The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-01

week and the recognition was an affect
Ing one. Mr.. ,Dingrnan, now blannes him
self that it wasn't a $40 gold piece.
The coronation is all right In its way
but for a gorgeous spectacle give us the
prize pumpkins at the state fair.
A cable dispatch says that Alfred Aus
tin plays the flute. That Alfred tarries
with us so long is: a great mystery to- Tex
ans. j.:
This column put in an order the other
day for six assorted duels, three assaults,
two abductions, titled scoundrel chap
ter and a half Of war with revolutionary
settings. and an old county house In Vir-
g1nia. We were going to throw this to-
gether into a popular novel but gave it up
later. It's been done.
The Panama hat is good through Sep
TENDER.
machine. The real hit of the mechanical
world would be an egg laying machine.
Even western Kansas is rain soaked.
When it is wet in western Kansas first
class desert goes out of business tempof-
arily.,
"strenuous' is now the most popular
word In London threading even to push
"blooming". to one side. The president
has made a. worldwide hit with "strenu-
ous." MIR. Clevelands ':innocuous desue-
tude' did not cross the ocean.
1t is related on the very highest family
testimony that Miss Bessie Anthony, who
swept everything before her on the golf
links at Onwentsia, spends her spare
time in making Clothes" We marvel at
Bessie's wasting good golf time on clothes.
The political ball is, just opening in
Pine county where one editor calls another
| "a drunkard CRATER and blind pigger, who
| each to minors on Sunday" Do these
editors shoot when they meet? No, they
have quiet beer together.
j The Nassau, Mimi, Gazette, comes to
4 the defense of Oscar Larson who has been
charged with the frightful crime of youth
i The Gazette says: =" :
! They say against Oscar Larson, candidate TO,
/ register of deeds, that he is too young, yet ne
| one has ever questioned his competency. He ii
/ an expert accountant graduate of business
i college and lacks nothing whatever in qualiflca
i ton to the office to which he aspires. The or
4 binary voter abhors and detests politician
i oscar Larson is not a politician. He bares ii,
l breast 1t were, and seeks the arrows Of on
! position that he may shatter them, backed
i as he is by the quintesencse of competence tn,
! cffuvia of dignity and the urban scholarship o.
university. -; "a.
From this endorsement it is clear tina
Mr.. Larson is perfectly capable not onl,
of good deeds but Of registering them.
- $50 $500 - -s.' . - 80 ~ r!
......s H.. The Fair. ........ \
i The state fair opened to- day with recor,
breaking weather and prize pumpkin o.
display as big as your, foot. It was ais
Labor Day which meant that you had t
work twice as hard as usual and coul
not go to the fair - =.
Airships were plying all day betwee
Bridge Square and the fair grounds loade
to the guards with people who were anx
tous to test the new system. Mrs. J, j
Jenkins Of Oleo, S. D., dropped her bah
:. while 700 feet up, but an airship 200 fee
lower down happened to see the disaste
Just in time and caught the child in
net entirely unhurt from it's perillous tri
through space.
The police were much troubled to-da
/ by small boys sliding down the dome {
the big building. Complaint had bee
made by their mothers that it wore on
their trousers and the executive commit
Il tee issued orders to stop the practice.
row OF nails has been driven into tn
dome.
The large hog Is feeling quite well th
morning, and Uncle Ellery Marsh say
that the critter Is going to take the ye
, low ribbon or fall away in the attempt.