The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-16
With the Long Boap.

II OKIO reports that Of Japanese Port
Arthur is due to the working Of the sinking fund.
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Somebody showed up and swept Central the
other day to the great surprise Of the merchants
Colonel Greene finally decided not to go cunning for
Lawson The Boston said to be terrible quick the
recoi. 1871 eEi.
Dr. Harper has been observing Mrs Chadwicks opera
tons but not with respectful sympathy " r."
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The Hardeman (Tenn.) Free Press invites Cy Lyle to
come down from the mountain The Free Press says:
We have agreed to pay him the $40
owe him, if he will bring Jug along when he
comes down here to collect his bet This amt
hardship Cy, for he the biggest
moonshine still in east Tennessee. Come and
us, Cyrus.
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Angela Morgan in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
has out for the gold standard She sings:
'Oh universe Of gold-Wheren I love =
my love and he loves me!' ~.r
How would Angela account for it that the same thing
happens in Mexico-and down there they use silver:
M-A
Delvng into the theological shelf in old bookstore
yesterday hunter discovered 'The End of All Contro
versy' This book written apparently by theological
gentleman who thought he had his opponents all laid the
shelf their theological hash comfortably settled for all
time He mistaken. Running along the shelf little
farther the bookhunter picked to the first
brothers. book It called "An End of All Controversy
believe who had happened 'The End Of All Contro
versy'' and had started at once to controvert it.
And there they today together and will remain for
nobody would think Of buying them at cent apiece. They
aren't worth it.
The other day speculator entered old bookstore
offered the proprietor $40 for thousand books small
bronze apece The old book took him up at
The pick the books out himself and box
them. You ought to have them! Lumber! And
than lumber! For wood will burn and out genial heat
but old books shoulder and clog up the repo There
in the bunch old schoobook long since outved dead and
down theological timber, odd volumes of Hannah Mores
works and 'The Diary Of Amos lawrence" Just what
Amos recorded in his diary do not know but old book
is complete without several tones of Mr. Lawrences
great work. The who offered $40 for the thousand books
badly "stuc." But he may take them elsewhere and
work them off specuatvely inclined bookseller,
"sight unseen,' for $12 $l5 And so it goes
Yet, in a great whe hunter may, out Of this
and useless rubbish Of the past pick out $50 book for
30 did and from the disease caught at that
blessed moment have recovered It beats being
pointed private secretary to somebody.
Speaking Of private secretaryshps old friend Ralph
W. Wheelock has landed again. After steering Ray w.
Jones thru the dubious Of the lieutenant govenoshp
Colonel Wheeock has again scored this time private
rotary and keeper Of the outer for Mayor Jones' It is
Colonel Wheeocs happy task when the boys call and want
office to give them the glad front and the talk and to
demonstrate to them that by not appointing them to the
places which they aspire the showing them the
highest personal honor his gift It is quite art to do
this trick day in and day out but Colonel Wheeoc has
bunch Of honeyed explanation in stock and prepared to
wrestle almost anything drunk or sober. A. j. R.