The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
TIE NOHPAREJL MAN

Staging Around the Minneapolis Postoffice
to BE Removed in 1e12-Demand for
More Winter Leads the Weather Bureau
to Add Another Extra Day to February
Amusing Incident In the senate-In-
terestIng Batch of Washington, News
and Gossip.
Washington, Feb. 27.-t"The Panama
canal will be finished about the time the
staging is ordered down from around the
postoffice.''
had this important news from source
very close to the president to-day. This
authority told me that the naval bureau
had a knob who had figured out that the
canal would be thru to the Pacific by
Jan. /, 1912. By that time the staging
around the Minneapolis postoffice will be-
ordered down and a new postoffice build
ing will be begun elsewhere.
The naval bureau scoffed at the idea
that there were germs in this staging.
but promised to have it disinfected at
once in the interest Of the public health.
Demand for More Winter.
So general has the demand been Cor a
little more of this winter that the wea Their
bureau Of the war department has been
seriously of putting another ex-
ira day in February, to be known as
Feb. go This day would be taken from
August next and would lengthen the win
ter by just that much. There will be
much interest and enthusiasm over this
matter in Minnesota and the northwest
generally. Much credit is due to Repre-
sentative Adam Bede, who has worked
persistently for this popular reform.
One on the Senate.
An amusing little incident occurred in
the senate yesterday. Senator Pettus of
Alabama and Senator Hoar, not knowing
that the Panama bill had passed, talked
eight hours on the general subject Of
interoceanic canals. The senate adjourned
without doing any business.
A Louisiana strawberry stepped across
the Missouri line yesterday and had one
of it's seeds frostbitten.
Do not neglect to enjoy all the winter
sports there are while they last. Only
two or three more months Of the glorious
old season that has only one disadvantage.
That is, that the air is SO dry that you
cannot fully enjoy the brilliant. sparkling
cold.
Sometimes the office seeks the man, but
not the coal office. 1t doesn't have to.
The man has to hunt that. -
furnish a guarantee" A man would
look nice, wouldn't he, riding home a
guarantee when the machine gives up
about four miles this side Of Shakopee.
Dassel, Mimi. is looking for talent. A
want ad printed recently says:
BUSINESS LoCAT1oNs-THERE ARE GOOD
openings at Dassel, Mimi, for baker, dentist
or m1lliner. Would prefer people who can
play good baseball. lead band and take
active parts in sporting and musical circles.
Address, with references, 1925, Journal.
1t ought to be a painless dentist to
extract the high notes from the band.
The %McCordsville, Ohio, Exhumer digs
up a most enjoyable bit of winter sport
that has twice convulsed McCordsvilie
wits. The Exhumer says:
Some beast in human form wa dded Doc Skin
ner's office keyhoe full of wet paper and then
telephoned him to- hurry out to old Bill Jen-
nings and bleed him. When Doc went to his
frozen,; and he couldn't get the key in. This
is the second time this thing has happened.
We would suggest that Doc, when he
leaves the office, hide the keyhole under
the mat.
An Austin, Mimi, parent confides his
griefs to the Austin Herald:
Since little Johnny went to school : ~
lr.5 And studied under MaxweI1.s rule, = I
10 He's learned to hem and darn and knit
And has a pretty sewing kit. = -, -
II --.".' d.. -
He's learned TO paint yellow ross
And how to ornament his clothes:
How to make pretty moonlight scenes
BY splashng ink on little screens.
You ought to hear how Johnny sings
Those lovely. noisy. Wagner things.
He. sings all classic music grand,
Those tuneless things none understand.
When pa comes home from work at night
He teaches johnny how to write
And how to cipher and to SPELL
But what pa says-I shall not tell.
G. B. Harrison, farmer near Perham
Mimi. noted that the state supreme court
had ruled that prairie chickens and other
wild game are the property Of the state,
and laws it may enact in regard to their
killing is a legitimate use of power APP
plying logic to the situation, Mr.. Harri-r
son sent to the fish and game commission
a "bll for $54.56 for feed furnished by
him from his grain and corn to prairie
chickens during the closed season.
The state game and fish commission,
applying logic on its side, should return
to Mr.. Harrison a bill for S55.27 for bugs,
snails, chinchbugs and grasshoppers eaten
by the states poultry SO as to save Mr.
Harr1son's crops from destruction.
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