The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-15
Curios and Oddities
THE POWER OF CURIOSITY.

THE POWER OF CURIOSITY. Il.
JACOB HUTCHINSON, the champion salmon fisherman Of
- New Hampshire had New York his boat on
Lake Sunapee.
The boat, as wide and comfortable as a room was
anchored off Birch Point in ninety feet Of Hutch
nson ais he ishe every little while threw handsfu of
crushed eggshells right and left Sinking slowly thru the
clear water the shell fragments sparkled like bright silver
All winter the egg shells saved in my house, he
said for to salmon fishing with. In my brothers.
house they saved too and collect them every week
from of my friends houses have by gosh when the
fishing opens good many barrels Of them they
all gos fish good DEAL you have to, to hold the
championship fish every day from ocock in the
ing till late afternoon. =
What good do the eggshels do2 said the champions
guest.
They attract the salmon.''
How do they do that?'
by the power Of curiosity. The salmon come
tgate the eggshels They the smelt and they get
hooked''
Mr.. Hutchinson smiled.
Curiosity' he said 1s great force cleo
tcy, and they who know how to its power
plsh much
There Newport who appreciated and utilized
the power Of curiosity at all times. For instance:
HE had allowed his wife to go to Philadelphia for
two weeks vacation When the two weeks up the lady
wrote that she would stay another week Them day
later, she wrote that she would stay month. pas
This man loved his wife He could bear do with
out her for such long time month Besides he
afraid that at the month end she would put off her
again.
$50 he brought her back by resort to the power Of
curiosity
1t his habit all the Newport papers, the
Voice, Sun, Clarion and Argus The batch he for
warded he cut carefully out of each paragraph about three
inches long.
When the lady received in Philadelphia those four home
papers, each with paragraph clipped out she sat down
and her husband asking him what
had been clipped from them
BE He made reply ~a@
She wrote again She demanded that he send her the
forr IN, t;1o4oJ
"Still no reply.
$50 she returned She came back post haste The power
of curiosity brought her -
A SLAVE FARM
&c LAVE farms is in Morocco said the sailor.
- IT got brown friend in that ,country what's
slave farmer.
s'His name is Sidi, and he white inside. passed
week on his farm and what there convinced
that slaves amt off than poor folks Them slaves
Of Sds worked but the boss took the best Of Of hem
he fed and housed and clothed them ne he treated them
like a valuable boss
.o make slave farm profitable, there must be lots of
children born year. Two Of Sids slaves had
had twins three runnin Sid grnned he told he
bought them because they Of stock that
was given to twins Oh, he's foxy.
cit used funny the Moor dealers goin
the farm after bargains They examine slaves teeth
and study feet punch and prod him in the stomach,
and questions about his history The more money
slave sold for the prouder the poor fellow would be-
1"Young men slaves brought about $3.50; young
about $780, boys brought about $780, and girls about $50
THE PHILANTHROPY OF HATTERs.
CROWD Of in old clothes struggled before hat
~ ters back door. On the steps clerk, smiling and
spruce, kept the multitude in order.
'.stop your cussin' there . he would say Or, "Get
back to your place.. you kick that old man." Or,
s.Shut up. You can't bluff me. 5=s
porters brought out and placed the steps beside
the open packing At this sight the shabby
men became tremendously excited Their circle revolved
+hnS1St
ing to get on the front row.
And now the spruce clerk began to distribute hats among
them They good hats, little but still pretty
GOOD And after the last Of them had been given