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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13
intellectual Amusement
and Exercise for Young
Minds :.

7G-Tomorrow.
77-Friendship
7S-In the dictionary
Answers were received in the following
order: Mary Cavanaugh, 522 Gaultier
street, st. Paul; Elizabeth Hart, st.
Paul; Evelyn Grady, 20 Valley street. ST.
Paul; Wilbur j. Harkyn, Blooming Prai-
RE, Mimi; Joseph NJ. Heinen, Hastings
Mimi None fully answered correctly.
ORIGINAL PUZZLES,
To be answered Jan 81:
Joseph Paul Cullen, 313 Cherokee ave.
nue., st. Paul. submits the following
charade:
1 am composed of 80 letters; nv Is. 81,
20, II, "a, % means to particularize: nv
-, Is, I is religious person; my %, g.
10, 10, SO, II, Is means unnatural in size;
my 8, q, 5, 49, q, 2, 10, 80 means VEN
omous; my u, %, 80, 80, 81, 2S the under
side; my 6. %, q. 16. means to obstruct;
my 9, %, l, 8, Is means a meeting; my
I, 81, 26, an article of food; my whole
Is an old saying.
Wilbur ]. Hoskyn, Blooming Prairie.
Mimi, submits the following charade:
32)
His name is composed of 20 letters; 16,
H. IL, 10, 20, u, Is, 49, l, 5, Is, g. z, 6, 10,
", 4. b.
10, k, 6, is the name of the state where he
lives; Z, 10, r. 20, g. is the name of the
most Northern state in the Union; IT, g.,
z, 10, 8, Is, is the name of one of the most
important counties in Minnesota The
whole is a very well known public man.
Elizabeth Hart, St. Paul, submits the
following:
When I am whole 1 am an officer of
the peace. Take away the first syllable
of me and what remains will be the
name of the place where Christ was
born Behead me and 1 am something
which is found in every home. Behcad
me again and 1 am competent.
$50
1 am composed of fourteen letters: My
9, II, 4, is needed in cooking; my l, IA,
13, 6, to join together; my II, 7, .,
II, z, IA, something we all like; my s,
13, 3, 5 are troublesome things; my TO- /
Z, l, 8, 13, is a relative; my whole is a
popular book and play.
Joseph NJ. Heinen, Hastings, Mimi,
submits syllable riddle:
(S5) =
My first is a proposition; my second
transitive verb; my third a personal
pronoun; my fourth an adverb my whole &
is the name of a flower
Josephine McGrath, 27S st. Anthony
avenue, st. Paul, submits a charade:
I am composed of eleven letters: My
l. 8, 5 is to be sorrowful: my s. g.
is boys name; my 6, is not out: my
whole is a term applied to a European
country.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13
OF large Size,
Some of the Big Things of the World.

PYRAMIDS-The greatest pyramid is
that of Cheops, one of the three stons
piles forming the Memphis group, sftuat-
ed on plateau about 1877 feet above the
level of the highest rise in the Nile. Its
dimensions have beer reduced by the re.
moVal of the outer portions to furnish
stone for the city of Cairo It's masonry
consisted originally of SO, OPS 900 cubic fe4f
The present vertical height is 450 feet.
against 479 feet originally The total
weight of the stone is estimated at $780,
wy TONS 1T covers four acres and was
100 1eet high. 1t was built about the time
of Abraham, with stone brought hundreds
OF miles from Arabia
FORTREss--Th greatest fortress from
a strategical point of view, is the famous
stronghold of Gibraltar 1t occupies a
rocky peninsula iutting out into the sea
ABOUT three miles long and three-quarterS
OF a mile wide. one central rock rises to a
he1ght Of l435 feet above the sea level
It's northern face is almost perpendicU
lar, while its east side is full CT tremen-
dous precip.ces. On the south it terIni-
mates in what is called EI1rona Point
Inc west side is less steep than tn.
81 Ga$ f5 ana an between its base and the sea
- rs ne marrow, almost level span on which
the town of Gibraltar is built The FORT
ress is considered inpregnable to military
assault inc regular garrison in time
OF Of peace numbers 1000. 1t belongs to
:, The largest fortress in the United
States is Monroe, near Norfolk, Va.
WALL-The Chinese wall is the LARGEST
in the weird. 1t was completed by the first
emperor Of the Tain dynasty, about go
=. g, as protection against Tartars
It traverses the northern boundary of
China, and is carried ever the highest
hills, through the deepest valleys, acr:ss
rivers: ana every other natqra!! obstacle.
Its length is 1250 miles. Including par
apet five feet, the total height of the
wall is twenty feet; thickness at the base,
feet
YEAR-The longest year on record was
the year Be. 46, which, by order of julius
Caesar. the then reigning Roman en-
peror, contained AS days. To clear away
all the confusion which had previously
existed in reconciling the lunar with the
solar year, Caesar, with the help of So
sigenes, an AleXandrian astronomer, I'M
dertook a thorough reform of the cal
endar. He effected it by making the
year. now called 46 B. c.. 1.-The year of
confusion consist of AS days. and the
succeeding years of 365 days, with the
exception of every fourth year, which
was to consist of 36& This method Is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13

last year 7,55G,15S parcels of mail matter
were received at the dead letter office
an average of 1 to every 10 inhabitants;
0,555 letters had money in them, a total
OF SAL while Sl,63S pieces had no adj
dress whatever.
That the United States supreme court
sustains the consttutionality of the Ten
nessee law prohibiting the sale of cigar
cites 1t holds that any state NAV i'm
pose whatever restrictions it sees fit upon
traffic in any article, so long as these
restrictions apply equally to producers
within its borders and to those without
Any state can prohibit the manufacture
of an article, but cannot prohibit per-
sons from buying from outside manufac-
turerS.
That Secretary of Agriculture vii
son devotes considerable space in his
annual report to the dangers of the in
PRODUCTION and dissemination of the Bel
gian hare. He considers it a perilous
experiment. The species is as prolific
as the rabbits that caused so much dam
age in Australia
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13

The presence of spore germs from
plants varies from 5000 to 10000 to the
cubic foot of air, depending upon the sea-
sen and the amount of moisture Dry
weather decreases the number in the
summer and increases it in the winter.
1t is estimated that we breath no less
than 5V9,0VO spores and germs every day.
CT lG0'OOC,O0 year. They are innocuous.
as rule and no danger is anticipated
unless they accumulate at a vulnuera bic
point, producing soreness in the mouth Or
throat or disturbances internally.
Inc danger in the air is from microbes
rising from the streets and houses in
t t1e form OF disease germs, especially in
times OF epidemics. The number of mi
crcbes in the air, however, are insigGifi-
cant COMPOSED with those in the water
Iauslhs from few thousand in rain
water to millions in sewer water.
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masons. Jeremy Taylor was a barber.
Andrew Johnson was a tailor. Cardinal
Wolsey, Defoe and Henry Kirke White
were butchers sons Faraday was the
son of a blacksmith and his teacher,
Humphrey Davy, was an apprentice to
an apothecary.
Seven shoemakers, workers. on the
bench, sat in congress during the -tirst
century OF our government-Roger Sher-
man, Henry Wilson afterwards vice
PRESIDENT, Gideon Lee, William Ora
ham, John HALEY, H. P. Baldwin ard
Daniel Sheffey,
Benjamin Disraeli sprung from a per-
secuted race and pushed his way from
humble life to the topmost round of po-
litical and social power. Scoffed, ridi-
culed, rebuffed, Missed from the house of
commons, he simply said; THE time
will come when you shall hear me- The
time did come, and the boy with 70
chance" swayed the scepter of England
as primS minister for quarter of cen
fury.
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ventilation except at the ends. and those
sometimes occupied by smokers; no din
ing or sleeping cars, or gentlemens or
ladies' saloons, so far as 1 have seen,
in any car, ana the stops at waystations
short. Fast trains expensive, cheap
trains slow, and the best trains in the
uncomfortable old dilgences; irregularity
of meals and sleep; dinners from one to
two hours long, with a multitude of
courses he does not want but must sit
through for others who do. Over
large. palt of the continent, bad weather;
and in some of its towns and cities,
beggars, fleas, and malaria.
He will find many continental cities
and towns noisy at night with bells,
shoutings, and cracking of whips If he
retires early, perhaps doors on each side
of his room. an mcarpeted floor over
head. and his neighpors stirring until
! or 2 o'clock in The morning. Few
Of the sociable parlors- found at home
If sick, a physician who knows nothing
of him. CT whom ne knows nothing, and
with whom, perhapshe can only communi-
cate through an interpreter; languages
he cannot understands; incomprehensible
currencias and little cheatings and
swindlings without number.
add to all these absence from friends
and home, and the certain discomfort, in
nine cases cut of ten. of two voyages
across the Atlantic, and it would GER
tainly seem that the invalid should well
consider before undertaking a tour of
Europe.
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Angle Puzzle-Missing letters formed
the words "a Happy New Year"
A happy new year patrons, friends.
lille old time guests for whom L wait
AbAte no jot of hope or heart though
days grow short and cold grows
strong.
His Pine trees whisper Trust and
watt
Poor Pensioner on the bounties an
hour.
always find in the book of life some
lesson that 1 must learn.
We take No note of time but from it's
loss.
He livEth long who liveth well.
We saw the hilltops gIorIfied.
The Year is dying in the night.
nEw face at the door may find.
Gather we rosebuds as We may, old time
is still a flying
Ring out the false. ring in the true.
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ANSWERS,

@N@'h1 " Ii
To questions appearing Dec. 80:
7O-(a) John Cabot was the first Eng
ishman who reached America and the
first navigator to touch the continent
OBJ Sebastian Cabot discovered New
foundland and coasted as far south as
Chesapeake bay In virtue of his eX-
plorations England laid Sclaim to a vast
territory in America. (c) Magellan was
the first navigator to circumnavigate the
globe, and the first to explore the west
ern coast of North America. In virtue
of his explorations and those of Cabot
England claimed the land from ocean to
ocean.
lin 1854 Sir Walter Raleigh sent over
a colony to Roanoke island The set
tiers made no attempt to establish homes
and were on the verge of starvation
when Drake stopped there on an ex-
ploring tour, and at their request took
them to England Raleigh made a sec
ond attempt in 1887, sending out fami-
lies. They began a settlement at Roa-
noke island, but as England was then
at war with Spain the colony was fn-
adequately supported and persisted
72-1, st. Augustine, 1865; 2, Santa Fe.
1852; 3, Port Royal, N S., 1865
73-(a) During the French and Indian
war Spain aided France against Eng
land. In 1852 England took Cuba and
the Philippine islands, and in the treaty
of Paris, 1863, England agreed to give
them back in exchange for Florida. CD
In 171S France recognized the independ-
ence of the United States and made an
alliance with them. This alliance was
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13
FOODS NOT OF. THE ORDINARY SORT.

Sir Alfred Russell Wallace, the dis.
tinguished English scientist once break
tasted on monkey meat, and afterwards
declared that it tasted something like
rabbit adding: "It was not half bad"
There is a greater diversity of opinion
regarding elephants flesh than in case
of any other 5meat, though all travellers
agree that baked elephants foot is good
eating, and is sought for by the natives.
Some parts of young elephants are said
to be tender and palatable
The flesh of horses, mules and dogs was
readily and eagerly consumed by the
British soldiers during the siege of Lady
smith and Mafeking during the Boer
war.
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At the rendezvous he was seen to grasp
something closely in his hand. He was
asked to show what ne was concealing.
On opening his fingers a piece of calico
was seen, which the agent was about
to throw away. To this the boy de-
INJURED, saying: 'pont take it away:
1t is all that have left 20 remember nv
mother; it is part of an old calico can
she made for me before she died; want
1t TO remember her by in my new home.
1t was given back, and the boy carried
1t VITA him, ana it became an amulet
to the boy ard man. This love mani
tested through material thing proved
TO be helper to make better boy and
man.
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Problems
PRIZES FOR ANSWERS.

PRIZES FOR ANSWERS.
The science of mathematics is said to
be the only exact one among al! the
sciences Of the world and a knowledge of
this important science IS most essential
to active and successful business life.
For the benefit of our young readers we
shall present from week to week various
problems for their benefit and give a
book to the first person to send in cor
rect solutions to all.
We will be glad tc receive pecuI ar prcb-
lens fer our readers.
ANSWERS.
To problems appearing Dec 30:
As and 2-11ths minutes after Z.
Sin 42O days, this being the least COM
mon multiple of 1, 2, g. 4, 5, 6, 7.
6.-24D rods.
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Under Difficulties.
FROM
LOVELY LIFE.
ARTICLE NO. 8

But, wherever they may take their start,
they must come with the same quail
ties of manhood, the same principles of
business life, the same will to succeed,
the same determination and industry,
which have marked the successful men of
today. Other markets may change, but
the demand for men of the stamp of
Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison and
John Wanamaker, is constant. For
tunes favorite is the boy who wills to
work, and wills to succeed.
AN AUTHOR.
Some twenty years ago. ''John Ad-
dingtOn SYmonds, who died in Rome in
April, 1898, went to Davos, Switzerland
broken down in health. and doomed by
the doctor to death, should he remain
there He did remain, nevertheless, and
afterwards worked necessarily at lit
erature, and published some twenty-five
scholarly volumes, besides a great deaf
of miscellaneous matter, and reading and
inwardly digeSting scores of heavy Ital-
ian and German books on history, biog-
raphy, and criticism, besides many vol
umes of Greek poets, and library If
French and English authors-an slowly
peruSed in railway stations, on trains
and steamers, and at wayside inns and
Alpine chalets." Dr. Mathews, who writes
this, says also of Green, that he wrote
his history of England. when they who
saw him hardly thought he would live
through the winter.
A POET.
Tom Hood, writer of many humorous
things, was a confirmed invalid and a
daily sufferer, and yet he wrote poems
and essays brimful of happiness, while
he was suffering physical pain.
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COLOSSAL Ma Wy BUILDING.

To carry cut the various programmes
OF naval construction, as framed by the
nations of the world. VIII require an out
lay of five billion dollars. England set
the pace several years ago, and now
many of her great ships are out of date
and out-classed
The United States government arranged
to spend $50, OOOC coo, Of which s2O.o90 Coz
will be expended in 1901. The cost of the
tools and the places to repair ships. are
almost as expensive as the ships them
selves. The value of ships are ephemeraI.
owing to the constant changes in types.
England has under construction II bat
tleshiPs, "a cruisers, s sloops of war and
% torpedo destroyers at a total cost -oc
$4,000 000. This will rot complete the
fleet, but moves them forward and COM
pletes these ordered under former APP
preparation.
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Rev. j. G. Wood, the naturalist, is said
to have been fond of rat pie In response
to criticism of his taste, he said well,
why not?" 1 have seen the daintiest of
women eating roast pork, which feeds
on almost anything, while the rat is a
clean FEEDER
In 1871 when Paris was beseged and
starving. the inhabitants ate all the ami
mails in the Zoo Lion, tiger, zebra and ele
plant steaks were found to be very
palatable and sold at high prices.
Frank auckland, the famous naturalist,
says that fried or stewed snake is much
like eel. He dined once off a boa con-
strictor. the flesh of which he found white
and firm, tasting not unlike veal.
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THE ENGEIS Il SPARROW

rats of the air. is a term now applied
to the English sparrow. They were in
trcduced into the United States III 1876 to
destroy worms in park trees of Eastern
cities Instead of eating the worms, they
killed other birds that do cat worms.
Nearly all the song and insectivorous
birds in the vicinity of the cities and of
surrounding country have eitlter been
killed or driven away by the English
sparrows.
The national agricultural department
has made an exhaustive examination into
the ravages of the sparrow, ;nd finds
that scarcely a crop is exempt from its
destructive habits.
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called the Julian calendar. The number
December before Caesars time had been
respectively. 20, %. 81. %. 81, 20, 81, 49, 20.
81, %, 29. These numbers Caesar changed
to 81 and 80 alternately, with the excep-
ton of February. which was to have 29
in ordinary years and 80 in leap years
In honor of himself he changed to July
June. The pontiffs in applying the Julian
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13

According to DR.. Merriam, ornithologlst
of the agricultural department, 1.-THE Eng
fish sparrow is a curse of such virulence
that it ought to be Systematically attack
ed and destroyed before it destroys all
other kinds of bird life"
The sparrow is a hardy and pugnactous
little pest and in the cities usually seeks
shelter under eornices and perches and
filters up the steps and sidewalks. 1t
generally begins to chatter at daybreak
and keeps it up to nightfau
The year book of the agriculture de-
partment gives a map showing the cities
and localities now at the mercy of the
English sparrow
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fool, which Is ofton much greater
misfortune"
79-"Whoevor fails to turn aai,:e tho
Ills OF life ty prudant forothousht. must
submit to fulAll the cause Of destiav,V
so-"Thero ia strength of quiet en-
DURANGO ss Significant OF courage the
most daring foats of proweAs."
.si-"Nething makes the earth eeera ga
spacious rs to nave friends at a dist aRsei
they MAKE inc ATTITUDES and ieAsitr6es,'i
ExanPles are few Of men ruined
by giving: Men are heFaes in Spending.
very eFavafls in what they give
sa-"fhe lays ef aiefy can eBiy create
q nero, the eoAtsFaRt CT it creates Wis.
Eaaa.D
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U0lQe OF little G15imQg.

a traveller was taken i'll in a foreign
land. 1t was feared that his disease was
contagious and he was neglected and for
saken. A Sister of Mercy found MIN.
cooled his aching head. ard breathed
words of hope into his ear She spoke OF
duty, of hope, of trust, and of his ability
to do for others. He recovered his health
and strength, and became a blessing to
ms race, under the inspiration of this
kindly womans influence. Thus SYM
pathy Is shown to be the healer of dis
case, and the prompter TO action for the
good of others.
a boy was being taken from the city
by an aid society, TO a home in the West.
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calendar went wrong by inserting leap
years. and this continued until the year
now called 8 B. c., when the Emperor
Augustus ordained there should be no
leap year for twelve years which made
leap year occur in 4 A d. At the same
time Augustus gave his own name to
the month following July, adding one
DAY TO It, which he took away from Feb
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Sunday
Memoranda.
LESSONS on THE DAY.

LESSONS OF THE DAY.
The International Sunday school les
son for Jan IL is found in Matthew xxi,
LII. The memory verses are gil The
golden text is verse 8, blessed be the
King that Cometn in the Name of
Glory in the highest This lesson is
ole of extreme interest and should be
read and considered with thoughtfu;ness.
He was in the city He wept over. and OF
whom the multitude cried, 'Who is
This?' He found the temple deserted
and he rebuked the defiers He healed
the afflicted, ard declared that it was
better to be blind and halt and maimed
than to be selfrighteous, faultfndng
and murmuring. After teaching the dis
ciples and the multitude He went to
Bethany and lodged at the house of Mar
tina, Mary and Lazarus.
The Christian Endcavor topic, Jan. 10,
is Youthful Conservation the text be-
ing found in Feel. xii, 1. Remember
now th5' Creator in the days of thy youth,
while the evil days come not nor the
years draw nigh when thou shalt say,
have ne pleasure in them" These words
were written b. one who had failed to do
what these words demand. He had
spent his life in foolShneSS and selfish
ness, and with bitter remorse and regret
he had learned in old age that he had
malo & mistake and he tried to warn
others against this mistake. He spoke
from a bitter experience, and everyone
should therefore hear his voice. Youth
is the only safo time in which to conse-
crate the life of God. Who has any guar
| antec that he will live to be old? Who
has any mortgag &c on the future? Who
can say, 81 will serve myself today and
God tomorrow" How do you know
that you will have tomorrow in your
life? 1t is suggested that a weekday
biographical meeting be held to study tho
lives of men who have early consecrated
| themselves to God, such as Joseph, Sam
uel. Timothy, Martin Luther, Richard
Baxter, ctcs
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AN ACTRESS.


Margaret Mather, who rose to dramatic
fame and fortune, began her public life
as news-girl, in Detroit, Mich. Many
people of that city remember the bright
little girl who tied her glossy raven hair
with a red ribbon, and at whose mar
Vicious intelligence they were astonished
She was the daughter of a Scotchman,
well-meaning, minded, miserably
poor John FinIayson 1t early became
necessary for her to earn money, and she
took up the only occupation open to her.
Through long hours of the day and far
into the night, she wandered about the
streets. insufficiently clad, her bright rib
bon the one bit of freshness about her
attire.
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TWO GOVERNORS.

Two boys, waits, sent out from New
York by the Childrens Aid society. are
on the rolls as having filled high Of
fetal positions in the West; Gov. Burke
of North Dakota, and Gov. Brady, Of
Alaska. Who the men of tomorrow
will be, no one can say. They may be
living in miners ranches under the shad-
Ow of the Sierra Nevadas; in dug-outs
amid the luxuriant corn fields of Kan
sas, or amidst the wheat and flax Of
North Dakota, working in lumber camps
in the pine forests of Michigan, or Mime
sofa, or selling newspapers CT backing
shoes on the streets of our great cities.
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That if yourear burns, someone is talk
ing about you; the right ear good; the
left ear bad?
That bag of sulphur hung by a string
around your neck will keep off itch and
That when luck is against you when
playing cards you can change it bv get
ting up and walking around your chair?
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Short Skies.
10TH CENTURY NEEDS.

Postage stamps that won't need lick
ing to make them stick, and won't stick
together on their own account when car
ried in the pocket.
A pneumatic sole for shoes to give
soft cushion for the feet to rest upon.
A cheaper and simpler device than the
present style of elevator for use in pri-
vate houses to do away with stairs.