Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-19

leading manu- facturers Of playing cards show
d increase Of eleven hundred dozen packs
over last year. .zs.5s '5} s BIKE
An artesian we'll $3.50 feet deep has been
bored in Peath, Hungary. Il il the deepest ID
the world. being nearly twice the depth Of that
in Paris. It sends up q jet Of neariys boiling
water forty-two feet high. 81
Cardinal Manning says that Mohammedans
and HindOos are water drinkers and that their
only way Of intoxications is from opium. In
tOxicati0n by distilled spirits says the CarGi-
nal, is peculiarly Christian vice. @s:s
Montreal has decided to clean up little,
but the decision was arrived at only after the
q dead horse on the public thoroughfares until
the dogs removed him pound ct time.
The United States il the only great nation
to-day in. the happy condition of exporting
much and importing little, ALI the Others are
compelled to go outside of their limits for
/ bread and meat and other recessaries Of life. +
English steel pens are almost entirely made
by women. In l828-2l the frat gross Of ''three-
slit steel pens was sold wholesale at E7 a. the
gross. In 1880 they had fallen to IS. and in
1 1882 to 6s. the gross. better article is now
/ sold at cd. per gross. = =: zy h II $500,
Mr.. Frederick Vokes, the leading member of
4 tho Vokes family, has sustained q severe loss
BY the destruction by fire of his, picturesque
suburban residence, Lillian Lodge, Fulham
Il
i Arundel house, was erected in the reign of
Henry WILL a"..' @'5@=s-*5' . ~ =<7E o>szt@5
e The Roman Catholic episcopate counts !, l27
prelates, 80 Of them Of Leo Kills creation.
1 LO2O of Plus ks and n of Gregory xvi g..
Two hundred and ffty-two of these cardi-
rails, patriarchs, AZ archbishops, 1874 bishops
belong to the various orders; Of these only 10
are Jesuits.
The letter boxes at Liverpool have q spring
attached to the flap, and when a letter is push
ed in plate moves and shows the hour of the
last clearance. People can thus tell if they are
in time for certain mail, and a check is had
on the postman charged with emptying the
box. J.. .i.s:.,. =. 49, - -, -.
The Duke of Westminster recently enter.
| tanned the company from the London Opera
Comique at his riderside retreat at Chiveden
They vent up in a steamboat dressed out with
pinafores instead of flags, in allusion to the
piece, III. NJ. s. Pinafore," which they are
playing at present. .''' - =
Mrs. De Gross and her 10-year-old daughte,
the river at Alton, Ill. They waded into the
stream, and the mother obligingly aided the
child by holding her head under water; but
her courage failed when her own turn came tc
die, and she got ashore.
Snake in the boots are common with many
men who love poor whisky, but l.. A. Hawley.
IF Syracuse, found a live rattlesnake in one Of
camping out at Oneida lake, and had used hit
boots as pillow, one of which the snake haG
pre-empted during the night. =,
Christian Brietenbach came out of prison al
the age of 20, went to the residence of his agee
grandparents, near Detroit. and cody tolC
them that he intended to live with them. They
keyt him out of fear, Tor he was a bully; bu
be was not satisfied with bare support. n,
, killed them in the night with an axe, and raj
away with their money.
The Rev. Dewitt Mallory, of Brooklyn, N
Y, has recei lived and accepted a call from tn,
Second Congregational church Of Detroit, Mich
igan. to supply their church temporarily. will
the hope that his coming may enable them t.
, clear away their indebtedness and make wa,
for permanent settlement.
The Catholic pastors of Brooklyn have JUS
concluded religious retreat of eight days q
the Monastery Of st. Michael, West Hobo
ken, which is in chrrge of the PASSIONS
Fathers: During eight days rigid silence va
) enjoined, and all the hours we're devoted to r.
ligious exercises, except brief intervals for rec
reation and food.
, Joseph Cook does not put the matter of Sun
day observance too strong when he says: s.
am NO fanatic, hope, as to Sunday; but lool
, abroad over the map OF popular freedom in tn
world, and it does not seem to me Academia
that Switzerland, Scotland, England and tn
! United States-the countries which best oh
: serve Sunday-constitute almost the entir
map of safe popular government"
The Rev. William Impey, widely known as a,
experienced missionary, has resigned his con
: nection with the Wesleyan ch urch of Eng Ian,
because he can not conscientiouslv accept it
, doctrine on actual hell and literal hell fire
, MIR. Impey's name is struck from the roll with
out any recognition of his past services, whic
have been very great. For forty years he ha
been in missionary service. A warm sympath
is felt for him by the church at large.
, DR.. B. NJ. Palmer, the Presby erian divine O
New Orleans, who away on his vacatio
when yellow fever. broke out and hurrie
home soon as he heard of it to help tax
, care of the sick and dying, is the same D
Palmer who was charged by some of tn
Northern press with having introduced clott
l ing infected with yellow fever into Northern
e tiles during the war. He brought suit for /
: bel against paper which published the stor,
and secured judgment.