The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-10
THE NONPAREJL MAN

Ntat, IT Any, is the Dinerence Between
8 the Chinese. Stinkpot Method Of War;
fare and the Use Of the Cigarette in Mod
ern AmerIca-A Prize of 500 Offered
for Solution of This important Probaa
lem In CIvics.
Away back in the early ages one of the
Chinese methods Of warfare among them
selves was to throw what was agreeably
known as a stinkpot among the enemy
who, overwhelmed by the fierce odprs Of
decayed eggs and other noxious chemicals,
beat hasty retreat tanning themselves
These methods Of warfare,
the Chinese found, had no effect upon the
civilized races of the west because, having
become accustomed to the smell of the Gig
arctic, the Occidentals did not mind the,
stinkpot.
The Japanese, however have modified
the old Chinese idea by the use, Of deadly
fumes in place of nauseous compounds
The Japanese chemical shell will explode
like any other shell, but the explosion will
fumes that will kill every
breathing thing within. radius of loo.
yards.
The cable does not state whether it is
cigarette smoke that is bottled UP and
used in this fierce way, but having ridden
down town in the back, vestibule Of q
street car with fellow being who was
passionately emitting this odor, we suspect
the worst. Everything within 100 yards
certainly wanted to die.
. Mr.. Carnegie has given nearly 500, 000,-
600 In libraries. ''Daggont.'
Rockefeller II. advises his Sunday school
class to be contented with it's lot If the
taxes didn't eat it UP every four years,
TINS inient be pretty good advice.
Ole Bull had birthday last Friday and
the s.a.ue Inc park was heard to muir
muir something about it's being cold
enough to freeze the coattails often brass
statue. - -. ~
This may be a blow to the Russians, but
you just wait until the Missouri mule GETS
a line OH a large, muscular Russian and
eXplodes his northwest corner. There's
where the tragedy will occur.
Carter hall at ST. Cloud was the scene
of gay revelry last night when the Bach
elor Girls entertained the Bachelor Boys at
a sort Of Japanese party. The Invitations
said that ''the lowly, meek, modest, unas-
Stunning, unpretentious, submissive and OBJ
scure Bachelor Girls hunlbly and subser-
vicinity, beg, pray and .beseech the Lofty,
Upright High-minded, Honorable; Mag
nifcent, Self sacrificing. Superb and most
August Bachelor Boys: to trip with them
the light fantastic toe at Carter hall on
the evening, of the ninth day, Of the sec
ond month of the fourth year Of the Bach
e1or club
The Eight fantastic!' Let's see,
haven't we heard that before? o, yes,
that's the terpsichorean art. F.
| Rev Allan Hoben. Of Waupun Wis, who
recently took the degree Of doctor of phil
! osophy. at the University of Chicago, has
made for 'The Biblical World issued from
the University Of Chicago press-Dr. Har-
per, editor-a translatioj, of Psalm SIS in
| the language he believes the author would
, have used had he written in the TWEEN
| tieth century. His version is as follows
80 God, hear me, for my faith in man
is broken. The ,unfairness and the cruelty
of trade are too much for me. My soul
us stained with it, my protest is raised
| in vain, my nerves are: shattered, and I
ann filled with fear. Let me away from it
all-aWay from the strife and greed to
some lone nook in the strong and kindly
hills beside the still sympathetic waters.
wipe out these liars of the city-this
i restless cesspool Of sin, breeding only the
l4soul-parching fever of gain. There is no
I honor on the Board of Trade-none. Had
an enemy sold me out and exulted, gould
have borne it and askedsno pity; but9that
i my best friend, he to whom I uncovered
my heart, a: brother in the church-that
he should have betrayed me!
l. "They are all alike. May death smite
i them, may the grave swallow them up,
, for they are only fusks filed with evil.
: Now: have nothing left but thee, God
and unto thee do I turn for my only and
continual joy. -. ..- '..
'The trust crushed me, but now that
l. the struggle is over thou givest blessed
peace. AS sure as thou art just their day
is coming. How long can a man stab his
frio will ,ic Il
AcoNer unsparing greed with oily speech ?
} AS for me, my lesson is learned. I will
cast my burden on thee, 0 God; thou wilt
sustain me, and in the end I know thou
wilt establish the good and utterly over
r throw the wicked. So out of the wreck
Of fortune come to thee, my Lord and
my God" '-'>' ~: 5*'-
Judging by the familiar knowledge of
| such things, we almost fear that Brother
Hoben has been playing the markets and
is carrying around a dent just above the
collar. '.-5 q
The McCordsville Exhumer, quoted by
the Cleveland Leader, says that "Old Chuck
, Aunt Attic Windpenny's rooster, had
his comb froZe last night It's a mortal
, wonder that more Of the biddies do not
, contract what Mrs O'Rafferty referred
? to as Pee-neumonia with this Nebraska
: weather cavorting around the northwest
, and splitting over into the east.
Mr.. Moses says that his grocer was the
l only man in the eighth ward who found
! out how old Ann was. When Mr.. Moses
7 was buying his supplies the other night he
: asked the grocery gentleman how eggs
S We're. s.--. -
s'Two more for 80 cents replied the
Y man of butter, would make them cents
S per dozen, less
t Mr. Moses staggered slightly, but he
t replied: 's-r
S '"rhen you may send me up 20 cents
d worth" =.
,. Now he comes in to ask how many he
: ought to have had. e
We wouldn't tell him. But we will print
:, three of the best solutions in the order il
which thew are received at this office