be marvel of endurance.
He Is still quite vigorous and seems TO
have. years of life before him.
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Do we need the Philippines for an
overflow of our population? Why that
country is already occupied by an alien
ana alienated race, and besides the
climate is not suitable for white people
from the temperate zone
Twenty years ago today Alexander III.
OF Russia, was assassinated
1t is only charitable to credit Admiral
Sampson with mental weakness No real
we'll balanced man would have written
as he did in refusing to indorse Gunner
Morgan for a higher rank.
II Ii reported IHSSl the government
soon find time to begin the trial =, of
Nicely, the Cuban postal swindler The
various departments of our government
are apparently too busy in outside world
events to punish pets of high officials
at home.
Gum drops were formerly a very popu-
lar kind of candy, but makers took to
putting brandy and other strong liquors
n nd hn iT1nT ocj0 in
flavor lost favor
Says George Alfred Townsend Gath
III recent letters % Penmanship was not
made to rule the ren, and Horace Greeley
poured out his, scofn upon both political
parties, but is the only editor in New
York with statue. He took the presl-
Dental nomination. in 1872 upon no plat
form at all, except the silly one OF
Down with Grant And Grant, as
John r. Henderson says, once came to
him with the query as to whether he
had better accept the Democratic nomi-
nation. sa,e
A health writer Who says he has been
living for years on uncooked food, de-
clares that half cooked oatmeal is MAX
ing more dyspepsia than any other single
article of foodJ According to this theory
it ought to be raw, but it seems con-
Trajectory that the half cooked would
not be better than fully cooked to his
way Of thinking.
A farmer living in the eastern part Of
Kansas, where there are a few trees, has
the following notice stuck up on one
Of them in remembrance of his youthful
days:
when I was young and in my prime
"a are n 0Tli in
To shoot and hunt and sport and swim,
l always did enjoy;
l always tried to do what's right, and
never to do harm,
So you can shoot and hunt and swim on
Uncle Peters farm"
Paris is said TO be infested with more
exiled plotters from various countries of
the world than any other city. Every
European country is represented by men
and women of high and low degree, all
engaged in figuring out plans to destroy
their old home governments.
p William Pole, the noted English au-
thority on whist, who died recently at
the age of eighty-seven years, was a
civil engineer. He also possessed great
musical talent. 1t was a proof of his
cleVerness that he wrote an able treatise
on the method by which the eye discrfmi-
mates color, although he was himself color
blind.
Seven foreign governments own the
buildings and sites in Washington occu-
pied by their embassies.
The winter geld s almost Ger;
AT least, theeice of 1t breaks through;
soon men Wills ask as oft before,
say, Is 1t hot enough for YOUR
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BEFORE and after the Civil war the
Spragues were the social, political and
business bosses of Rhode Island Re-
verses followed reverses A correspon-
dent says: "Forture gone, fame fomot-
ten, social caste lost, Gov. Sprague is
p1tiable object when his former position
IS remembered So wasted are the for
tunes of the governor and his brother
that both will soon figure in the courts
OF the state as contestants of the will of
their sister, widow of former Mayor
Doyle, of Providence in order to get at
least a share of her estate of about $25,-
G0O. A generation ago either of the
men would have looked on $25, 900 as a
matter not worth their consideration,
yet today they are forced to go into the
courts to get a share Of that amount"
1t is the opinion of Chicago business
men that the graduates of country high
schools make better clerks than those
turned out by the city high schools
The latter usually think they own the
business.
j. P1erpont Morgan, when in college, is
said to have been prize mathematician.
NOW that he is an old man he has not
forgotten how to add and multiply.
Billy Madden, and he's good authority,
says there has been no prize fights since
Sullivan whipped Kilrain. Billy meant
that the later encounters were boxing
| matches. but the public believes that
most of them have been fakes.
The latest style of rocking chair has
pneumatic rockers very much like cycle
tires.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton says Mrs. Ma
ton is all right. Susan B. Anthony
says the Kansas saloon smasher Is all
wrong. And there you are.
1t is the opinion of H. H. Vreeland, the
street car magnate of New York, who
came from poverty that ''if you have
$25 and want a. job, it is better to spend
SIG for clothes, 81 for shoes and the rest
for shave and a hair cut and a clean
collar and walk to the place than go
with the money in the pockets of dingy
suit. sic 10