The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-19
Curios and Oddities.
GOLD MINES FOR ALL.
IT'S Dassin9 straae.l,'

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Is7,HERE is money comedy farce than in
musical comedy said Manager Fiasco lin must
cal comedy, you see, the expenses are SO heavy.
81 suppose Charley IS Aunt, financially considered,
the most successful play written At time there
fourteen companies touring in it at the time
America and in the English provinces, and in France and
Germany It 700 nights in London. It earned, all told
$4,000.
Sweet Lavender paid $l5O00o At the start it
not very successful, either.
'fIn that respect like Booth Tarkngtons Beau
caire which seemed doomed to fail at st and is still
ming Beaucaire has need Mr. Harrington $125O00 date
Jones and Herman, the authors of sThe TckeofLeav
Man. made out Of that drama $240000.
1.-THE Gilbert and Sullivan operas wonderfully
Pinafore years. Patience eighteen months and
It thing for the authors to clear from
opera $25O,OOO or 100000 apiece
tPnero made 100000 out of The Second Mrs. Tan
queray $4,000 Of The Magistrate $4,000 out Of
Dandy Dick
George Bernard Shaw got in the past practically moth
ing from his plays but today there not lacking prophets
who say that before his life ends, Shaw will have cleared
100000 out Of candida alone
.1What surprises that every and woman in the
world doesn't to and write play Playwriting
gold mine open to all :
@LEG-wEARINEss-A DISEASE OF WATERS
81 AN going to take month off, sir said the waiter.
l II have become leg weary. =
The patron looked up from his chop in establishment
Legwearyq', he said "Why that is horses disease,
isnt.it
Eyes sir But walters get it too, sometimes"
.g.9How does it affect you?''
.sttMuch the affects horse sir The legs be
numb. They don't mind you right They are apt to
cru1nple under you inexplicably and let you down.
Leg WEAKNESS is caused by too much leg work. sir It
is like writer's cramp From too much writing the hand
gives out; from too much trotting the legs give out
EWhen horse gets legweary they put him to pasture
for month. With my legwearness I IL sit at home
rocking by the radiator and with the papers, ppe
and books from the free library, I'll take it easy till legs
tone up again. ta. @4
.-,..$ WHAT IS A SMELLY
THE sense Of smell excited by gases or particles? Ac
cording to DR.. John Aken, English specialist, gas
isethe fundamental basis Of the Of SMELL In expert
ments investigated musk of which possible to
detect by smell microscopic quantity inconcevaby minute
fact we'll known to scientists Dr. Atken carried out his
researches upon the cloudy condensation basis according to
which if odors are attributable particles the latter form
Of cloudy condensation in supersaturaed air. and thus
make their presence visible
In the Of musk such nuclei detected proving
that does not give off solid particles but evaporates
that it gaseous particles from the musk
that the Of smell Of other odorous
substances one gave its perfume solid particles nothing
but gases vapors escaping from them.
points, that the nostrs to substan
ate this theory The perfume Of snuff for instance
soft vevety sensations while the effect Of the solid sharp
and biting, more allied to pain than pleasure
.z%s PRETTY GOOD "BUY."
IMoORDER to token by which to remember a
to whom she had been much attached Mile.
Bertha Chevanne young French attended sale Of
the old ladys effects The girl poor and most of the
articles beyond her purse shabby old booka book
of devoons-was however, put up Nobody bid for
cept Mile Chevanne and she bought it for next to nothing
turning the leaves she folded paper.
will bequeathing her the whole Of her
estate, valued at $4,000 :
| ~: FREAK WORK AT EIFFEL TOWER
UNIQUE records established in that recent footrace
~ up the Ee in Paris Forester the
227 competitors assembled the 729 steps minutes IL 40
seconds Lepage coming second to him with the time of
minutes 16 5 seconds Both Forester and Lepage milk
and the former cycis Among those who chose to
climb in more less Wachorn who
mounted with weight Of fifty kos each shoulder and
| Succi, a fasting man, who went up backward