The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-28
THE NONPARElL MAN
Casually Observed.

49, Z
Casually Observed.
Gladstone Dowie has a valet IL we
and send him down to groom the fur
mace
Alderman johnson of Chicago who
corrected" his mother by striking her
cuse that his mother was narrow
minded. It would seem to- be difficult
to widen a mothers mind by shifting her
on the eve
We would pay a large entrance fee to
see the Missouri mule backed up against
the battleship Missouri. A few plates
! of that tWelye-inch armOr would be
] likely to be cracked.
|
A sausage strike now on in Chicago
! is about the wurst
| If the New York papers succeed in
making a martyr of Elijah he may yet
be able to play to full houses in Madison
Square Garden Nothing is such cheap
and glorious advertising as persecution.
|
| Buffalo ~ Y, reports little wet
snow. Snow? Snow: o yes, that's what
we sometimes get little dash Of dur.
ing The winter months.
| s..r q.
Smoke Jones' He must be a warm propo-
! sition =
| - 3~'7s~s.1-
Rev. Irl Hicks has one eye fastened on
the sun spot, It's going to raise bally-
| hoo with the weather this winter Our
old friend the snow shovel is going to
| have a busy season. ..-
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/ All eastern paper tells Of two young
people who became engaged on purely SCI
entific princples There was no bother
about love and all that kind of tommy
rot. but they had planned out an ideal,
platonic. scientific marriage, one that the
family physician. could indorse. one that
was calculated to warm the cookies CT the
heart of the psychological labora tory. The
| thing was running along like clock work
when in stepped one Of the old fash
lioned lovers the kind father used to
want to shoot at and science received a
TERRIBLE short arm Jolt. The psychological
laboratory enga gement was broken so
/ quick it sounded like a small boy nip
ping off a hunk of peanut candy with
his bacl, teeth.
4 Grandma will tell you that you can
not improve much on the good old
I fashioned "courtin'" the sleigh rides the
husking bees and the "red ear In the
psychological laboratory methods would
not last fifteen minutes. --.-..
Out in the steenth ward there is a
drug store. There are also in this ward
several thirsty people whom water does
not seem to satisfy. The patrol limits
also run out this Way so that the thirsty
formerly lifted up their voices and
lamented. But the drug store. listening
to the voice of their cry, began to run
, a little sub-s<la department where the
thirsty might humor their besetting sin,
and it became known in time in various
parts of the ward that this store was
:, what is technically known as blind pig
A little girl aged 7, who had heard he,
folks talking about the blind pig the
drug store, was filled with pity for the
unfortunate animal, and on her way tt
school she stepped into the drug store
E and looked all around. There was no pis
g in sight but a number of reputable citi.
zens were there buying Balder's Balsan
for Blue Blokes and Cunningham's Quick
6 Controversy with Liver Complaint. The
= little girl stood up at the counter ant
Y asked in a shrill little voice: ...-
f where's that blind pig they said yol
: kept In here?'E /
+ l. The druggist didr t lose his nerve.
80, that little pigs been made int,
: sausage" he said. And the. crowd smiled
q and scattered to tell it all around.
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There has been very rare book II
: town sSof late. 1t was offered for sal
o here and it didn't last more than fit
Il teen minutes. leaving in its wake fou
G ''bibiofeels' suffering from heart failur
= and book collector or two with merry
n Gus prostration. 1t was brought to Min
e neapolis from London by pol1shed youn
IS scoundrei VINO makes d Ioyai living y
e pandering to the depraved tastes of tn
is book lover and securing from him hi
fine collection of rare $40 bills. =" There