The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-26
THE NONPAREJL MAN

BarneSvllle, MINI, is BFi9Ht EHou91 TO
DO Its Own Business and 7 axe Its Own
Profits Instead Of Hiring Corporations
l to Take Its Profits-Wonderful Astute.
ness Of a. Little Minnesota City.
GAINESVILLE, Clay county, MINI, owns
not only it's own water, light and sewer
system but it owns It's telephone system
and opera house. It's telephone system
alone brings it a revenue OF over 500 a
month No other place in the United
States has such a record. The place had
only 1926 population at the last census
but they seem to be up-to-date enough to
take their own profits rather than to hire
corporations 10 take these profits for them.
Smart town!
The society editress in San Francisco
is not only an observing person but is
well up in anatomy. In a Frisco paper
it may be read of a certain matron that
'she lent the radiance of her presence
and her six feet of modishness to enhance
the gayety Of the Pioneer ladies' ball.
She wore ultra decollete gown of
black, cut extremely low in the back,
showing the lovely ivory curves of a sinu-
Gus spine." How would you like to have
your Spine figuring on the society page?
A japanese Hobson has failed also. Now
will he go home and kiss all the geisha
girls or iinrisksha girls or whatever they
are? &c.
The Anoka Union has printed the names
of those bachelors who will come right up
and eat out of the hand. It's a prize lot
and we see some of their finishes.
| A French physician, SO states the Amer
lean Agriculturist. has conceived a novel
method of administering iron, if not to his
-, OF Of m I,Sc INN
date family. He has noticed that hens
have powerful digestive organs, and has
discovered that they can digest consider
able quantities or iron, and render it back,
thru the albumen Of their eggs, in a form
which is more easily Edigested by. the
weaker stomach OF mankind than if taken
| in any other way. Soahe feeds his hens
salt of iron mixed with their wheat, and
they lay. eggs extremely rich in predigested
iron. 1t is necessary in such a case as this
to keep the eggs out Of the wet sor they
will rust Perhaps you have tasted rusty
eggs? 81 ..-e .--..--
When the fat man takes a skate on the
+, slippery iron coal hole lid in the sidewalk
thoughtful people look the other way.
The heather Chinee when. his New
Years day comes around makes it a point
to pay all his debts. And yet they expect
to civilize material like this.
What has become of the old campfire"
bottle that every well-regulat ted family
used to keep handy in the pantry?
James Whitcomb Riley was made an
Ill. .. by Pennsylvania university! Have
you read DR.. Riley's "Orphant Annie?
The authorities of Edinburgh Scotland,
! in order to induce people to be vaccinated.
rffar hall 90, re n
person who would submit. The authori-
ties found that the people We're willing
to take all chances Of tetanus and blood
poisoning for 60 cents. 5.5-
People who thought that the vaccinat ton
war had been all fought out seem to have
{ 'hollered' too soon. w. ]. Collins, M. D.,
member of the royal commission on vac
! cination, formerly public vaccinator Of
London, and who resigned from that po-
, sition because he could no longer con-
1 scientiously hold it, says: Il have not the
7 least confidence in vaccinations it often
: transmits filthy and dangerous diseases
:: without offering any protection what
! ever Ever since we were 5 years old
! they have had to catch. and chorofornl
us before committing this depreciation on
our person: f.'' -" - IL
!. Gloss Fowler Of the state food commits
= sion, quetlys examined the blackberry
: | brandy of st. gPeter's saloonkeepers and
= drug stores; and found it made Of sail
- cylic acid and ifeoaE+ta dye. The retail
' dealers paid thefrsffnesif Salicylc acid ant
Z coal tar dye ought sto- make drink tina
d is pretty nearlyaas deeterious as rea
, Kentucky whisky ~ T. -. -
u Electric light people of st. Cloud have
% been having eight ten jobs day thaw
" ing out frozen water pipes. They hook OF
:. to a hydrant and then hook the other wir'
- inside the house, SO that the current rum
- thru the frozen portion of the pipe. L
- is very simple and very effective. The!
: run the current thru a pail of water above
aground and the water in the pail boils. 70
y It's a hard lesson to learn that peopl
after all are, only folks A Texas man
starting his boy out on a career ava.
from home, said to him: .'
You may see a heap of people wh
- have: got more money than you have; /:
IN heap of people who have got more Brain
i and more success. Don't you worry abou
- that. Whenever you meet man VIII
~! allows he's your superior, you just loo'
~ at him and say to yourself: After al
~ you're. just folks. You want to remem
+ Der for yourself, too, that you're jus
=. folks 4s -
a. That's often the trouble. We look a
49, other people and wonder at the gree
stakes for which they are playing, an
~, we say to ourselves: Its no use for
= peewee like me to go against a big gam
~ like that" and so we spend our live
eating at the lunch counter instead G
dining at the Minneapolis club.
: We're all folks playing the sam
kind of game. only playing it on differ
!, ent scales. Now, hows your nerve?
a "A. J. R.
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