The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

air as he did few months ago. Yet we
sometimes are tempted to think there is
an overplus of it there.
The new book, Who's Who in Amer
ica.'' is out We do not know who's who,
but we know who's 'Hoo-Hoo." Any
lumberman could tell you that.
Halloween is about DUE The next
morning we look to see James L. john
sons woodshed reposing on top Of the
Methodist church. Funny? Well, that de-
ponds on whether you are 13 years old
or 81.
If this weather would last about three
months the coal mans trip to the Holy
Land next summer would be considerably
abbreviated.
Germany's new electric cars moved 1870
miles an hour the other day. about the :
speed made by the barefooted colored man
off Of the red-hot horse shoe he
stepped on.
A pensioner of the war of 1872 is still
| living. He hasn't worried any since that
war closed.
| Russia and Japan seem to be on the
| point Of coming to an understanding, but
| it wouldn't be safe for anybody to come
along and slap the milskydoo good
naturally on his vaccination scab. 2
You'd think the turkey would learn wis
dom from experience, but no. Here he
is again. with Thanksgiving coming on.
| just loading himself to the wattles with
corn and frosted grasshoppers.
Crames-I don't see what that young
Richie wants with an automobile while he
| is in college.
James-They say he's had to have
tooter to push him thru.
| Brother Buckley Of the Methodist per-
suasion says that Brother Dowie Is suf-
fering from religious megalomania. Trans
lated into United States, this means the
religious bighead." This may be Brother
Dowie's inarmity. but it has one advan-
tage, that of raising 100000 without
/ recourse to the church oyster stew.
| A citizen of Carbonate, Kan, has just
l bought a 5o-cent gold brick for $4,000
1 He was wealthy and he thought he was
doing" the other party by getting 1t at
I a discount The newspaper may not be
i a liberal education, but it often carries
valuable information. 90
The report OF Fourth Assistant Ferret
Bristow of the postoffice department
would fill just eightyfive solid pages Of
this paper. If it carried pictures of the
capers cut by the fifteen or twenty Off
Gals who found themselves suddenly sit
ting on red-hot coins. it might attract
human interest enough to be read
DR.. Dowie says his son never kissed a
girl outside of the family. After that II
we were Gladstone we would go out and
kiss somebody if We were fined for 1t.
The New York Press claims it was the
; devil that put up the job that made Eve
want clothes. But it must have taken
1 seven devils to make her want the kind
!. the fashion magazines call for.
$ Mrs Ellen White, the Seventh Day Ad-
vent prophecies, has been seeing things
: that bear so heavily against DR.. John H
L Kellogg of the Battle Creek sanatoriun
that her visions are likely to split the
church into two factions. the prophetic
faction and the medical faction. W.
brethren Of nearly all folds seem to be
Y having much trouble in living together II
h unity. -
: Some Of the physicists are throwing xou
d the guess that perhaps radium contain:
S the secret of prOlonging life. If every.
:. thing was all right, there are lots Of PEG
!, pie who would like to be hale and heart,
It at ESQ years of age. Radium perhaps
It may help out this laudable desire. TIL,
IS November McCIure's Magazine contain:
n the story Of experiments which began las
d February at the Pasteur institute. Larvae
IS that live in flour were placed in a glas:
It flask, where they were exposed to ray!
e of radium. A like number of larvae wer;
e placed in a flask where there was M
n radium, and enough flour was left in eaci
W several weeks it was found that most 0
If the larvae in the radium flask had beef
killed, but that few Of them had es
b. capped the destructive action of the ray
by crawling away to distant corners o
the flask, where they were still living
70 But they were living as larvae. not a
moths, whereas in the natural cours
"a they should have become moths, lon
~ before, as was seen by the other flask
- where the larvae had ali changed int
~ moths, and these had Matched their egg
into other larvae and these had produce
- other moths All Of which made it clea
~ that the radium rays had arrested the de
- velopment of these little worms.
~ More weeks passed and still three Q
i four of the. larvae lived. Four flu
- months after the original exposure
~ larva was found alive and wriggin
~ -. while its contemporary larvae in the othe
~ jar had long since passed away as age
-, moths, leaving generations OF moth:
o. eggs and larvae to witness this miracle
-. -. for here was larva venerable among 1t
~ kind, a patriarch that had actually live
ie thru three times the span of life accorde
to his fellows and that still showed no sig
=, of changing into moth. It was yer
~ much as if a young man of Il should kee
the appearance of 81 for $50 years.
:. Methuselah must have carried a hun
III of radium in his trousers pocket and haV
~; bitten off a piece at intervals in his bus
al life. T.
lg =
"foot social is raging in Kansa
n The ladies' of the town put their tribe
out from hole in "a curtain and yo
OF guess at the owner. The highest score
$. fortunate guesses- wins some kind Of
OF prize and the ecclesiastical editice ge
OF new carpet because 1t costs you
u much for the pleasure of each CUES
When we read this unseem1y story, "
OF blushed so violently that it threw a re
ay reflection on the brick front of the re
ell and yellow shop on the other side
on Fourth street. We should prefer to ha,
our. church go without a carpet.
re. A Chicago professor says that he ca
n produce life and that all he needs to
no it with now is an "ion." We do n
e know just what an ion is but we hay
seen life produced by means of a tao
q While our cousin was in college toyir
ne with higher education, he ran up again
e. a professor in Greek who was full
u roots and who was generally believed J.
re the boys to be so nearly dead that one
those young gentlemen placed thum
tack in his chair. hot end up.
If that tack didn't produce life in tn:
+ professor. my cousin says he will eat h
the lexicon. The professor rose right up an
TO tbe hnys all had to over Sena IA tely ar