The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-04
casu ally Observed.

Mr.. Keene says that he lost only
s1,5OO,O00 in the recent Wall street fail
ure. Is that all? We feared at first it
was something serious.
Wanted-A good, villainous looking
scoundrel to steal our diamonds. We are
thinking of getting out a book this fall
and need the advertising badly.
If things are pretty nearly all right
you can make them all wrong by grum-
bling.
When the dust gets to sitting back and
forth on the asphalt pavements the
storekeeper whose goods suffer from grit
is sorely tempted to buy package Of
cigarettes and commit Charliecide.
Thomas Perry, father Of Horace Greeley
Perry, whose trip to Mexico resulted in
several hundred young Mexicans suffer-
ing from heart f1utterings, is a journalist
and compiler of the Kasota department
in the St. Peter Herald and takes great
pride in his department. as every SEN
sible newspaper man does. In his leisure
hours Mr.. Perry files fiddle as the
following item in his correspondence all
too plainly shows:
wedding anniversary is being talked up on
going to send violin an invitation with the
understanding that the violin will take the owner
along to play 1t. The old crenona, worth its
weight in gold, has consented.
! Mr.. Perry also records the wild strug-
gle Of the masses to have piano in the
house in the following item:
| Popularity in Kasota village is measured
| by the quality Of music one keeps in the house.
| If you give room in your domicl to violin, man
dolin, jewsharp o: harmonica you back
number and belong to the common herd. But If
you have piano or organ you are entitled to a
| cushioned chair in the upper tier. The struggle
for pianos and organs goes on increasingly, and
| we look for the day when the best pilot will not
| be able to pass thru this town without stumbling
over Knabe grand piano or Cottage organ.
The inevitable baby item Mr.. Perry
! touches up in the following neat and tasty
manner:
| Standing on Ostrander's southwest business
| corner, with lively breeze coming from the
north, curious sound struck Investi-
| CATION proved 1T to be song from babyland and
traceable to the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. A.
| Peterson. Before reaching the house lady,
wearing smile Of gladness, appeared on the
steps and said: Its a boy; put it in the
4 paper" a- -...
:. A new paper in LIE Sueur county is the
Cleveland Pioneer, Vol. l., No. i, Of which
some one has sent in. That the editor
has bitten off q tremendous chunk is
shown by his Introductory editorial:
! In sending this our first venture upon the
waters of public opinion, we here deem it prop
i err to say just few words In the way of in.
PRODUCTION. At this critical moment the eyes
Of the people are upon us: they watching
every move, and are listening with strained
ears to catch every word that may fall from
the lips Of your editor. But we are here to work
which is the great and common cause of every
citizen Of the U. S. We are here to-day to fill
the long-felt want of newspaper in your town
which has been absent from among you for nearly
forty years, and we come with fond hopes thai
we may be able to supply the demand for news
that the people are to-day asking for, which VIZ
have pledged ourselves to do.
And further, we are going to do what we cal
to broaden the intellectual qualities Of every man
woman and child in the soroundng country ant
make them familiar with the affairs O.
their town, country state, and further NOR
we will always be a sole protector Of the peopl
against frauds, slandering tongues or fictitious
II organizations, whose intent is to fraud tn