The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-26
SATURDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

The California cities have taken hold
of the bill board business by limiting the
size Of the boards and also licensing them
SO that revenue is secured for the city
treasures.
From the variety. of. pictures regularly
offered as premiums with certain daily
papers as an inducement to buy them
is one to infer that the papers in them
selves have to offer. al prize to get people
10 purchase. Alta news stand in this
city last Sundaynotha entire supply Of
one paper was bought by one man; that
is the pictures were Bought and the pa
pers were thrown under the counter.
nTO5T
President McKinieyi ordered the flags
on the public buildings to be half-mast-
ed on learning of the death of Queen
Victoria. This is the first time that the
death of a foreign ruler has ever been
so recognized in this country, and it
caused quite a talk among Italian,
French, Austrian, Russian and other di-
plomats, who had suffered national loss
IN the same way without notice.
There is talk in the papers about Mis-
sissippi river catfish being canned and
sold for salmon If it is good what
is the need of it being used as a substi-
tute? Is there anything in the name to
make it unpalatable or to distract from
| its nutrItive properties? Give the cat
fish chance. If it is all right we should
try to be honest and get rid of prejudice
and be thankful. The same may be said
of other products masqueraded under
false names, notably oleomargarine and
cottonseed oil. A law compelling them
to be sold for what they are is only
just to the producer of the genuine arti-
cles which they are made to initiate
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Mrs. Willoughby, of Omaha, has had
her life insured for the benefit Of her
dog. She says: my only reason for
doing this was that I wanted to feel
satisfied that he would be well taken
care of. Bob is truly noble dog, as
kind and as gentle as a kitten, active,
companionable."
Who puts back into place a fallen bar.
Who filings a rock out of a Travelled
road
His feet are moving toward the central
HIS name is whispered in the Gcd's
Edwin Markham
1t is said that Paris has a larger army
OF thugs and toughs in proportion to
population than any city in the world
Pocket picking, burglary and murder are
taught by experienced, teachers to pupils
born to thievery,i and whose highest
ambition is to be feared.
Today, Jan. &C. ais the anniversary of
the birth in 1926, in. st. Louis, of Julia
Dent, widow of Z. S. Grant.
The agricultural department is investi-
eating sunfower culture, in the belief
that there is much money in the indus
try if farmers can be persuaded to take
it up. Abroad, more especially in Rus
sia, the plant is Of great economic i'm
portance, its seeds being eaten in i'm
mense quantities, raw or roasted, as
peanuts are in America while the oil,
obtained by pressipg=the seeds, is widely
used as an article of diet, and as a
substitute for Olive OIL, and is useful in
making candles and soap Besides, the
stalks and oil-caket make excellent fod-
der; the leaves are employed as a sub
stitute for tobacco, and the fiber Of the
stalk has a high value. In the poorer
districts OF Europe a fair kind of bread
is made from sunflower seeds, and is
used as a regular article of diet
Considerable real estate in New York,
Chicago and other American cities be-
longs to the estate of Queen Victoria
She never invested in stocks and bonds,
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H R. Palmer, of Cleveland, O., is per
fecting an invention by which photo
graphs can be sent by electricity. He
has been successful enough so far to
send pictures that can easily be recog-
nized. He calls them "electrograms -
Another Cleveland story is that DR.. b.
w. Gurley, of that city, through the use
of the X-ray machine, is able to cure
blindness.
There are more than $500 theatrical
towns in the United States, and more
than 5000 theaters and there are over
! 600 travelling companies in continual
activity A theatrical trust has been
formed and the principal theate-s are be-
ing turned into sort of department
store, into which is emptied anything
that pays, regardless3 of art taste or
progress. II
One common feeling against wealth.
| among the masses, is that it places a GER
! tain class OF men above the laws. 1t is
said in holy writ: "A gift doth blind
the eyes of the wise.'h Then there is the
fact that money t6an control legislation
and thereby nullify the voting power Of
the people Wealth in the hands of the
right men is a tool FUSED for the gen
eral good. -i ~
A number Of towns In Maine have be-
come bankrupt and the goods Of ci'izaus
are being levied on to pay town debts.
Other towns are so near inso- vency that
their inhabitants are7Eeriouslv consider
ing the advisabilitT of rsurrender:ng In ir
charters and returning to the Plantation
form of governmept, y In many towns
once prosperous, tAe farms have beeore
run out. and as no manufactures have
been established. abandonment and de-
cay quickly follow, and the young men
and often the Young women go away to
find in more prosperous places the means
of getting a living. Prosperity runs in
two belts in Maine. On the coast and
along the navigahle rivers are towns
rich from manufactur 'ng, commerce and
| the fisheries; Tar back are more towns