The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-02
THE NONPAREIL MAN
Casually Observed
Casually Observed
That sunburst of ribbon we sported Sat,
urday has been placed In cold storage.


That sunburst of ribbon we sported SAT-.
urday has been placed in cold storage. az
The Bellbrook, o., Moon shed a ref1ectl
ed light on Uncle Billy the other day that
made the old man long to spill editorial
blood. The Moon said:
Old Uncle Billy Simerson was giving parade
last Sunday. We are sure that he has hts eyes 4
On on. some widow, as he was dressed up In boiled
shirt and new suit.
There are some advantages Living In
q small town. Your friends have no trou-
Die In keeping run of you and that has
mething OF tendency to keep you out
Rev. w. B. Riley is vice president Of
the peace society.
The time has at length come,n said
Inc hammock rope, tragically, to the tree
as the fat man sat down in the ham
mock, when we must part"
After all it wasn't paresis that attacked
Mr.. SchWab. It was strain from trying
to carry such a large bundle.
At the end Of the first act Of "Ten
Nights in a Barroom,' when Actress Car
RE Nation comes before the curtain and
! sings Where Is My Wandering Boy"
there will be nervous breakdowns all
over the house.
The Heinze excitement in Montana is
! really a serious matter. 1t is no wonder
| that Miss MacLane's liver acted up In
the way she describes in her book, under
a state Of mind such as Montana induces.
northern sky and the whole top of this
world was overhung with a curtain Of
electricity. The telegraph wires and even
the cables were rendered useless and no.
/ body knew what was going on. Some
people think the sun spots are guilty,
other lay it to the fact that Mr.. Dowie is
sore" at us all because he hasn't done
1 well In New York; but the facts of the
case are, and you may ask the professor
at the university If this is not so, that
we don't know thing about it. With
all our boasted wisdom and scientific prog
ress we don't know a thing about humid
reds of phenomena that are going on
around us all the time, many Of them hid
den from the five senses just as cleo
tricity is usually hidden. Then there are
the A-rays and the radium phenomena
just coming within our ken. And the
strange mental disturbances like hysteria,
dreams, apparitions and the like are just
beginning to be studied intelligently. The
further we go, there Is shown to be less
and less excuse for the Who-Knows-
: 1t-An. Yet we find him on many street
corners, in the cafes and in our homes,
telling US exactly how it is and marveling
ut the ignorance and superstition of the
, world.
Would that the Man-who- Knows -It-AIl
: could be compelled to drive a mule, team
In the vicinity Of Kansas City for a few
e weeks. He would find that the world still
n offers many, many problems.
An awful human pianist called Camille
: Bauc1a has been playing the piano to a
: finish at Baltimore He started out on
- a Ua IN ho fbo fpet
: hours without rest. Beginning with the
: Star Spangled Banner which the pianist
u batted out in a muscular way at o'clock
u p. m, he took no rest until the next af-
ternoon when he paused for physician to
feel his pulse After this 2-minute break,
he started in to bat the box again. In a
g little while the muscles of his neck arose
} in punches of cords and large blisters
l. appeared on the tips Of his fingers, but II
IS they hurt him he gave no sign but played
S. right on.
It And there were people who dug up Csc
: apiece to go into the hall where this aw-
s full torture was going on. AS the fright
e full scene continued the grand piano finally
threw up both hands and went wrong.
/ Baucia had played 1t to a finish and an
) upright was substituted in It's place. And
d IBaucia played on.
If & Even the boarding house instrument
vt never stood f1fty-hour stunt like this
: How wonderfully beautiful it is to think
: Of this great italian genius knocking the
l. box for fifty consecutive hours! The mind
al pauses In contemplation of this great art
ty istic triumph.
lie
f. George B. Moses claims that he wen,
lie home rather late Saturday night ant
re sitting down by the hearth to pull of
he his shoes so not to wake the people
n when he went up stairs he fell for mo
We ment into a doze. 1t was quite late, il
it fact And he dreamed that the four WALL
sh Of the library whirled around dozen o
in so times and that all the people in the pic
re lures stepped out Of their frames AM
e. gathered in groups about the room. Mr.
en- Moses was startled to notice Shaksper
e. sitting opposite him, while Hawthorne
an Whittier and Longfellow shook hand
heartily over by the bookcase. Mr.. Poe
m late of Baltimore edged into corner an
Sc was gloomily regarding Longfellow.
I'D ''Mr. Shakspere, I believe said MI
nd Moses, tentatively extending his hand t
&c the great dramatist, IT am most happy t
ue welcome you to my modest library"
AS tAye. marry, an it is, replied the grea
es poet, 'stho methinlQs there is something
e. behind that passeth the outward show Il
sh this most extraordinary visit Strange
sir, canst tell me where now sit.''
"You are in my library in Minneapoli
in Minnesota" replied Mr.. Moses court
eous1y "And you are most cordially wei
ha come"
al 'Tn Min -min- ne-ap olis," exclaimed tn
T startled poet. Then with smile, 81 troV
\. it must be situate upon the seacoast {
e+ Bohemia
10 Here Mr.. Poe broke In:
-, 'Shakspere! AS I live. Shakspere."
&c At his exclamation of astonishmer
rs Whittier. I,ongfellow and Hawthorn
w. crowded around the great poet and NJ
II, Moses said he would freely have given s.
a. for a shorthand description Of the CONVEX
a. sation, which he describes as most inter
Ia esting when his wife came down the stail
in Indignation turned the poets out int
the street and said in icy tones:
''Mr. Moses, are you going to retire?"
The startled football enthusiast brol
from his doze and allowed that he wa
d AS he turned to put out the gas he gay
IN a furtive glance at the pictures. TT
ION poets were all comfortably back in the
I've frames. The next morning Mr.. Nose
am complained Of headache, due to literar
I,ie excitement. A. j. r.
I'VE "WILLIE X" BACK IN NEW YORK
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