The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-02
THE N0NPAREJL MAN

i 49, evVAvA AAAoA1S - es8sSeS r.
a New PraIrIe Schooner That Coos With
the Wine ana Runs oSer F ences,
Houses Tfess and Ski ttlsh orss s--T 1ss1
Only Way to- stop at Appears to BE for
the sPrarieonaut 10 controt the Wind.
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Professor Peder Nissen OF the outskirts
OF Chicago has invented rolling balloon
airsh1p that Is almost guaranteed to- Kill
something or scare it to death. The bal
loon, which Is simplicity itself, is like a
huge football, Of yairtight canvas, thirty
feet by twenty A huge spool fits IN the
center, and from 1t extend $40 rope spokes.
From the spool bangles a seat, on which
the operator Sits and att each end of
the balloon Is a glass portfolio, by which
the explorer can view the country over
which he rolls. When wind promises to
come up from the right direction, Profes-
soP sNissen sea tsz himself in the balloon
orders thearopes cut, and slets It, go. The.
first experiment in Chicago proved that
the professor had not mastered his de-
Nlce.alt threw doWn-teo many lampposts,r
broke the limbs Of too many trees, started
too many runaways, and created too much
OF panic among the spectators. But the
principle OF 1t was seen to be all right. ~
the Dakota prairies In a high wind Pro-
lessor N1ssen would easily be the king.
But how to stop his big rolling football at
a required point unless the wind could be
Gained down is problem not lending it.
self to easy solution. Then you can im-
agine the opinion Of the skittish horse,
should this big ball try to roll over him.
He could hardly be blamed, for trying to
climb telegraph poles Or to run up the
sides Of barns. Professor Nissen has. a
valuable idea running around loose but it
needs restraint in some way.
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a writer for a Colorado paper treats at
length the effect OF good clothes on the
self-respect. A man who sports a SIS
| suit never feels quite&so nifty as the man
with a $4b suit. The effect upon the fem
inine-the more sensitive onscious-
ness, is even more marked The article
says: S6s
4. II have known a new gown to make the
most disconsolate Mrs. @ ummidge cheer
up and take an interest IN life. II have
known q new hat to get an. a lnost hope
| less invalid out Of bed and on her feet
when the family had long since given up
all hope Of her recoyeryf,st s3
Try your wife with a new $25 hat some
day when she isn't expecting it and
doesn't have to pr'yl 1t out Of you, and see
4 the glad response. 10 Al sSS &[
Ten days more Of tlais weather and we
come out in rah- rah AZ cIothes.
They have rlaned@a mountain peak out
on the Pacific coasts after. Booker T.
Washington, NO Kentucky gentleman can
eat with that mountain range in view.
In preparing memorial window in q
church in New York, a serious dispute
has arisen over the color of angels
wings. The angels we are personally ac-
quainted with select >the colors Of their
own plumage.
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i Last year We, that Is the country. drank
III, 252,14S gallons Of whisky, to say moth
ing of wine and beer. While this is
1 doubtless the greatest waste in the world
to- day. what must we think of the parties
4 who are hoggish enough to try to drink il
all themselves We have all seen few
/ Of them. ,$g 20 st
A Norwegian chemist has discovered q
new and cheap process for making alcoho
from sawdust. If sawdust contains alco.
hol, this may explain the perpetual ex-
. hilaration shown on thesface of the saw.
dust. doll. Z s,.$s I'll
There were things doing at Gilmore
Mimi. the other night when local talen
!, put on the drama called Noel Carson.
Oath, or Leonia's Repentance. The opera
the Gilmore Eye, casting that organ owe
). the erfoEnance, consif dfs5itato have beef
) most ereditable. The Fye says Of the. pla!
"John Mason, the villain OF the play
performed, that part with his usual ex
, cellence.% The part was difficult and thos
who know what good fellow John j
know how hard it must be to put it al
e on II -,
Miss Bessie Engler played her par
:, exceedingly well, tho it was Of such ma
! ture as to be rather embarrassing a
l times
! 50 - &i Sa3&z
. Going to the grocery store with ten
? dollar bill since the combines became wis
I lis a good deal like that old art Of father
of trying to stretch 11x12 carpet to f
: a 12x13 room 81 Have you ever seen fathe
: try to do that stunt +? Have you ever see
s him work, perspire, rip off sections Of hi
e hide and express opinions forcible enoug
t to split the church,, Have you ever see
him with worthless carpet stretche
! breathing forth dusts wool, carpet tack
It and slaughter whom he's knelt on the ur
+ turned tack2 If so, YOU know how hard
: man has to work now to stretch a ter
: dollar bill over five dollars worth Of gre
o cerfes "A. j. r.
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