The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-25
He's Our Dad! Who's Our Dad?
Papa!! --.
PAPA. Rah! .Rah!! Rah.!!
FATHER!H Il

There was great cheering and hand
clapping as father entered the depot. y.
Not more than six or eight Mrs. Smith
could be on hand to meet him, asEit was.
housekeeping time. No casualties re-
suited from the crush. . * s:3=
Boston has had Seismic disturbance
Ten miles away from Boston in any di-
rectlon 1t was an earthquake.
Pension Commissioner Eugene Ware has
gone south to take a much needed rest
from the cares Of office. Before he left
Washington he wrote the president a
short note in lead pencil characters that
ran as follows: ..e A..
T take this piece Of plumbagol
- To tell you l have the lumbago.
For week and a day
For 1 feel like very bum Dago.
John L. Sullivan, the ex-champiori, who
is living in Boston, is said to be sick and
penniless. He, might be mentioned for
vice president on the Hearst ticket if
it would make him feel any better.
Irl Hicks predicts hot weather for July.
Well, we shall not try to stop it. B.
Oklahoma is complaining bitterly of its
winter wheat, which seems to be moth
eaten in spots. Plant wheat
A young telegraph operator in Miwau-
kee, Wis, gives what is described as a
marvellous exhibition of control of mind
over matter. Coins being placed on a
table, the operator has a funny kind of
a fit, whereupon the money moves slowly
across the table to him. We have noticed
money moving slowly away from us, but
never in our direction, that is, in quanti-
ties sufficient to do us any harm.
do move" It doesn't seem to move up
this way very fast.
King Leopold of Belgium maintains the
ground that as a monarch he is above the
law. 1t seems ridiculous to put mere
king on the same basis as our trusts
The japanese fleet shelled Tchestnutskt
A strange little girl in Omaha has been
a baby for nineteen years: but has just
started to grow. Little Florence Divelbiss
of South Omaha has been victim of what
is called cretinism, or stunted growth.
From the time she was 9 years old until
a year ago she did not grow, physically or
mentally. She could neither walk, talk
nor do anything other than a baby of 8
years could do.
"You can hardly imagine" said Mrs
Divelbiss. how it seems to parents to
go score of years along with the same
baby. the same size and the same devel-
opment, while others in the family grow
up and get married It seems strange,
too, when we recall children born the
same year as was Florence now married,
with children of their own as large as
Florence. But you could hardly blame us
for loving her. more than a natural child.
We know that it is merely her affliction.
And now it seems 50 strange to see her
growing like other children.
Referring to some portic1l1a rly loved
child parents often say, Eve wish we
could keep him a baby always" But II
their wishes could come true, it would be
an affliction indeed. Everybody ought to
move on--and does normally.
There is great excitement and stir in
the local old book world over an auction
of rare books to take place in Minneapolis
next Monday and Tuesday. The gem of
the sale-arad it really is a wonders a
| second folio of sshakspere, the edition of
1882. The celebrated Droeshout portrait
is repaired and portion supplied In
fac-simile and carefully inlaid. The Ben
Jonson verses are also supplied in fac
smile. The book is bound in full crushed
levant. When it is recalled that perfect
copy of this celebrated second folio has
brought $3.50 in London lover 4,000) it
will at once be seen that the local book
cranks have before them the fight of their
lives over this remarkably rare book.
Some of the boys are already lying awake
o. nights and carefully running up and
down the columns Of their savings bank
books and grooming in spirit at the
thought Of the possible presence at the
sale Of Fat Boys with unlimited pocket
books and no end offnervous energy when
1t comes to bidding on rare books
Next week will be a "hot time for the
book cranks. T. Fl