The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
THE NONpAREJL MAN

THE NONpAREJL MAN
A Celebrated Nebraska Cow Authority
Reports That the Kansas State Agricul-
tural School AntI-Fiy Mixture Is Sod
den and Dismal FaIiure-Essay on the
DerornIng, DemII<lng and Defying OF
Cows and Other Farm Critters.
Just as we were about to order that
anti-1y mixture to apply to our COW, the
Nebraska State Journal came In and we
found that we have made sad mistake
Dr.. Bixby is authority on the COW, hav-
ing for the last eighteen years owned
faithful spotted COW named Speck Or.
Bixby has tried the Kansas state agri-
cultural schools anti-fiy, and he intimates
that 1t isn't worth hardly anything. The
doctor says:
Some years ago this or a similar prep
aration was introduced in Lincoln, and we
were persuaded to make essay thereof.
Our beautiful spotted COW, called Speck,
used to come home at night in such a
state of nervous unrest from the presence
of troublesome insects that it required
the vigilant efforts of two or three to keep
the flies at distance while the head of
the house attended to the milking. And
brute to wrap her caudal appendage once
or twice about the neck Of the treasurer
of the humane society This is Doc.-Ed.]
while he felt an impulse to resign just
long enough to even the score with
scantlng. The new fish-oil fly -disturber
came into the market and we stocked up
heavily. The first evening liberal
amount was applied with an atomizer and
it seemed to worry the flies some, but it
didn't break them Of 1t by a good deal;
nor did they go away and stay three
days. They were doing business at the
old stand the next morning, and the COM
bination odor of fish, creosote, kerosene
and tar seemed to make the cow as sick
as it did the insects. Give the cow a
good blanket and proper nourishment and
| the fly problem will solve itself
| Whatever the doc says on cows goes
with us, for he has made study Of the
gentle creature and knows everything
| about her from dehorning to demilking;
and if he says that defying is a failure
that settles it. AS in the past, our man"
will continue to stand over the cow with
a fan and wave the flies away while he
reads the Rubaiyat to her to sooth her
and to increase the flow of tactical fluid.
We, are always glad to learn.
Mosquitoes have driven the people of
Bivalve, Md, nearly frantic. Horses,
crazed by the bites. frequently run away,
and residents are leaving the village to
escape the pests. Cattle suffer terribly,
and are driven far out in the salt water
to escape them. The oldest inhabitants
say they never saw anything like 1t at
| Bivalve before.
Old inhabitants in Minnesota report that
! mosquitoes are much rarer than they
| have ever known them to be. 1t has been
a wet season, too, but something has evil
l ont tod 1o,. two
to maturity in large numbers. Is it pos
sible that there is rust on the mos
quitoes?
A writer in Booklovers Magazine says
that he has sampled the national Jap.
anese dish of raw fish and wasabi ant
that it is all right The wasabi is E
horseradish, and the raw fish is the nam
asu. 1t may taste better than it sounds
| You know it took us some time to ca
frogs extremities or chop suey with an,
enthusiasm, but then, they are cooked
and so bit disguised. Still, If you ar
going to have a cosmopolitan palate. /
becomes necessary at least to sample ray
namasu and Wasabi. Bring it on!
No fall of Port Arthur is genuine un
less it has "Tokio" blown in the bottle
. These Chifu and Shanghai falls, G
which we have been getting so many
are not even stumbles. Aut Toxic au
nit, is our motto
Lowell Otus Reese, the special writer 50
the San Francisco Bulletin, went to tn
, police court the other day for inspira
ton, and there saw a gentleman in tn
, grip of the alcoholic tremens. The sigh
was entirely enough for Mr.. Reese. Sine
then he has entirely abandoned the use {
alcohol in the arts. He says:
One pipe at the face of that horror-frozen ge
was enough for me. pass Me to the ic
water bucket for the few years left to Won
exceedingly. And that's no preach. either. It
the simple talk of chap that fatters himse
he knows what's good for his system when
sees 1t.
One good look at a d. t. patient ougf
to be enough for anybody, but a ma
: usually thinks that he can have the tire
5 mems or he can let it alone. This
his error.
Uncle Elery Marsh came in yesterda.
watched the boys have heart failure
the wheat pit for time, and made al
s engagements for selling his wheat, an,
In fact, did sell it. When wheat gets mi
: the upper nineties Uncle Ellery alway
: makes 1t a practice to let the boys hay
s his crop to play with. To man VIII
has sold his wheat in the ffties and sis
|
or 81 looks good enough, even if the pric
: goes to $1.25 later on. Uncle said yes
: terday:
$ Them wheat hyenys down there a,
z holler1ng good and plenty, an like
E hear 'em. Us grangers as a rule don
+ care how high she goes, provided we XII
: git around soc for the real stuff on tt
: farm. Yes. I sold my crop, an I don
t care if she does go on up. Uncle hs
enough to pay the hired hands an TAX
a little run down to Chcawgo an the S
g Looey fair this fall without feelin
. much.
i Rust? Huh! wal, there was a lit
: rust in the low spots an it looked kinde
: bad In places. but I'll get enough offe
o my eighty to pay me for the trouble. T.
e be thrashin' next week If the wealth,
n holds. Say, those boys are awful excite
d down there. eh? Let 'em holler! 5,
c they don't get your uncle into their gam
n Three or four years ago, wasn't it, whe.
h was stronger than bull moose? 81
was up to 92c when uncle caught fire al
jumped in an bought wind When the
fellers saw Uncle Ellery buyin' tn,
turned round an slapped the price dow
cents. Uncle lost his wad But new
again! Once was enough! Wal. SO Ion