The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-11
THE .NoNPAREJL MAN
Why the Copy" Manufacturer on the
s Daily Newspaper and Elsewhere Some
times scorches the White Paper In an
Effort to Get Ahead Of an Idea-Ex-
PLANTATION of Strange Literary Phe-
nornenon.

times ScorcHeS the white Paper In an
Effort to Get Ahead Of an Idea-Ex-
PLANTATION OF a Strange Literary Phe-
nomenon.
We have all of lis been interested and
filled with joy over the story of the Irish
housepainter who was paid by the hour
and hence as a rule did not break his
arm hurrying the work. But one day
friend found him painting away like a
steam engine. The friend paused to in.
Vestigate SO strange matter.
What's come over We, McGuire?" he
said. 1T amt like you to work that fast"
Whist" said Mcclure. stand DOT O.
the way and don't sthop me. I'm shtriv-
in to get thru befure me paint gives out"
Yet this is not at all an uncommon
trait Of the mind. Any one who has writ
ten copy" for the paper has from time to
| time noted the same phenomenon. He
| has story or sketch underway and the
first thing he knows he finds himself writ
ing away like mad, paying little attention
to grammar or logical construction. What
IS the reason for this? EIe is simply tear
| ing over the paper SO as to get thru be-
| fore his idea gives out.
Too otter it gives out half way thru.
Perhaps you have noticed this when read
| ing the stuff
| Jake Birchall the Fargo liverynan, who
j l.
| excitement of a "hoss trade" is said by
the Forum of that town to have proftted
once by that Demostl1enian accomplish
| ment In fact it was on this occasion
good for $40
II was never glad for the impeachment
in my speech but once said Mr.. Birchall
1--WE had an old plug of a horse in the
barn that was owned by the Indians
when Jim Holes and Jake Lowell struck
this country thirty or forty years ago.
The equine was no earthly good. but was
a fair locker. told Jeff Young one day
to have the plug hitched up and would
try to sell him. We agreed that I should
accept the first offer made. I started up
Broadway and the old horse was stepping
pretty high. A fe-fe-fellow asked; me
h-h- how much would take for the
horse and while LII was t-trying to tell
him $40 he offered me $780,.
I The Cleveland Plaindealer asks, .tAfter
Won Plehve, what?" We should say, the
Inihilists. s#
At a recent medical exhibition in Lon.
4 don the new anesthetic called somnof form
was shown. 1t is liquid whose "boilfl1s
point is twenty three degrees below zero
A medical paper says that tits great vir-
tue from medical point of view is thai
breathing stops before the heart does
when it is administered" Say, We
wouldn't care to- have our Drea thing
stopped either before or after the heart
does. We intend to avoid that new drug
Speaking of the length of their grea
:. wall the Chinese call it "the 10000
WALL Put an 'e on the end of tina
' 'li' and you may get an idea where thu
war news con es from.
J, Speaking Of model saloons and sin1ila
devices you hear it said frequently tina
> the ''poor man must have his CLUB a
4 well as the rich n an. Of this argunien
: Ed Howe, of the Atchison Globe, says:
: Bishop Potters idea that laboringlnen need
s is one of the great evils of civilization not on
of it's benefits. 1t is not enough TO say that la
boringn ell do not need a club; no one needs
= club The club is the vermiform appendix o
society; useless and constant menace. Blsho
!, Potter should be ashamed Of the fact that h
belongs to five or six clubs, and not proud of II
: Millions Of men in the United States are no
q freuuenters of clubs, and care nothing for then,
: They prefer the society of their families an
e the wholesome outdoors Almost any pastim
lserves a better purpose to society than loafir
4, in "a club. T3Esin 49,. 10 ~ y-..g,v
: 1.-THE club is an English importation,
:. is a good deal like the: crease in YOU
trousers, you can live very con1fortabl
e without it, tho. its presence may give 70
# the sense of having done the proper thins
:, But think Of good sensible honest work
, ingman with a crease, in his overalls.
q A. J. R.