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

'Ihey say that the money saved this
winter in fuel and heavy clothing is be-
ing paid out in doctor bills.
Today, Jan. 80. is the anniversary of
the execution of Charles l., in 1858, by or
der of Cromwell.
In Missouri, three-fourths of a jury
under the new amendment to the con-
stitution was decided last week at Mex
leo. 1t would have been hung jury
if not for the new law, as three of the
jurymen did not sign the verdict. A man
named Hiram Kemp sued the city for
$4,000, claiming that he fell on a defect
i've sidewalk in the city and broke his
arm The verdict gave him only $3.50.
In England if one man calls another
a thief, he must prove his assertion or
take the penalty for libel But If he calls
him blankety-blank thief, you are not
liable, for the law holds that profanity
is proof of loss of temper, and conse-
quently responsibility.
The Omaha Bee says: Having dis
posed of a double senatorial contest in
Minnesota, the Twin City papers are en-
ergetically graphing with this grave
problem: If the egg was laid in the nine
teenth century will the chicken born this
month be a twentieth century product?' -
The report of the Taft commission re-
specting conditions in Manila says there
is less vice and immortality in that city
than in most American towns of like
population. This Is either SANDER upon
American citizenship Or case Of the
wish is the father to a desire that it
may be that way, so as to back up the
claim of the administration that every
thing is lovely in the Philippines. A sup
posed honest commission to make sucl,
a statement in the face of known fact
that the chief city of the Philippines
has attracted many of the worst elements
of the Orient throws good deal of
doubt upon all of, its work.
There is good deal of ak in England
over the fact that Lord Salisbury. the
premier, was not invited to the bedside
OF the dying queen. He is said to have
had rupture some time ago with the
Prince of Wales. There is no doubt that
the cause of the estrangement is that
Lord Salisbury spoke seriously to the
prince about his mode of life and admired
him to surround himself no longer by
the most lax, frivolous and brainless set
In English society.
F. Tennyson Nicely, whose name an
pears as publisher of a good MANY yery
poor BOOKS, and who failed last October
with liabilities amounting to $S59. 951, hss
been discharged from Bankruptcy. It
was his ambition to issue a new hook
every day, and he was doing It, but such
books.
The new queer OF England, whenever
she could not visit her mother, the queen
OF Denmark, would speak message into
phonograph and send it to her.
The value of the fire drill in schools l.
shown by a report in the CHICAGO papers
Of children marching out of burning
school house-tfe children marching in
good order doxh The stairs and into the
street There Was no suggestion Of a
panic. Each pupil carried his school
books under his arm and seemed as com
placent as if no danger th-eaterad.
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The sovereign pf'(Engiand cannot avoid
paying taxes on.property. except that it
appears as crown lands and that is the
way it is listed, and the law is so evaded.
The salary of the new king, following