The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15
Casually Observed.

Casually observed
Blanche-What was the matter with
young Mr.. DUDLEY in the conservatory
last night.
Mayme-Well, you've got me- For the
life Of me l couldn't tell whether he was
proposing marriage or telling a funny
story,
A Canadian cutter fired on an Ameri-
can fish poacher in Lake Erie. The fish
ing steamer brought back fair load OF
fish and a fine lot of assorted cannon shot
holes. The captain Of the poachers now
feels hurt and wants the United States
to go over and wipe Montreal off the map.
Fighting with Canada over dispute
would be a good deal like going over into
the next block and killing your neighbor's
children.
The American hen last year threw 1884,
000O worth of eggs all Of them fresh
until they were delayed somewhere by
man.
At Milwaukee Colonel W. J. Bryan, the
Spanish war veteran, paid $1,000 for "a
pair Of handsome chestnuts." The coun-
try is hoping he will not spring them in
the next campaign.
The Interstate Sheriffs' association at
Omaha declared that crime was on the in
crease We have sometimes thought so
when noting the interest of the boys Of the
neighborhood in our lone muskmelon vine.
Aberdeen, S. D., has TIT up-to-date
people living there. Aberdeen isn't more
than 10 feet away from the 10000 mark
and you couldn't stop her there with
club. The soil is too rich.
no
with the newspaper business in New York
he paid $780, for forty acres Of real
estate. On his death it went to his son,
who still feels a languid interest in the
Herald. The land to-day would easily
bring 50, 900, 900. All you have to do, then,
is to make shrewd investment, wait a
long time die, and perhaps your son will
be rich. Wouldn't that be great?
The Brea thitt county assassins were
given a life sentence pending pardons:
People hunting for homes are likely to
continue to pass by dear old Breathitt.
Panics may come and panics may go,
the Balkans states may get a hot box and
the Kentucky legislature may be wiped
out by internal agitation Of the lead
| poisoning order, but the news still comes
from Newport that elisha Dyer, Jr., led
the cotillon.'
Count Tolstoi, "the thirteenth disciple u
says he has always wanted to be a mar
tyr and die for his religion. The count
would have made higher score If, in
! stead of trying to die a triumphant death
he had tried to live triumphant life. The
count has always been agitated about
somebody's else shortcomings. Brethren
let us clean out our own back alley before
throwing rocks at the street commits.
| sioner.
The Methodist Preachers Aid Society
of Massachusetts has just been forcibly
and feloniously separated from $500, 1000
all it had-by secretary who thought HI
was worldly wise enough to know which
way Wall street was going to push stocks
He didn't know.
| A thirsty chemist Is said to have dis
covered a way to make a good whisky GU
of sorghum for cents a gallon. If thi
is the case the civiliz alton of Africa an,
China ought to be fastened by at least
century. 49,
At LIE Clair, Il1-,-lives a generous ma
named Nelson O., Nelson, or to be exac
Nelson Oles Nelson. The st. Louis Sta
calls him st. Nelson Of the Watermelon!
Mr.. Nelson heard about work being don
in st. Louis to give poor children day
outing In the country and he invited theT
to visit him and to take possession of hi
place and it's adjacent woods and swim