The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-20
THE NONPAREJL MAN

0A NUM- A061A MAIN III
Story Of Major Taylor's Three-Hour|
Struggle With the Wild and Lonesome
Burro Of the Desert-The Nelahbors Pc
tItIon to Have the Animals Voice Filed.
Major Taylor Of Litchville, N. D.;
boasts a burro with the disposition of a
buzz saw, the coat of a rusty goat and
the face of Jud La Moure in political
pain. To look at her for any length Of
time makes man pine for company Of
his own kind. Her voice, which Is lifted
now and then in vociferous lamentations
for the land Of her birth and for society,
jars crockery, curls up the weather board
ing on adjacent buildings and encourages
the sale Of stimulants.
The burro's speech and coat were such
that Major Taylor, after looking at her and
hearing her for some days, lost his APP
petite and decided to try the effects Of
clipping. Possibly the mulette was suffer-
ing from prickly heat. The Litchville Bull
letin had special man on the case and
describes the scene that ensued.
Major Taylor caught the beast and the
expert with the clippers started to clip.
The burro tossed Major Taylor into the
air and then Major Taylor tossed the ami
NAL, then the beast sat down on Major
Taylor and then Major Taylor sat down
on the beast. Both are small Of stature
and both strong Of muscle, and it was as
pretty a mixup as ever attracted a hilari-
Gus North Dakota audience. The more
the crowd laughed the madden Major Tay-
Tor got-likewise the bea,st-and for three
hours, until both were exhausted, the wild
west show ragged up and down the crowd
ed boulevard with more or less clipping
going on between acts. At the conclu-
~
to bed and the burro camped on the spot.
The animals appearance is considerably
changed. The clippers got a bite here
and there until she looks like a. ruffled
petticoat. No effect has been noticed on
her voice. But the neighbors are still
hoping for the worst.
Z The baccalaureate sermons this month
are said to have been quite pessimistic.
The trouble with us college presidents is
that we don't get out early enough in the
morning and rip few crops Of alfalfa
off the lawn.
of Hearst and Cleveland and get stony
stare from Princeton. e
Don't get too busy. It's summer.
Spectators are selling seats at the Chi
CdSO convention. sensible people WOULD
prefer q nice messy seat in the woods.
Charles O.. Harrison, convicted Of an
infamous crime in Detroit, confessed
that he had been feigning insanity"
Three entirely reputable and more or less
eminent physicians, after enjoying every
opportunity to observe and examine the
prisoner, testified unanimously to his un-
sound mental condition, stating elaborate
fly the considerations that had led them
| to this conclusion, and making a strong
showing of Larrison's probable moral ir-
responsibility. The jury found him guilty,
and then Harrison acknowledged his trick
i Query-If a man commits an infamous
crime, isn't he sane enough to go to jail
anyhow?
Speaking of "Evahn the Turrible,' that
doddering5 old degenerate whom Ralph
Wheelock, usually SO peaceful, evinces a
strong desire to see kicked, a Kansas
+ paper tells Of a. recent. melodrama thai
shot up the operahouse in lola recently
The critic says:
"It was of a deliciously terrorizing char.
acter. Pistol shots were Of momentarJ
occurrence. The little soubrette shot E
kite off a wire with her pistol, later cut.
ting the wire to prevent the sending o.
a telegram. She was stabbed twice, bu
her corset saved her and she revived II
time to save the fat boy, pulling him of
the railroad track right in front of the
i denver express which she also saved by
throwing a switch just in the nick O.
time
The mortality among umpires is dis
| tressingly small this year
Willie Kirk, the Norsk Nightingale o
the Milwaukee Sentinel, has had a bool
Of his "Fleeting F'ancies" published b.
the Gorham Press, Boston. Mr.. Kirk
rise in the ranks is of more than passing
i interest He Joined the Sentinel's stat
a wear ago, after his verses in the Chip
pewa Herald had attracted favorable at
|tention Before that time he had me
with considerable success as a free lance
having contributed fugitive lyrics to vari
; Gus newspapers and to eastern magazines
t When he started his Norsk Nightingal
: stunt Mr.. Kirk made his first really sat
hit. Take his 'Curfew Shall Not" etc:
But Miss Josephine ant qvitter, she ant losin
t any hope.
: No sir she op in bell tower yust SO fast SUI
she can run, Fs 49,
And she tax guide hold Of bell tongue and han
I OH like son of gun.
. Mr.. Kirk now has number of Nors
! lyrics that do not appear in this volume
t and we are looking forward to boo
!. devoted to these Midnight Sun gems alon'
/ They ought to stand by themselves.
h AS chaplain Of the Actors Church Al
. lance, Mr.. Morrill, will dig the first Whee
barrowload Of earth from the Unique thea
: ter site and the Journal Newsboys ban
. will exteriorize a few bars of music !
e honor of the event. With this whee
n barrow load Of earth Mr.. Morrill,. in role
;, skates and a plug hat, will loop the loo
d with a slight gap at the top, which
# will take on the fly. The event will k
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