The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-27
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-.Ey. natur..s walks shoot folly
How Old Amenophs III Of Egypt Worked Gold Brick
Game His Great and Good Friend the King Of Baby
lon and How the Latter Small Hot Brick in Reply
nLD Amenophis III Of Egypt worked the gold brick
game on his great and good friend the King Of Baby
lOn and Babylon hoered good and loud too 1T has all
out in translation of old brick which OF
what called the Tel-el-Amana letters, written dur
the Eighteenth Dynasty, which long antedaes the Hen
nepin controversy On this old brick his royal
pothooks of Babylon Amenophis Ill OF Egypt OF
sending him Of base metal for gold He says The
twenty minas of gold sent me contained when melted
down, only five minas of pure god.' Amenophis
not recorded mpershabe brick, but he doubtless lays
all to his eweer promises to behead the villain and
make the good by the shipment which he at
forgets to do. How human!
The Sheldon (N d. Progress notes that ''hen the doc
tors excavated Kernel Brewer of the Forum this week
they found and removed IN addition to his appendix guam
ty of bird shot 1t supposed that Brewer carried the shot
away with him from democratic convention in the SOUTH
It goes show that Colonel Brewer has been man OF some
weight in the community ..=..-
Since the lingo spirit has waned in England strong
opposition moving down and wpng out inferior peoples
has developed it is noted by the Fargo Forum that Rudyard
Kplng's popularity has waned and Mr.. Kiplngs muse is
SILENT for occasional faint and insignificant twitter
ings. He the poet Of imperialism, the Boer and
Cecil Rhodes He melted England to conquest and force
The Forum thinks that Kplng himself must have to
see the aggressions which he goed and hor
rbe. There is too much mourning in England over the
Of her promising South Africa, too much
of shame the neiciency of the army and the
physical degeneray Of the people to allow the Of i'm
perialism to be acceptable
This killing off of people who in the way, who
of inferior civilization who do not wish to trade at
store whether done by by nation is assassination
of your neghbor from behind the fence It is not popular
form of amusement in this counryexcept in certain
tons, and all pray that it may not become national
like golf marbles
Postmaster Francis Of Allegheny has thrown bomb
big as small the camp of Cupid He noticed that
large number Of young people used the general delv
cry for carrying their correspondence. He has
been conducting investigation for months getting the
Of the young people who send and receive mail All
these letters have been held and will be delivered
to their parents lawful guardians This has caused
much CONSERVATION among the young folks that 1t is sus-
peed that of the letters will to be interest
ing reading 1t them right Young people who will
use the postoe instead of putting their mssves into
old hollow hole in the fence post deserve to be
found out. .' <-:. i.> >.5>.<
mine owned by local people somewhere in the depths
of old Mexico is furnishing them excitement than
bunch of small boys gets out Of handorgan monkey The
hole earhs scheduled to furnish "copper" but
last week. prodding around with shovels drills and picks
a
store There enough gold prnked around in the 3oot
vein opened up to the up to $1,000 ton Sunday
last local stockholders who heard of the incident just sat
and held onto each other in frightened sort Of
way. The management have announced that small stock
holders will not be frozen out it part of their enjoy
lot Of little fellows killing themselves off with
automobiles.
The Adrian (Mnn) Democrat has been engaged the past
week in killing poet. It says: ~ IT,: :;>~+<~
The Brewster Tribune has discovered poet of whom it
very proud. The of this warbler is j. A. Spaord
he lives Ewington township Jackson county We must
confess however, that reading of his in the
Tribune felt like going and taking shot at afriend.
We ready bet the Panama canal against Bill Lopez
ditch that dozen gentle souls in Mobiles county
who better poetry their stocking feet than the
sample that this Spaord hands out Bro Randolph has
idea Of the genius that lying around loose right here
on this reservation If he has he would encourage it to
forth instead Of going into Jackson county and bring
ing Spafford into the imeght.'' .."@ H.. s~>s-
the mark of true poet to have the boots thrown into YOU
Keats started singing the notes could hardly be dis
ngushed above the cashng Of teeth and hammerng made
by the Adrian Democrats of 1920 hereabout Now the
knockers all dead-and the poet So what difference
does it make. .r...~.. ~. iii "A. j. R.