The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30

that OF his mother will be 81, 800, 600 a
year, exclusive of income from crown
lands
The Wisconsin legislature is considering
a rather interesting change in the mar
rage laws of that state It provides
that the probate court of each county
snail apo D. three physicians whose
duty 1T shall be to pass upon all sppli-
cations for marriage licenses ard chat
no license shall be given unless the an
phcants receive from the examining
board a certificate showing that tley
are free from ailments that NAV b,
deemed a bar t. marriage, including in
sanity, drunkenness and constitutional
diseases. There is a good deal of VS.
dom at the bottom of such a plan. Mar
! rage In America has one fault in com
mon with divorce, it is too easy a pro-
| cess.
There are said to be men who prefer
| to hold $75 a month public office to thai
| or filing position at a higher salary in
| business house.
The effects Of the death of the queen
are seen in business Black is. the ONLY
| color displayed in the store windows
| throughout England. The miIIiner,
stores are filled with black hounets aud
other establishments have funeral show
| or black clothes, gloves neckties and
mats. In London every Englishman who
| can AFFORD it is wearing black clothes
black Eecktie and black gloves The
women are all attired in back and III,
! ofhcers of the army and navy have crepA
nands ON their arms. All army fs gs
| are draped with black Naturally thera
| Will be loas on stocks of coIored goods
| particularly In the case of London firms
accustomed TO depend on court and So
+! ciety business On the other hand deal
ers IN black goods will be able to ssI
| their entire stocks at a great profit The
| social season in England is practically
| dead.
! Next Saturday is ground hog day, also
| Candlemas, the festival of the pur;fi a.
ton of the virgin, when the candles used
! IN the Catholic churches are consecrated
| for the year.
1t is said that if Senator Hanna dees
not force his subsidy appropriation
through this session of congress. the pres
laent Will call an extra session under
the preteXt of making laws for the gov
eminent of the Philippines
The English sovereign has the right Of
Netong acts of parliament but the right
mas not been exercised for so long that II
! IS practically obsolete. The president of
the United States, however, frequently
exercises that right and it takes a two
thIrds vote to pass it over the Veto
o.
New York doctor now cures drunk
enness by hypnotism. Dipsomania is one
Oh the great and growing evils of life
IN all countries, and il it can be cured
In this easy way it will become popular.
Results so far from experiments are NEST
promising.
The new underground or subway svs-
tenn for rapid transit in New York will
pe twenty-one miles long. 1t is one of
the most interesting pieces of engineer
ing work ever undertaken in the United
states. 1t will be 40 deep at One Hun
dred and Fifteenth street The fine work
Is to Trearrange and avoid sewers. water
pipes, etc.
The translator of "Quo Vadis', ana
other of Sienkiewiczs books, is Jeremiah
curtin, of the bureau of ethnoIogy of the
smithsonian institute at Washington
The mother of Mrs Carrie Nation the
Kansas saloon wrecker, died in an insane
hospital. The mother also had one sister
and one brother insane