The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-02
With the Long Bo,D
--"Eye natures walks shoot folly az It Hles."
Dallas S. D., Moves Everything but the scenery-saa
Mistake Made by st. Paul in the Faftes IN Neeaecs'
ing the Natural Site.

rrHEN Dallas, S. d. found that the new railroad
NM was going thru Gregory rather than thru
Wv Dallas, the Dallassians arose, took up tner
bonsa and walked They walked over to Gregory.
pra;ro TODAY marks the site of Dallas One Of the
greatest mistakes st. Paul made in the hftles was
in not moving to the falls II you can get inc
andscane to work for you, it is well to own fifty or
one hundred feet of scenery in the vicniy settle
down and let 1t strain itself s.. i
Do YOU recall old Appian Buonafede, who lived IN
Venice some time sincea MI. B. was an author ana
wrote book published in 1888 called hber de frae-
dictionbus - or The Little Book Of Long Distance
Predictions Peter Parquate published it and let on
to Appian that he lost money on It, IN any event. Tue
author as is customary, got nothing. ,.,,
Some of Appian's prophecies have been ruinnea
and have not He hit pretty close to the recent
yesuvan unpleasantness for he said:
'sIn 1906 terrible eataclysm will CONFUSE -; a
charming and peaceful shore, while a mountain VIII
yomit forth fire; the like cataclysm will ere scarcely
the year has elapsed, repeat itself with st
ssTn 1906 terrible earthquake will devastate en-
tire southern Italy, , .., -
But there are worse things than that ahead Of
Europe things that MAY ms wS The seep
'sIn 1907 civil will break out IN cenerai
Europe great chieftain will proclaim himself mas,
ter and on him will depend the destnles OF EUROPE.
The predictions reach to 1919, in which the NEGRO
roancer foresees that "a deadly and terrible war will
annihate entire Europe, which will consequently De-
That you may not be too deeply stirred by this dire
outlook we prophesy right here that it will not hap
These two prophesies offset each other, and any
bad effects of the elder seers vision thus neutral
lied. But in any event, stand up for Minnesota we
have a railroad and warehouse COMMISSION ana 90
not need I" judgments" .... -:!. $685.
The invention Of the wheeled skate Of the future
is claimed by Nebraskan. (This is reflection on
MI. Bixby's personal habits) The inventor has de-
parted from the old stereotyped form of roller skate
and uses two wheels each foot the wheels being six
FOR eight larger than the rollers Connecting the
two wheels in the center axle about the width
of the foot Suspended upon the axle is plate which
the shoe in the usual 1t Is claimed that
wearers of these skates travel at remarkable
speed Cushion tires placed on the wheels With
his feet clad in this preparation, man IS SAID TO skim
over the asphalt hard road at remark
able pace With but two wheels to foot it looks to
an outsider like piledriver proposition. In any
event, we propose to let Fatty try them first
- M4 49, "~~~01
Some twenty social people up at Wolford, N. D.,
thought it would be nice to talk together whenever
they wanted to. So they put in telephone system
They did not hire corporation to come in and soak
them They put it in themselves Foolish people The
line is in At meeting Of the stockholders the other
day the treasurer read the financial statement show
ing that of constructing the twentyfour miles
of line and furnishing instruments to the twenty-five
patrons and two centras in the neighborhood Of
$l,474 about $67 for each subscriber. The sub
each man was allowed $1.75 day for himself ant
$1.25 day for his team while helping to build thu
line.
From the expenses will be small and thu
telephone will not enjoy the luxury of paying
dividends to lot of people who engaged in thu
occupation Of holding lot Of watered stool
and living off the public. A. J. R.