The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-17
THE MINNEAPOLIS, JOURNAL 4
Curiios and Oddities
MAMMA FALLS AGAIN.;
: IT'S Passing straH \

<s ~ MAMMA FALLS AGAIN III. /. i N
AMPLEs of real mamma, v5hichsover twenty tons
have just fallen from the skies in Turkestan, to-
the superstious Of the natives have reached the
London Daily Mirror: szt&I gau Sagss go IS Il
Constantinople correspondent who sent a parcel
OF this remarkable substance to George Rofey g. Son.
Settling lane, states that the fell in district
almost bare OF trees and that it eagerly collected
by the Villagers who ground it into
Hour and made cakes of it: 7ts$s. -@tzs5 ss
Ignorant of its perfectly natural origin, they re-
garded it as gift from heaven
AS matter OF fact, mama is the result of the.
burrowing Of certain III trees It is regular
article OF commerce in the east the ash tree
being cultivated in Sicily. ~ Il *"> 5ssa4@
But the mamma that has just created so profound
an impression in Turkestan is not quite the same.
high authority biblical natural history informed
Mirror yesterday that the specimens Were
the work Of worm that only produces this substance
under certain climatic conditions, which only obtain
about once in every fifteen years or %"+ -
~ These wormcasts, when dry are very light, and
a whirlwind and carried away Is great distance
The falling of dense shower of these edible casts
would naturally be regarded by the natives as
wonder. -....- 1885,. - IT, TT:
The word t'manna'' means in Hebrew .ttI know
not In Turkestan the word has a similar meaning.
In Australia mamma is obtained from eucalyptus
tree. '~ 49, e"%'" : .@r*@-- r. -'~'0.-~
- HOW TO SPOT AMERICANS ABROAD. =
= e NGLAND and the Continent are now overrun with
: Il Americans. A globe trotter said the other day
that Americans could be distinguished abroad by these
sentences, which they continually to be heard
peating: .::'% =s'9:~:5 - : - -
."''I studied French at school, but--".s
American men the best in the world'' = :
What wouldn't | give for good big plate of
American ice creamq'' >'~= 49, :."<.> ,:<<
.Giye ne good, plain, home cooking These French
10, thank you; We never drink i wine with our
. ." Ant the English stppids'' -. s@
Well, III be glad to get back to Gods own
country.''.~ ~"'*> '.<
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A MEMBER of the Chinese legation, clad in SPLEEN
did, pale-hued Silks stood before the Casino at
Newport -,
"Pins,' he said, "cause untidy habits. We have
pins in China.'' ~e~,, -,~~
He smiled and resumed: e. 49, -..
THE right way to fasten things is with buttons
and buttonholes with loops and frogs. To fasten
things with pins is to make of untidy make
SHIFT 10 employ pins is to- become lazy and s]ovenly
I'VE have no pins in China. Certain foreign man
ufacturers shipped millions Of them to us in the past
but we sent them back. We had no use for them
:z..S. CAN YOU FIGURE IT OUT?
81 = turkey weighs ten pounds and half it's own
l, weight what is the weight of the turkey?''
They were none oof them professional mathemati-
clans, and the problem puzzled them a good deal.
Some said the was fifteen pounds others that
it was problem impossible to solve. ;
But its propounder declared the problem to be easv
Twenty pounds he said was the weight of the turkey
Can you figure it out9
!. 49, j., EGG ON TOAST. ,
.-. e. .uLippncott's Magazine -
HE special mania Of an insane the belief
that he himself vas R9aeheq egg One day he
said to his keeper -. would like piece Of toast. y
1t was not at meal time and the keeper asked "Why
do you want piece of toast nowq''
Because answered the man, IT am tired, and
I'd like to. SIT down!''
~ -. 1EFT-ovERs -. d: - - ,*. :: a.
r HE python has 800 pairs Of ribs the rattlesnake
i 4 thn. al - :
There good reason to believe that trees have
attained in certain to these ages-em 33 years;
cypress, $780,; ivy,a45o; la1ch. 57o chestnut, 600;
800; lime, LOO; oak, 500; yew, 1900.
The letter en-, ~ for some unknown reason seems
indissolubly linked with motherhood In fourteen
thus: Angl osaxon .modor; Persian, madr sanskrit,
Matr; Greek, MATER italian, madre; Dutch, moeder;
German mutter; Russian mater; Celtic, mathair He
brew, EN-; Arabic, am. 49, 49,. y -