The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-20
THE .NONPAREIL MAN
Casually Observed.

Casually observed.
New York doctors say that the newly
discovered smallpox germ is merely curl
osity The only curiosity we feel in the
presence Of this germ Is as to how quickly
we can move in the other direction.
Don't neglect to furnish little back
ache for the lawn mower before the grass
gets the call on you.
It seems that some Of our Partisan
friends feel sore at a local contemporary
for something or other. A cable dispatch
from Paris, speaking OF the recent SEES
sion Of the deputies, says that Monsieur
Somebody or other mounted the Trib-
une."
Can't you just smell the thorowort and
sage and pennyroyal drying in the old
shed at home before 1t Is put in the at
tic? And there's grandpa hurrying around
and scraping the label of the brown sugar
cask so as to send off the pure Vermont
maple syrup back In it.
| This is the way the Mason City Globe
Gazette tells it:
~ Just as the large audience at the Baptist
church had settled back and were taking a salts,
tying breath after the wholesome erepast OF soul
Z
| morning there was sudden slight disturbance
| in the choir; every face was thrown open at
! once as wide the church portals when mighty
! fountainy column of diapason sprang into the air
before the astonshed audience silver-footed, dia-
| mond-crowned, rainbow seated, veritable gulf
1 stream gratuitous warm bath, fitting and
most appropriate close of the morning address
| and a happy incident. After the benediction the
| Empyreans were sought, confessed the trick and
| were pelted with many festive bouquets of full.
| some yerbiage.
i Problem-What really happened?
1Jncle Pease lays strong. claim to that
part of the Mississippi that flows by Ano-
/ ka. He says:
II Anoka hasn't as much right to sewer
| into the Mississippi river as Minneapolis or any
| other town 1t should be known. Our neighoor-
/ ing city should play fair.
The Minneapolis water-peddling compa-
MES have no trouble In seeing the iorce
Of this position. Again Uncle says:
| Sooner or later Minneapolis must get Its water
supply from some other source than the Missis-
s;nni river and the quicker she does It, the bet
| Here we feel compelled to disagree with
the Anoka Union. To get pure water IN
the mains would just ruin the water
peddling companies.
When Mrs. r. Haverocks' Willy wagon
steered into the stone wall, 1t struck sc
hard that it broke q. IS bill.
What shall the graduate of 1903 do:
James Cochran a student of the state
university of Texas at Austin, has giver
q practical answer to this question
Cochran went to the Sour Lake oil fields
four weeks ago for the purpose OF making
!. some money during the vacation season
. He rode a Texas broncho into the town
The animal was worth So A week afte1
he arrived heavy rains made the road!
II
broncho to an oil operator for an acre O
. land situated far outside Of what was thei
. . the proved oil field. A few days ago {
eusher was struck within 400 feet Of hi
= acre and Cochran has just closed dea
: for the sale of the acre tract for $4,000
cash II the higher psychology as laugh
! in the Texas university has showed Jane
! how to hold on to this wad without giving
: a few thousand a week to some sharl
! skate for experience it will have proven
: its usefulness.
At times it is needful to suffer and say
Not word at annoyances met on tn
way
The man in the street car who splits o.
It The man with the story-a cons science
. bore j-
!, But, to dodge this one nuisance We
n travel quite far
,r The man with the nan OIL lHe NeSli
d buled car.
y He smokes an Egyptian, so called cigar
h cite,
Z With q mummified odor that fingers Their
IL yet,
! At the same a hyena might take som
It'll offense,
al AS suggesting an egg in the past perfee
l. tense;
ID o. many a time have wished to debar
) The man with the nail from the yes
l. tibuled car
n, To call the blue, death-dealing odor
Of smell
,e Does wrong to the facts, as you kno'
10 very well;
l. And you feel that the language is give
or a wrench
ID When you call it as simple name as
m The old Anglo Saxon had one word,
e. think,
That describes that corroding effluvi'
to "a stink"
w 'Tis not very long ere Death will debar
al The man with the nail from the vest
US buled car.
&c Several of us were standing in fro1
ne Of the office the other day and recallir
al the time when we first saw Fourth stree
y I remember that there was livery stab
u where the J o urnal office now stand
u and that the street was not paved, b.
q was a sea of mud In fall and spring. II
year after the, writer walked proudly |
u Fourth street with $40 in his poke
ne and a promise of a position where
he
u. LEO XIII. In A NUTSHELL
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