The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-24

,tlous Advice as to allow Not to Do It,"
Mr.. Moses came in yesterday with a
grievance against the city and county.
1t seemed to have good grounds for COM
plant. His story is given nearly in, full.
Early this week I had notice from
the City Engineers Office reading as
follows:
Sir: By resolution of Alderman Powers,
passed at the last council meeting, the assess
mem Tor ,, sewer on the following property has
Seur name on oee in
said property, call at this office with your tax
statement and get the proper certificate with
paid, bring tax certificate from county treasurer.
Andrew Rinker,
City Engineer.
The locs ton Of the lot was given and a.
statement made with a rubber stamp that
a rebate agent was not needed to collect
this. took the notice and proceeded to
the city treasurer's office. The hired man
with whiskers at the desk was writing a
letter and he paid not the least attention
to me till he was thru. Then he looked
up in suspicious and inquiring way.
What about this?"
He read the notice carefully thru and
tossed it. back.
Have you paid your taxes?"
Eyes" Z
"well, that's the city's business. We
haven't anything to do with it here
No further information could be &C.
quired from him. -y- ,..
1 next made pass at the city con-
troller A clerk looked it over and ex-
pressed much establishment that I had
paid my taxes. Finally he marked it
| Claim o. K.'' and offered the advice that
I might see the city engineer.
| An official in that department looked
at the paper with smile. When he found
I had paid my taxes, his establishment
was immense. He didn't seem to know
what to do. Finally he ventured:
You might bring this around next
year and get certificate
| What for?'' 80 II
"Well, perhaps you could turn it in as
taxes" - So = --sa
''How much would it representa-"
| "Oh, say dollar and a half
Then I can't get any money!"
| Nobody seemed to know of anybody
ever getting any money.
would advise anybody getting these
notices from the city engineers office to
| throw them into the sewer. You wear out
more shoe leather and patience in unwind
ing red tape than the effort is worth. And
after you get thru, you get nothing.
| Professor Gayeley, head of the English
department at the University of California,
had class. of 100 young women in poetry.
And the girlies didn't seem to care much
1Ol pOSIlS elllSI, UuI lIey JUST SlSSleO,
Finally the professor became enangered
and tossing his books into hand grip he
told the ladies that they were just moth
ing but giggling girls anyhow, and SO left
the room. And then the ladies felt as
tho they would just sink. That class was
too large, by 80 or So.
The wife of an itinerant Methodist
preacher in Missouri having fallen heir
to 100000, such a common little thing
as a pants button in the contribution box
does not seem to him a matter Of such
: worldwide moment as it did a few months
ago. - - - - -Es.
Percival Lowell, the astronomer, says
that spring is coming on In the planet
Mars. That's where Mars seems to have
us faded.
4 The state chemist of Nebraska became
Il suddenly and surprisingly curious about
:! the quality of. the, strawberry jam that
/ was being sold in that state. In fact, the
scoundrel analysed it. He says that; he
found it was made chiefly of pumpkin.
coIored with coal-tar dyes, preserved with
benzoin and seeded with grass seed.
q Dr. G., Frank Lydston of Chicago, a $50
4 biologist" must live next door to a boy
la real meat boy. Here are some of the
doctors recent conclusions:
"There was never born into this world
! a boy who was not an instructive GRIM
inal."
Every human being is born without a
conscience, and, Z believe, without SOUL,
To show what we are rapidly coming to-,
/ DR.. Lydston continues in this strain:
, america is rapidly becoming a nation
Of degenerates.
'"The number Of criminals increased 400
: per cent while our population was doub-
81 ling ITSELF
If this isn't pretty good proof that the
i doctor lives next door to a boy, then we
, don't know the symptoms. A sociologist
living next door to a boy becomes pes
simistic and doubts the. future of the
, race. After the boy grows, up and turns
, out pretty we'll after @all, even a So
biologist sometimes modifes his former
conclusions and begins to think that there
may be hope for the race yet.
Beware of hasty congratulations induced
5 by the presence in the neighborhood of the
next-door boy. "A. j. r..