The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-09

| rect, whose fingers are not stained
| with cigarette nicotine and whose breath
plainly indicates that 1t is time to eign
the temperance pledge
Many noble specimens of pet animals
and birds are to be seen at the Mime
sofa state poultry show on Seventh
street. The exhibit should be crowded
| today and night, and until it's close next
Wednesday.
Today, Feb. 9, is the anniversary of
the birth, in 1772, of w. H. Harrison,
ninth president of the United States: of
Samuel j. Tilden, In 1914, an eminent
lawyer, and Democratic candidate for
the presidency against Hayes; of
Samuel Bowles, in 1926, American jour-
nalist; of William D. Whitney, in 1897, a
famous Oriental scholar
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The Forest and Stream says that near
ly every one has fear of wild animals,
and yet no wild animal will fight unless
wounded or cut off from all apparent
avenues of escape. All animals will try
! and escape If given a chance. This fear
is kept up by all sorts of bear, wolf
and snake stories, most of which are
magnified to make heroes of hunters.
There Is more danger from natural
causes In a visit to wild animal haunts
than from the animals. There is moro
danger Of slipping off a precipice or
falling into a river than from belns
hurt by a bear or a wolf. Many more
people have been killed by lightning than
have been run over by stampeding buffa-
10 herds or killed by unwounded grizzly
bears, or by all the other animals of
the prairie put together. One might
almost say that more people have been
struck by falling meteorites than have
been killed by panthers or wolves. And
yet from day to day the newspapers
continue to print bear stories, cata-
mount stories, and wolf stories, and
probably they will do SO until long after
the last bear, catamount and wolf shall
have disappeared from the land.
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A freak member of the Wisconsin leg
islature has introduced two remarkable
bills. Both are to encourage the develop
ment of the population by paying annual
premiums to the mothers of large fami-
lies Mothers having six children, $40;
seven $12; eight SIS: nine, $40; ten, SIS;
eleven, $50; twelve, $50. The other is a
bill to encourage matrlmony. 1t provides
that the assessors of towns shall take
a list of unmarried men of thirty years
of age or over and fix a special lax of
$40 year on each of them.
1t is asked why is 1t that most persons
when entering restaurant will seat
themselves at one of the side tables in
preference to the center tables? If this
idiosyncracy of restaurant patrons has
never attracted your attention just note
the appearance of things the next time
you go into a restaurant. If the side ia
bles are not crowded the center tables
are sure to be vacant. This rule hclds
good from the highest class of establish
.cE EL1rl-V
and not only is it true of eating places
mostly patronized by men. but also Of
restaurants where women form the great
er part of the custom.
Tomorrow is to be observed as Lincoln
Sunday and made the occasion Of special
offerings throughout the Methodist
church for the cause of education in the,
South, through the Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Education society. A special
appeal has been sent to all of the 1900
ministers of the denomination, urging
an observance of the day in the manner
indicated. AS the son of an American
highlander in the South, and as the
emancipation of the negro, Lincoln repre-
sents both phases of the great work of
this society among the destitute whites
and blacks. At its last meeting the gen.
eral committee of the society appropriate
thank offering on the society's debt. The
Lincoln Sunday is devised to help on this
offering, and also to call attention to
Methodist work among the poor whites
and blacks of the South.
This condition would apply to ST. Paul
as well as Portland. According to the
Oregonian: "a New York man locked
his wife up in a closet because she was
pretty. If this custom becomes general
it will be impossible to find a married
woman on the streets of Portland
Senator Hanna was in the Civil war in
a 109-day regfment.-He has just joined
a G. A r. post in Cleveland 1t looks
as If it might all be for effect at this
late date.
Chicago housewives are facing a new
phase Of servant girlism. Girls who be
long to the Zionist organization Of Dr.
Dowie present this kind of proposition
to ladies who want help: tI cannot wash
any decanters nor any glasses in which
wine or liquor has been drunk I cannot
clean any cusptdors. l cannot remove
any cigar stumps. I cannot brush up any
ashes or touch any kind of tobacco. I do
not want to wash wine stains from table
cloths and napkins" There were a few
more "don'ts,' nearly all relating to total
abstinence principles from drinking and
smoking which are somewhat embrarass-
ing to a family where a moderate amount
of both are done, and there were some
requirements concerning hours to be CIV
en- to devotional exercise.
While folly Is infectious, it is usually
short lived. For that let us be thankful
The fooHshness of Mrs. Nation will have
imitators and they will create a little
l0No an11f &IA
American people. as a rule, are sensible
In connection with the recent death of
Ignatius Donnelly and a revived, If some
what languid interest in bis Baconian
theory of the origin of Shakespeare plays,
says the indianapolis Journal, It IS emf
nently proper to call attention to that
other and equally absorbing question Of
similar portent did Shakespeare write
the Bibfe?" The solution Of this ques-
ton, like that prepcunded by the Sage
of Nininger, lies in cTyptogram, the
key thereto being the name Shakespeare
The spelling Shakespeare was the
poets nom de plume, while Shakespeare
was his name. an evident change from
''Shakespear." 1t will be noted that In
each of the two spellings last given are
ten letters, four vowels and six conso-
nantS. Combine these two figures ard
We have the key to the mystery, the num-
Der forty-six. Turning to the Forty-sixth
Psalm. in the revised version, it Is found
that the chapter is divided into three
parts. each ending with the word ''selah."
Counting forty-six words from the begin
ming of the psalm. in the first part you
read the word shake and counting
forty-six words from the end Of the psalm
won find the word spear" Surely moth
ing could be palmer than this Biblical
spelling OF the name of the Bard OF
Avon.
Congress has provided for plenty of
new ships. but there are no sailors. and