The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-12

Habits of Our Hen Subject That
Should Give Pause to the Poultry
Press Of the Countrywide Possible
Effect Of the Example Of the Rooster
on Impressionab Young Chickens.
Our poultry paper declares that at this
season of the year the hen needs a slim
ulant.
We fear that large number of roos-
tiers are elbowing their way in at the hen
house bar and taking a little stimulant
without much urging from the poultry
press. AS to whether the hen would care
to be seen in this company, we would sug-
geSt a possible negative. Careful poultry
fanciers will see to it that the hen has
delicate little bottle on shelf con-
venient to the roost and carefully con-
fully concealed. from the view of the
rooster.
But it should be understood that this
is strictly coldweather prescription.
No self-respecting hen would care to con-
tinue the use of stimulants say after the
18th Of March, We cannot be too care
full Of the personal habits of our hen.
Any deterioration of the egg crop would
be viewed by the government with much
alarm. If the hen should, under the i'm
pulse Of convivial habits, forget herself
and begin to put the albumen in the CEN
ter and the yolk on the outside, it might
be necessary to appoint a government
commission to investigate the matter.
The possible effect, too, of the example
OF the rooster on young chickens of i'm
questionable minds is one that deserves
more attention than it has yet received
from our poultry press.
A railroad paper claims that in therlast
three years only six people in total Of
32,000,00O travelling in Pullmans have been
fnp he to.
pretty cheap life insurance after ALL
The United States supreme court has
decided that the Porto Rican is neither
a citizen nor an alien. The war seemed
to settle it that he was not dago. Pos
sibly he may be a Unitarian.
If we were accused Of anything we
would hunt our technicality and appeal
confidently to the supreme court.
The State Association of Soil Ticklers,
sometimes called the Minnesota Agricul-
tural society, meets in Masonic Temple
here to-day. We anticipate that our pa
per on practical Canary Seed Culture"
will be listened to with much interest.
Speaking Of the rigid regulations prac-
ticed in German theaters member of
Henry lrvings company relates a story
| eloOuI Ills ShpSIlGllc6 Ill hTdu opera
house in Berlin. He played part that
required him to smoke on the stage
There was a fireman detailed to watch
him, and man was stationed at the
wings with a pail of water. German thea
ter managers seem to be opposed to piling
people up in the corridors. Well, It isn't
nice and 1t muses. the theater up very
badly.
Russia is now trying to talk the little
bantam to q finish. There Is danger of
something going off at almost any mo-
ment.
| The Battle Lake Review man, COM
menting on the fact that it takes about
$4,000 to raise a boy, says that he has a
| b-months' specimen that he wouldn't
| take a million dollars for. We violate no
confidence in stating that he hasn't been
offered that sum-
., "A friend of mine. a clergyman, and a
| close observer" Professor T. N. Carver
told the Adrian Democrat man, tells
me that upon one of his trips thru the
west almost every man he met used pro-
family; but finally he found one man who
talked with him for twenty minutes with
out using an oath. AS they We're about
| to part my friend said:
| You don't know how glad I am tn
have chance to talk with a man like
you. You are the first I have met for
three days that could talk five minutes
without swearing
THE stranger was so shocked at this
deplorable state Of affairs that he in
stantly and innccently calculated:
i We'll, Ill be damned
/ Governor Beckham of Kentucky says
that irresponsible romances" regarding
the sudden gun death that attacks people
who live in Kentucky are grossly exag-
/ gerated.' Kentucky is as safe, "even in
/ l3reathltt county, says the governor. as
Chicago or New York is at night: and he
proposes that its virtues as a health re-
sort shall be made known. Kentucky looks
very handsome on the map but for long
life and peaceful age we shall continue to
look elsewhere.
American Medicine complains bitterly
of fake vaccination scar that is being
used in Ohio. Medical Talk for the Home
first mentioned this scar, which is pro-
duced by means of nitric acid. A cor
respondent of the latter publication said:
= My own children have been treated in this way
and have been examined great many times il,
school for vaccination and the scars have always
been regarded as genuine vaccination scars.
Other children have been vaccnated in the same
way.
When American Medicine read this it
the crying needs of the age is a good
warranted non-tetanus vaccination scar
+ that will pass medical examina ton The
Ohio discovery deserves looking into.
! A number of letters and telephone calls
have been sent regarding remarkable
piece Of news that appeared in a local
paper last Saturday. 1t seems that a
guard at the workhouse thought that a.
riot call had been turned in and leaped to
his post somewhat insufficiertly clad.
/ The paper in question says:
The others got up to dress, but not he Clad
only in his nightshirt and pair of carpet slip
pers. with gun in each hand and knife in his
hip pocket, he tore out of his and with
! giant strides few to the relief of the guard on
duty.
i A correspondent writes to know if the
guard had a hip pocket in his night dress
or in his carpet slippers. Possibly he had
on one of those adjustable hip pockets
that ladies carry in front and call a
reticue.
! Walt Mason of Nebraska has been tell
ing of his night trip on Il fiery. untamed
i hayrack. with two foaming steeds hitched
thereto. Walt says the road was very
tempestuous and he adds:
/ Before had proceeded fifty yards 1 was
ing suddelness that was stricken in years.
{! When the wagon wheels over rock, felt
as tho my vitals had all been shaken loose and
i anpered mo a hear the others veil with de-