The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-16
WEDNESDAY GLoHE CHANCES.

A funny man wants to know why the
legislature is like bad cola? Because
sometimes the ayes (eyeS) have Ii, and
sometimes the noes mose).
This soft weather is dangerous. Grip,
with various associated diseases, is ram
pant. Have a9care.
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when the days begin to Iengthen the
cold begins to streng then is the usual
thing, according to the familiar saying,
but it seemed to be exception this sea-
son.
The legislature cannot make a better
expenditure of money than to take steps
along lines prepared by the State Medical
association i'm the matter OF handling
consumption
"Auto-suggestion is what the doctors
call the thought of persons who begin
to think themselves sick and gradually
become invalids, The mind is the con-
trolling element of the body. 1t weakens
and the body meakens. The thought of
death hastens that event. 1t is suicide.
Cardinal Gibbons preached week ago
in Baltimore on -Christ's Mission OF
rs it not an outrage to contemplate one
nation forcing by the sword her laws,
her government and political institutions
on another nation in the interest of trade
and commerce, as if merchandise and
dollars and cents were of more value
than human lives? Is it not monstrous to
see q strong power invading weak one
and Selling her territories on the hypo-
critical plea OF rectifying her boundaries?
11-,,-i ylrx
old practice, and is a polite name for
robbery on a large scale"
These lines from Mrs. .Browning's "Au-
rora Leigh are as good as true:
eff man could feel,
Not one day in the artists ecstasy,
But every day, feast, fast, and working
lie Spiritual significance burn through
The hieroglyphic of material shows,
HencefOrward ne would paint the gloDe
with wings.
A man at Stockton, Kan, bought an
old vacant building that had been used
for the storage of corn. When he began
to repair it he found in the large space
shelled corn in fairly good condition, no
doubt carried there by rats.
The entertainments in 1870 were the
smallest in twenty three years. The fig
ures for last year were 1902 134. The
losses for the year are distributed as
follows: stolen by pubic officials, s1,1S3,-
CTS; from banks, 81 1851, Isl; by agents,
-$271, 1878; forgeries, $156 $780, from loan as
sociations, $l25,l00; by postoffice employees,
$24,427; miscellaneous stealings. $685., $50.
Bank employees have the unenviable rep
utation of heading the black list, and
more than three-fourths of the bank
total was taken by six employees. The
comparatively small sums e1nbezzled are
an evidence of the general prosperity Of
the country. In 18S3-S4 the totals were
26,5G4, 000 and in 1S99-94 $35, 1853, Id, and
these were hard times years
Edgar Saltus says the women of the
future will1cbe plain. The trend of the
age is to things highly servicable very
large and extremely ugly.
In Berlin recently ten-year-oId boy
spoke dlsrespectfully of the emperor.
On trial it was ordered that he be per
petually denied the right to attend the
public schools. An addition to the sum
OF general Ignorance. Better to have
given MIN switching and told him that
respect was due to those in authority.
With Oklahoma having a population
oI 9So'Z4o gam in ten years of $50 per
cent, number of people greater than in
Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. combine
IL VIII be Unjust on the part of congress-
TO Keep the young territory out of state
hood much longer
Joseph Jefferson was the recent re-
ciplent OF a letter from a man who wrote
must gushlngly of how he was pleased
over the play of rip Van Wrinkle /" ma
ic-St To-
10 make some reparation and some ra-
turn Tor the favors he had received as an
auditor. Il am the inventor" he wrote
OF patent spring bed, and would
IKE TO send you one of these beds as a
present; all L would ask of you is lust
simply, when you wake up in the fifth
dct' you would say that you wouldn't
on one Of Dunk's patent spring beds. -
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rope Leo has expressed the hope that
he may live; to- be 100 years old. The
world hopes that he may. He is ninetv-
two years cid now.
Mrs. katherine Ault, a widow residing
at GatVesten' eass county. Indiana, q
lew days ago went to the Christian
church. to which she belonged. and dec
Grated the pulpit and stood in front with
mowers for her own funeral, and then
went home and died. She told friends
that she had IA presentfment that she
would die. The coroner and doctors say
she oleo from natural causes.
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There are more groceries in the United
States than T.. any other kind of business
concerns. Statistics show 10000 retail
and $3.50 Wholesale stores.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says not to talk
but write to an unreasonable wife be-
cause an unreasonable woman can So
quickly cause man to lose his temner
and forget his argument in conversa-
ton.
George T. Angel. president of the
American Humane society, and editor Of
.Our Dumb Animals" prints the telegram
that announced the Colorado hunting
trip of Theodore Roosevelt. and says:
''of course TINS means that he is pro-