New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-01-09
A Man Without Curiosity.

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A Man Without Curiosity.
A stranger walked into, the Office this,
morning, and, peering into the door of
| ossr sanctum, Fixed his eyes on the bald
spot on our head, and said:
Early pietyr Ell? It's an awful sad
sight to seega young man bald-headed.'
Very sad I'VE replied, pushing our
pencil vigorously and without looking up
trola the writing of a heavy header on
The Comparative Influence Of Rifle
Teams on Moderas on which
we were engage Vat the time.
"Aes," returned the visitor, g though
sad, it's no Disgrace A ebalaa head, Sir,
is sign OF BRAIN power; you never see a
bald headed fool. Why, just look att my
head!n
He removed his hat, and his head was
as baro Of hair as steam boita.a
GA bald-headed man was sent to the
insane, asylum from this, ccanty last
month";" we said, dropping our eyes again
on the writing before us.
well, there's exceptions to every
rule he replied = =
Thea.he got ur ard went out into the
composing room, ana,looked5over COM
positorss shoulder at pieceof COPY.
Strangers not allowed to read copy!''
sung oat the foreman from the other end
of the room. is = 80 sss4i afetNa
aoh,.1 didn't wants to read The copy;
don't even care for tie original p answer
ed tho persistent stranger. ssI was only
trying to compute low many Of these
types it would take. 10 manufasture an
account of rst-class~hors race
Thenshe went over 70 stone aaaslsieked
up stiekful of type that the devil had
set down for mometai e18ts&
"LocE out! this lairft a bakery" cried
the dezil q 4e.g i. tfg, Z. s,a So
"Who, said it wasp Il Ia. s,as Is.
"WeH, you were trying to make 9pi,'
answered the devil. s9ssa
! "We,l, that's all right Il don't. believe
in strangers going inso a place and max
ing themselves perfectly at home. IF l
was carpenter for instance, and had a
kit OF tools, L woutdn's want people to
be ceIaing fooling Garoand and sl;eing off
their fingers with my chisels, or any thing
of that sort
Whsle he was saying the ADORE, words
he d;his hands on tie cylinder of the
proof press, and was pashing it backward
and forward, making asnoise; alat was
plungsng "The Comparative Influence of
Rifle Teams on Modern, Ciyiliza tom into
a hopeless middle. Writing Yves out of
the question while this fiends wasepresent;
so We abandoned the heavy leader, and,
strai oFshtening up in our. chair, locked him
SQUARE in the eye and said s,
uYas, it's a bad idea for people to fool
with tfilSngs they don understand. Why,
only two days agd, q stranger came in
here and\ picked up Ipns Of our Calling
guns. Oh course eldidn1t knew it was
1 loaded ard the coult gave decent burial
to such fragments him as the devil
managed IN pick Is round the office.
Here, boy, show this gentlemen one Of
the Gatlings! sfs s.. .,s*1.5.
The devil rolled Toward a large iron
cylinder, used for al model Tor casting
: rollers for the pEesses and our visitor
cosame nced & back towauta 1.-THE door,
saying as he went: @l
No, thank ye;, if ttere Is one thing,
now, that T do pride myself 81, # 1hat
( there ain t particle ut crsr1aosit4 my
, composition. Besides.I knew an ahout
; Calling guns: the. secpnd eousinSof The
man who makes the g Hing guns mad a
: mother whohusHd to domy washing"
: He backed QUITO thu office, and started
2 off after the manner of amanWho is in
hurry. But ssThe Comp alive Influence
J. of Rifle Teams on Modem Civilization"
e looked at in; The light of IA literary
effort, was a ttcssal wreck and viii never
: in living print glad den he eyes.of an ad-
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