The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
The Nonpareil Man
Casually. Observed.

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The man who holds little whisky in
his mouth for toothache' is usually pa
A yard engine at Hannibal, Mo-, ran into
Wards minstrel car and six old jokes are
now in the hospital e, "a =. G."
Mr. Hill says the people along the line
should own the railroad The price asked
might be "a sticking point, as this is pretty
wet season for watered stock anyhow. n
Tracey having been run down, the chase
after Willie Tascott should begin again. 30,
Rev. R. b. Evatt of junction City, Kan,
received a call to a church in large city
at twice his present salary and-refused to
accept. Some Of the brethren tainted.
The desperate battle of Aqua Dulce is doubt
less still going on In Colombia. Nothing
has been heard If It since last week. when it
was omclal1y announced as being fought.
"A person who has never tried to fill small
hole with earth, using the wheelbarrow to
convey the soil from another point, has no
conception of how much of the United States
can be, dumped into an excavation without
having the least apparent effect upon its size.
resident of Bluebeard avenue and Striker
street attempted last week, to fill up an aban-
doned cesspool by throwing searth into it.
After tossing In about 800 wheelbarrow loads,
an examination failed to: show any result ex-
cept four blisters and a fractured shoe. About
that time the earth gave out, and about
every old thing in thea attic that the family
desired to get rid OF went into the hole ID
help. Two lengths sof stovepipe, barrel OF
tin cans, Lord Byron's works. the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica. twenty yards of old car
petfng, a crushed wash tub and bird cage
made the excavation a bit groggy, but il
swallowed them all and was seen looking over
Its shoulder for a little more. few of the
nelghbors came oyer and looked gingerly into
the hole expectorating into it meditatively
while one. Of them. stated the following
truism: - :a gey.zy
| "a hole like that will take a lot of dirt"
After throwing all the rocks in the neigh
borhood, the man with the aching void that
It seemed as IL the World could never fill
+ gave out invitations to a little social func-
tlon, o'clock pink excavation, every de-
butante to bring his own wheelbarrow AMI
shovel. At last accounts the hole was pretty
groggy and was. ,sparring for wind. The
chances are that thessTeferee will pull his
watch :, On. it in the s next 'Ets s. found: {
The late Colonel Bryan. shows no signs o.
gracefully sidestepping and letting the dem.
ocratic mule. thunder past. The colonel, ir
fact, thinks that :heshas}Wflat has been calleG
In agricultural tcireles-,azasatailholt," and. ht
intends not to relaxE@fis grasp till ,th,
I scritter'' is done running or he climbs into
the saddle again. the other hand, the
| gallant young IN askan,s Great and Goot
Friends Cleveland and Hill are wearing tn.
expression Of countenance of IA young bo,
who has eaten a green persimmon. Their,
had been toothsome brand of Harmon,
| pncorked in the east and Bryan went on an.
stepped in it, Cleveland, Hill and Gormar
were referred to by our intrepid young leade
| as assistant republicans" and cheats" an,
similar caressing names were freely bandet
abolt. Licking doesn't seem to hurt The bo,
leader Of the Platte, and Mr.. Hill in his mo
anents of vicious thought, wishes the Ne
eTaakan would take sick : But no. Ant
SO It goes. ~ -