The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

President Mckinley is strict Method
list, but he is one-third owner of the
Grand opera house at Canton, Ohio.
A Mrs. Johnson, at Victor, Colo, left
$4,000 to a man named McDugal who
nursed herself and husband during their
last illness provided that the recipient
took care of two dogs as long as he and
they lived, McDougal to give bond fer
fear that the wife might mistreat the
dogs.
The Texas legislature has passed a
bill entitled: IAN act to annul and set
aside the marriage relation existing be-
tween Frank Williams and BERTHE Will
iams nee Green The boy aged 10 and
the girl aged II, were married last No
vember 1t is claimed that they did not
have the consent of their parents. The
pair were met and separated Immediate
ly after their marriage. There is no
law to meet the emergency, as neither OF
the young people is seeking divorce,
and if the marriage be annulled it must
be by a special act of the legislature,
solely on the ground that the couple are
under age.
The price Of horses has been steadily
past four years, in face of the increase
in bicycles. automobiles and trolley lines.
The average price in 1S97-the largest for
ten years-was $685. while in 1900 it
was $500. The highest price during the
last ten years was $67, which was in 1891
Toronto druggist recently prepared
poultice 31a feet wide by 1G1a feet long
for patient in that city.
The word narrow is very common
term nowadays in use by people who
believe what they choose, and when any
one else dares to challenge that belief,
the fayorite weapon narrow is flung
at them. The man who does not agree
with the national administration methods
is narrow in the opinion of papseek>
ers and tiDleservers. And yet no adj
ministration in our history has changed
as often and as radically. The late
eX-President Harrison was declared to
be narrow because he opposed Mr..
McKinley's style of doing things.
A girl down at Emporia Mo-, played a
trick on her best young man recently
She sent him letter and in it he was
told to look under the stamp On the
envelope" The young man spent an
hour steaming that letter. and when he
finally got the stamp off ne read: WAS
it hard to get oH?'
Gov Van SAINTS first veto is not a
serious one-but it creates the impress
sion that he is watchful.
The English sparrows defy the light
ming In an effort to drive these feather
ed pests off the telegraph and telephone
wires in Cincinnati, current of cleo
tricity strong enough to kill man was
turned upon the wires, but the birds did
not move and seemed not to be injured
in the least.
Two million dollars a day is what ii
costs to run the United States govern
ment as it is now conducted. A large
slice of this goes to support clamorous
crowd Of military, naval and civil off,
GERS.
The Portland Oregonian in speaking
of the present trip of Gen. Miles, to
Cuba says: His evident purpose is tc
show the natives that an American
general has as much gold braid as a
Cuban, and therefore that Cuba has nc
reason to seek independence.
Copper-covered passenger cars are the
latest A lot of twenty-five has just
been turned out at the Springfield
(Mass.) shop for the Erie road. 1t is
said that these cars will be quite dis
tinct in color from other passenger
coaches being of blue-black unpublished
hue. and the color will not change with
age The chemicals used make it abso-
lutely proof against corrosion, and the
copper is fastened to the wood in con-
struction, before the pieces are match
ed together The metal sheathing Is
very thin, adding but about LOCO pounds
to the weight of the car. The coloring
process applied to the copper makes thai
metal look as if it had been exposed tc
the weather for years, and 1t never
thereafter requires to be painted. The
construction of these cars is in line
with the economy that indorses greater
outlay at the beginning in the Interest
of greater durability.
A girl out in Trinity county, California,
killed two mountain lions one night re-
Gently. Teddy was out five weeks anc
only killed eleven.
Salisbury, the pope, Ii Hung Chang
Kruger and Diaz are getting old. anc
while thought to be indispensable, change:
will come and the world move right
along.
This is the way rival towns talk about
each other out West, vide the following
from a Seattle paper: "a Tacoma mar
went to Spokane and the change made
linn crazy A sudden change from 9
very quiet life is very likely to upset
people of confirmed habits"
A bank at Wichita, Kan, the Other
day received, put revenue stamp or
and cashed check, written on shin
gle. The Jayhawker state is the storm
center of oddities in men, women an6
things.
The Pingree potato-patch season is
about to begin in the Eastern cities, an6
vacant lots are in demand to enable the
landless poor to cultivate little crops OF
their own.
The old-ti1ne ''wooIIy" taste in mutton
has disappeared. Careful breeding has
bred it out, and yet there are farmers
who persist that it does not pay to give
attention to breeding.
At meeting of the Kansas and Okla
horna Produce Dealers association, in
Kansas City last week, H M. Slayton, OF
Manchester, n. H., gave an order to be
filed by all members of the organization
Jointly for 200 carloads of eggs. The
shipments are to be made a train at q
time and the order means that the hens
will have to lay 2S,oOo,O00 eggs.
Mr.. Mckinley sends word to Mr.. Rock
hill. in China, that it is his hope that
the shedding of blood in China will cease
And vet where Mr.. Mckinley can with
word stop the shedding of blood he
does not speak it.
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