Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-10-16
F. out . 1lotes
So PERSONS AND THINGS -
As Seen by Gath.

Setting in one of the busy business
offices in the city the other day, we
observed the typewriter operator, he
was a gentlmean. Some sgrammer
crank ought to find some word that
would not NEAR both the machine
and the operator.
Did you " notice that you can't
write a sentimental letter on a ma
chine? That's funny, but a fact.
When you write to a friend of whom
you are particularly fond, your very
soul goes out in your words, and you
somehow feel that you are talking
face to face with your correspondent,
but try the same thing on a type
writer and you feel none of the COM
munion of spirits but become as cold
as J. P. Morgan does when some
newspaper mar wants to interview
him.
Have you ever thought or did you
ever tax your mental powers 81 much
how many processes of nature are
being duplicated by man in this
~hurrying, bustling age? Never did,
There's lots of them. In the apothi.
carries shop you a buy nearly
everything that nature needs to keep
the machinery of life going. You
a get things that digests your food,
that develops the wrinkled form
. this for the ladies-that colors the
hair-this for widowers who desire
to maryland plenty of other things.
You a get artificial ice, we have
the lightning reproduced and under
the control Of man-.too mucn under
control sometimes when the lights are
sout-and plenty Of other things.
Well, that's not what we intended to
say. Stone, which it took nature
thousands of cycles possibly to create,
is now formed by a Devils Lake con-
"cern in a few days ready for the hand
of the artisan IN the building. Just
walk around Brennan's new block and
look at it sometime.
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Did you ever hear what strangers
think of you with your own ears? We
did the other evening. Passing
down street, two ladies in front of us
were discussing this department of
the nter-Ocean and Gath in a very
interesting manner. We could not
help overhearing the conversation.
I'VE expected to be roasted as thor
;. oughly as some people III ,uld be in
the hereafter, but instead, we learned
that both ladies enjoyed the brainless
stuff that finds a daily place in these
= columns. Now that's rather amusing
after all the mean things said about
us, and Is really a ray of sunshine in
a dark sky and 10 doubtly appreciated
because they did not know we heard
it. 81 wish he would roast some of
Chose impudent men who stand on the
street corners and stare at every
woman that passes as though she de-
sired him to see her." Well, now,
we can't roast those men, for they
partake too much Of the baboon to
be hurt. and so we pass them up with
the suggestion to the ladies that that
classof animals are not worthy Of at
xtention. They merely attempt to
use the of their surrounding
in the seraglio on the street, that g all.
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A crowd of young ladies of the city
were spending a pleasant evening re
Gently in the enjoyment of a numbe,
of musical selections among which
was ''The Holy City" The musi'
was all right but one young lady
made the mistake Of using "Hol,
Gee" instead of "Holy City" and a
a result the musicale broke up. Tha
zones from habit. we suppose. W.
once knew a man who had been
swearer all his life-in fact the thin,
came naturally to him, like eating
He finally joined church, and shortl,
afterward a neighboring pastor aske'
him how the young converts of tn
church were getting along, and he re
piled, 80, W. are just playing-u
there
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This football business is a peculiar
ity. Ever see a game? It's equal
an old time mixup of green and vel
low on st. Patrick's day. It's a fas
game, too, and takes more wind tina
the chest capacity Of the average play
er'will hold, according to the bull
nature gave him. There is som
solt of a rule OF understanding tn:
when a fellow gets nurt the gam