The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-20

They disappeared in the Baptist weather
q few weeks ago and have not been seen
since.
Colombia demands s25, ooo,o 900 for the
canal right Of way. We will excavate
from Duluth, Mimi, to Seattle, Wash,
before we will give it.
This sudden flood Of young and beauti-
full nnaidens all demanding Senator Plat
or -nuptial alimony shows that some of
our aged statesmen, instead of saving the
country, have been holding the hands of
too many charming young things.
Yellow fever at Laredo, Tex. There is
something on its way down from Dawson
that will make the yellow fever germ curl
up like withered leaf.
DR. Crotch Of San Francisco has had an
airship tugged up into the sky by a gas
balloon. Even a freight car would go
up if it had gas balloon big enough
When Mrs. Claus Henry Koch of Los
Angeles gave birth to her sixteenth the
newspapers there interviewed her.
Brother Dunn of the Princeton Union,
who may yet run for the vice presidency,
says that "the bray of a wild ass is better
than the tuneful voice of a hypocrit.'' One
can verify this even if he isn't in politics.
! The Revere Record hangs out the fol-
lowing school note: 2
Towels and soap have been added to ''stock
Of good things'' so now, with the aid of barrel
lot soft water under the cave spout there will be
no excuse for dirty hands Or faces, and further
more they will not be tolerated =,
5. III Up; IN EHaag. Principal
Real estate is all right in Revere but
it must keep its plka l go
| Maurice B. Williams, a young man of
! Byersville Mo, dreamed that he died and
went to-that is-Was in the Internal re-
gions The scare thrown into him was so
great that his nerves were completely I'M
strung when he awoke and the next morn
/ ing he discovered that his raven locks
were .streaked with gray, His hair is now
whitening rapidly and Williams attributes
the change entirely to fright. He says
that he can still feel the shock given by
the terrible dream and that he never eX-
poets to forget it. 1t is evident that Mr..
Williams considers Hades very warm
place.
Walt Mason in; the Nebraska State
Journal tells sad story Of the efforts of
face of public opinion Ever since he was
a small boy the egossips have been pre-
dieting that he would go wrong, for it is
an accepted fact that the sons of preach
ers always go wrong, and If they don't do
| so voluntarily, there are always folks
ready to encourage them. The preachers
boy says that he is greatly handicapped
by the superstition. Every time he is seen
riding, a horse, there are people who as
sumo that he stole it; if he happens to
be carrying a sack, citizens hasten to lock
their henhouses. ASA matter of fact,
said the. boy, my. highest ambition is to
lead a clean, good, useful life; the example
NV father admirable
one, and I only hope that may always be
as good a man as he is; but / am afraid
that people will never give me credit for
good intentions, no matter how l. conduct
! myself - -,
father like that. AS the colored boy with
a chicken leg sticking out from under his
coat said: - - ~
, Dose s'pisions is unworthy. Treat boy
white if he am brack.
To the Nonpariel Mani .>
Dear Sir-Owing to the high price OF
l coal last winter I undertook an expert
:. rnent in fuel that turned out so Well that
am anxious to have 1t known generally
, .'for the benefit of the public as my old
: friend Pro Bono Publico so neatly
2 phrases it in his last letter to your invalu-
able paper The facts in brief are these
When coal became scarce last February.
obtained from a neighboring lot supply
of boulders from the size of mans fist
to that of his head. After starting good
2 fire with coal the boulders were shoveled
into the furnace, one part boulder to Two
Y parts coal The result was a fierce heal
i in which the sounds of cracking boulder
could be plainly heard. I feared at hrs1
i. that there might be clinkers but there
e were ncne In fact the boulders seemed
s to be entirely consumed. What was lef'
t was thrown out of the chimney by the tur-
e mace. My neighbor claimed that as ne
. was looking at the chimney he saw
: sudden Mont Pelee eruption. Stag, lava
: and ashes were thrown high tn the air
y Whether this is true or not there were
: l:certainly no ashes left to carry out
g Very truly yours. 80.
: u. Peleg Dyer.
To the Nonparie Man:
Dear Sir-Anent the controversy tha'
: has arisen over the burning OF ashe 81 :,
It 1.-The furnace permit me to say IN your
II I}yalra BILE column that last winter we KEEP
e a fire for days at a time by consuming
& nothing but. Indiana historical novels. z
: layer of historical novels three or lou
3 Inches deep was laid over the hre Wnici
: Eoften kept twenty-four hours pc
n tore going out for refreshments
Il in this way we not oniy KEEP
n warm but we were enabled 70 &c
], la place in the library to place few IN
II Iteresting books. Burning BOOKS is &py III
IT means new idea but 1t mas never peel
- MT Ia practical use before. Very trul.
d yours. henry .. Wossies. : =.
S Eopinion on these plans, owing to the higl
= nric,.s charged by the express company blu
3 they are given for what they are worth
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