The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-03

Things are so different here than
they are at home" continued the girl
The really nice girls are always chap.
eroned.'
80 they are here retorted the
young man. That's why we have to
take girls from out sof town."
This is an administration of COM
paratively young men. Of the cabinet
officers chosen by President Roosevelt,
Mr.. Snow was 81 at the time Of his APP
pointment, and looks younger; Mr..
Cortelyou was Al, Mr.. Moody 40, Mr..
Morton At, and Mr. Metcalf 81, but Mr..
Payne was So. OF those now in the
cabinet who were appointed by Presi-
dent Mckinley, Mr.. Hay was so, Mr..
Hitchcock 63, and Mr.. Wilson 81.
Although horseback riding Is sup
posed to be totally foreign to the train
ing. of naval officers, it is almost pro-
verbal that men-of-war's men, officers
as well as bluejackets, when given
shore liberty in a foreign port, almost
invariably indulge in a mount on
horses, mules or donkeys, according to
which may be most convenient Con-
sequently- there was some surprise at
the navy department the other day in
making arrangements for the funeral
of Rear Admiral Greer, to find that
none of the officers stationed in this
city of the high rank necessary to be
placed in command of the large mill
tary escort, was able to take the as
signment because of lack of confidence
or proven ability to ride horseback. 1t
was therefore necessary to ask Rear
Admiral Harrington, commanding the
navy yard at Norfolk, to come to
Washington to command the escort, he
being the nearest available officer of
proper rank willing to trust himself on
the back of a horse at the head of
marching column in close proximity to
az band of music.
Appropriately enough, Rear Admiral
Walker. chairman of the Panama canal,
commission, wears a Panama hat this
summer, and Secretary Taft, lately
governor of the Philippines, wears a
hat of Filipino straw.
DO they make that kind of hats
down in Panama? ?" asked one of Ad-
miral Walkers friends as he met him
on the street recently, soon after the
admirars return from the isthmus.
ooh, no" said Walker, with a wink
as he stroked his long whiskers, this
hat was made in New York, but they
sell them in Panama.
Secretary Taft says the Filipino hats
are the most comfortable in the world.
His hat is of generous proportions, like
the secretary himself, and it has a
broad brim and a refuIgent band or
scarf. Secretary Moody was admiring
it the other day, and Mr.. Taft said:
I've got another one, brand new,
up at the house. Will you wear it if
I'll give it to you?"
Mr.. Moody said he would, and very
much obliged; but he still wears the
dinky narrow-brimmed hat that he
bought last summer, presumably in
Boston or Haverhill.
Chief Weather Man Moore confessed
to a congress committee last winter
that there is II per cent of error in
the forecasts issued by his bureau.
This doesn't apply in Washington, d.
c., however, in July, where the daily
predictions of warmer Invariably
come true. Last July local grocer
won a bet by frying an egg at noon
day on the asphalt pavement in front
of his place of business in Southwest
Washington.
! Fifty acres Of land, 100 buildings,
1900 people and an expenditure of
81, 500, 000-this is a brief description
of the Philippine islands exhibit at
the ST. Louis fair. Col Clarence Ed
wards, who helped to set up this ex-
hibit, says it is too bad that it should
be on view only five or six months,
for it is a great educational show.
Almost the entire expense is paid by
the insular treasury and not by the.
federal government.
Lieut.. Gen. Adna r. Chaffee, who is
now on tour OF Northwestern army
posts, recently told this story at a