The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-07-17
The NonpareiI. Man

/ The T NonpareiI Man /
Casually Observed.
After Rainmaker Hanson had made q few
mlies the climate got next to what was going
on and leaked little in places Mr.. Hanson
is reposing at home -
AS for Chief Ames.
Who quickly left town
And forgot to come back
Or to notify Brown
Fifty dollars has been: offered for a sonr
Mr. Boardmah will freely give SOC for tho
chief Of police. ,-
The police department claims that Coffee
JOINS language was tinged with violence
when he overthrow the rude oommonalty for
questioning his authority. -,
Everybody hopes that r. C. Harper who
celebrated his one hundred and third birth
day yesterday, will make it. I50. Why not
keep on living when you, have once caught
the hang of ~it2 a..
More policemen and fewer loot tenants of
police are needed. g. = ns
,. A local paper, in its 7headlines spoke of a
hailstone "a foot thick, e bart in the story the
hailstone mentioned wasrf' eleven inches in
circumference This municipal corruption
work is terribly demoralizing. -.
Possibly Chief, Ames is out after Tracey.
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The umpire at CanneIton, Ill, shot the
pitcher, Too often the pitcher is only half
snot- r. e tsE&s y x stae&G raa,& ag.sc W
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The trouble with the Campanile was that il
was struck by lightning in 1745.~ 1t took the
tower long time to- find it out, seems it,
No city on the continent has a more beau
tiful suburb than Minnetonka Yet not q
single trolley line touches it.
DR.. Browning of Philadelphia presented a
bill for ss50,0oo to the Chrisr Magee estate and
the courts made it 29,23a, 25.a The lawyers
will get that extra quarter, too
-. Isn't it a remarkable fact that navy in.
vlncible in war will chase itself way across
the ocean to find rock to run on, provided
it can get away from the American, coas,
without butting the United States. If any
| new volcanic island shows up anywhere in the
Pacific, there is Yankee warship some.
where near by, waiting to ram it. This con.
dition Of things Is due, to too much shore
leave. The young sailors who rarely get tx
sea forget that a. ship, is hollow and cannot
stand the fierce pace set in the plush uphol.
stored offices Of the navy department. There
are men whom YOU wouldn't trust to run g
houseboat from st. Paul to Hastings who
are attempting to steer Uncle sanr's 81, 900, o0t
boats along rocky coast at nighttime.
Picking up Texas paper to-day we noted
with sorrow the Minneapolis excuse work.
hA RI tof Ante Tha
correspondent of the Ashton Times says:
Gambling and others 4dens of iniquity are
woe open-the cosmopolitan character Of the
residents forbidding the establishment of any
blue laws to regulate these vices.
The north Atlantic squadron will have II
incorporate under the laws of New Jerse,
| It Admiral Crowninshleld doesn't keep out O,
the pilothouse. ~ .,
Id Beaupre, the young Montana giant wht
Is nine feet tall in his silk hat and feet 1o14
inches IN his stocking feet, and who pulls
up the scales at the modest figure of So;
pounds, has many trials. Every article Of
MS wearing apparel has to be made for him
me average man wears No. 7 or shoes
Beaupre's are No. g. The average man BUYS
No. 16 collar, Beaupre's neck is "a inche.
around The size Of his hat is not due tt
drink, but to nature. Beaupre might, how.
ever, stand these little inconvenences were
not his appearance the cause of much public
curiosity. Wherever he g goes, everybod,
strikes work and ''rubbers." After a Will.
this continued public regard, becomes painful
Then there are the standard Jokes Thes,
are also painful. Every little fellow about
feet 6 inches high is induced to step up ant
| threaten to Click the giant. About 250, 00
dwarfs have so far threatened to thrash
Beaupre. This after time becomes monoton
Gus. It Is also said that everyone Of Beau
pres fellow citizens in Montana has asked
him at least once, SIS. it. cold up there?'
About half million people outside of Mon
| tana have put the same idiotic query to tn.
| giant. When Beaupre goes into restaurant
| is a study. The amount of food brought for
giant, for his appetite is not impaired.
Beaupre has "a romance, Notwithstanding hi
size, and it is a big one, too. It has to d.
with the wooing of Ella Ewing, the eight-foo
giantess of CORN, Mo. Although they hav
never met, friends have been trying for
! long time to make q match between them
| Beaupre intends to journey to the home 0
the giantess and formally present his suit
| He thinks even If they do not love each othe
at first they will later, and 1t will be goos
business proposition. Should the lady throw
him down the fall would be a heavy one. Z
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