The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
The NonpareiI Man

! The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.
A telephone message asks IL Coffee John
has recovered from his Fit yet.
The Superior, Wis, ministerial association
says that the recent Elks carnival there was
wicked, the "Streets of Cairo = iSapho" and
the German Village being especially reprehen-
sible Well. the Elks are not posing as an
Ethical Society.
It is fact of general remark that fainting
is less common than 1t used to be. 1t Is rare
that one sees a woman carried out of church. |
or the theater,syet forty years ago it was a
matter Of such common occurrence as barely
to excite remark. The reason is that fainting
used to be cultivated as a fine art. but has
now gone out Of vogue because 1t excited
laughter.
Monday.
The Chicago Tribune figures the popula alton
Of the city at 1.820,OO0. The Record-Herald,
using the same directory figures but employ
ing more monumental circulation artist,
easily finds 2,l44,OO0 people.
The Campanle St. Marks old bell tower
at Venice, from which @. L. Morrill, dangled
his legs and threw peanut shells into the
piazza while the band was playing fell yes
terday. The tower never recovered from the
shock. al
Tom L.. Johnson has come out for johnson
for president No Scent fare will ever carry
a person as tar as that. 4 s
Minister WI Ting fang says that when he
arrives in China. the sexecutioner will not
Leave His Happy Home for WI. !"
A woman with second sight who aoknowl-
edges that she did not predict King Edwards
troubles has reen found In Engiand, and
much surprise is expressed. Ssh
For its solo last Sunday the Lexington Ave
nue. Baotist church in New York had lady
whistle !. Tra11me erei. =. She also whistled dur
ing the extraction of the contribution. It
might be a taking feature to have the sexton
do trapeze stunt inthe dome of the church.
Since the Campanile built in Venice in 1888,
has fallen. there is little excuse for some of
the old buildings on NicoIlet avenue built at
about the same date. ~ .,ls.s -.F, -
The news from Ida, MINI, this week took
on rather a somher tinge Otter Tail county
| is accustomed to look to the Fergus Falls
Weekly for it's Lida news, and was we'll repaid
for its trouble this time. There had been a
casualty on Herman Bremer's quiet farm. But
perhaps it is better to let the Lida correspond
ent tell it in his own simple but effective
| style. He says. "
Herman Bremen has sold his jackass to
yAdolph Jacobs. The mate to it died the same
day that Gardner's died. &a
"A sad connection that binds the Gardner
and Bremen families in sorrowful union.
| We deeply regret tc note that Mr.. Crownin-
shields flagship, the Illinois, landed forcibly
on Norway yesterday, and as that country re-
| fused to give way, the boat had a hole
punched In her bottom and two compartm len is
| flooded. Fears were quite generally aroused
when Mr. Crowninshield went to sea that
something would happen through this unusual
course. The%dispatch says that the steering
gear failed, but of course we suspect the
lworst The scion Of a prcminent family Oh
| the -Eng glish mobility once claimed promotion
on the ground that he had lost an ironclad
off the african coast. We suggest that Mr.
Crowninshield be- made a. rear admiral ant
/ kept In thefrear. &4s az& }gs$5e
"A. ]. Balfour, the new English premier, il
not only q statesman but a philosopher. Sew.
| eral wears ago he astonished the literary aht
religious world by a ponderous book called
| 1.-THE Foundations of Belief" It was a titanic
thing and dug down SO deep among the roots
and foundations of Hfnaa nNopinion that mos
readers lost their abreathss and came to thu
surface for afr and fora bite of something tt
eat without having ascertained exactly thu
| idea that tho gentleman was trying to convey
| Herbert Spencer, however, followed the argu
ment with the ease born Of long practice anc
came out with "a criticism of the book tha
called forth reply from Mr.. Balfour. TIL
! literary and religious worlds stood by synpa
/. thetically hollering and throwing stones AM
taking sides according to their p1'epossessons
but without much idea as to what the partie
were talking about. AS the book duly ap
peared in the Minneapolis library. the write
/. Of this column felt 1t atpublic duty to read 1t
! Several pairs of spectacles and some littl
! midnight oil were consumed in sturdy at
tempt to discover what the fuss was all about
! AS nearly as could be ascertained. after
quick recovery from brain fever, we. foun
that Mr. BaIfour had taken in hand the sys
TENS of Spencer and other so-called agnosti
writers and had shown that at their base
they hadn't "a stone to stand on, no more thai
anybody else's system. The conditions o
things around the foundations" was, in fact
80 hazy that we have just as much right t
| "belieye'' as you have to "suspend judg
lment," durn you.- The book is of such !
character that no 25-eent edition for sale o
trains will ever become popular, and, as be
! tween 1t and doc Bixby's "Driftwood. W
say give us the Nebraska product, provide
it is sawed into stove lengths. - - r