The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-03

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the watering Of stock. If these simple
methods Of buncoing the public. are
stopped, the fat boys. cannot have their
Persian and Italian gardens on the Hud-
son. " 80 5 .-t ~ r. :
Drs: Bascom and Harper do not belong
to the same school. DR.. Harper is able
to keep down a medicine that DR.. Bascom
is unable to retain. =. ~ ~,
John D.. Rockefeller ha signed a. con-
tract for the laying out of Persian and
Italian gardens on his country estate at
Pocantico Hills. The gardens will be
completed by next spring. That may ex-
plain the rise in oil. He needed the
money.
General Won Boguslawski, a German
military writer, refers to "the diseased
self Importance of America Bogusetc.
ought to take the post graduate course
for Europeans at the Chicago stock yards
are.
It is hard to see why the Morocco "pre-
tender should be so called. There
seemed to be very little pretense about
the character Of scrap he put UP.
Mr.. Rockefeller raised the price of oil
bell
It doesn't bother Castro much that his
whole blamed coast is blockaded and all
commerce stopped. He enjoyed a, nice
dance on the green the other night and
expressed the thought that the powers
ought to apologize. The foolkiller
seems to be too much overburdened tc
do his full duty in South America.
The bubonic, plague wouldn't last fif-
teen minutes in a Nebraska winter
There are some advantages in having
your neck frozen stiff if you put youl
head out Of the window.
+ The seventeenth annual exhibition Of
! the state poultry association is to be helt
| in Minneapolis from Jan. % to Feb 4
! with as fine a lot of biddies as evel
scratched the soil Of Minnesota O.
4 tossed off fresh eggs in January. In ad
I ditiOn to a show Of chickens, people VIII.
have pigeons, Belgian hares or other pc
! stock will be given a chance to displa.
| their wares while cat show is promise,
that will make the fur fly all along tn
line. Mrs. F. r. Woodruff of this cit,
is superintendent Of the cat show an,
Mrs. Charles Hampton Lane of Chicag
4 is judge. The Beresford cat club rule
i will govern, but no fighting lis allowed.
i = Speaking Of cat shows reminds me o
the most gorgeous cat show ever saw
the memory. of which still fingers in tn
! mind. I was young then and possibl
Il the glamour Of youth had something t
do with it. The family cat. a large
| cross female mouser with whiskers, ha
y recently made six additions to the famil
Il and seemed to feel necessity to defen
the premises. The house had large win
dows coming down to the floor and open
ing on a piazza. It was early summe
and the windows stood open. One day
large blonde tomcat Of an exploring tur
of mind wandered in at the open windo'
and our old ma-cat exploded. ~- s,
All we saw for a moment thereafte
, was what looked like a whirling mist
bunch Of fur and feathers about a yard i
, diameter in the center of the ROOM
went round and round and from
f issued sounds that reminded every on
:, who heard them Of half a doze
saw mills all striking pine knots at one
When the bunch stopped for breath tt
/. blonde tomcat shot through the windo
and disappeared over the fence like ret
' headed fat man falling over balloon
Our cat stood around and growled undt
= her breath for half an hour.
+ We boys thought the fight was a glor
-, GUS one and it fingered long in our mem,
u ries, but the ladies, somehow, didn't see
8 to enter into the spirit of it at all. F,
a. week thereafter there was cat dow
floating around in the parlor like "tl
fair white thistle down" of autumn,