The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-22
Casually Observed.

Casually Observed.
How to make perfectly safe airship.
Nail 1t to the floor.
Carrie Nation is out real fierce after
the president. The nations chief execu-
tive passed the Oyster Bay rum hole the
other day without kicking in the plate
glass window. Shame!
A Massachusetts pastor has just re-
signed because his church wouldn't raise
his salary above So a week. Twelve dol
lars is a lot Of money.
Cod liver oil has risen in value from
s22 to $3.50 barrel One good square
taste Of cod liver oil will make an ag-
nostic rush over and join Elijah Dowie's
church.
Watch the elegant gesture made by
the coal baron on the first Of September.
It's easy!
The Morris Sun kindly mentions "a. J.
Russell, the man who writes the Non
pareil column of The Minneapolis Journal,
and who gets paid for being funny" Con-
fession to the fact Of the pay is made
right here. If it missed us one Saturday
you would hear sound like the moaning
Of the sea at low tide.
A very prosperous and successful hay
fever season was opened last Saturday.
The University of Chicago will soon
equip an archaeological expedition for
excavation in the orient. John D. Rookie
Teller has promised a large sum for ex-
penses each year for five years. Altho
definite plans have not been announced,
it is probable three expeditions will be
sent out next year, one under Professor
r. F. Harper to Babylon, another under
Professor Ira M. Price, to some other
point in Assyria, and a third under Pro-
lessor ]. H. Breated, to Egypt. Hereto
fore the University of Pennsylvania has
been the only American college to conduct
excavations unless you except the way
Chicago University has made Mr.. Rookie
Teller dig up.
There is one advantage in living in
Venice. The paving of the streets never
gets so far out of order that it breaks
the legs of the elephants when they walk
over it. Look at Eighth and Ninth
streets between Nicollet and Hennepin.
/: Farmer Ben in his Austin Transcript
has come out fatfooted in favor of &C
cepting all the money you can get from
"Robberfellow' or any other fellow.
Farmer Ben says:
What lot OF good mind Is bein' wasted on
the question whether it Is right wrong ia
accept good money from Rockefeller, Morgan,
Carnage and such squeezers for public uses.
Some Platos are tryin to make out that because
Robberfellow got his money by monopolizin' the
oil trade and Carnagie got rich by big prices
for steel and iron, therefore and indisputably
the money these chaps made has got some faint
or other about it that churches and libraries
and municipal corporations and such will be get
NJ irah nv In lie
Such folks amt got as much brains as calf.
I calkerate that If this money has been twisted
out of the people it ought to be given back to
'em agen, and the only way I see Is to put II
into institutions that are founded for the peo
pies good S'pose that the folks that make
the big money spend it all on themselves an6
don't Civ any of it to the public, then what
howl goes up because they are so selfish anG
greedy. That's what makes the grain go the
wrong way quickest of anything. I tell yot
what think. I'd take billion dollars If
could get 1t for school and library and colleg.
and religious purposes, no matter whom it came
from. n. + ~
We believe the old potato digger il
| right. We are now making it practic
of accepting for our old book library al
moneys that are thrown at US. We ar
! also trying to make a collection Of ST.
bills. It 1s a very interesting fad. Bill
| Of larger denomination thankfully re
ceived as we have noticed that they cal
be broken.
Nebraska republicans have indorse
John l.. Webster for vice president. VIII
in - that is we would ask who is thi
man Webster. ~.
The Ortonville Herald Star says tn
sportsmen are preparing to tramp dow
the fax, the corn and the millet, knocl