The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-06
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed


A morning paper says that ''Pelee hurls
ashes five miles in height, These are
certainly larger ashes than even our fur
mace throws out.
Local Norwegians are going to celebrate
Bjornstjerne Bjornson's birthday pres
entity.
Judging by the reports current the mo-
ment a man gets smallpox he makes
rush for the street cars SO as to ride back
and forth with the crowd a few times.
The health office Is a great place for
healthy exercise.
Photographers are inclined to poke fun at
that Michigan eleven which prays before
the game. We would say, before the game
or not at all. A man is not in the spirit
to commune with a higher power when
he, is getting his face kicked in-or for
some time after.
Alderman, Rand is getting something
foral' on the city hall windows. Now If
the janitor of the building will show up
with his snow shovel and get picture
of "Minnehaha Falls in Winter painted
on its blade, all may yet be well.
London has barred the Wild West show
from which, New England is suffering 1t
is indeed dangerous disease among cat
tie, and especially fatal to man. The only
sure way of avoiding it. is keeping the
latter part of the disease closed, then you
will not put the former into it, -.
Certain members of congress will have to
wear. steel braces or they will, as Judge
intimates, grow bowlegged trying to strad-
die certa In national issues
Dear old Christmas! How the weather
recalls the mince pie of youth made of
cowsneck and red flannel with a rubber
undercrust. And it tasted good-then., =
Mrs. Effie w. Merriman has gone into
play writing. Mrs. Merrimans heroines
are not like the one who in despair leaps
from the top of the 1S-story skyscraper
where she was driven by the cruel flames,
and the heavy villain whom she refused to
We'd The lime light is turned full upon her
as she is caught on the fly by the hero on
the pavement below who has just ar
rived, after an absence of eighteen years
in the heart Of Africa, in time to foil Fire
Fiend, Villain & Co. The shock of their
meeting is great, but the past, the ker-
ruel past, is soon forgotten in the happi-
ness of the new life and in the thought
thatthe villain is serving two years in
otlnWater IOf aSSln1nlty. --''--
That picturesque publication The Pc
tosky, Mich, Lyre almost always carries
| good story or two even though the vera
city Of the narrative is bit damaged by
the doubt implied in the papers name
The Tyre this week has a chapter on a
German tragedian's troubles in elevatine
the Petosky stage this winter. The ext
gencies of the mellow drama spread out
on the boards demanded that Prince Hen
rvs dramatic countryman should carry the
heroine in his arms up a rocky defile night
after night. The heroine was a willowS
lady and the tragedian, though boasting q
bay window through lingering somewhat
overlong at the beer when it gave it's color
to the stein,. managed to lift her up the de-
! file without much trouble. But one da,
Vera, the slender lady, took sick suddenl!
| just before the play, from eating too mucl
! pork and cabbage and an actress named
| Birdie took her part Birdie was a light
| some being who tipped the scales, when
ever she looked in their direction, at 22S
| The big tragedian took one look at her
made a mighty effort to pryh err loose or t,
run around the end, failed and then ad
I vanced to, the footlights:; In an apollo
4 getic tone 3ne inquired: .G~t.& @.>aM .7s5 -
+, "Iss der "a piano mofer in der haus al
| retty?' - - t.f -