The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-03
THE NONpARElL MAN

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THE NONpA RElL MAN
Casually Observed.
What is there about football that in1-
pels an enthusiast to fill up on Kentucky
baby food in the evening?
Mary MacLane says she does not know
what she Is going to write her next hook
about, 1t is about time for Mary to throw
a strong light upon the subject of re-
ligion.
scientist estimated that the earth
will last for 00,000,000 years longer. This
will give ma time to look in the glass once
or twice more before starting for the the-s
alter.
A chair of dressmaking has been es-
tablished at Ruskin university, Glen Eilyn,a
I'll. If they leave that chair out on the
porch over night, father is likely to hit
1t with "a AK"
+ Owing to its practice Of finging off
particles Of itself a piece of radium, 1t is
estimated, will last only 10000 years.
Judging by It's present price our hunk will1
have to last about thirty billion years or
we'll worry along without the stuff.
Santo Domingo has revolted against the
rule of Wos Gil. Wos list los?
j. p Morgan goes right on about his
business lust as if he didn't recognize
the fact that he had been discredited. A
man who can haul ten orstwenty millions
out Of little stock jobbing deal has some
excuse for neglecting the financial proph-
cts and clairvoyants and keeping right on
in business.
r,1.. az of hay 1a.
cided to make but one delivery day be-
ginning at a. m. Nine-tenths of the
people in the city have breakfast before
| O. clock, and therefore almost all breakfast
milk and cream will be twenty-four hours
older when used than under the present
system; in other words, it will be from
thirtysix to forty-eigh hours old when
placed on the breakfast table. Slop lit
tie more formaldehyde into it.
Some one has discovered that the blank
etsEon the Pullman cars are changed every
six months. What for?
1 The Boston Globe has discovered the es-
sential difference between the Boston
man" and the Chicago man. The Globe
/ says:
In cases where the Boston man "siiv-7
ers with apprehension the Chicago man
throws a fit
4 A naval board is Investigating LIQUID
fuel. Almost any Kentuckian could give
the board points as to what he personally
uses. S
! William Scheffler, Cincinnati's champion
whisky, drinker, is dead at the ripe age
q of 81 Mr.. Scheffler was a brick molder
and the New York Press says that II he
had not let brick molding interfere with
his whisky drinking he would have made
q great record Evidently he did not let
lit seriously interfere for he consumed
! daily five pint bottles Of whisky before
/ the noon hour. What he did after the
noon hour history does not relate. AT any
rate he is dead now and his loss VIII pc
!. felt by the whisky trust. But there are
others The good work is going on.
One of the Minnesota eleven said "durn
Z it," and Coach Yost was so shocked that
he won't play us again. Mr.. 3ost Is right.
His players should not be supJected 10
such degrading influences
If Algy Sartoris brings Canada over and
: forces it on u.s. we might take 1t as
! gift-but no fighting. It's too expensive.
Ida Tarben has again started on her
, diagnosis of Brother Rockefeller's loss OF
, appetite.
halloween wasn't so bad. The gang
was a little annoyed by the fact that the
moon was out. Nevertheless James Gray
bills woodshed was found on top OF the
: Methodist church.
p Mr. Morgan is credited with starting
a little talk boom for German for presi-
3 dent With Roosevelt in the running, Mf.
German could hardly be said to be more
f than strolling on the other ticket,
6 Carnegie has helped found 760 libraries
land has 500 more under Amusement 1t
: will soon be arranged SO that no young
t American boy shall be deprived OF his
: Life of Jesse James"
! When Mr. Moses explained to his wife
how the poets in his library had come
+ down out Of their picture frames and
+ held little conversations on the evening
: when ne returned rather late from the
Z football celebration. Mrs. Moses nose took
a slight tilt towards the ceiling as she
remarked that she thought she had de-
/ tected the odor of sack near the picture
= of VIII Shakspere. She also added that
= Mr.. Shakspere was something of roy
q steering blade whose company she did
:, not know as she cared to have her nus
band keep She would think it over.
Mr. Moses thought he detected some
yelled satire in the remarks of his spouse,
Il hut he was wise enough not to argue
n with a woman who seemed to think that
j she had a grievance. so he departed for
: the office unconvinced of error and much
elated still over the fine literary treat
that he had enjoyed.
That evening as he sat rather late in his
library lingering some of his literary treas.
;, ures and browsing here and there among
= the books he was startled to see the
= bookcase doors open and old Ben Jon.
. con step out. The old dramatist closed
J the doors carefully behind him, b0wet
3 to Mr.. Moses, waved his hand in salute
to the picture of Shakspere and sat dowr
s on the other side of the fire.
= .sMr. Jonson, I take it, said Mr.. Moses
II with some perturbation, as he sat with
q one finger in the first edition OF the play
. every Man in his Humor," which Ram.
" age of London had put into full antiQus
calf for him a year ago.
whats left of him. replied the Eliza
+ bethan, smiling. You haven't drop OF
: sack in the house, have your
) ST regret to say that Mrs. Moses objects
e to intoxicating liquors" replied Mr.. Moses
it meekly, land refuses to have them In the
= house,
e The poet smiled
"Every woman in her hurnor az vel
as every man., he replied, gaily. II wafi
a dusty but respectful kiss to the abser
!, lady.
y rs it a fact inquired Mr.. Moses
. speaking of Intoxicating beverages, thai
Shakspere was thrown into a fever by
a little too much sack imbibed in your
* presence. Mr. Jonson?'
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