The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-24

party right there.
A picture of Mr. Rockefeller in the cur
rent McClures would indicate that this
Millionaire had been reading the Ida Tar
bell history. ~
Speaking of airships we do not care to
soar on anything unless it is feather
bed.
Love is defined by some disappointed
genius as 1.-The anxiety on the part CT an
otherwise sensible man to act as doormat
to a fiirt."
Fra Elbertus Hubbard billed to lecture
at church in Detroit, got lost and paved
around the front doors Of number of
sanctuaries before he discovered the right
one. Speaking Of Hubbard's style De-
troit reporter says:
He talks with extreme indifference and langnor
for minute and then jumps into an attitude and
uses force. Between times he gazes at the left
gallery. abstractediy but intensely. as If win
dow of heaven were suddenly opened and an
army of subscribers to THE Philistine' was
leaping therefronl.
Hubbard is now working the peewee
bibliophile gang to the limit.
Miss Roosevelt snubbed Harry I-ehr.
Wasn't that too dreadful.
Ecuador wants to sell us the Galapagos
islands. We don't know just where they
are but they might come handy some day
when we annex the equator.
The Litchville. N D., Bulletin has been
doing nutshell biography of Thomas
Casey Of that place, who goes to bat with
a fine picture and gets a quarter OF
column write-up without costing him
cent. From it we learn that Mr.. Casey
was born in Iowa, but was put off at Buf-
falo, n. D., where he went into partner
ship with Windy Smith" for ten years.
After this breezy experience he started
a bank at Fingal n. D.. and shortly after
wards moved to Litchville where his stunt
is banking. land agenting and ph!ian-
thropy. The Bulletin says:
Thomas Casey is unmarried and we respect
fully call the attention of the maiden ladies
of the Litchville country to this remarkable o.
portunity to cabbage on to good locker VINO
has the disposition necessary to make married
life continuous pleasure and JOY forever.
Thomas Will make lovely husband. ne IS
kind. affectionatc, liberal and likes children
If Mr.. Casey does not wear his fingers
crossed after this he is likely to be
i,rnped by some Stout widow or pre-empt-
cd by young and blushing girl who saw
him first
If is a pleasure to be jumped on by the
genial editor Of the Cleveland. Mimi,
Nonpariel column is that it used the
word sore to describe state OF mind
and put it in quotation marks thus show
ing a stuck-up condition of mind regard
ing the purity of the English speech. me
Pioneer thinks that a good, honest writer
Of United States shouldn't be ashamed to
say that somebody is sore without
n,,ttine it in quotation marks. In conclu-
sion he dares us to use the word belly,
ache in this column we won 40 ~. rs
ANY error OF that nature will be called "a
stomachie difficulty in this column We
are unable to bring ourselves to consider
It IN any other light--except possibly in
the case of a cow or a small boy. A COW
no uin,, eve stonachs each. when they; all
ache at once we might be induced to use
this objectionable word to describe the
conditions alleged to exist at the solar
plexls's front door. Until then, this coli
,,mn remains a well of English indebted.
A T. R S5s