The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-13

prIsing Recovery.
The Kimball. S. D.. Graphic is at hand.
it has gone it one better And this is
the way it was done A very neat job,
too. We say it enviousy.
Last week DR.. Stewart of Kimball
started for Iowa to be gone two weeks
While passing from one car to another
blowing a -mile-an-hour gale from the
south. his hat went off and was al
most out Of sight like wee black speck,
sailing toward the northern horizon. The
doctor is very much of ladies' man
but he continued his trip bareheaded in
q smoker. with the consolation that he
would have time to run up town in Nit
chell and get fresh lid. When the train
reached Mitchell he tied a handkerchief
over his head and left the train.
AS luck would have it he got off on the
wrong side, Oh which stood the train from
Aberdeen, Just in, with passengers alight-
ing. From one coach descended man,
carrying an extra hat in his hand, and the
thought flashed into the doctors mind to
borrow it while he ran up town. He put
his thought into request at once-and
you can imagine his complete surprise
when he discovered that the traveller had
the Doctors own headgear.
Explanations quickly followed and it
was soon learned. unreasonable as it may
appear, that the hat was found at Woon-
socket, just as the stranger was boarding
| the train. and it being a likely looking lid
he took 1t along, not knowing what else
to do with it..
The hat had traversed the twenty-five
miles across the prairie on the wings OF
the wind In the incredibly short space OF
thirty minutes.
| You may think that this is all. But no
Truman Pattee, a farmer living about two
and a half miles south of Kimball, got
up one morning during a gale of wind that
had tried to pry the roof off all night long
When he lighted his kitchen fire, the
whole house was filled with smoke. Mr.
Pattee Immediately became as talkative
as a smoked ham and the words he sale
would look wrong In print The others
Of the family were more calm and sci
out to investigate the trouble. This
resulted In the discovery of wash boiler
fitting snugly over the chimney top as
if pounded there with a maui. Then Tru.
man was SO mad he hitched up team
and drove into Kimban to tell about it,
! While breathing out threatenings ant
slaughter in front of the Ochsner store
to a group of interested listeners, Mis-!
Currens, who was in the store making
some purchases, heard snatches Of thu
conversation and made inquiries. She wa
told of the affair.
i why" she exclaimed, wouldn't it b,
funny if that was my wash boiler? lef
it standing outside last night and thi
morning it was gone and I can't find
trace Of It anywhere in the neighborhood.
'Ill bring in that boiler, madame,
spoke up Truman promptly, '.and if it,
yours I'll take back every word I've said
You're too much of a lady to play a tric1
on a man like that-but the wind isn't"
True to his word he brought the boile
in that afternoon-and it belonged t
Miss Currens. She lived at the time il
one of the little cottages just. south Q
John Byrnes' house. You can go owe
there any time and see where the boile
stood on the back steps.
Coming by Mr.. Jones' Hennepin avenu
farm the other morning we almost dodget
for there, sailing among the tree tops an
, flying easily, was what at first sight ap
peared to be a small cow. On caref,
investigation it turned out to be a duel
/ 1t was a great big boy, as large as
small doghouse, and on it's bill and bro,
sat an expression of Roycroftish joy
it's work of flying that was worth goin
!, miles to see. Pretty soon the duck cam
to earth again with a thump, wagged il
stub tail rapidly for a few times an
. went about it's work of hunting grut
and worms. When we get our farm "
; are going to have a few aerial ducks
since cows don't fly. 49,
| Transparent umbrellas are a late nov
( city in London. The substance of whic
!, they are made has the color of ivory, an
: its constitution is a secret Of the invento
If we could only get composition thu
3 would turn blue and ring bell in TT
presence of the scoundrel who has sighte
t our umbrella and is planning to lift
8 it might be of considerable practical valu
If a man desires to learn how to b,
e up the con talk over an old bureau {
i bedstead and how to knock it down
4 the highest bidder he should attend tt
school for auctioneering Colonel Care
, M. Jones Of Davenport, a well-known liy
. stock auctioneer, in association with
n number of other prominent auctioneer
y will open in July in Davenport, low
d The aim of the school will be to develc
: auctioneers capable of rolling off talk I
f the yard. There will be courses in or,
Y tory, grammar and other branches, ar
o a man will be taught how to jolly up I'll
o crowd and how to extract it's last doll;
r for something that it does not really wal
?. but which it considers is going cheap.
g Colonel Younghusband is still safe
IL Tibet, but we feel sure that Mrs. Youn,
. wife is carefully keeping up his life ii
= surance. a.
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