The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-21

young COW is calf, young horse is
half. Why not?
The Salvation Army that faced sudden
death in Breathitt county Is said to be
meeting with success. Murder is not an
agreeable occupation to anyone. The
trouble in Kentucky is that granddaughter
has become habit and like other habits
is hard to break.
Steel stock is down to II or 49, It
looks like valuable property to some of
those brilliant geniuses who take the
bucket shop for savings bank
Making a dash for the pole" is all
well enough in print. In fact it is some
thing like making dash from Omaha to
Buffalo There are no parlor cars on the
line, either.
One of the latest songs is called IT Can
Hear the Angels Calling" It is written
by Philip H. Lewis, travelling salesman for
an undertakers' supply house.
Tarrytown. near New York, has an
evangelist whose zeal is not tempered
with mercy. For some time he confined
his preaching to a tent and on street
corners. But Of late he has made it a
practice to take position about mid
night on the veranda Of a handsome home
and preach to the sleeping family. A
watch for this energetic worker in the
vineyard will be kept, and the authorities
hope to catch him In the act. Several
prominent citizens have been seriously
startled by these sudden midnight warn
ings.
This being jolly good fellow thru too
long a series Of dinners has its serious
side when the skilful physician begins to
hint that perhaps Sir Thomas has rail-
road spike caught in his appendix. a
A Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch says that the
officers and teachers of the Euclid Ave-
nue. Baptist church were the guests of
John D. Rockefeller one day last week at
the money kings home, Forest Hill. The
oil magnate was very affable and anxious
ly hospitable till he has set everybody at
ease. They had a nice little dinner,
nothing elaborate, at which Mr. Rookie
teller took soup only. "a pleasant time
his friends that they must not believe all
they read about him. It is pretty hard to
believe 1t all.
Professor Davenport of the Chicago uni
versity spent the summer at Lake Osakis,
Mimi, and became deeply interested in
the local legends describing fierce battles
IOuSII UelWeeIl Tie olOuh anu the Cnlppe-
wa Indians in the vicinity of the lake.
Battle Point, an arm of sandy soil extend
ing into the water, was pointed out by the
natives as the scene of the great
carnage. They understood that thousands
of unfortunate red men had been butchered
there or had been driven into the lake and
drowned, and that the ridges on the shore
were the graves of a part Of the host that
had been slain in this encounter. Profess
a yyap nrf rnr o1nr i,oO fhof
Harper had taken out permit from the
sultan to excavate the tomb Of Abraham
secured a shovel and dug a hole about a
million feet deep without getting a bone
Think Of the glorious exercise the pro-
lessor obtained.
The Morton Enterprise editor felt hurt
at a man who wanted notice of his fami-
ly in the society column, but who
didn't take the paper, but did take the
Chicago Trumpet, because he got more
news for his money" The Enterprise
,"gets back at the scoundrel with the fol:
lowing bit of condensed philosophy:
If this man was going to get married agai1
he would probably pick out a woman tina
could get at the regular price. Excellence II
what aim at, not bulk, and when our frient
is struck by lightning he will find that his man.
qualities will appear in this paper instead O
in his 50-cent one.
| A man may take a city paper withou
| offense, but if at the same time he re
fuses to stand by his home paper, wher
the editor is working for the good O
humanity and living on saw dust, he il
worse than a scoundrel and does no
| merit a death notice. If he doesn't notic
the paper, why should the paper notic
him. We pause for a reply.
! friend in Vermont sends the follow
ing excerpts from a paper in that stat,
| showing that they are much more so Their,
than we ever thought Of being out here
| The name of the paper is suppressed bu
the items are bona fide:
Many Measles Are Sick.
| Measles are raging in town. many being Ill.
Mrs. Dearborn's Manicuring.
Mrs. Rosa Dearborn recently picked fshbon
out of her thumb a..
Humorous Old Hop.
The late William a. Hopkins was a good ditch
err, a good churchman, and, tho an Englishman
not devoid Of humor.
| Mr.. Simonds and His Secret Ways.
After trip of secret itinerary, Mr. and Mrs
Simonds VIII make their home in Belmont.
Lame Hen in Town.
Bert Hennon is in town; he walks a little
lame.
Doc Brown Setting EN- Up.
Doctor Brown is treating his house to Goa
of paint.
Emil Seeing Things.
Emil Affebaum saw fine buck deer JUS