The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-09
The NonpareiI Man
Casually Observed.


Casually Observed.
The cable brings the startling intelligence
that the Emperor Joseph Of Austria likes "a
glass of beer now and then with his meals.
There is something very hui an. about Joseph.
The democrats seem to make Secretary Hay
the point of attack as If he were the whole
party. And it must be confessed that Hay is
the fodder of his country.
Mrs. Van Blank-Oh. we do so enjoy the
spring; little Reginald has such a lovely time
shooting the song birds.
Mrs. Vanderbilt has had her visiting card
copyrighted. Such insolence Our hired girl
has had instructions to refuse Mrs. VS.
pasteboard at the door "a:
The Prince Of Wales may do the nervous
prostration act for which Prince Henry now
holds the record. 81.
Santos-D umont flying over St. Louis now
would find the fair plans all alp in the air.
Cecil Rhodes willed $4,000 to a janitor, and
the fire in the flat went out
St. Paul's whisky is not all prussic; acid
diluted with rain water. But. much Of 1t is
open to suspicion. ~
Cecil Rhodes idea of world unity Is to be
brought about, in his expressive language, by
the departure from the map of such cOun-
tries as Portugal, Persia and Spain, who are
found wanting Possibly they might object
to departure and might hand out 100 year
guerrilla wars that would keep civilization
busy wiping them out at the expense OF a bill
lou, 1o1IN liz. 10. ~
course we do not mind the misery and blood
shed, but the expense is frightful.
With Mr.. Wanamaker's Endorsement. the
Emperor of Germany feels that he can take
up his burden with new spirit.
T h e j. UT al came near the grar
| yield on its estimate last year that horrible
/ suspicion is growing up in certain enyious
breasts that it's brainy young market gian
counted the wheat heads, multiplied them by
! the number Of kernels in "a head, and reducet
| the same to bushels.
"Reminiscences Of ''Alma Martyr
| circular letter ''To the alumni an(
| friends" of the college where the writer triet
! to dissipate slight fraction of that igno
| rance that weighs so heavily on the spirits
OF our youth, recalls some OF the glorious
| days Of the higher education, when the boy
used to lie armed half day with pail 0
water waiting for friend to stick his heat
| out of window below. The top rooms il
| the dormitores had other advantages thai
| financial ones. They offered fine point o
! vantage for water throwing The thought
! less college authorities had caused walk t
! be built running the length Of the hall, an
| freshmen sometimes made use of it. TIL
exact science Of throwing water in pape
bags is also one of the advantages acquire
by the undergraduate in the upper stories
! When the class dude came along the wal
one lucky Sunday under a new plug hat, :
I friend Of his in the upper story became S
excited that he forgot to reach for the waite
! and grabbed the first missile in sight, whic
happened to be loaf of bakers bread.
ruined the hat and caused unsubdued an
| expressive language that even at this lat
day is painful to recall Z,
Why the art of putting six or eight larg
screws into friends door during the slen
hours of night, thus uniting it to the frar
and preventing the egress of the occupant ]
time for morning prayers at chapel--why thi
is pleasure to the childish mind, still re
mains mystery.
Every college has it's Rah &iRah boys, VIII
get together for vocal exercise. Then the1
are the Turn Turn boys, who play the stringe
Instruments usually banjos or somethill
equally as bad. These, by the law OF attrat
ton, get to meeting for practice in on
anothers' rooms, and this takes time an
anxious thought the part. of the peop
rooming in the Vicinity, who .endeavor
4 discourage the, practice by tin-horn concer
;. and ribald remarks, and advice freely mao
from the windows lin the vicinity
The art of learning to smoke bulldc
pipe on the street is a difficult one to acquh
but our youth are self-sacrifcing, and us,
ally put it through We see examples Of tn
, OF Nicollet avenue. The sight Of the Yout
, practicing his Pipe in public gives one qualm
But we all remember the suffering it cause
us in the past and have a wide charity *
: him. In fact, the whole Art Of Learning to
, Man of the World has to be acquired; S
that it can he practiced in that easy and il
souciant manner that, shows us to have bee
accustomed to Vice from our earliest chilt
, hood. Possibly it lis a good thing to acquil
Vice in the spectacular way. We get sick
it quicker In AN artice~on Stunning
Hongkong" Kipling says that 1t is Gale
''seeing life Then he adds, IF this is lif
, give me death " Your college boy usual
! hunts vice in couples. He and his frieni
..take in the town 1t is often hard for hi
to repress his disgust at this kind of life,
but he makes a manly effort to DO so. III
, hoy who "goes to the devil in this whole
, sale way usually comes back on retul
ticket. g.
4 There isn't very much in vice, anyhow.
? has been overdone. STILL you know,
/ course a fellow must see for himself. 2
Then, besides the 'Rah 'Rah boys, the Tu
Tu1n boys and the Bum Bum boys there a.
; the Yum YRum boys, who devote. themsely
to the ladies. OF them 1t is needless to spes
further They are known by their clothes.
o, there are all kinds of alma martyr"