The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-02
Human interest; "

Human interest
THE newspaper reader, consciously
or not. is always looking for 1t, and 1t
takes no long experience to show him
that he is not apt to find it FIRST
page. top column" History may be
chronicled there, but as good Hannah
More once wrote, "'Tis tribes make
the sum of human things" and back
in his paper, half buried, perhaps
among the real estate items, will he
usually come upon the unconsidered
little things" which best tell the joys
and SORROWS in response to which the
worlds heart beats.
Nineteen ten has proved this over
and over again. January began the story
on its very first day, when Phil
adelphia man. Frank Angelo, reported
himself at the Pennsylvania hospital
for treatment. His heart was giving
him no end OF trouble every time he
looked at a pretty girl. He'd turn
dizzy and the pavement would rise and
fall like the deck of a ship at sea. The
doctors said they hadn't had case on
the records like it since 81. and Angelo
when dismissed, took solemn vow al
WAYS to look the other way when pass
ing the Quaker city maidens.
To lump across the continent, the
same initial month OF the twelve
brought the oldest of happenings to
p. w. Stevenson Of Portland, Ore. Back
In SO, rather than lose a week wages
and a shotgun, which he had lent his
employer, he took (under protesD a
corner lot, 50x10O feet. On the day In
question II sold for just $250,00O.
Looking for her share Of something
of a like sort, Mrs. Sumeral Dennis OF
Dadeville, Ala, entered a claim for
pension In January, and 10! the bu-
reau's annals showed that her very
patriotic husband had died three
times: in 1915, after service in the war
of '12: in At, after having been present
at all the Mexican lighting; and now
again a few years ago, with civil
war experience for a grateful govern
naent's consideration.
Under the identical date OF this last
dispatch, Indianapolis told the world
of a local Solomon, Mayor Shank,
hearing two cases of violation of the
saloon closing Jaw ordered the saloons
in question shut up until the owners
had attended church on at least one
SUNDAY
throughout the service. The clergy
man must attest the fact in writing.
Alderman Donohue of Wilkesbarre,
Pa. did as we'll as this when, last
March, he decided that John Buck
son, arrested for drunkenness; couldn't
fairly be fined the usual dollar as he
had a wooden leg, which naturally was
not affected. You're probably two
thirds drunk" was the decision. It'll
cost you just 81 cents"
When Judge Mulowney of Wash
ington, examining William Thomas as
To the state of his mind, asked him
the name of the president Of the coun-
try, and heard the reply: "Ah doan
rightly know, jedge. There's Mist
Taft. an there's Teddy" he found the
man wholly sane.
Most curious of all the legal causes
of the year, however, was one reported
from Stockholm, where Albert Vys-
troem had been fighting in the courts
for his skeleton. Some years ago hi
signed contract with the Royal In.
stitute of Anatomy, making over hi.
body, after death, in return for pres.
ent sum of money. Then he came into
an unexpected fortune, and tried Il
cancel the DEAL The case was not only