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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
INTERESTING FACTS.


books. The longest life IN any dictionary
of Shakespeare which Ills fifty pages
Of the Dictionary of National Biog
raphy.'
The most expensive English scientific
work is the story of the Challenger voy-
age, told in fifty volumes, costing ever
.e100,000 The most voluminous living nov
elist is Miss Braddon, who has published
over fifty novels and innumerable stories.
and whose pen is said to have been worth
to her more than 100000.
Among American books Uncle Toms
Cabin has had largest sale. Ben Hur has
reached sale of over half million.
David Harum is now in it's 505th thou
sand The largest sum ever paid by an
American publisher for a serial story
was $4,000, the price of kiplings last
story kim
The largest volume published in this
country is the last volume Of the Pub
fishers Annual Trade List which IS nine
inches across the back.
The smallest volume has recently been
issued by a Cleveland publisher. The
book is three-eights of an inch by five
Fights of an inch in size and about one
fourth of an inch thick. The print can
not be read without the use of a power
full magnifying glass.
During the years 1S99-1s0O there were
printed and sold in the United States
2, 800 600 copies of but ten different books,
an average of 25O,G00 for each book.
The largest and most expensive work
ever issued in this country is the his
tory of the Civil war printed by the gov
eminent.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Puzzle Corner.
intellectual Amusement
and Exercise for Young
Minds !.

(l4b)
My whole composed of sixty-four LETT
ters, is a very famous quotation from
Bret Harte, and mas reference to matters
now concerning the world.
My 4, AZ. SIS. %, Al is clean. My 7. 10, 49,
of the United States. My 9, &c, %. SO, 10
is food gate. My 10, 80, SO, 81, 80. is
uncommonness. My IA, Is is a boys nick
name. My q, 10, %, 1S is destitute Of
g., 81, 20, is an open place for combat.
My 46, So, IL, 81 is warmth. My 49, &c. 81
"a, 35, AZ is natural My 81, go, II, So. SO Is
a small bag My so, 81, It, 81, II. % 10
state of being sound.
Frank NJ Kelly, Yucatan, Mimi, subs
mits the following enigma:
go.
in me not in you,
In Will not iE Lou,
In mine not in ours
In shine not in showers;
In each not in one,
In some not In none,
In oats not in rye,
In trade not in buy
In Mary and ir Kate
My whole IS a great state.
Evelyn Grady. 20 Valley street, ST.
Paul, submits a charade:
Q4S).
My whole Is composed of g letters
My 3, 4, 10 q cereal; my il, q, 8 to he
Used under foot: my 2, 6. S head dress:
my 10, g. belonging to the masculine;
my l, 3, 6, II tc stuff, my s. g. r. 7 to
avoid; my all is a very popular and well
known flower.
Clara Hanson, $40 York street ST Paul,
submits two geographical conundrun.s:
G49)
"a In what country are we sure to
B) In what countries will we always
find it?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07


poor. In the yearbook Dr. Rainsford
remarks that "the welI-to-do living In
houses and apartments of their own,
who come to st. George church, are less
numerous year by year" OF the 1851
on the church books, 1854 live in tene-
ment houses, and sol in boarding houses.
Or course 1T is to be understood that the
large number on the church books does
not imply strict membership, but in
cludes all recipients OF the church's secu-
lar benefits-all those in any way coming
In contact with its various societies.
Dr. Ralnsford says that people do not
go to church as formerly they used to
go, and that ''the movement away from
the church has reached even the children:
today you must go out and catch the
children; enc by one. as you would angle
tor shy trout. The various kinds of bait
employed in the angling for both young
and old is indicated by the following
list Of the church societies:
Senior and Junior chapters, Brotherhood
of st. Andrew.
st. Georges Mems Club.
The gymnasium
ST. Georges Athletic club.
Womens Missionary association.
Church Periodical club.
Guild and Employment society
st. Georges free circulating library.
Poor fund
Grocery department.
Clothing department.
\ Thanksgiving.
District visitors.
Girls Friendly society.
Kings Daughters.
Helping Hand.
Battalion club
Boys Industrial Trade school.
Gov -r.1,r II
Kitchen garden.
Golden c.
Sunday school
These societies have many subdivisions
and the schedule of the various meetin gs
for the year, if printed in small type,
would fill two or three columns Of a
newspaper. 1t appears that at the Mems
club there were held six Saturday even
ing Smokers three ladies receptions
and three lectures. In the church gym
nasium there was keen competition"
for the clergy medals and for the
rector,s cup We'll contested"
wrestling bouts took place; 'our
wrestlers have swept into our camp the
biggest share of wrestling medals which
were put up during the year" says the
enthusiastic director of the gymnasium
At TIE st. George Athletic club, "all
our dances and sociables have been wei
attended Boys and young men, Also
are put through military dr.n.
In the way of relief and settlement
work nothing seems neglected The
ladies of the church maintain ''kreche''
for working womens babies, kinder.
sarten for those of little larger growth.
and for the young girls there are scwins
and cooking classes beside night schools
at which instruction is given in almost
every branch of learning. There is
manual training school for boys and a
swimming place is established at the
nearest convenient point, beside a sea-
side home.
The church eff the future promises to
De much more complex than the meeting
house of the past, and clergymen will
need to know much more than the Greek
testament and the commentaries. ST.
PAIL, the apostle of faith and of theoi-
ogy, is not being forced aside, but GER
tairly he is being compelled to give way
little to 81. James, the apostle of
service. The religious world is hearing
down a little harder on the text that
faith without works is dead.
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A FEW GOOD ONES.

bench, IT presume, your honor, If that
line is not paid I shall be put in iail?''
You certainly will sir "Well. SoIr
honor, / am & stranger in a strange land
have looked around the court room and
see no friends I see no familiar face
save that of your honor, and if the court
would in its wisdom make me a personal
loan OF that $500 il woald De a great con-
venience.'' The Judge leaned forwari.
Mr.. Clerk said he, "stri<e off those
two fines. Tho state can afford to lose
the money much better than II
THE WIDOW AND THE FARM.
She was on the witness stand ir her
own behalf, beirg also defendant in the
action. She was a sturdy widow, hard
working. shrewd in a deal and garrn-
loGs. a landlord was suing for back
rent on a little farm she had abandon
ed up in northern Michigan.
you say that the land was hard and
sour and steIile?'. suggested the attor-
That's what said, only I wasn't so
persniffity about it. and I'll say more
Just moment. please We want
evidence. not opinions Did you raise
anything on this land of ours?''
Land of oursH with sniff. you
never owned q tllinbleful of it. Yes, 7
did raise things on it. 1t took two hills
to raise bean, and a whole row OF corn
I raised a pigpen, and I tried to raise a
goat. bat it starved to death poor thingt
That ground wouldn't raise dog fennel
or even Canada thiStles.'
Don't eXaggerate, please. You saw
the soil was sour?"
"'I couldn't cXaggerate about that
ground if ] was lawyer. In the morn
ing when the dew was steapling off in
the sunshine YOU think you was Twins,
next door TO pickle factory 1 kent
my sugar in an alright jar.
"Pshaw! That's ridiculous / sun
pose the ground was SO hard you could
not blast it?''
''Nuthing of the kind I'm here to tell
the truth But I'll tell you how hard
that ground was. l had to crop NV get
onions out With q Ratchet, and a biz
gander bought broke his neck trying to
pull a tuft of spear grass" The land
lord did not recover.
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OUT OF DATE.
Under Difficulties
FROM.
LOWLY LIFE.

was blind at seventeen. and yet he found
means to study and master branch of
natural history demanding the closest OBJ
SerVatlon and the keenest eyesight It
was through the eyes of his wife that his
mind worked as if they had been his
own. She encouraged her husband 5
studies as means of alleviating his
prlVatlon, which at length he came to
forget; and his life was as prolonged and
happy as is usual with most naturalists.
He even went so far as to declare that
he should be miserable were he to regain
his eyesight. II should not know" he
said, to what extent a person in my sit
uatlon could be beloved; besides, to me
my wife is always young, fresh and
pretty, which is no light matter"
Huber's great work on Bees is still
regarded as masterpiece, embodying a
vast amount of original observation on
their habits and natural history Inde ed
while reading his descriptions one would
suppose that they We're the work of a
singularly keen-sighted man, rather than
or one who had been entirely blind for
twenty-five years at the time at which
he wrote them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Gathered
From All
Sources.

i Irgs Mamma-"lNhat will it be, dear?"
Tt1E SURPRTSE-On Monday morning
illrle tntree,year- Old Edith ,olunteered to
SLPerfntend the family washing. When
Jane put the clothes on to boil 1ha sn,sii
ofHerseer gave one lock of open eyed as
eonisnInent: then ran to Ter mother and
eNctedly exclaimed: Oh, m amrnat lane .
cooking the clothes for dinner. '''e
NONE LEFT Teacber-..Naw pona
Suppose l were to Shoot at ? tree viz
nve 2ir,is on it and kill three. how many
1 THenid there be left?" Poliy--.'Three :,
deeacher-'No. two would be left. PoIiy-
v- mi mere wouldn't The three Shot
De fled AWAY W. "ould
mass, = r. 6ltitiIsR Ore everiHg when the
I5,ioss!uilecs- We're very traubles me srn.7II
boPoy cried out Oh Gear; il the nos
S Se nts,. cont stop Lifting me there viii
pc nothlng left of me-" yes. there will ;;
reJ t1I his little sister the bites win
swell up and make you bigger than ever );
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
GREATSINGER.

7. !. Greatstnger who was elected
president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
and Brooklyn Heights Railway compan-
les March 90 1901 is a native of Elmira
\. y. He began life as a fireman on
an Erie railway switch engine. He
advanced flom one position to another
Up to general manager of the various
railroad properties comprising the old
Utica, Ithaca & Elnira road In 1866
he went West and accepted the place
OF master mechanic of what is now the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad. Two
years later he became master mechanic
of the Duluth & Iron Range railroad,
and was soon promoted to the post of
general superintendent. In 1892 he was
elected president Of the railroad ard later
succeeded to the presidency of the Min
nesota Iron company
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Countless Ancestors.

Every one of us comes not of one. but
OF many hundreds and thousands of long
lines of ancestry, some OF them proud.
perhaps, and others with no cause for
pride, but rather the reverse. 1t will NOT
90 10 try to follow them all too far back.
Some Of the many will surely lead to a
dungeon. or 1t may be to the gallows. for
the blacklist crimes. Life a few hundred
years ago was succession OF horrors
compared With the present We cannot
pin our faith to the one cavalier and ig-
more all the others, as my friend was try
ing to do, because it is natures plan that
all the good and all the bad OF the race
should be mixed up in each one of us.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
WASHINGTON REsIeNINe HIS COMMISSION.

fight duel, as was expected, Washing
ton, upon mature reflection, finding he
had been the aggressor, resolved to ask
pardon on the morrow. Accordingly he
met Mr.. Payne the next day, and extend
ed his hand in a friendly manner; Mr..
Payne, said he, Ito err is nature; to
rectify error is glory. 1 find I was
wrong yesterday, but I wish to be right
today. You had some satisfaction yes
terday, and if you think that
was sufficient, here is my hand, let us
be friends 1t is hardly necessary to
state that ever afterwards they were so.
HIS ANNIVERSARY.
The first recorded mention Of the cele-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Cbe Ideal GZJHe. 49,,
Opinions of Great Writers.


DO YOU KNOW HER?
To the ideal wife famous authors have
offered many a tribute.
Emerson asserts that society really be-
gins and life becomes delicious when a
man meets MS accurate mate. He would
change the old adage, He lives twice
VINO IIyoS well. to read lie lives twice
who loves well and wisely
Michael Dunton wrote of the model
wife, 1t is virtue to know her. wisdom
to converse with her. and JOY to behold
ncr.'
Charles Dickens ideal wife was a won
an " 40 always speaks in a low tone and
who docs not speak much who is pa
trent gentle intelleot,,al and Industrious
who rarely scolds and argues. hat adjusts
all difficulties with smile.
Burns. the poet. divided the scale of
good w1fesh'p into ten pats: Good ma
ture. A: good sense. 2; st. /; personal
cnarms. / The remaining two degrees
cox cred fortune edHcation family blood
and so on. Divide the two degrees
among them that YOU please he said /.
only remember that all these minoT
qualities must be expressed by fractions
not one of them being entitled to the dis
nifty of an intcger.'
Miss 6r me" saYS that the ideally true
wife should be to the domestic life of a
Wan Ike nightingale. Ike the sun
beams between the trees and shouI5
unite herself inwardly to him
Mrs jameson describes the true wife as
the compound Of the bread of life, which
is love. the salt IF life. which is work.
the sweetness of life, when is poesy, and
the watel OF LIE. which Is faith.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07

was the one generally observed until 1SUO
when Tammany Society of NV York
very deliberately celebrated it on FEB.
p. AT celebration held at Wise's tavern
in Alexandra, Va, in 1891, the guests
united in singing with the following
chorus:
God bless great Washington;
Long live great Washington
The great original was present on this
occasion and the report says he was "a
pleased and pleasing guest
By law and common usage the ami
versary of his birthday is now pubic
holiday in all the states, and observed
with banquets and balls.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Funerals.
Right Up-to-Date
in the East.

"Up-to-date funerals are being conduct
ed in large Cities, said an undertaken
to the Washington Post reporter. when
l say up-to-date funerals, l mean fGner-
ais that lose their unpleasant features 1t
burial can be made pleasing 1t Is a fact
nevertheless. Grief over the death of a
loved one is moro manifest at the grave
than at any other time. Why is this 50?
The sight of the open grave, the bare
earth, the noise of the earth as it strikes
the casket cover. all produce an impress
sion of horror.
The up-to-date funerals avoid many
repulsive features. The grave is decor
ated with evergreen. Inc casket is plac-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
"0en. Washington Is Known
to Us, and President Washing
ton. But George Washington
Is an Unknown Man.
John Bach McMastsr.

bration of Washington's birthday is said
to have appeared In the Virginia Ca
zette. of Richmond, viz: Tuesday last
being the birthday of his excellency,
Gen. George Washington, our illustrious
commander-in-chief, the same was COM
memorated here with the utmost demon
STATIONS of joy".The day thus celebrated
was Feb. IL. 1852, the old style In the
calendar not haying then been every
where and for every purpose abandoned.
Indeed the stone placed as late as 1878
on the site of his birthplace in West
moreland county, Va, had this inscrip-
ton: Here the 18th of February, 1872,
George Washington was born. This date
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
PRIZES.


A copy Of short story will be sent
to the first person to send in answers to
all the puzzles.
The boy or girl who sends in the best
original puzzle this week will receive
copy of q choice story The puzzle will
be printed In due time, with full credit
to the writer. The puzzle printed first in
this department will be considered the
best, concerning which opinions may diff
Ter. All puzzles should be written on one
side of the paper Write names distinct
ly. DO not write questions on one side
ana give answers on the back.
DO not send any but o4.s,aal puzzles.
Puzzles copied from other papers are not
original.
Replies will be numbered in order of
their receipt.
Address all communications relating to
matters appearing in THE Family
Forum' to Puzzle Editor, Dolly Globe
st. Paul, Mimi
ANSWERS
To puzzles of two weeks ago:
l3S.-Twelve Hidden Insects: Fly. gnat,
ant, moth, bee, nudge. wasp. flea. tick,
hornet. bug, grasshopper.
leo.
140.-New Hampshire.
14.-Seal of Minnesota
Answers were received in the following
order:
A. N. Thies IS East Tenth street. ST.
Paul; Mabel Bridges, GO East Twelfth
street, ST. Paul; Clara Hanson. $40 York
street, st. Paul; Frank M Kelly. Yucatanl
Mimi; Mary G. Saumember, Moorhead.
MINI.
PUZZLES
10 be answered April 81:
David Harger, The buckingham. ST
Paul, submits numbered charade.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07

ed on an electrical appliance, manipulat-
ed by an attendant. who stands awav
AS the caslet descends the evergreen
covers the pen space. At the head of
the grave is erected stand, upon which
is glass urn. In this urn is burned
earth. When the minister reaches that
part of the service where earth is drop
ped into the grave, he takes handful OF
this burned earth. There is no noise as
It descends. The grave Is also sheltered
by a canopy. Mating is laid from tfe
grave to the roadway. Everything is
done to remove the idea that the place
Is to be the last home of the dead Moth
ing IS left undone to remove all the re-
pulsiye features
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
No Lack of
Social Aid.

DR., Rainsford is rector one can hardly
complain of no effort in such direction.
If multiform activities and sedulous
looking after the secular as well as the
splrituous interests of its congregation is
modern, st George may be looked on a
a dfstinctively modern church Not to
speak of the souls, tie bodies and minds
OF the surrounding population are care
fully provided for apd in the line of
amusement no popular diversion seems
eff the list excepf horse racing and
prize fighting. ST. George is located at
Stuyvesant square, formerly fashion
able quarter, but now given up to the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Our Young Folks
Things Worth
Reading.

THE HARD WORK PLAN
From the lowest depths of poverty
10 the highest heights of fame
From obscureness of position
10 a bright and shining name,
from the mass of human beings
Who compose the common can
You can earn your way to greatness
BY the Hard-Work Plan.
Twas the key to Lincoln's progress.
Twas the route to Webster's fame.
And Garfield, by this method
TO distinction laid his claim:
And all earth's noblest heroes.
Since this old world first began.
Have earned their way to honor
By the Hard-Wcrk Plan.
Success.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Rajmgfoed'g Church.

WHAT ONE CHURCH IS DOING.
For many years the cry has been
heard in Protestant religious circles that
tie people were drifting away from
the churches, and that something must
he done 10 stop the tendency. Advice,
both from~within and without the organi-
zations has been proffered in large
quantities. the general tenor of which
has been hat the ecclesiastical establish
ments- in some way, must get closer to
the masses. After looking at the recent
yearbook of st. George parish, New
York, Of which the well-known Rev.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Question Box
Curious Things in
Life and Literature.

Pioneer Press building. st. Paul; LOUISE
Bridges, 6S East Twelfth street. St..
Paul; unsigned reply from COS Martin
street, st. Paul; Florence NJ Slocunl. 1891
Iglchart street. st. Paul; Marie Murran.
$50 Holly avenue, ST. Paul: Eleanor
Cowen, us Holly avenue, st. Paul; Mar
tina Henke, 101G BURNS avenue. ST. Paul;
Marie Speakman. Fargo, N. D.; Susan
Hoskins, Sioux Fails S. D.
- -
QUESTIONS.
To be answered April 81:
15l:-What is meant by the use of the
word Pan as prefix to the word Amer
lean in connection with the Buffalo ex-
position?
152.-How many women were named in
the Bible before the days of the flood?
153.-What flower is favorite with Pres
1dent Mckinley, and which he constant
ly wears in his button hole? The Same
flower is also favoritc of the vice pres
ident, and new species has just been
named for him.
154-Why is the fifteenth psalm called
the Gentleman's Psalm?
155.-What was the first real estate
transaction mentioned in the Bible?
156.-What does the word Catholic
mean?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
PERTHES.

Perseverance, not for himself alone.
but for his country, was the keynote of
the life of Frederick Perthes, the German
publisher and patriot. His youth was
hard and bitter struggle for existence
AS an apprentice to bookseller he be-
came interested in literature. After serv-
Ing his time he opened a small book
store of his own and prospered. He pub
lished many books and established a
periodical devoted to the unification of
the German states, and built up the first
general sentiment for union
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Who Wrote
Them.

ST. Paul; William Patterson, 1012 Pioneer
Press building, ST. Paul; Anna Sewall,
1920 University avenue, st. Paul; George
Wilson, st. Cloud, MINI.
QUOTATIONS
To be answered April 81:
Isl Unstable as water, thou shalt not
excel"
Man doth not live by bread
alone
15s.-"Ihe price of wisdom is above
rubies.
164.-"Put not your trust in princes"
How foTcible are right words
15G-"As he thinketh in his heart, so IS
he"
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Che NmkmoQvn
Nasbimgfom.
KNOCKED DOWN.

In 1856, Washington, then a young
man twenty-five years of age, was sta
toned with his regiment at Alexandria.
At this time an election of public Of
ficers took place, and the contest be-
tween the candidates became close and
exciting A dispute occurred between
Mr.. Payne and Washington, in which
the latter Gan occurrence very uncum-
mon with him) became warm, and said
something which gave Mr.. Payne so
much Noffense that he knocked Washing
ton down. Instead of flying into pas
sion and sending Payne challenge to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
To Test Minds So
Inclined.

Laurel avenue. st. Paul; Evelyn Grady.
20 Valley street, st. Paul; Frank M.
Kelley, Yucatan, Mimi; Thomas Brice,
RoSemont, Mimi.
PROBLEMS
To be answered April 81:
Abner Doyle, 40 Western avenue Min
neapolis. submits the following:
49-Subtract 45 from 45 and have IS
left. This is a peculiar problem, but it
is easily solved when understood.
Bessie Harger The Buckingham, St.
Paul, submits the following:
60-A lady friend was asked how she
was, and this was her reply: 81 have
nine children, and there are three years
between the birth of each of them the
Oldest was born when 1 was nineteen
years old. which is now exactly the age
of the youngest" How old was the
lady?
Joseph Harrison, Saltwater. Mimi. sub
mitS the following:
51-What is the difference between 1866
and enc fourth OF itself2