The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-24
Casually Observed.
Good evening, have you mysteriously
disappeared yet?

Casually Observed
Good evening, have you mysteriously
disappeared yet?
Speaking of walloping Turkey, the Bull
garians should remember the time when
Greece regretted to report"
Editor Hunt of the Gully Sunbeam went
against the cucumber's game and the long
green got in a warm one on the editorial
solar plezzus, the devil meantime getting
out the paper.
The Oracle Mower won by seven Sec
onds and half bowsprit, shiver our tim
bers
John W. Gates stomach is running John
D. Rockefeller's dyspepsia close second
on Wall street, i1ileSCharles w. Schwab's
paresis is off ten points.
Something rich, rare and racy is grow
ing up for the Waconia Patriot subscrib-
ers. The Patriot says:
AS soon as harvest is over Fred Stahlke, the
West Corner philosopher, will write poetry and
things for this paper. Our many subscribers in
that section will be glad to learn that he will
| shortly resume his literary pursuits Fred has d
| fine nose for news and possesses keen sense OF
humor besides being an acknowledged poet. He Is
in short philosopico-poetico funnygraphist.
The present editor of the Patriot isn't
so slow when it comes to getting out a
paper so interesting and chock full of
| happy days. that the people will read it.
even if they have to pay for it.
There has been substantial drop in
the price of radium. Worth $5,00o,000 a
pound in 1898, 1t Is now selling for the
mere pittance Of $2,721, $500 a pound. A
| Buffalo man., Stephen T. Lockwood, ex-
poets to engage in the manufacture, or
extraction, Of this interesting substance.
and hopes to lower the price still further.
His hopes are based on the possession OF
certain deposits Of carnotite in Utah, from
| which he has been able to extract ra-
dunn, and which he believes can be in
duced to give it's radium up somewhat
easier than the pitchblende from which
| the radium so far has been extracted
| Any one who runs across little bunch OF
radium in his mine would do well to lay
it carefully aside. 1t seems to be rather
valuable.
Uncle Jim in his Appleton Press was
feeling especially ''cantankerous' las
week. He says: .--.
The Minnesota farmer has to work for ever!
necessity and luxury except one, and that natur'
gives him without money and without price
and the law tries to take it away from him
the prairie chicken. The farmer raises a crop
the chickens eat perhaps 10 per cent OF 1t
the cadaverous city bunch Craze their horses Of
the rest, and what is left to sell Is sold at
price fixed by the wheat thieves, not by the de
mand ~
If this is the case, the Jones estima tt
of 147, 900 bushels is certainly tot
high. .....
| A son of the orient with a flow of Ian
guage like mighty torrent succeeded IL
getting S10O out of a Little Falls crow
for some kind Of medicine that he though
, was good for almost anything. Brainer'
has also contributed generously to hi
, bank account. Isn't 1t wonder how PEG
l pie will take almost anything that is pu
/ up in bottle and guaranteed to d
/ something Or your money refunded? !
very small hall would hold national con
3 vention of all the people who ever did &c
their money back.
There are two stories abroad as to wha
: happened at Bemidji the other day. TIL
Benson Times says: - - .@ ~ 3:
! The other day at little place near Bem1d
a 1umberjack set fire to his celluloid cola
: while trying to light cigar patent lighte
q Water scarce article nj that saloon and tt
f bartender dragged the yelling Jack behind tt
p bar and turned on him full stream of bee
!, The lumberman got much inside wei
q outside and pronounced 1t frst-class fire extil
e guisher.
But the Morris Sun says it was