The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-07
THE NONPAREL MAN
cas,,aIIv Observed

Casually Observed.
Annexing Panama is a good deal like
taking on q volcano, 180 acres of swamp,
a billion mosquitoes bunch OF trouble
and a revolution.
It's not such a bad idea to insult some
poor but worthy family with turkey.
Six or eight million farm physicians,
holding a consultation on the turkeys
case, have decided on an Operation"
|, II your boy cherishes the idea that the
skating is ripe, you should persuade him
otherwise If you want to keep him with
you.
It is sad sight to see excited Colombian
generals getting their swords between
their legs and running the morale Of the
army corps by taking headers over these
instruments of parade and death.
The Standard OH company has advanced
oil seven times within a few weeks. Bet
ter call off Miss Tarbell.
Just as the office force gets comfortably
to work the janitor comes around to wash
the windows on both sides. letting in
about a barrel full of klondikitis per sec
ond.
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When the New York Pie trust got firm
grip it raised prices. The result was els
astrous. Not a retailer would buy and
the trust went to pieces. A man can exist.
on a low scale perhaps, without pie, but
he must have fuel. That's why pie
trust will founder where a coal trust
makes millions Yet there is a way OF
busting even the coal monopoly.
H. B. Marriott-Watson, an English nov
Ielist says that the American woman Is
destroyer of civilized society. The de-
struction, must have been going on. then
during that terrible yelling that we heard
on the sidewalk.
Speaking of the latest Balkan affair the
sultan is said to have asked inadvertently
WHATS the score.
A girl hold-up artist is getting the
money of defenseless men on the North
Side of Chicago. If this reminds you OF
wifie's little game we advise you not to
mention it at home. A difference IN taste
in jokes is a strain on the affections.
The graft turmoil has brought to the
surface in Chicago; a politician known as
Mushmouth Johnson.
The Massachusetts, supreme court de-
MES a mans right to get drunk IN MS
own house. There is one authority higher
even than the supreme court who also
denies this right, your wife.
The Morton Eenterprise Grower man
says that he suspended payment nearly
two months ago for good and sufticlent
reasons. Creditors have been harsh put
have been harshly talked to in return.
But now something has happened. All IL
changed. The Grower says:
The first day of this week Charles Haney OF
Bechyn called and paid for his paper until
Feb l., 1908. and he intimated that all the
farmers were going to do the same On the
strength of that, we have thrown out TINS en-"
engagement to our creditors and contracted for
four bushels Of turnfps
B. F. Woodcox of Millersburg, Ind,
whose beyond the Sterelight and Other
Poems. created something of a literary.
sensation. is out with a new booklet,
which calls for % cents if you wish TO
buy it, entitled 1.-The Romantic. Part of
Ny Life Mr.. Woodcox has had various
..affaires'' of the heart with the muse
and with other ladies Of Indiana, and
these he has embalmed in deafness verse.
Volumes of description would not do for
Mr.. Woodeox' poetry what a few lines OF
quotation can accomplish. He says:
e She few across my world: -5Ls5as .n6Ir