The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-09
With the Long Bolv
-"Eye natures walks shoot folly as 1t tles."
Book Canvasser and Insurance Agent Meet and Prac-
tice on Each Other--Insurance Man Now Paying 81
Month for Forty Years Set of Seventeen
Unimportant Events in History -. ..

UGH less activity noted in certain trades than
IV in former days. but we recall with pleasure the
~ decade ago when an insurance
agent entered the office and tackled book canvasser
sitting there waiting to get at to sell us 1.-The Sew
enteen Greatest Events in the Universe, set bound
in half horsehide morocco in volumes The
office air was filed with dust and noise of conflict but
before the insurance agent left he had signed card
emitting him to pay 81 month for about forty years
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Army recruiters find that cigaret smoking has
fitted the boys in the south for entering the army
Uncle Sam does not wish army that be detected
for several miles by it's efuvia. The enemys general
"seems to me I smell the foe Captain order tho
gunners to drop few shells in the direction of that
packinghouse odor.'
Then the first thing gallant boys would know,
shells would be dropping in their midst Plainly cigar
ets like gaudy Clothes will have to be barred if the
boys do not wish to be shot to pieces.
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The fool joker is dangerous person. The usual
number of deaths have occurred this summer from his
efforts. Poor old Peter Kuhn who believed in ghosts
has gone to be ghost himself owing to the fool jok:
er activity Kuhn frightened to death by weird
noises in the night at Norris City, Ill. His body
found in bed in the morning with look horror on
his face nail driven in shingle of the roof above
the head of his bed held tin can, to which long
string had been attached. The 'practca' iokers by
rubbing this string with rosn produced sounds in the
air Kuhn's head. Kuhn knew it was spirits and
very properly died. Funny, wasn't itq
B. B. Messer, farmer, IS years old, at Huntington,
W. Va Is hopelessly insane the result of joke by
grandsons, ranging from 16 to 80 years of age,
residing at distance, planned, joke that each
should write the old man letter the following week.
Each was to solicitude for his safety claiming
that he had dreamed that his grandfather had died.
The letters arrived one by one. On Monday the
first, Tuesday the second, Wednesday and Thursday
like letters followed all with the same dark forebod
ing. The matter preyed upon the old man s mind 50
heavily T that BY Saturday he lost his reason.
outcome of their w1tticisms.
It is sometimes we'll to give "practical" jokes
little thought
Probably no better succeed Dr. Dovvie could
be chosen than Brother Bills of Miller s. d. who is
Of the candidates for election the prophetship
Brother Bills is regarded in Miller an able man and
hnancier He is at all times bubblng with zeal
When holding sunrise prayer meetings at one time in
Miller to attend which the seepier brethren neglected
to arise from their owery beds Of ease Brother Bills
loaded cannon to the muzzle and touched it off, It
aWoke not only the town, but the entire countryside
Bills Poor Mans Bank at Miller and ran it hon.
esty 1t he gets control of Zion will be honestly
and shrewdly administered
M4
Why does a rooster hold up one legg This seems
Hike simple question: but it carries with it Of
the profoundest problems of complex nature The
general opinion is that the rooster holds up his limb
rest it, but there are observers who claim that such is
not the ROSTERS method of obtaining repose The
elevation of the birds limb occurs at intervals that
show it to be rather mark of chestiness In holding
up one leg the rooster is in fact performing an act
OgOus to that of the Daniel Webster orator who tucs
hand osentatously between his shirt front and his
vest and swells out his chest. The rooster having
neither shirt front vest does the thing mentally
analogous.
Study the rooster In these smaller things some
times lies concealed the key to profound mysteries
MA
A legal fight at Higginsvile, Kan, has attracted
notice in the press of the southwest. young fellow
bought 1000 extra fine cigars and had them insured
for their full value smoked them up and demanded the
insurance, claiming that they had been destroyed by
ire The case was taken to the court and the Judge
decided in favor Of the young man. The insurance
company then had the young arrested for settino
fire to his own property and the judge ordered
that he pay a fine and go to jail for three months