The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-18
A FUNNY LITTLE INSECT.

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1t is hoped the reader will not tire of so much base
ball poetry. but the fever is in the land and i, is al
most impossible to keep from saying something about
The fans. a well-known fan has contributed this to
these columns. with tho remark that he just couldn't
hold it, and had to give vent to his feelings. So here
goes:
There's 4 funny little insect afoating round the burg
And some ones bitten every little while.
The way that II affects them is really quite absurd
For every time they see a ball they smile.
Tho good old English language is forgotten now YOU see
The fans are talking plain Nmcriranesc
For the winter days are over and kins f"ascbhlls in
again
And tho big league games have started if you please.
There's Fritz down in Milwaukee,, Hop Ice he ais"
Even Waldo down in Boston has the twans
Every fan throughout the nation, rings in his CONVEX
4 hunk of tina, beloved baseball slang.
You can see upon the hlcachcr, a consrcssman or "a
And they all are letting on, a sladsom" noise:
All their dicnitics forgotten. when they call the UNI
pire rotten
And they cheer along the winning home team boys.
For its Hit 'cr on the head old scout. swat tina, pill
an awful clomt
"Eoost the pellet rlcan across tho fence.
"GNnn Va bloomin' robbcr, sell YOUR brains To some
Junk jobbcr
"1'es apt to give YOU nearly seven cents"
oh it's ,ust the same old story. and the fan is in his
Election. wrecks and other things pass by.
A murder Wouldn't get him, there's but one thing will
fetch him.
It's the boys on, on the diamond have his eye.
Hard t." Locate tho Dcad-lnc-1lavin been in
vogue Tor centuries, me custom of ringing two bells,
ono to summon the rich. and the other the poor, to
Nestry meetings. has now been discontinued at North
leach, f;louccstcrshirc, on the ground that it is out Of
keeping with modern feeling. In this day OF watcrcd
stocks and inflated values. together With so much dill
scncc practiccd in slipping one over on the assessor.
it probably was ii pretty hard Job to adjust the dead
line" with any degree of accuracy or satisfaction.
OLA Ribh. one Of the brightest writer's in the state,
though he has never made writing a profession. has
assumed the cditorship of the Mountrail County Pro-
n,otcr. AT Stanley. Mr.. Rihb's writings have entertained
n nOnip u # this state hYoIr1 IaYjnIo np,nI. @,
several years. though they generally appeared over a
nom d" plume. Ribh is - concrete mixture of the
soml'er and serious, and III" comical and "ntcrtaininc.
II is ~ forcgonc conclusion that tho Promoter is des-
tined Ia become one of the brightest papers in the
state.
Now that the man who started a MAGAZINE with n
dnilar and a quarter has gone broke, tho MinncapoIjs
Journal sarcasticaiiy remarks that it served him rjrht.
as it was too much money.
q. Temporal! q. MOrcS!-It has been stated that
"a tn" continent of Europe. two hundred wears ago,
Their" was always u prayer desk in a printing office. 50
that when an unus,ally bad picr. of copy was received.
the printer could offer up a prayer for tn" author. Two
hundred years have wrought Il material change i'm tho
printer. we fear. for ii isn't that WAY in tho prinishon
MONT is. Hiram?
An explosion in a taxi startled people un tn, ,u, .,c
Lyons in Paris and III" Pioneer Press SAYS II nroI,,lly
WIS tho meter irving Il" MAKE - show inc that wouId
irnovrrish an American tourist and save tho cha To,,r
live trouble.