The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-16
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.

, Casually Obseryed. -
The Fat Boys association Is offering IS, 900
for the invention of an automobile that
doesn't want to climb a tree.
Judge Morris says he will not run. The
sigh of relief hove by Jadam Bede sounded
like the exhaust of N. P. freight locomotive
on heavy grade. ~ w. ,-.*.~@
The old Gale house is being torn down to
make room for a modern block: How we'll
we remember camping out on that property
in 1882, when the business and residence Sec
tions were down near the river.
Robbers exploded a postoffice at East Pal
estine, Ohio, Thursday night and drew $1,000.
1t might be good plan to leave a bunch Of
dynamite in the safe over night.
The Anoka county tiger fed to the jungle,
but the Anoka county wolf will be ripe for
the sportsmen by March.
East lynne" with a "me child heroine.
who throws thirty consecutive weeps In thirty
consecutive minutes, is doing st. Paul to
full houses. If the capital can stand for this,
it Is ripe for more Uncle Tommery.
The Farmers Cooperative Grain company
proposes to use $12,500, 900 of the funds from
the sale OF stock to operate in grain on the
Board OF Trade in Chicago Wouldn't that
be a sporty farmers organization?
It has been pretty damp for fish this year.
They are said to have quit biting.
Peasants along the road in France, just
before Mr.. Fairs automobile ran into the
tree, state that the vehicle was running SO
rapidly that it was impossible to see its
A nf oh r1o vino in,
road would stand less show for their lives
under these conditions than they would If
they were playing on a railroad track. For
the train usually keeps pretty close to one
track, but the autodevil is likely to be on
both sides or in the middle of the road al
the same time. Until the laws are more Wig
| orously enforced, our children will play in
the garret.
Alderman Michael Kenna Of the first ward
of Chicago, somewhat too familiarly known
| as "Hinky Dink,' recently left for the east
with an array Of clothes that would make
| a bill board medicine advertisement look col
| orless Mr.. Kenna's trip was made to out
| shine Alderman Bathhouse John of Chicago
| who stirred up such sensation last year BY
| adopting a vest that could be heard above
| the roar of traffic, and pair of trousers tha
! were a purple riot. The first ward alder
man, on the eve Of his departure from Chi
| cago, said:
Il hear de smart fry is up to Saratoga
| That's where me friend 'Bat'house' Johl
bucked de high life two years ago. Bat
house is in Colorado desc days doin' tai
| stunts with his opera voice. You ever hea
'Bat'house' sing dat song Of his, Dear Mid
night of Love? OATS swell! 'Bat'house'
all right, but he's got nothin' like de 'trows
seau I've got locked in me trunks
Mr.. Kenna was right. When he strolle
| down Broadway, says New York dispatch
he wore a white flannel suit. bronze-colore
shoes, a wide-brim Panama hat, pale pin
| silk shirt, low cut waistcoat of lavender an
a long flowing green tie with yellow ends.
diamond, suggesting a warship's searchlgh
ldazzled the eyes of the wondering throng. .
monocle on his left eye gave aristocrat
wrinkles to his cheek. Dark-blue smok
foated from big Perfecto.p In his coat lap.
was a bunch of corn flowers. A bamboo sticl
with gold head, swung from a CAREFUL
poised forednger. Several members of "tt
squad nearly had heart failure at the al
partition and the regular habitues Of "tt
Lane" were filled with dark green envy.
In Mr. Kenna's outfit is one pair of shoe
of white glazed leather with large brass ey,
lets, relieved by bright red strings. He ais
has turquoise-blue dress suit with pear
colored waistcoat and gold buttons. He owl
twenty-seven pairs Of trousers, ranging
I color from the lighter slate effects to tt
invisible, stripe; plaids loud enough to kee
one awake nights: all of which are pc,
legged, turned up at the bottom and proper
creased.
} Bathhouse John and 4Iinky Dink are i
reality: more to Chicago than mere aide
men. They have become national character
These gorgeous sartorial emutes with whic
they dazzle the, eyes Of the metropolis ar
in fact, deep satiress upon the extravaganza
{ in dress which would otherwise creep
upon the masculine wardrobe unless thu
were laughed out of court. Under the pc
formances of Hinky Dink and Bathhous
there Is a deep philosophical significance.
shows that the nation is still sound at IL
core and that the canker of the riotous We
has not yet eaten into its heart. Bathhou!
and Dink may yet be strong hand to dra
to IN Chicago politics.: =. 2-s.-.,t