The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-10
Casually Observed .

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Mr.. Fl. J.. w. Dam has long and able
argument in New York paper on the
subject, "Can Thought Move Natter"
Mr.. Dam should try to wiggle his toe and
find out.
Jerauld county, s. D., teachers have or
ganized and decided not to. teach in
Jerauld county unless they get $40 per
month for the first and second grade GER
tificates, and $35 for the third grade. If
teacher walks out on strike we know a
few hundred Jerauld county kids who will
be standing on their little heads for joy.
President Northrop came out with a
large corkscrew and opened the university
Monday. Nobody was hurt.
There is talk of turning Mr. Bassett's
creek into the chain of lakes. At present
this celebrated stream is damned at
Sixth avenue N by a large ripe tomato
can, a barrel hoop, a dead cat and an old
shoe.
Bro. Morrill, puts himself down as ''op-
posed to hell on the East Side Our
pastor in this case may be forgiven for
desiring to raze hell.
A man at Waterloo, ILL.,, man, mind
you, talked himself to death. The dis
patch does not say whether he said any
thing worth hearing or not, but we can
guess. ,r
The Illinois country press is discussing
the emancipation Of woman and deplor-
ing the tendency Of the wife to "gad
about and leave her home to the care
OF others. The Mount Morris Index caps
the climax Of the discussion by insisting
that the gad-around habit is becoming
so chronic among some women that pretty
soon the baby will have to be born in the
night in order to find it's mother at home.
Some Of the towns in the black belt
in Alabama are now inhabited exclusive
ly by negroes, some of whom it is said
still suffer from chicken kleptomania.
Our Trip to Europe-Madrid, July IL
Dear Ones at Home-It is the first thine
we have seen since leaving home-a bull
fight, genuine bull fight Wasn't il
glorious that we obtained the opportunity
of observing it. The sight was so dis.
gushing that Mary H. is down with e
headache and Margaret had to leave the
building because she said she felt sicl
at her stomach when the blood ran.
Madrid Is a beautiful city, full, of Span
iards and other ruins. The Alhambra i
nice, easy trolley ride from somewhere
After dinner we are going out to FIND
the grave of Henry Irving, who wrote tn,
Life Of Columbus" 1.-The Student O
Salamanca" and other novels.
But must tell you about the bull fight
We had a good seat, nicely elevated abov,
the arena and quite near to that of tn
young king. The arena was full of mata
| doris and toreadors, and was just on
blaze of color. When the: COW came i,
he paved the ground with his front foo
a few times and shook his head. The,
| waved a red cloak at him and threw
| things. His tail stood straight up in tn
air like an inverted letter U, and h
made series of violent rushes that mad
our hearts leap into our threats, he locke
so dangerous. All the matadors, etc
side-stepped very quickly and several O
| them, in the language of little brothe
at home, had to "shin the fence"
didn't seem to us that the Spaniard
fought fair, for they did not give tn
cow a chance, but attacked him when hi
| back was turned. Anyhow the sigh
made Margaret so sick that we all ha
to leave the building, and. I'm glad W
| did. We asked an American tourist { il
the hotel that night if the Spaniard
finally managed to kill that cross COW
|
| they did a..
They tell us Spain, and more particu
larly Madrid, are delightful old places
with no end of romance and story con
| nected with them. Perhaps they are
| But Margaret was so shaken by the stir
ring events Of the day that we decide
| to take the train back to our comfortabl
| hotel in Paris. AS Mary H. says, W
must not overdo this sightseeing and ge
ourselves all tired to death before w
are near the end of our trip. -. - e.
| Lucille is thinking Of writing a book OF
Europe. Lovingly, ~, .r's = -
| Lucille, Margaret and Mary H.
| The prominence into which Canada ha
been brought of late owing to the influx o
! Americans into the Canadian northwes
and owing to the revival on this side o
the line of the reciprocity idea in all it
| original beauty and splendor recalls to m.
mind very wildly the attempt made b.
lish possessions in America Under tn
United States flag. The project failed a
that time owing to the malignant Opposi
ton Of the Massachusetts, Adamses.
I was at this time the Washington cor
respondent Of Ben Franklin's Philadelphi:
paper, the Evening Post, and was YER
| close to George Washington himself =
knew perfectly what was going on unde
| the surface, for General Washington trust
ed me implicitly and often discussed wit
me the possibility Of a coup d'etat tina
should bring under our flag every foot O
land from the Gulf Of Meico to the Arcti
ocean. I had given some hints of thi
plan to Franklin but the old philosophe
would have none of them, for he consid
cred that Washington was too much Of a.
| imperialist. He would not print anythin
on the Canadian question at all and
PAT McBRID