The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-08

That st. Paul will have an auditorium
ornate in appearance and of sufficient
seating capacity to accommodate the larg-
est gatherings, is now a foregone conclu-
sion. The work should not be permitted to
drag. When q comprehensive plan has
been outlined, all the citizens, without a
single exception, should join heartily in
the endeavor to raise the funds necessary
for it's prompt construction
That doctor who Offers his body for
operation purposes of vivisection is get
ting reputation for heroism There are
just about 5O,O00,0oO people in this world
who would do likewise and contract to
ole on the dissecting table If necessary.
on the guarantee that their families
would be properly taken care OF for the
balance OF the chapter
The only way the government can
overcome the distressing effect of the
continued publication of the figures rep
resenting the mortality among his ma
jesty's soldiers in South Africa is to
publish revised bulletin showing the
exact number of times that the entire
Boer adult male population has been
slaughtered since the war opened
Now that President Schwab has buck
cd the tiger at Monte Carlo and hobnob-
bed with his British highness without
having his morals in the slightest de-
gree affected, he must hereafter be re-
garded as being qualified to add large
sized Sunday school to the other benefi-
cent institutions that he is head Of
According to Gen. Otis Fort Sheridan
is about to be enlarged. The post" he
says, must have accommodations for
a larger number Of men than it can now
take care of properly" By the law of
compensation, doubtless, Fort Smelling
must accordingly be left with less men
than it can handle properly"
The navy department is evidently at
much pains just at this time to publish
McKinley's letter of acknowledging the
commander at Santiago to have been
Sampson on the day of the battle. Was
this because Roosevelt might forget how
Mckinley looked at the matter?
Should the treaty for the purchase of
the Danish West Indies be ratified Uncle
Sam will have another elephant on his
hands. At best the people of the islands
are barely self-supporting, and with
little hard luck they will have to call on
the parent government for aid
If only that proposed duel between
Embalmed-Beef Egan and another man
down somewhere in Mexico had been
threatened along after the Spanish war,
the other fellow would not have been at
any loss for seconds, or, indeed, for
substitute if he wanted one.
The name and address of the man
who killed a mountain lion in South Da-
kota measuring eleven feet have been
published Is it needful to add that he
is a candidate for federal appointment.
or that he has lead-pipe cinch on the
office?
There is an exhibition about to be
given In Madison Square garden of what
women can do. If it were designed to
exhibit what women cannot do it might
possibly be attended by a number Of the
other sex
They are having little army canteen
discussion of their own over in England
And yet there are those who say that
the United States of America does not
influence the progress of thought abroad.
BY the time Gov Taft gets through
explaining, it is to be hoped that some
body will begin to learn something posi-
tive as to the real state of things in the
Philippines.
Secretary Shaw has reached the maya
zine stage on the road to fame. Char
acter sketches are appearing with great
frequency.