Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-19

Little Falls Transcript.
H. C. STIVERS, Editorand Proprietor.
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The price of bread in England is SAID
to'be precisely what it was in 1870. Beef
At its present retail price Of nine pence
is q great advance on the three and three
quarter pence per pound of that day
and butter has risen from six pence tt
twenty pence.
A Hindoo scholar has become Swe
denborgian, and the fervent disciple has
published n boob in exposition OF tn.
works of his master, and in defense of hi!
tenents. The name of this Oriental con:
vert to the New Jerusalem Church is Rag
Bahadoor Dadora Pandurung.
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A student at Palermo, named Siracusa
lately fred four shots from a revolver a
bis professor, because he was not permit
ted to undergo certain oral examina
ton. The professor escaped with hi
life, but the youth gave himself up I'M
der the impression that he had killed
him.
Toe Legislature of Missouri has been
petitioned by the Grand Juries of severa
counties to revive the whipping post il
that State. The Boons County jury argue,
that more punishment is imposed on tn,
honest taxpayer than is inflicted on til,
criminal by small pecuniary fines O,
short terms of imprisonment.
The i'll wind that carried off the body
of A. T. Stewart will do some one good
Watching the remains of the dead after
burial, has hithertofore been the excep
tion instead Of the rule; but the New
York Sun calculates that hereafter it vii
require five live men to guard one deai
one, and hence there will soon be plent,
of work for the unemployed.
The Sierra Nevada mining stock, which
a month ago sold at $3.50 share, is nov
quoted at from $34 to $45. Its depression
is thought to be more the result of stock
speculation than of an actual decline in
value. Should the anticipated bonanz'
in the Sierra Nevada mine I've realized
the rebound to high figures will be al
most instantaneous.
One of the features about Japanes,
progress is the attention paid to femal,
education. The Empress, who is said t,
be very able woman, spends both tim,
and money in fostering everything which
looks towards the elevation of her country
women. Recently she invited humble
of girls to the palace to make an exhibi
ton OF their needlework.
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"You cannot Imagine the terror with
which the advancement of American in
dustries is filing British manufacturers.
said Prof. imam in a recent address
1--WE, as you know, took the leading priz,
at Paris for the best steam engine ia th,
world, and it is not denied in Europe to
day that America heads the list in tn,
manufacture of agricultural machinery.
Says DR.. Albert Bernays, speaking O
the English workmen: "He goes home
fretted and overworked, to house which
is nearly everything that it ought not It
be. The museums are closed agains
him on Sundays, but the tavern is not
The parks and puolic gardens are re
moved from his haunts, and nothing i
brought to his door but the public house.
Mrs Bemis, of Holliston, Mass, had
been for thirty years bedridden invalid
Medicines of many kinds had done he
no good. Finally the Rev Charles Cul
lis undertook her case. He read at he
bedside passages of Scripture relating t,
the power of faith, prayed earnestly 70
her recovery, and touched her forehead
with his forefnger, which he had dipped
in oil. Mrs Bemis got out of bed imme
diately and has been we'll ever since
Whether it was the prayer or the oil tina
brought about the cure is not clearly ex
planned. -.
In many respects the present must b.
far more agreeable period for royalt!
to live in than the past. They can hav'
so much more life and variety. Poo
Marie Antoinette, whose very zest in liv
ing led her into thousand il d,scret1ons
would have worked off her superabundan
energy in these days by foreign excur
sions, yachting, hunting, etc. Tn,
Empress of Austria, that horsiest of roya
ladies, spent last year near Melton, Eng
land, and the year before in Northampton
g ire. Now she is under way for thu
County Meath, Ireland, which Is SECOND
to no hunting country in Christendom.
Will the Valley of the Red River Of
the North be the great wheat field of the
future9 A writer answers this question
by showing that the wheat raised in thai
valley this year commands the highest
price of all raised on our soil, that the
increase~in population hes been 81 rapid
that the whole valley along the line o.
the railroad is already almost a continuous