The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-01
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- will doubtless be document Of literary ex-
ceence and painstakng scholarship but it cam after
all touch only the high places in the annals of great
municipality like this Is it supposable that it will
touch such human interest incidents the first les
sons OF j. Z. Mannx seven-foot Columbia bicycles
Or it enter into the feelings Of Lac Stafford when
the grder fel9 Can it reproduce in their matchess in
clsveness the language Of General Sheridan the
casion when Arthur P. Pegler interviewed him9 Can
it enter into the inner consciousness of William Henry
Eustls and tell US what were his thoughts when the
st. Paul committee escorting him from the city
from the rear9
We must admit that there great many in
cidents in the development Of metropolis which es
cape the historian, however able and however breezy
his whiskers. For example, the chapter the famous
dinner given by NJ Breslauer E. W. Murphy ct al to
Patrick Henry Ftzgibbons will in all probability be
absent. It belongs rather to the than tho
historian but it had its effect upon the development OF
Minneapolis The dinner occurred in the building
occupied by Voege's drugstore, which was then
series of small offices. The time Sunday after
The weather indications said cold but clear with
signs Of frost. The occasion P. Henry birthday
The courses carried in from neighboring res
taurant The joke, for there was humorous con-
nection, was to bring on so many courses that the
guest would be dazed. The walters carried In soup
the guest remarked he downed the last spoonful
.sSoup is thin stuff for working man. Then came
fish and Pat said he would take some even if it was
not Friday, and when he had taken some there was
none left Two walters toiled in with joint ot
mutton between them. 'sThis, ~ said Patrick, re
minds me of lamb used to know and when he
had renewed his acquaintance there nothing dis
coverable but the bleat The hosts began to tremble
for their joke but giving the high sign to the waiter
had venison served with thick gravy It fed in the
same direction the mutton. Black with apprehen
the hosts hurriedy conferred and gave special
order of steak with mushrooms. 'This ought to hold
me for while said Pat, galy anticipating the slang
of the next decade but it did nothing but whet his
tvpok kinds of. ME
was brought in In bowl. Coffee and layer cake FOL
lowed and Pat to make his = after dinner
speech He compmented his hosts upon their taste m
the courses which, tho sparse in quantity IN quality
left nothing to be desired He thought ne couo nave
suggested nothing himself but an Irish stew to top
off with and inasmuch his hosts had overlooked it he
believed he would go to the restaurant and have
one. Murphy and Breslauer were two weeks coming
out Of and Percy Weldon recovered, for his
was the bright idea. -.
One Of the rules of the British house Of commons
provides that when the leader Of the opposition asks
question during the tendency of motion to divide the
house he must retain his seat and wear hat. The
other night Artie Bafour seized with yearning
to ask something It like the ambition to sneeze
it Just had to be done. To ask his question In order
Artie had to wear hat and having hung his own near
the door he looked about, seized from bench and
having clapped it on his head found to his horror
that it descended to shoulders and he must ask his
question thru the roof The house OF commons IS q
digniied place and the leader Of the opposition got
aVayith the situation without being asked where he
got it,. But should be afraid to let j. Adam Bede
loose on such situation in the house of representa-
tives. Ii
.. Bronson Howard, the veteran paywriter, having
been appealed to tell what the matter with the
theater replied: .... 49,, --.r
IT think the stage just now is overburdened with
othe
Fashion plate actresses, as Mrs. Henrotn called them
are the rage and people go to them dress part
rather than act it, The paybils call special atten
ton gorgeous scenery and expensive costumng as
tho to an integral part Of the performance. Every
summer the female stars and the playwrghts get to
gether to consult over drama for the winter
The female star shows the play what she is 60
ing to and he goes away into the woods and
writes the play the dresses The actress whose
hair and eyes call for pale pink shimmering costumes
gets play lively and futile. The star whose com
plexion demands blue clothes must have with {
dash of sadness it, The purple clad gets
that is horsey and loud. The painter is ther
called in and shown the general scheme of the dresses
and he paints trees barns grottoes and villas to BLEND
with the prevailing tone of the costumes Attention
these details insures successful in New Yorl
and tremendous ovation in the provinces
The maddening thing about a red nose is not tina
it is red but that it is assumed everywhere, ever
among your intimate friends, that you got it in tn
pursuit Of set purpose to dispose Of all the intoxi
eating liquors extant There any number of peopl
who have red who drank anything NOR
deadly than city milk, but it would be futile for ther
intimate that the trouble is constitutional The
nose is the mark and brand Of inebrety. The onl
way to from the general condemnation is to
: rid Of the Heretofore there has been wa
except by surgical assistance, which is doubtfu
= remedy since red is admitted be better tina
!; no at ALL People who have tried to get alon
. without substantially agreed upon thi
proposition. But German professor VIII
s grew up under the burden Of red with an il
venton which by of million hot air syringe
the surplus blood from the nasal appendag
and reduces the most Extensively blooming nose to
pearl gray tint. It is said to be complete succe
as all hot air processes nowadays The only dray
back to the is that if you take it your frien,
will come round and congratulate you having gu
= = drinking james Gray