The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-24
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.

NaSUAtly 00SSFSSu'
Clara Morris Is suffering nervous col.
lapse. That's what we had when we saw
her act. Il
If only Julian Ralph could write an au-.
thentic sketch Of what he has found
there it would be one Of the most widely
read articles of the year.
A paragraphers' union is being organ,
lied with headquarters at Baltimore. This
column is after 250-year franchise to
supply the northwest with bottled para
graphs. '......
Lord Kelvin says that the coal will be
exhausted in 400 years. -Four hundred
years.! BY the look Of our bin, we should
say 400 minutes! r., ...
Professor Matthews of Chicago univer-
sity has come around In the classroom
| to that season Of the years work when he
is obliged to confess that everybody,
whatever his moral status and predilec-
tions, manufactures and carries alcohol
| In his system. That may indeed be true,
but it is no excuse for the alleged man
who attempts to carry around in his
system at one time or another all the
alcohol there is. Some men make gall
liant struggle to achieve this distinction.
IL Vli. 1OuIS Is given q site III LOG1IS
park for his marble building to hold his
collection Of autographs, it is contended
that Mr.. Savage should be given a site
| for a marble stable to hold his matchless
collection Of hossfesh called Dan Patch,
with $175,000 life insurance policy on
him.
Mark Twain has just thrown a very
vigorous literary handspring because he
says the Christian Scientists charge too
! much for their books. If the Scientists
had control Of the government and forced
their literature on Mr.. Clemmens at the
hands of a Science board of health he
possibly even to shoulder a musket. At
present, however, he does not have to
buy the books and it is difficult to see
wherein he can be suffering acutely,
especially when he sees the despised sect
SO comfortable and happy.
| Nobody knows exactly what train
wreck is until he has been in a few Of
them People sit quietly in their libraries
| with their daily papers and remark:
Hello, another wreck on the Geewhizzle
& Southwestern line. Two men killed.
Lucky it's no worse And that is all
they think about it.
For the people on board the train the
| incident with its accompanying shock
and fright, even If they are not physical
~ hurt themselves, may be an epoch
making event. The train is running
smoothly along at forty to fifty miles an
hour People are eating. talking. laugh
ing. reading or resting quietly in their
| perths or seats, when-'bang!'' and
! everything becomes confused and I'M
steady There is an awful grinding roar.
the lights are out in an instant and the
air is full Of crashing. shrieking sounds,
more terrifying than the widest noise of
! battle, thousand times more terrifying,
because all is unknown and they only
! perceive dimly that they are being thrown
hither and thither without knowing what
the next second may bring. Lucky IN
| deco are those people whose car is not
! 'teiescoped, or who are not pinned down
under the wreckage with the flames
| creeping rapidly towards them PEOPLE
are spoken Of In the newspaper accounts
as suffering from +'shoc1.'' This intense
subconscious fright may indeed be a Sc
rious matter unless it is wiped from the
tablets of the mind. After Charles Dick
ems was in the train wreck in 1866 In
| which "Mr. and Mrs. Boffin in manu-
script Dress figured. he was said at
| times to suffer severely from the recur-
renee Of the subconscous fear, and it is
stated that it finally caused his death. or,
at any rate, reappeared III the last mo-
ments Of his life.
=. When there is. a train wreck on the
schedule, let US pray that we NAV be
travelling across the country in our auto
mobile. 1t may not be quite so quick. but
at least there is half a chance to i,,mn