The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-03
THE NONPAREJL MAN

THE NOMPAkEJL MAN II
Fashion Notes from Paris and Texas-The
Inflated Corset and Some Of the Uses
to Which 1t May Be Put-GossIp from
the Bood-wat1 and the AtelIer.
The eternal feminine is rejoicing at the !
thought of rubber corsets which are re-
ported by cable in the Sunday papers to
be the latest" They are for the most
part for thin ladies who get into them
and are then slightly inflated like bicycle
tires. Would not it be something of a |
shock to the boy who is hugging his best
girl If she should suddenly collapse? We
recall the lady de la cuisine who said Of
her friend:
Mary made nice cake yesterday. but
it fell on her. IS,
Doubtless such casualties as this will
be taken into consideration by the manu-
facturer and a brand of stay be put on
the market that will be warranted hug
proof. The invention would seem to de-
mand tank of compressed air as a nee
essary adjunct to niady's hood -wah
A stay Of this variety would seem to
have market in cases like that reported
from the Texas rural districts For wheat
cutting is on in darkest Texas and a
farmers pretty daughter Is reported to
be giving three kisses and hug to the
one Of her fathers harvest hands who
shocks the most wheat during the day.
The amount of work turned off on that
email.
Nice wet rains we're having this week,
| girls!
That Adrian Democrat recalls the sea-
son when the weather was so windy that
| I~o 1nPk tloo{s. 49,
green barn had to walk back.
James Henry Smith of Wall street, New
York, Is worth $40,000,000. He is known
as Silent Smith. If we had that sum
we would boiler good and loud.
Certain physicians claim that baseball
is cure for insanity. We saw the Me-
mortal Day game. Give us the asylum.
Wouldn't it be great to be able to be
! touched for $4,000?
/ A war correspondent, remembering the
firing heard off Mole st. Nicholas, COM
plains Of too much Che-foo- lshness.
The San Francisco papers relate with
some detail how Rev Alrnerin Grow, SS
years Of age, went out to the almshouse
the other day to end his days on the
Methodist preacher of some renown.
Half a century ago there was probably no
better oratorlcal voice in the ministry.
, The grand old voice yet remains, but
, otherwise the preacher is broken down
and feeble. This venerable old man has
but one relative in the world, a son whose
name is Ambrose Grow and who is q
blacksmith at San Jose, now a man of
| nearly 80 years. j
Twill not your son support your" was
| asked Of the aged clergyman after he had
stepped into the almshouse wagon.
NO. replied the old man; che told
me to go into the woods and die I didn't
: want to 60 into the woods and die, SO
f came to San Francisco for the purpose
Of becoming an inmate Of the almshouse.
} T may be of some service there. I have
done a great deal for my son, but San
Jose is too small a town for both Of us
to live in now"
, DR.. Grow was born in Springfield, Mass
I'm down-east Yankee. Praise the
Lord" said he, when asked about the
place of his birth. His father was Am
! brose Grow, a revolutionary soldier, who
3 was born in Pomfret, Conn.,, and who
fought under the leadership of Genera
, Israel Putnam. When asked about his
l former connections he said:
| II was once member Of the Methodist
| Episcopal conference in southern Illinois
. and came into the San Francisco con.
E ference as a local preacher. It was ir
8 1858 that I first came to San Francisco
i I was ordained by an English Methods
: bishop whose name was Williams. HI
Y was a Reformed Methodist, as it is called
being outside. Of the general conference
I had powerful voice in those days, ant
i used to preach to more than 5000 people
e at a time never sought any settled 10
o cation and never had an established pas
g torate, and so, as had no claim on an.
g conference, I am not now on a super
= animated list If were superannuatet
s preacher 7 would not be here.
e IT am old and sick and nearly blind
e but, praise the Lord, I can still preach
I and am going out to the almshouse
:. take the gospel to the poor men there
n Being in the almshouse has no humilia
If ton for servant of the Lord. Halle
: lujahn'
= SO the old fellow was driven away fror
IS the city hall, leaving behind a sturdy vocs
= blessing for the reporters who gathere
~ to see him off. s.s
q Two young men in Missouri were can
~ didates for the hand of the beautiful cir
" One Of them was poor but handsome an
v smart; the other was heavy and FOOLS
s. but very rich. Still he had an idea. H
~ had noticed that money would do almOs
= ! anything, so he conceived the capitalist
: notion of buying off his rival. He offere
: him $1O0 to go away and stay away fc
. six months. The poor young man sal
- he would consider the matter, and he di
- in company with the girl. They agree
- - to take the money of the young man, g
- married and go away together. The des
was completed and the poor young ma
IS got his money and started for Denve
a. a But he stopped at the first station, whe1
lie he was joined by his lady love- and the
x we're married by justice of the peac
~ The rich young man consulted a lawyt
40 and was told that he had no grounds Fl
q a suit. The other fellow had lived up
the very letter Of the requirement.
r OF course, the foolish people of tt
in town were so tickled at the thought
Of that honeymoon trip at the expense Of
n. rival that the capitalist had to leave tow
as himself. "A. j. R.
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IN HE WAS A WEALTHY NEGRO
Warren G. Coleman, one of the be
T., known negroes in the United States, die
be recently at Concord, N. H. Coleman VIZ
cb one Of the most remarkable men of h
he race. Starting life in poverty, he BEGAN
-. thru his own exertiOnS one of the wealth