The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-13
Wangted in a MerganfhaIer


mat Philippine investigation is indicat-
ing with great clearness that numerous
people are trying to see how near they
can come to the truth and yet miss it.
The wall paper this spring is so ioud
mat 1t is spoken of as Tiotous.
Diamond mining may be said to be In
It's infancy in the United States. ONLY
one sparkler valued at 500 was discover
cd the past year and it is by no means
sure that some drummer" didn't drop
that where it was found
The biggest circuses usually occur I'm
tent.
Every indication points to St. Louis hav-
ing to guess again as to the date Of the
big fair
On the Yukon men steal red-hot stoves
gleefully. They don't on the other hand.
like to hear anybody speak Of the Ice
wagon.
VIII Mr.. Mergenthaler please inform
me what is the best target? S. Hunter.
Try a Chinaman. Everybody seems to
be using the Celestial for that purpose
just now.
Market report-American stage hams
unsteady.
Alfred Austin has dedicated the Aner1-
can edition Of his forthcoming volume 81
poems to President Roosevelt This may
or may not be a compliment.
Oil is a great lubricant. else form.,
Gov. Hogg, of Texas couldn't have en-
tertained the American, German and
Russian ambassadors on leaving Lon
don.
The Oklahoma woman who drove a nail
into her husbands head was either cruel
or confident there was nothing to injure
beyond the bone
The Mississippi strawberry of commerce
Is getting quite sOciable. Its price has
dropped to 20 cents a quart. and the COM
mon people are cordially shaking hands
with it.
IhOse hardware men who have COM
bined Will put up the price Of hammers.
put they are not necessarily knockers on
that account.
The ayor of Sioux City having direct
ed all gambling houses to close. it is pre-
sumed it will be easy 10 find poker gameJ
going almost anywhere in the town.
Blanche Walsh wasn't near ary saIoo,
when she fell into Puget sound else the
| exterior Wettng might have been laid
at the door of a pfevous interior damp
cning.
we may all be happy yet The outlook
for flax is good in Manitoba. and tbat
for fails could not be better i'm Nasbfner'
ton. Get together.
Most people want more Oil and less OIL
stock '7 ~
The Milwaukee police stopped fight in
the city council. 1t might have been bet
Ter 70 have closed the doors and located
the center Of courage.
Some wise person has written an es-
say stating that babies should not be
kissed 1t should be understood in this
connection that any girl over sixteen Is
no baby.
Uncle Sam is sometimes apparently very
generous. For instance, he paws q mali
carrier in Alaska $4,000 a year. However.
the poor fellow has to make two trims a
month between points ALB miles apart
The hatred Of some Irishmen for water
Is perhaps explained by an official report
a
year in Eastern Ireland.
Mark Twain is conspicuous instance
OF the man who refuses to quit work at
sixty.
Miss Louise Gauss and Miss. Grace Eos
land must be fair Of form and pretty or
face. They Travelled from Chicago to san
Francisco on As cents.
Burnish up your last years fish story.
1t may work again this year.
Lieut.. Gov. Tillman did his talking in a
whisper during the presidents visit in
the South.
It is apparent now that Charlie Hoyt
ought either to have bought no jewelry
or taken it with him. Two sets Of alleged
heirs are fighting to a finish over the
gems.
Even the fish have taken Horace
Greeley's advice and gone West. i. nirty
fishermen seined Cedar lake, Indiana.
for hours the other day and caught one
tiny specimen piscatoriaL
Oh, don't know, Prince Henry. When
4 Prince
Of Wales-George V. TO De.)
Somebody is surely poking fun at
'BathhOuse John" COughlin of Chicago.
He has been presented with a floral lad
der labeled truth will prevail"
A look at some Of the Republican stump
speakers convinces one that it is too bad
that they abandoned the stumps to come
into the city.
The grass is hoping that this will be an
open spring. The Minneapolis burglar
knows it will be If the flights are dark 'ri
Chicago's Clark street business men ara
trying to change the name Of the thor
oughfare to Mckinley avenue. But then
1t wouldn't be Clark street
Perhaps Pat Grove doesn't show up IN
Omaha police circles because be is look
ing for the man who struck the late Ia
mented BILLY Patterson"
The Manitoban still enjoys the clink
Of the ice in the pitcher in the morning.
He has just voted to continue to have
the high ball'' within easy reach.
Even Capt Christmas could learn
whole lot about scientific boodling if he
would come over and get elected a Chi
cage alderman.
Fish stories are getting ripe in Ken
lucky.
The Chinese must have raised an extra
large crop of birds nests, as they are
taking American -four very "gingerly''