The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-12
Casually Observed.

According to Brer Satterlee Of the An
mandate Advocate Post, Uncle Pease who
calls for q bald headed governor wears for
hair what is called IAN /. eye-winker
fringe ~ Too true! And it is also well
known that Bob Dunn combs his hair
with a piece of sand paper folded over a
little cube Of wood. The present gov
ernor Is cultivating a desolate region
around his pole. At present we are not
running for anything but mayor.
Mr.. Tillman's plea ought to be that in
the warmer climates one is obliged "to
take. life easy" ~
Dr. Harper expresses sympathy for the
sultan. If the little skates who jump on
Abdul or on DR.. Harper had even tried to
run a decaying empire or a growing uni
versity, they might know what it was to
tackle a very fierce and thankless task.
John Quincy Adams is running for lieu
tenant governor Of Massachusetts, on the
socialist ticket. A cold shudder is likely
to run thru the tombstones in the Old
Granary Burying Ground.
Big Chicago and New York millinery
houses are making displays of hats with
out a bird on them. When your wife
picks one Of them out you soon discover
that the price, Judging by the way it has
scared, is bird ... 4 .-.-a ST.
Uncle Jim says that Appleton, Mimi, is
all right but he throws out the sugges-
| tion that IF Andy Carnegie wants to put
up All amusing little josh he ought to
bring us tailor made library with a
fierce Oldmaid with bronze hair to run
1T. We would feel as exclusive as If we
had a train wreck or, a fifty-d fire.
That's just the trouble with our libraries.
They haven't any Americanism about
them. A man cannot tilt back his chair,
put his feet up on the bookcases and
| start to read s'Stony Lonesome and enjoy
himself a little before some eastern dude
of librarian swoops down on him with
a here, I say, fellow, you can't do that
in here, don't you know. Where is the
old spirit of 1882 that graced our libraries
with little boxes of saw dust for the
American eagle to use as rcuspidors?
| You have heard OF the circulation liar
He is the man who tells you how his pa
/ per penetrates nearly every household or
the American continent. A Buddhist paper
has recently been started in Japan which
seems to be i'll the forefront of claimants
chief. In his initial number the editor
says:
/. This paper. has come from eternity. +
starts it's circulation with millions ant
millions of numbers. The rays Of the sun
| the beams of. the stars, the leaves Of the
| trees, the blades of grasses, the grains O.
sand, the hearts Of tigers. elephants, lions
ants, men and women are it's subscribers
This journal will henceforth flow in thu
universe as the rivers flow and the ocean.
SURGE
After this it will not surprise you t.
know that the name of the paper is 9TH,
laundering. DAWN We might suggest
word in place of Dawn that might b.
more fitting but less courteous.
The Baltimore Sun contains challeng
from George Kohlmans. George says:
| 1 hereby challenge any man in town for
clam eating contest to decide which is the tastes
clam eater in town. I will make side bet tina
can eat fifty clans quicker than any il
that line of sport. Saturday night 1 ate tw
dozen CLANS in one minute. ..L
I'm that line Of SPORT it looks at
distance as if George were were faci
princeps. They tell a story along tn
coast Of Maine of an old lady who hat
eaten clans so long and so regularly tina
she rose and fell with, the tide. If the Bal
I timore clam Is the sole leather claim O
commerce THAR comes out, this way for
market, Mr.. Kohlmans is likely to fal
with the tide, but it is, doubtful if h
would rise again.
How old is Ann? This is one of tn
questions that is annoying an eastern
paper. 1t is claimed that once in sever
years somebody tries to corner wheat
In the same way about once in seve
months somebody springs a problem tina