The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-05
With the Long Bow
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How the Sweet Voiced Girl Next Door Aroused Father
from His First Sweet Sleep with q Modest Request for
the Use Of the Dear Old Phone-An Incident in the
Strenuous Life Of Minot, N. D.

sT-WAs the night before Christmas at Minot, N. D., and
nearly every optic was closed except the Minot Optic,
the paper that tells the story. The lights were out and father
had just turned over and settled down for a comfortable
nights sleep when there came q resembling knock at the
back door. Hubby listened for a minute, and the knock
was repeated louder and more Imperative.
Unjust be one Of the roomers who has forgotten his
key - said mother. 'Better go down and let him in" .
So hubby climbed out Of bed, and with much grumblng
over the forgetfulness Of the roomer, slipped into a few OF
his clothes and went downstairs. Meantime the knocking
had increased in fervor, and the house resounded under
what sounded like a fusiade. Hubby finally reached the
door, and after nearly breaking his shins and ready to give
the roomer a piece Of his mind for forgetfulness. But
imagine his surprise when the sweet voice Of a %neighboring
young lady asked:
"Might I use your telephoneq" ....~ ~.
Father managed to gasp out a permission, and the young
lady swished over to the telephone, and, after getting the
number and person she wished for, said:
''Hello, is that you, John9 I know it's late, but can't
you come down and spend the rest of the evening?'
Sheath, but they had all they could do to keep father
from ordering out the telephone in the morning, but calmer
council finally prevailed. ~~
A Columbus avenue man, just a plain man like all the rest
OF us, and doubtless mad over his tax statement, has fallen
sudden heir to $4,000 left him by a thoughtful uncle in
Germany, who was on the point Of dying and did not need
it. II one cannot be the heir to a comfortable little sum
like this, which is sure to come in handy before spring, it is
a pleasurable feeling to think of the great Joy yelling up
in the bosom Of some other gentleman who is playing the
star part and feeling finer than thirty $4,000 bills. If we
had $4,000 quietly left us some night
The breezy call Of incense breathing morn,
The swallow twittering from the straw-buht shed,
No more should rouse us from our lowly bed.
And why not9 Because for once we would lie as long as
we pleased and let the other boys break their legs getting
into the office at 7:30 am. -~ >"-E
Wales, N. D., reports a rather rare form Of accident. An
%aeetyene plant became disturbed and destroyed the Hotel
Northern. AS a rule acetylene eats out Of your hand.
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A st. Louis paper published a story abont a o1rl ar
Hope, N. D., coming back to life after she had been dead two
weeks. The Hope Pioneer claims never to have heard of the
case. Can 1t be that the st. Louis paper was misinformed?
C%oleharbor, N. D, bachelors have organized a mean mans
club, any member of which caught in the society of ladies
will be expelled. So far the ladies have been so mad at the
club that there is no danger Of its losing membership very
rapidly. : - = |< n -: "a = ~ &~"
Two lumberjacks arrived at Superior Christmas night to
have fun. While watching the crowd from q corner thew
saw a poorly dressed little girl going along the street clasp
ing a small Christmas tree. She didn't look as tho Santa
Claus would leave her much, and each Of the men put a.
ten=dollar gold piece into her hand and told her to hurry
home and tell her mother that "Santa Claus was in town
and would be fullern a goat before night" The lumber
jacks perverted taste in liquids is about the only thing that
keeps him from being a king.
The story from the east that the Wright brothers. sons
of Bishop Wright, had sold their successful aeroplane (no
balcony to a French syndicate was slightly in error. The
Wright brothers have sold only the right to make and operate
the machines in France, having reserved all other rights.
The Wright brothers live near Dayton, Ohio, and are
| persistent workers. They worked seven years to perfect the
present machine. 1t is an aeroplane propelled by fans op-
Grated by a motor: 1t flies on the same plan that a kite does,
by being forced against the air by propellers instead Of being
/ pulled by a string: At the last trial the machine was o.
4 Grated about the prairie, making twenty circuits Of one mile
4 each.
The French syndicate has not paid in the money, but If
/ The machine will fly before a committee which will come to
/ zee II, as 1T has already flown before a party Of farmers and
/ CITY men over Huffman Prairie, east Of Dayton, the bargain
will be closed. The amount Of money to be paid is a secret,
Somebody is going to fly pretty soon, and it might as
4 well be the Wright boys aeroplane as %anybody's. The idea
OF hy1ng IS IN the air, and it is going to. take form in a
practicable flying machine very shortly. We cannot ba held
down by the mere attraction of gravitation much longer.
A. J. R..
SHE SCORES AGAIN.
HEY had had another quarrel. ...
7 - won't say marriage is a failure, he began, "fon