The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-09
NTH the Long Row.
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies.

n HE editor of the ST. Thomas On d. Times has wood
pecker that is valuable than cuckoo clock. This
woodpecker dwe in the editors trees and morning
at daybreak bird sits the roof of the house and picks
it so hard that it sounds like emptyng load of
cobblestone on the shingles. AS editor wishes to
am the woodpecker in disfavor It estimated that
the empies several hundred bushels of noise the roof
if you allow four pecks to the busnel.
Gem City, n d. justice of the peace lost his marriage
fee by being particular in the forms Of While
engaged in making racket John Beech and Miss Mary
Bec who had of azy idea that they wanted to get
married he received proper replies from Beech but when
turned Mary and asked evil support the con-
stituon and take this jay for fe9 Miss Bech exclaimed
''No by jugfu I'll support Ii he can't support
me the deal is off. - -.r~.-
All attempts to make peace were failures and the
riage had to be called Oft. ~..,-
fine old Sioux grandfathers died in Goodwill town.
ship Roberts county, N. D., this spring They Yokse
(Bite Off bitten off in his seth year; Solomon Eli
who reached his Goth year, and Unptomnwazawin ron
Spider) in his 103d year and who the oldest
Indian the reservation spinning his wiry web In
the happy hunting grounds.
Sheldon N. D.. sticlweders went to Alice, N. D.,
the other day and victorious Otto Dam pitched
for Alice and at the end Of the sixth inning the Sweet Alice
fans Wanting loudly of to in their favor
But in the seventh and eighth the Shedonans seemed to find
Dahm ball that Mr. Dahm pitched and ended the
game with of Is to H. The Sheldon Progress says
that Mtchell had his pitching with him and struck
out sixteen Alice batsmen, which doing pretty we'll for
who, ye has only been officiating in the pitchers po
sition for about twenty-five years.
49,
correspondent writes know if Paderews spraned
his neck playing the piano if the unfortunate incident
due to the deraing Of his 1t little Of BOTH The
great pianist suffering from too strenuous practice
at box fright jar from the accident put
the finishing touch The panss condition is serious
that he cannot practice and feared that he is out Of
condition for time There players whom this
might be reckoned "a Judgment but 'Paht rrevski'
is said to be good player Notice the $40 pronuncia
ton)
The rival towns Ltchfed Pittsbug the hurried
state of Kansas at swords points owing the theft of
Lchfelds sanctuary by Pttsburg boosters 1t that
Psbugs citizens, aping metropolitan customs, Clipped in
and built nice little church in which they worshiped
Sunday while the Ptsburge1s looked with envous
One night long after dusk the people of the Of
Pttsburg drove to Lcheld with eight yokes Of
made fast to the sanctuary and dragged
Pittsburg. When Ltchfed in the morning and saw
that it bereft of its cathedral loud cutlery raised
and the building traced to that hated Pttsburg where il
found that choir had already been raised and coec-
ton TAKEN Psburg deacons and pillars of the church,
heavily armed watching the sanctuary by night
fearing ncendarism. ..
The state agricultural college at Manhattan, Kan re-
Gently listened lecture entitled ''The Diseases of the
Sweet Potao' The potato ought to take few absent treat
ments.
most remarkable boy passed this office yesterday Ar
automobile standing at the curb and the boy passed right
by without reaching to oot the horn Did you
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For his frivolous column called Daily Drift, which
almost good the Long Bow column, serious gentleman
called Doc Bixby 'down' and Bxby hard for material
all are threw the incident into the form verse;
says:
Today am humble and meek as a kitten
Completely subdued if not fully suppressed;
I've had fierce roast' for the things I've written.
From who assumes that he knows what is best
He said in effect it wicked to scatter
The proftless seedets of trivial thought;
This life he declared was serious matter
With problems Of deepest solemnity fraught.
No circumstance here could provoke him laughter,
He saw in ife's desert fountains of mirth;
The certanties here and the prospects hereafter
We're serious themes for the children of earth.
That is right who will turn out this kind of stu
six days in the week must have rve loose and be ratt
badly somewhere "A. J. R.