The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-26
THE NONPAREJL MAN !.
PhIianthropIcaI Movement to Provide vIo.s
lent colored Men with Safety Razors-
Death OF a Man Who Tried to Lap Up
All the Patent Medicines He Saw Adj
vertIsed In the Papers.

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Among the many forms of philanthropy
by which the world is ennobled to-day,
there is little society working in mod
est way in the east whose efforts are not
generally appreciated nor given recogni-
ton among those whom they are intended
to benefit. namely, the colored race.
It Is known as the Society for Providing.
Violent Colored Men with Safety Razors..
Bishop Galloway Of the M. r.. church
having favored the education Of negroes
Governor Vardanan of Mississippi says
that the bishop lis going about full Of hot
air and yellow legged chickens. panderjng
to the Massachusetts negro" that the best
thing he can do is to quit Mississippi and
go north. We feel that the bishop will stay
where he is.
Mrs. p. Willard, one Of the richest
women Of Rochester, N Y, went to New
York city to. order her dresses, which
We're afterwards expressed to her. In a
few days the dressmaker received check,
a letter of thanks, and, most surprising
Of all, a beautiful jewel as gift. Mrs.
Willard wrote: IT am so awfully pleased
with those gowns that I am sending a
trinket, to testify to my appreciation. ]
hope you will accept it, The trinket was
a topaz lavalliere incrusted with dia-
monds. The dressmaker promptly and
A1Snt pAOPCAly acliuICu. 81 ~
The Chicago automobile that ran over
Lincoln Steffens ought to be called THE
Shame Of the Cities
A writer in that fine magazine called
Success says:
II know young men, and young women
too, who dress very well and seem to take
considerable pride in their personal ap,
Yapp eoth
People as thoughtless as this ought tc
have a fine gold chain riveted to their teeth
and attached to their buttonholes. A man
who will neglect his teeth and leave them
under his pillow at the hotel or on the
bureau, might be put to blush in the pres
ence of the hotel steak.
The man who leaves a team Of horses
unhitched on the public. streets In these
days Of coughing chu- chus and reckless
drivers is the bosom friend Of the man
who sows the whole Pechili gulf with
floating mines in the hope of getting 8
warship or two.
Fifty million dollars is claimed by Eliz.
abeth 7. Greenbough, of New York
| widow Of the inventor, Benjamin P
/ Greenbough, in suit against STANDARD
| Oil people. Mrs. Greenbough's claim il
|
of process Of Oil refining which renders
kerosene nonexplosive. She claims roy.
| atty Of Qne-fourth of cent gallon on al
| oil SO treated by the Standard Oil com
| pany. In 1874, when Rogers and Prat
/ were young and poor in the oil business
| Greenbough invented this process, ant
sold 1t to them under a contract guaran
teeing him the royalty mentioned. With
In a few years Greenbough had received
more than s5O0,00o in royalties from tn
Standard Oil company, to whicl
Rogers and Pratt had transferred
/ the invention. Then Greenhouse
was lost at sea and his widow
| having no knowledge of the con
i tract, made no claim for royalties. TIL
1 Standard OIL company apparently forge
!. them. A short time ago Mrs. Greenboug
1 found among her husbands papers
copy of the contract, and the suit is tn
result. :
/ II this story is true, 1t is a case of tn
i most striking and valuable corporate for
getfulness that We recall. 4. - -
i Will Chamberlain has just told th
Vermillion, s. D.. paper about that bugg
ride you took with your best girl befor
you came down to the City. -
When he taps at the screen door,
writes Mr. Chamberlain, "Flossie is jus
| sweet girls are alWays-just out of sigh
But a company of Cossacks couldn't kee
her there-out of sight, She hears til
! taps-of course-she never heard a pei
of thunder more surely--butl she waits
till mama calls, Flossie! and then sh
slips gracefully FORTH and to the en-
; trance. Halo! is her word, and halo
J his. She pushes open the door and in
vites him In, but he guesses not thi
time, and then adds something half /
word and half in gesture, and Flossi
responds with All right. Can I &c
mama?' oh, guess so. but don't sta
i late, dear No, Il won't lis the reply
and soon there is another streak of dus
down the pike. Let the angels record a
that happens on that delightful ride i
the twilight, and the mystic glimmer {
the full moon. How fair are the youthfr
days of courtship and Of love. The red
Powered hat Is hung up within the to
Of the rig and the soft cheeks and tresse
nestle slyly against the boyish shoulde
and that strong arm and that partin
kiss!"
''Drat our bald pate as Mr.. Chamber
lain POLITICALLY remarks in another plac,
, If that doesn't make a hit with us as
pretty good description sof a pretty goo
thing! sssy "A. J.. r.
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