Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

Little FALLS. MINI
CURRENT TOPICS.
!. A writer in the Scientific american
says that after the electric light shall
come into general use, the gas companies
may probably use their works in mak-
ing non-illuminating gas for cooking and
heating.
American cutlery now goes largely to
Australia, South America and Europe.
We are pushing England also in pocket
cutlery. OF the two million dollars
worth of pocket knives sold here, Eng
land supplies only ono million dollars
worth, while not many years ago nobody
would look at anything but an English
knife.
There was curious breach of promise
case in London lately The plaintiff tes.
titled that the wicked defendent had
lured her away from man by whom she
had had several children, and who al
lowed her $500 a year. He was himself
the father of child of hers, 7 years old,
and, after promising to marry her, had
cruelty departed and allied himself to
another, even as she had done in the case
of the generous father Of her other chill
dren. The jury gave her verdict for
e87O.
Mrs. Anderson, of Chicago, rented her
property to German WHO proposed
thereon to open a beer garden. She was
cited before the Trinity Methodist
Church, of which she is member, for
violating temperance principles; and
then she asked her pastor, the Rev. Mr..
Crafts, why he. didn't discipline some of
the male members of the congregation
who had similarly offended, notably one
brother, who owned block wherein are
saloons and rooms occupied for immoral
purposee.. :. : 2a.>..a...<... =.
When woman is named Enough"
there must be good reason for it. DR..
Drysdaie, President of the Malthusiam
League, says that he oace met in an
English hospital young woman Of that
name. She was the thirteenth daughter
of her mother, and was named Enough
by justly incensed father, who evident
ly thought that matters. had gone far
enough, and that line must DO drawn.
The mother of Enough did not take the
hint, but gave birth TO nine more child
rem, making s2'in ALL
About the latitude of the Cape Verde
Islands on the Atlantic it is frequent ex-
perience of voysge1s to observe falls of
red dust and dry kind of mist. The
material CT the dust mass was examined
microscopically many years ago by
Gutenberg, and his opinion was that
small particles carried aloft from all
countries here formed a transparent dust
zone FROM which they sometimes sank
down, and in whirling movement came
to the earth's surface. The material of
observation open to Nuremberg was some
what scanty.
A writer in the Progress de Lyon, an
important Republican paper in France,
states that Marshal MacMahon has
signed the recent decree convoking the
electors for the Senate bee ause had he re-
fused an immediate conflict would have
ensued. he is more discouraged than
ever, and the probable success of the Re-
publicans will no doubt render bis situa-
ton intolerable. The writer thinks the
Marshal will shortly resign and remarks
that the Left Centre party in this event
fears an explosion Of public opinion in
favor Of NJ. Gambetta.
The annual losses by fire in the United
States aggregate $10O,0oO,00O, and the
opinion has been expressed that they add
materially to the hard times. The gener-
eral increase of wealth is estimated at
$70O,000,COO annually, though in dull
times like tho present it is not probably
half the sum. Hence our losses by fire
are equal to IL or 80 per cont of our en-
tire increasement,which is not far from the
tax levied upon European nations for the
support of their immense standing armies
Losses by fire in this country are, how
ever, steadily diminishing.
49, The American Indians do not exter.
inmate worth cent. Rhetoric tells US
that they are fading away before the on
ward progress of the white men, but
these progressive white men fail to gee
them fade. According to figures officially
collected the excess Of births over deaths
is considerable in a large number of the
tribes, especially in the Sioux Confeder-
acy, where their numbers have been
quadrupled in 40 years and more than
doubled in thirty years. It may as we'll
DO confessed that very little is really
known about the true. condition of the
Nations wards.
Inc Rev. Dewitt Talmage 10 going 1t
bit. He is dramatic first and religious
afterward, and the man who would pro-
duce the strongest dramatic effects, and
retain the interest OF his patrons most
aeffectually, must be original and supply
novelties at stated Intervals. This Mr..
Talmage is doing. He pretends to hav.
ing .peeped through the gates of hell with
his eyes wide open-not in imagination,
T. as Dante once visited it-and he depicts
in realistic style what he saw there. He
does it so wildly that he naturally draws
large audiences, though he might perhaps
intensity the interest by the use Of the
stereopt1con. 800. - =, ''--
A young man, whose parents lived in
the country, procured employment in this
city, sayssthe Philadelphia Item, and after
sojourn Of several months received a
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