The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-25
With the Long BolU
Eighth Ward SAUNDERS Interrupted by the Midnight
Cutlery of a Crazy Hen Who Dreamed She Had
Laid Doorknob and Hollered so that it Disturbed
5# the Rooster.
Eye NATURES walks, shoot folly as

IF YOU are not the owner of them, hens in neigh
: / borhood great annoyance. An eighth warder
i who lives next to eighteen biddes, baritone
and tenor cow all vocasts, tells of suffering
in the night from the halucinations of crazy hem
who left her perch at midnight and made noise like
Ia Chinese opium fend suffering from yenyen Whether
bddy had eaten something that puckered her crop or
whether she dreamed that she had laid three large
white china doorknobs in succession and was disturbed
by visions of the pawnbroker, is not known All that
clearly out from the confusion Of witnesses
aroused suddenly from sleep is this: -, y,
3 At 1920 pm. thereabouts May 10 last, the
: neighborhood startled by Tapping sound and
noise like Georges coapsibe balloon. George was
in bed. A lantern showed that Mrs Louisa Hen was
in of the yard with her wings spread out
and calling for help. She seemed dizzy and unable to
walk and the feathers top OF her head stood straight
up The rooster in the henhouse also cry wing
5stmurder'' and fire. in excited
In the morning as the hen was st unable to walk
to fit the and it finally assumed that the hen
was taken suddenly crazy.
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Rev. George Porter of Lucas Ridge, south of Nash
vile Tenn has been rebuked for heresy He has been
preaching for time in that section and the I'M
preston was gained that he was not very orthodox.
The other night at the service it all came out. Mr.
Porter announced in the pulpit that 'the Bible was
"a dead letter. Several members of the congregation
left the church and shortly after their departure
vollev of orthodox eggs flew in the window and ex-
poded on and the sacred desk. The pastor left
the place at and has not been seen since This
is much quicker than heresy trial and 1t seems to
dispose of the hereto without the unpleasant process
OF incineration.
It has come out that there two of them in North
Dakota Ed Pierce of Grafton and Ed Pierce of Shell
don both marking their laundry with the same Nero
Iglyphcs The Grafton is the editor OF the Record
of that town while Mr. Pierce, the Sheldon statesman
lis candidate for reelection to the state senate A
great many people in North Dakota shake the han.t
of Ed Pierce of Grafton and speak OF the good WORK
he done in the senate when the facts are that ne
never did anybody in the senate The Ed Perces viii
have get together and form trust or else shake
for name that has become famous in three walks
20 tho ,anE
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4 Mrs Mary E. Byrd, who has resigned from the
faculty of Smith college because OF scruples regarding
the acceptance by the college Of money from Rookie
teller and Carnegie that she will remain at the
college until commencement and will then go to
Kansas. :,
observatory is one Of the most sensational happenings
that has ever arisen in relation to a member OF the
faculty of Smith, It is also the most startling event in
miss Byrd career which has been most quiet except
once When the United States acquired the Philippines
MRS Byrd peeped good and loud. She was a strong
anti-imperalis and has not been reconclled to the
United States since.
When one has strong convictions like that and
begins to dwell on them bitterness begins to take
possession of him and if he doesn watch out he soon
finds that nothing is right ~ -.
IS When you wish to see things made right all at
once it is difficult to remember that they are il
process o, that old millennium is slow coach!
s And not half prepared to live in it wher
selves! Right there, is something to do even if We
cant slap Mr.. Rockefeller OF Mr.. Armour as they
ought to be slapped.
81 Frankie Berkshire made a decided hit with tho
editor Of the Carrolton, KY, News, who says:
'sMiss frankie Berkshire has nice little schoo
at the Eagle Station schoohouse, and is progressing
finely Being bright, winsome little woman, with
What do you think OF that OLD editor? Amt N
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