The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18
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Mean Trick Played on Aunt Ella by the Young Ones
Who Told the Courteous Stranger that Auntie Was
Deaf.

rrHE children, some Of them of larger growth too,
put up shameful one Aunt Ella that made
that charming and versatile lady feel like
bargain day with everything the table marked
down from 80 cents to 20 cents. courteous and
fined young who had just graduated from college
and did not roll his cgarets either, coming for
visit and the children made plan to tell him that
Aunt Ella quite deaf and sensitive about it,
They met him at the station and on the way home
he heard the story of Aunt Elias aliction and was
properly sympathetic You would not think that a
little plot simple this would be the Of
so much pleasure-to others than the parties
cerned
SO when he met Aunt Ella he looked her directly in
the eye and spoke very slowly and distinctly and in
loud and clear tone. ~
Auntie surprised but assumed at once that he
little deaf and raised her voice too Some Of
the children retired into corners and laughed and
talked volubly to another. S. #
Finally Aunt Ella said soto voice. ''Can it be that
he thinks deaf too and it all out in
general laugh. -,>3 H.. iii
Wasn't that the mean trick to play on the nice
young man9
Editor Bilsborrow, of Granville, N. D., but
formerly of the Maxbass IN. d. paper, in town
haired, poodle dog. His ad6 appeared in the papers
here and caused gut of dogs in the street in front
lacking either in whiteness long haredness poodle
Unity that Mr. Bilsborrow is still going about sor
rowing and dogess. ,-.~o - IT, u, a
He reports that money is horribly easy in North
Dakota and that the wheat jungle is SO thick and
heavy that fears expressed lest the fail
dent it. Mr. B. returns to this land of plenty shortly
and If new brand of long, white haired poodle
sage appears simultaneously the MARKET it will be
suspicious circumstance.
st. Joseph, Mo-, woman had husband who
was good to her. but there was another man
who wrote poetry to her. She was simple enough
to like this idea better than the other. What is
there about that poetry idea that gets them9 Her
husband found Of the poems and instead Of going
cut and simply kicking the poet, he jumped at once
fO w he 196v and inns
The poet is still at large. The bunch Of words he
either appropriated threw together that caused all
this trouble this: So, ..*
81 Give kiss, add to that kiss score; =. u
$3.50 Then to that twenty add a hundred more;
thousand to that hundred, SO kiss on, q
f To make that thousand up million; ~
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let kiss afresh, when first begun cs
Kissing is said to be not bad under proper con-
dtions but submit that the above sanza calls for
too many under any condition -:
Granny Fay, 'tthe sprightliest old woman in
Greater New York, " her neighbors called her, is
dead at the age Of lo5 and the immense astonsh-
ment of the physicians who cut her up Despite her
extreme age, Mrs Fay 3 body in perfect physi
cal condition and well nourished that of q
Of 80 or 35. The coroners physician DR..
Philip o'Hanlon, stated that he had $500 au-
topsies since he had been connected with the office
and had never seen anything like it. He called in
physicians and surgeons to inspect the
usual conditions. - ,..
Investigation Of Granny's habits Of life showed
that for forty years past she had lived almost excu
sively diet of bread and milk and probably had
not thought much about 1t either.
The incident recalls the case Of '1Old Parr'' who
lived to be 152 years of age and then killed himself
by going a''time" and painting London deli
cate crimson.
The great Harvey made the postmortem exa1nina,
tion Of old Parr and has left it record that his
vscera all sound, the cartlages Of the ribs had
not ossifed and there obvious reason why be
might not have lived for fifty years more if he had not
kicked up and tried to paint-the town. Cut off in his
prime at 1891 What warning this is to elderly gen
flemen who try to ''do'' the metropolis!
Flourens says that is twentye years growing
and that the normal animal lives five times the period
of his growth. That would give just a century