The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-12
TUESDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

oeHCe required under the homestead law.
TUESDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
Today, Feb II, is a legal holiday In
this state, in honor of the anniversary
of the birth, in 1869, of Abraham Lin
coin.
Dealers say that the war on cigarettes
has increased the demand for cheap CT
CARS and tobacco
The White house has an average Of
1000 visitors daily the year round
The shipyards of England turned out
1875 vessels last year, with an aggregate
tonnage Of 1899, 861 tons, against 1850
vessels in 1899. The tendency is to small
Last year this country manufactured
l4,OO0,000 pounds of snuff. The consump-
ton OF this form Of tobacco is on the in
crease
The Chinese begin dinner with dessert
something sweet-and finish with soup
And they are at THE finish now.
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There is common impression that tin
Is being produced in the United States,
but this is not So The supply used in
this country comes from abroad, the i'm
ports last year being nearly 100000
pounds, a decrease of nearly 5000 900
over 1899. 1t comes mostly from the
Straits settlements
Gold thread, heretofore all manufac-
tured abroad, is now being made in the
United States.
The Kentucky state board of pharmacy
has forbidden all saloons in that state
to sell headache remedies.
1t Is said that an effort will be made
to get the legislature to. add more severe
penalties to the law requiring Sunday
closing of places of business. If dealers
are made responsible, why not also ar
rest and hne the customer who enters a
store on Sunday Let the law touch both
classes, if necessary to have such a law
Australia has now to come to the front
as new and distinct national force.
The papers of that new confederation
declare the people of that country are
equal in every respect to those of Eng
land CT any other country, and must
soon take part in the world.
There are statesmen and reformers in
the Indiana legislature, as in all the
legislatures now in session One Hoosfer
has introduced d bill to prevent police
men from practicing law. Another would
have county whipping posts for the
negotiation of men who swear in the
presence Of women. Still another pro-
poses to have murderers put to death by
means of morphine An opponent of this
plan threatened to amend the bill by
providing for suspending prisoners to
trolley wires, thus combining electrocu-
ton and hangingrss.
European papers generally agree that
Europe and America are proffting bv
England's unyielding attitude to the
Beers. The attitude prolongs the war
which is to be ciassed amongst those
amending, hopeiessi wards which border
nations, as in the past, waged for genera
lions, and which ended in the extermina-
ton Of the people. or a victory for the
border nation. -. Emil Reich, well known
English essayist in the Interna tional
Monthly, says that The close of the
nineteenth centairystruck the hour of de-
cline for Great Britain"
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The Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis. who
died recently was one of the unidlle
personalities CT the English church He
was not only a preacher, but a musician.
an author a. lecturer and an editor
times. His church in London was one
of the most popular and useful in the me-
tropoiis. He was chaplain of a noted
regiment, and one afternoon when
parade was announced. with crowds out
to see it, the colonel declared the paraGe
off on account of a rain storm, Mr. H9w-
els promptly resigned his commission, de-
claring 1t n okonor to belong to a corps
which could not so out without UNI
brellas.
year ago today Gen. Roberts and his
army entered the Orange Free State. and
began the movement which ended in the
capture of Gen. Cronje
The president is the subject OF this
kind of notice in the last issue of the
Lampcon, published by the students OF
Harvard university: 81 should think
Mckinley would insure his life'' 'tHe
can't" ''Why?" mo one can make out
his policy"
1t has been discovered by society
authorities that we can continue to call
our froek coat a Prince Albert if we
choose to do so. for the good and suffi-
Gent reason that this garment was not
named after Albert Edward, but after
his father, Prince Albert, who died long
ago and whose coat has long survived
lAiiii. w HSH I1(1IQ IkdSIdli ul6u, lIlO GAR
ment named after him retained bis name.
So also OF thesCagdigsn. the, Havclock,
the Spencer and the Talma. We stin
have Wellington iboots and Butcher
boots. The curious thing about the
Prince Albert coat is that the term is
never used in Fug,and 1t is simply
frock coat over there. I would seem that
in this matter 3ye are more English than
the English themselves
William Hannibal Thomas a colored
man of character and culture, has just
issued work entitled '"rhe American
Negro" in wlIRth ne takes a most pessi-
nistic view ofgtheufuture of hts race in
the South. LIE announces that he has
never regarded the political rights Of
the freedman - essential to bis well-be-
ing but he HIS no sympathy with the
forcible means employed in some states
to prevent thA exercise of that right.
MIR. Thomas has been a teacher of his
race for thirty years, and declares that
'in memoriziag and initiating the freed
man IS unique, but otherwise MS intel
lectual powers are unawakened." He says
too. that while they are full of sentiment
and gush there is little genuine affection
in them, their talent for music is over
estimated. and that religious feeling is
mere emotion The arraignment of the