The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-23

some" comes from William Goat. Esq.
of Thistleton, n. D. Mr. Goat writes al
follows:
my Dear Sir-I seized your book and
devoured it's contents with great pleas
ure.''
Chicagos vigilance committee urges all
citizens to shoot at fighwaynen who are
now busy at the hold-up game. In COM
parison with Chicago give us the good old
frontier life.
It is not a "how1' of disapprovaf but
a sort of dissatisfied grunt of dsapproval
that is going up in Nebraska against the
acceptance Of gift of $4,000 from John
D. Rockefeller, to be used in the erection
Of a temple for religious instruction in
connection with the state university. It
seems as if the state might scratch up
s66,000 somewhere without bothering John
about such a small thing.
A Missouri man has process by which
cigars are made from straw. We have
detected a number Of these products
around the office of late. But it isn't nee
essary to use straw that has already been
used around the barn.
The Missouri supreme court has decided
that boodling is all right if you keep
within the technicalities.
Santa Claus Union No. 621 has decided
not to try to enter chimneys in flats where
soft coal is used. It's ruinous on the
whiskers.
1t is whispered about that there is an
oil field waiting development within three
hours ride of Minneapolis. Sh! Don't
let Rockefeller hear
A full-blooded Indian trundling pa
poose in a baby carriage caused as much
excitement in an Indian territory town
last week white woman saving wood
would cause in a white mans country
Colonel Bryan looked over the Roman
forum the other day and decided that the
old man Cicero wasn't SO much,
Gray hair is the fashion this winter,
that is if it is gray naturally. Nobody is
likely to have it colored gray.
A new game has been worked out by
southern paper. 1t is called Boston Prov
erbs.' The game is to put the
proverbs into Bostonese and let the crowd
at the party see if it is able to translate
them back into United States. A few ex-
amples are here given:
PROVERBS.
!. futile superhuity of culinary aid
Destroys nutritious liquids from osseous tissues
made
9. Your immediate environment submit to cir
cumspecton
Ere you traverse some feet of space by muscu-
lar projection.
s. Inhabitants of domiciles of vitreous forma-
tion.
With lapidary fragments should ne'cr perform
tactation.
L. Who counts ere fractured are the shells his
bipeds gailinaceous.
Is apt to find his calculations utterly fallacious.
INTERPRETATIONS.
I. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
9 Look before you leap.
8. People who live In glass houses shouldn't
throw stones.
4. Don't count your chickens before they are
hatched
! Herbert Spencer did not go out much to
dinners or other social affairs because OF
1.-The terrible waste of mental energy in
yolyed. On one occasion he went to a
| dinner at Grant Aliens provided with
| two curious objects tied behind his ears.
i Their purpose was soon disclosed. for
1 whenever. the conversat ton took a turn
which did not interest him he pulled the
things over his ears, and so obtained sill
ence within himself. Possibly some idea
like this might make church going pop
, ,,Iar again where the pulpiteering has be-
come little prolonged or inane. BY a
simple little device of this kind a man
might Obtain repose under the most un.
/ toward circumstances. A. j. r.