The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-31
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THE NONPAREJL NAN
Great Rlbliographicai Excitement Over the
Auctloning OF Of Second Shakspers
Folio In MInneapoIis--A Daring Young
Book Napoleon Draes It Away, leaving
$4o5 in the Auction Room.
The shakspere "folio Of 1892" was sold
In Minneapolis at auction Tuesday night
More is known Of the folio OF 1929
"the first folio"-than OF the second. A
first folio easily brings from $4,000 to
$4,000, and they are rare at that Should
you be seized with sudden uncontrol-
able desire to dash out and buy first
folio, you would be much troubled to
obtain one. They are not kept in stock
here. The same will apply to the second
folio. A perfect copy is good for $1,000
or $4,000. A patched up copy is usually
catalogued at $500 to $1,000. The copy
sold by Mr.. Bown Tuesday night would
have been listed in London at $1,000 ap-
proximately. Some concession in price
might have been made had you appeared
at the store cash In hand.
first copy Of the second folio ever sold
in Minneapolis was brought to the block
A slight clapping Of hands greeted its APP
pearance. Among those present" were
Messrs. Jones, Young, Ourie, Brooks An.
derson, Pierce, Harder Perine, Mccarthy,
Northrop, Miss Mcmillan and many others.
After the auctioneer had made his little
spiel and demanded bids, we medestly all
lowed that 500 was a good starter for
the book and that we would be free to
excavate that sum for it. Mr.. Brooks
thought that he might find $125 If he
could secure the book and James Carle-
ton Young mentioned the sum Of 5000 with
which he professed himself as willing to
part in return for the folio. The bids
reached, which bid was made by James
Carleton Young. That nervy young biblio-
phile, Mr.. Brooks, allowed that he was
good for 1910. At this point Mr.. Young
seriously Jared the auction room and rat
tied the antiques on the shelves by ex-
plosively mentioning the sum Of $500!
There was a great pause. Finally Mr..
Brooks imperturbab1y and ina Napo-4
leonic manner allowed that he knew
where there was s405 that he could get
control Of to exchange for second folio.
That was the end.
Several other millionaires present said
that they had the money, but that they
preferred to put it into an automobile.
Tastes differ.
When the book was knocked down to
Mr.. Brooks there was more handclapping,
and many of those present expressed their
fluctuations to that nervy young specu-
lator.
The book went too cheap
They talk a good deal about Hearst's
barrel. but up this way, we haven't seen
even bunghole
Joe Trigg in the Rockford. Iowa Reg
| lister, calls on the son Of toll, wearing out
miserable existence among the stumps,
| rocks and gravel hills Of the east, battling
| with nature in her most unktndly moods,
J to come out where the rows of corn are
| half mile long, two ears on stalk;
where cows have twin calves and hens lay
| doub1e-yoll<ed egss; where the cyclone
| goes north Of us. the blizzard west Of u.s.
the drought south of us and the untimely
| frosts east Of US. He has been coming
out here for the last fifty years-and yet
4 there Is room.
i Florists are now playing mean trick
on plants whose growth and Towering is
fastened by chloroforming or etherizing.
il The plant-lily, lilac, azalea, etc.-is sub
il jected to the vapors Of chloroform or
u ether for forty-eight hours and then TAX
en- to- the dollhouse again, where the sap
at: once begins to rush thru its vessels,
} while it's buds expand rapidly. It blooms
i Welve days sooner than q plant that has
not had its dope. But after it has bloon1ed
} the plant shows every sign Of feeling like
a fried egg and of having a decided
''head." It carries its head in a sling and
shows signs Of desiring to take "the
cure"
Will Chamberlain. the South Dakota
prose poet, threw a little divine afYla tus
affair over the alleged approach of spring.
There is nothing" said Mr. Chamberlain,
"quite as deplora BILE in this world as
growing old in spirit. Take new heart in
{ the earthly resurrection Of the vernal sea-
son. In the great, mysterious, throbbtng
world you touch fingers with day by day,
find your keenest delights. Hail, thou
spring! balmy spring!' And the next day
there was nearly four inches of hail all
over South Dakota
Thomas Candle of Rocheport MO-, was
saved by two negro boys from death in
i quicksand on a. sandbar near his home
lately. Mr.. Candle says that while he
4 was on the island Of death, with all hopes
of rescue gone, a million thoughts were
battling in his mind. He thought Of his
brothers who would see him no more, of
a dear one left behind. and of the many
marks against him on the Great Book; he
thought of the prayer he had been taught
i when little boy, but for the life OF him
: he could not repeat it. . The bright heav-
ems seemed to darken and he saw Chi
4 cago'' millions Of feet below, while above
an angel with outstretched arms ap-
peared. and he heard the angel say, mot
: yet, Tom! You will be given one more
chance" Tom says this angel appeared
Il to him as plainly and as Enthusiastically as
1 It was possible for brother to approach
!. him.
J, Just then the two little colored boys,
). real boys and not angels, came along with
a board and Tom managed to get out. He
says he is going to be "be a better mig
J, GER from now on. Nothing makes a man
stop and wonder where 'he is at like
being held right over the pit and then
given one more chance.
"A. J. R.
, PEDAGoGuEs MUSTN'T DRINK
8 Virginia does not want her school ma s.