The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
THE KONPAREIL MAN

THE NONPAREJL MAN
Ghosts Of Great Britain Becoming Uneasy
and Knocking on the Bedstead-Ths.
stir In the Underworld Thought to Be
Que to the War In the orient-A Re-
bort purInq the Recent Cold Snap That
Some One Heard the Arctic.
The London Express reports strange
epidemic of ghosts in that country.
Spooks that make strange noises, thar
turn pictures to the wall and that wall
around the house when the wind ism
blowing have started up into sudden ac-
tivity all oyer Great Britain. The more
credulous Britons believe that this sudden
stirring in the underworld Is due to the
| Russo-Jap war, which causes the better
class Of ghost some apprehension due to
the sudden precipitation into their world
| Of ghosts who are full Of anger and hight
and not yet ready for the change. others
believe that the noises indicate belief
| or a knowledge among the ghosts that
Britain will become embroiled in the war
i and are intended as warnings to former
| friends or to relatives to seek the Cana
dian Northwest, the mississippi valley
and the Rocky mountains and not stay
around home and be drafted to tight
| whether they wish to Or not
i Owing to their distance from the seat
! of slaughter, Mississippi valley ghosts
may hardly be expected to do much
knocking. But if any instances are
known we would esteem it a favor II
/ those who are annoyed would report the
| facts.
, we do not wish to appear superstitious,
however much so-we may be, but during
) the late cold weather we thought We
heard the arctic.
The city's typhoid mill, sometimes eu.
phemistically called the waterworks, is
! running night and day and doing great
work for the doctors.
f Port Arthur may be well defended, but
4 If we lived on Dynamite alley, just off
the main street, we should feel as uneasy
as the Ministers association over the APP
J, preaching Elks' street carnival
Rockefeller seems to have a pretty good
thing, but for comfortable, all-the-year-
around income give us a nice little gam
bling joint with the captain Of the pre-
cinct as a silent partner.
I. A berth as war correspondent in Man.
:. churia may be all right, but give US a.
warm comfortable hut on the sides OF
:. Mont Pelee where the floors are always
20 warm.
VII. u clt
r. discovered that the human hand is largely
occupied in sowing the seeds of all sorts
Of diseases The hand, he says, Is not
n only the most dirty but the most danger
Gus portion Of our anatomy. 1t contains
J on the average 83, $50, 900 bacilli M. Crou-
eel must have been regarding the small
boys bunch of fives.
It looks to us as If anybody who fooled
ty around the Korean Manchurian boundary
s. line was committing suicide. HlVe US Tie
al Mississippi valley.
is A Memphis dispatch says that japanese
r. and Russian war names are not 10 ps
p allowed for racing horses. A horse WITT
re some of those Siberian patronymlcs Woult
is be quite heavily handicapped.
if DR.. Day of Washington, chief Of the oil
of vision of minerals, says that radlum IS {
ms be found in the east and. as its marke
ny price is somewhere between S3,OOO,0OO an
a 81 OOO, 900 a pound, it behooves all owner
re- of land bearing mineral deposits to CIV
In close attention to the details of the forth
coming official circular on the subJec
:. 1.-The stuff is found, he says, pr1nclpaii
in a material called ptchblende. Thl
sh- has been located in considerable quantitie
M in Colorado South Dakota, and in sever;
to /: other states. I have always wondered VIII
yer people who are interested in tins matte
be- do not search in the Blae
the blende The conditions there are jul
The right for its occurrence and / am cor
hat WINGED that if it exists anywhere in II
and country in large quantities 1t IS IN II
uld Black Hills. ,
' in 1t is doubtless radum that gives Il
,ese springs at Hot Springs their valuab
3 a qualities Hence radium deposits Wort
his uncounted millions will be found in II
but hills back Of these springs. For TINS hi
,erv send us a check for $4,000 after you ha'
wife located your mine.
the P. S.-Black Hills papers please copy.
RED No. 1. VOL 1, of the Limpet, devoted
,re- matters Of interest of the East Mlnneap
for lis high school, is at hand with TINS We
ans modest motto for most excellent pape
)een Better be the humble limpet, that is sa
rom where'er it clings
,on. Than attempt an eagles soarlngs Wnen you Id
~ the eagles wings.
Sneal,ine of some of the errors made
thouehtless pupils the Linlpet chronicl
the following good ones:
Garrison was an ablutlonlst
,ta's socrates drank shamrock.
hich One of the seniors who knows his Lon
in fellow is said to have burst into song
rib this way:
rid Silently, by one, in the infinite NOTEBOOKS
that teachers
.reet Blossom the neat ii a.a, Ie'os ''e
cred ~ VI ~ w. n-lnia tho T ;ronet is doing W
hpie' neat cling.
the r7,a cass County Pioneer brings this
81 founding bit of news:
VIZ. Last Friday night Mike Nash and Miss Al
nefs Sheehan were made man ard wife in Mlnneapo
,rty The bride was dressed in becoming suit OF
the white silk with profuson of natural flow.
ERIC while the groom were an elegant stana-up S"i
and new tie ana that seeonits i'e sA's
hor- al hno" ~ Wen.
suing Mike Nash the flrs., VINO MaS HeeI'
were the courthouse sestsIoay' 49,.
,. It neat. hand-painted alibi. There must
The another!
5 for a..
t has When We oi,ce 81 ~ $50 49,. ,e,,tro ~
,, CO. 70 of Europe are going to get the shock
well their lives, a .:ts,. &C.,, sset 1aan
crisy, tnaI "iil uis - ~ ~, ,,o,,r these r
y the Sky zee. oiiaa +aan, sewer f3ieeers
from ci1llies aie e on Is, ~; panama fbe is
lot a W len LIZ - ii1sa on old cheese