The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
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A New Jersey Woman Who Wears What
Other Reform Notions In Dress, Has
Secured Man, but He Has Gone to
England--An Adventure In the Life OF |
Miss Susan Fowler. f
A New Jersey woman who has worn
a dress-reform dress-not exactly bloom
ers, but, if we must say 1t, pants-for
the past fifty years, is about to get mar
ried She is Miss Susan Fowler, and IL
you can take her word for it, she Is a
"deep thinker" TO marry lady who
has worn-that is, who wears-well, not
to put too fine a point upon it-pants,
and has worn them for fifty or so years,
the man himself must be pretty deep
thinker. After getting her consent with
out any lovey-dovey nonsense the gem
tleman In question, Miss Fowler says,
started for England. She says he will
return.
England is a long way off. And Miss
Fowler wears-them Perhaps he'll come
back
says:
I'VE have been reliably informed that
Rev. Mr.. Betheps wife took him three
blocks out of the way home the other
evening to escape the fumes Of the Grand
Junction joints.''
The Little Falls Transcript tells Of
citizen who saw woman weighed with
a load Of hay and wondered thereat He
saw the woman on the load when It came
into town and noticed her cover up in
the hay before it was weighed He then
became curious and watched the load
| until 1t drove over on back street and
saw the woman climb out. Later In the
| day he saw the wagon weighed after the
hay had been unloaded, but the woman
was not weighed with it. He did not
learn who bought the hay. but thinks that
the purchaser paid for about 125 pounds
of woman that he did not get The pur-
chaser is probably better off. however.
than if everything in the load had been
delivered.
! The king of Denmark has a fine coll
lection Of birds eggs, worth about SIS 900.
The king must have climbed hundreds
Of trees.
The United States in 1903 boosted S,97e
murders, not counting the boys who put
| the cannon crackers under grandpas'
| chairs on July 4.
/ lHe MarysVlue (Ienn.) RECORD says
! that "the many friends of Rev. James
Seaton will learn with regret that he is
severely suffering with a very painful at
lection of the jaw
A "Microbine Medicine company OF
travelling artists Is doing Michigan, CIV
Ing free entertainments and selling 8
microbe annoyer.
The LIE Sueur Leader claims that the
Inemen of the telephone and telegraph
companies have a method Of poisoning
! trees which interfere with the workins
of their lines, where the owners will no
permit the trees to be trimmed. The,
slyly drive a few copper nails into thu
offending trees, and their growth il
checked at once and the trees die Il
two or three years. If your shade tree
which interfere with wire stop GROWN,
and die, you may conclude that scienc
has been at work on them. But If 20,
go out and chop down the telegraph pole
you'll go to Jail. Why? Because tn
corporation has more money than yo1
have
The Dodge City (Minn) Transcrip
brings to hand the account Of the activ
ity of Ole in that vicinity last week:
Ole Byorum arrived home Monday night fro,
stutsman county j North Dakota - ! :,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole o. Gilbertson left on Satul
day for LIE Roy, to visit with relatives. ,,,
Ole II. Holtan and Hans Moe are buildin
new barns. Ole G. Holtan Is doing the carpente
= work. 49, : -
Ole vigoren was in Minneapolis saturda,
making few purchases in his line.
> Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Thorsness left to-day vi
. kasson for an extended visit in Windsor an
other points in Wisconsin,
Ole o. Distad went to Mantorville Monda
8 morning to spend week at the county sea
assisting Treasurer stuverud in his office d,
: ties. '
q In Shakopee last week there came We,
:, near being serious fight. An Englishma
had been doing the talking on the glorit
: Of England to a little crowd on the cur
8 He ended up by remarking, fervently:
God save the king!''
An Irishman who had been listening
: the harangue asked, explosively: n
a What for?"
They had to be held.
If STILL we believe, on the whole, that ca
l. orado Is safer than Manchuria.
u Uncle Ben of the Mower County IRA,
e script Is mighty glad, he says, that he
ID not running for office Uncle saws tn
he hasn't much Of a record but what Ii
tie ne has he does, not care to have pr
claimed from all the housetops from Ra,
al sey to Itasca. Uncle says:
ne 1 bet don't banker for offs. I'd rath
a.
- months in the year than to fall into t
III hands of the political thugs and leg-pu
j. ers and slanderers and liars and swa
O. gers and boodlers and heelers that wou
- rather lie about you than tell the tru
u any hour. Now I'm independent, 4
ea folks don't like my company, they G
Il hunt other. If want to go or come, G
40 so without anybodys dictation a
O. thumbsup. I'm as free as the robin til
ut nests In our apple tree,
os But even We're Uncle Ben a bird, sol
jay would come around and try to {
r. the eggs in his nest
ts A Missouri man was ierked around t
barn three times on his back because
made the old and serious error of tyi
the cows tail to his ankle. The COW tr]
lie to reach for a fly with her northern &
- tremity and when she found it fast a
: the fly biting to beat the cars, she y
OF startled and ran, the farmer following
,al his back. Never again! He knows bet
- now. "A r r
It'll
a CELEBRATE "DIzzY,s GENTLEMAN,
: The Primrose league in England is
n ready making preparations to celebrate
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