The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

a wealthy Old Bachelor. VINO rs leaves
Numerous Sweethearts of the Dear Z
Dead Days Neat Little stipends of $1o,- I
600 Each-Good Advice to Girls on the
Method Of Handling Bachelors Likely to
Develop This Pleasing Habit.
Alderman Waters Of Monroe, Mich, the
states richest bachelor, died the other
day and left a will that gave some of his
old sweethearts, who had thrown him
down in the happy. past, most decided
and agreeable thrill Three Of these dear
girls are remembered, each with $4,000 in
gilt-edged, convertible securities. The
women are Miss Alice Kandell, city libra
rian Of Monroe; Miss Kate O'Reilley,
saleswoman in a Detroit store and Mrs.
Nellie Callahan Of Saginaw. Mere rela,
tives got the rest. -
Girls, If there is rich old fellow spoon,
ing around and you can't bring yourself
to the point Of marrying him, give him q
little run for his money before throwing
him over. He may remember you agree
ably in the future and this remembrance
may be in the nature Of a glad surprise.
A Fairmont girl accepted an offer Of
marriage one evening this winter and the
young man didn't show up at the house
again for four nights The young lady is
asking her friends what they think of
such love- until death do them-part. The
Martin County Independent thinks the
| young fellow may have been something
like the old maid at Claremont, S. D.,
who was glad at receiving an offer Of
marriage that she dropped dead. This
young fellow was, doubtless, so surprised
that he had been accepted that he went
into a comatose condition.
| Well, that is better than a cell-ulose
condition.
Filter the water: Let's at least get the
old shoes out.
Biblioph1le Russell that the original manuscript
of Millions Paradise Lost that Melted its author
} but $40, recently sold for S25, 000.-Thoughs on
J Things.
Huh! We bought it.
} OF course, that rule prohibiting Boston
school teachers from chewing gum in
school hours is an outrage. If it had been
In Colorado and tobacco had been pro
, hibited the school teachers union might
have shot down a few school children in
protest.
The man who spits on the sidewalk in
New York is handed card by school
child. The card is not mentioned. but it
, is probably the 'low'' or the mine spot."
The Memphis Comm ercial Appeal wants
to know why congressman should not be
, paid according to brain weight. How
would we get rid Of our treasury surplus?
Richard Mansfield tells Of a stage villain
who instead of dying hard, as the lines
called for, made an agreeable and sar-
, castle exit at the expense Of an excited
l manager. The villain was supposed at the
end Of the fifth net to plunge a knife in
his heart, and to die hard. He plunged in
: the knife; but, instead Of dying lay down
on the floor, crossed his legs and burst
y into long, loud laughter, the dagger still
sticking in his breast. Audience and ac-
tors were amazed and stupefied, and the
: manager, nearly beside himself. Kissed
q audibly: ''You fool. what are you laughing
= at? This Is your death scene" 81 know
y IT," said the villain joyfully. with such
D a salary as you give me death comes az
- a happy release"
Is Twenty; engineers and contract and
the Panama canal commission have sailed
for Colon on the Alliance. The engineers
and contractors are going to see II there
is not some part of the work for which
they can secure q contract, and the COM
l; mission is to learn all they do not know
;. Of the cisthmus. In some way, 1t <sgoa
4 abroad that the government was pre-
pared to pay large rewards to the sci
enlist or inventor who could exterminate
g. the bugs that infest the Panama cana
strip, and there were at least forty pro
ne she sailed. If variety and oddly Of ap
he paratus and the smell Of chemicals car
81 kill the bugs on the isthmus. the party
OF will surely be successful. They carried al
70 kinds of sprays, explosives and bug
:, foods and each man had a complete Ii
s- brary Of books dealing with his subject
1g One tall, lean fellow, with blond hair tina
1t hung in ringlets on his shoulders, ex
hibited revolver by the explosion o
which a chemical dust was liberated
which floated thru the air, and was guar
anteed to kill all bugs within radius O
100 yards. It seems at distance as thu
ge genius of this kind should not be frit
he tered away on the isthmus, but SHOULD
VS. do little patriotic work in some of tn
ne hotels and boardng-houses of our owl
In glorious land.
1s extensive hennery on Long Island 70
sr- many years tells the Brooklyn Eagle tina
W. W. he can distinguish good Layers" fror
nv poor ones by the way they cackle afte
IN. producing their eggs. He says Their
ed is certain evidence Of enjoy
lie ment in the cacke Of a productive he
ty- that is wanting in the perfunctory, half
hS hearted proclamation of the other kline
he He even ventures the opinion that hen
hi have their pride in these matters and tha
,g the prolific ones like to arouse the jeal
L." ousy of their less fortunate sisters b
he emitting notes that speak Of triumph an
he personal pride. We have always distruste
hens that did not throw a little enthus
iasm into the business. Give US the fires
II young pulet that, after the egg incden
,r- throws off a cackle commensurate wit
a the occasion, something that startles eve
the rooster from his dignified calm. Wha
.,u Is the use Of putting on q, SIS Easter Ia
ed ed and then going to the little neighborhoo
,at church without even stepping on tn
in street cars? A. J. r.
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