The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-24
! The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.

Casually Observed.
Milwaukee is trying to blow the froth
from the reputation that has made it
famous.
When there is fire and girls have to
did in St. Joseph yesterday, the owner Of
the building and the building inspector
ought to be sought out and compelled to
make the jump likewise. That might be
a discourager of f1esitancy on their part
to act in the matter of fire escapes.
We all sympathize with the crown prin-
cess Of Saxony in despising the artificial
etiquette of the court and the hollow
mockery OF the life in court circles, but
to escape it was not necessary to elope !,
with the French tutor. Had Louise
gone home to father" and allowed the
French tutor to continue to toot, all by his
lonesome, public sympathy for her would
have been much more pronounced.
The pretender to the throne of Morocco
ornamented his tent with forty heads of
man who enjoys such gruesome bric-a-
brac may not make an easy monarch.
It seems as though the old mother-in-
law joke would never die. Michael Hand,
Jr., millionaire brewer of Pawtucket,
his mother-in-law. Mr.. Hand had no
knowledge of the Minnesota supreme
court decision either. but just ran his
! chances.
A Kansas City boy claims to be able to
remove warts by touching them. The
old Wart that is accustomed to sitting
around in the country grocery store may
often be removed by touching him for his
bill, -~r,<
Notwithstanding the scarcity Of fuel it
is noticed that the coal mans wife does
| not hesitate to buy diamonds for Christ
| mas presents. :sr.l
After all the troubles of the telegraph
editor drawing few dollars week are
| much less acute than those of almost any
member of the royal family of Austria.
The moment Mascagni, the Italian COM
poser, stepped On these shores nervous
prostration marked him for her own. In
Boston he became tangled in a web of
lawsuits over wages musicians union
problems strikes, quarrels and all kinds
of legal deviltry sufficient to drive the
ordinary man to drown his woes in frappe,
to say nothing of the fiery heart of genius.
A similar set Of conditions greeted him in
| New York. 1t began again in Cincinnati
and when in Chicago, some kind of a writ
| was served on him, the master took his
| bed and gave loud voluble orders to can
| eel every date in America. The orchestra
was paid off and ordered to leave for
Italy at once. and the composer as soon
as he is able will shake off about bushel
| Of Chicago dirt from his feet as a testi-
mony against the United, States and set
sail for Italy, where some respect is paid
| to person. We. would not care to hear
| Mascagni's opinion Of the United States.
Miss Godfrey's kittie died yesterday. It
| did not suffer from half-a- brickitis, a dis
| ease that has been prevalent among cats
for century, but seemed simply to fade
! away. Ktttte adopted the Godfrey family
| some time in the nineties, shortly after
| her advent into this phase of existence
She always showed great fondness for
! warm milk, and during the absence of the
family at church one day, was not averse
| to a little mellow canary on the side. The
| cloud OF popular disfavor into which the
| indulgence Of this quiet taste brought her
she simply ignored. rubbed up against
the family, arched her back and .purred
| as freely as ever, even while a fluffy yell
low canary feather was seen lodged in her
Whiskers, In fact, a small, cold Bird
was always acceptable to pussy and in the
| spring she used to lay in wait in the back
yard for the early robins. 1t was on
1 one of these occasions that she narrowly
| escaped stopping a half brick thrown by
an indignant neighbor. She faded under
the barn just in time to avoid its noisy
flight. = ;.: :.
Kittie was the heroine of several ad-
| ventures in her short but active career,
Once she drew a red line with her toe
across the black nose of large offensive
dog who Showed disposition to taste her.
This drew from him a series of ki-yi's
that called around every dog for four
blocks. Once she was freed on the cross
trees of: telegraph pole by dog to
| whom all cats looked alike, and had to be
brought down in a basket. One moon
light night she was shot at, an indignant
citizen unhitching both barrels at once,
because she and Tom, who lived next
door, struck several upper registers on
Ofenbach's Midnight Yell in A Minor. -
She saw fur fly and Thomas never came
back. 1t was the one sorrow of her
| young life. She faded after this. Warm
milk lost its favor and the things of earth
lost interest for her. She passed on
yesterday lamented by the whole family,
despite the canary incident, the harshness
of which time had largely softened :