Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-17
Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
~ The Belgian minister il to marry . New
York belle. 7-".~~..
.Alaia, a., h.. as year old girl who weighs
100 pounds. #Y Vs..
New York city reduced in debt over q, ooo, 900
in tho last year. & veg
. Lumber mills employ IS per cent. more labor
About o., SOC, 900 is invested in manufactures
n Lewiston, Me-.
Msrshalltown, a., has 500 more scholars than
its schools can accommodate. ~----1~
Nearly all of the needles made in Great
Britain come from Redditch, in Worcestershire.
French once gave the Cleveland Medical
College 81, 900, and the faculty stole his body.
The best article we ever saw on that noblest
of animals, the horse, was q covered side sad
die.
President Garrett, of the Baltimore l. Ohio
railroad, will arrive from Europe on the 18th
instant. .''.s'
Lord Rosebery made brilliant speech on the
opening of new school of science and arts in
Scotland.
The subscriptions lately raised for Mario
will secure to him an annuity of about $50
per week.
Paris has $1,000 house, London 46O, 1000,
more than Paris, Berlin, Vienna and New York
combined.
Many beautiful ladies, when walking out, are
! angry if they are gazed at, and indignant if
| they are not.
The English fire brigades carry jumping
| sheets for the use of persons jumping from
| burning houses.
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! father of thirty five children, twenty-eight of
whom are alive.
When q woman makes an effort to whistle,
| the great glory of her mouth is seen without
being heard much.
man in New York has been sent to prison
| for selling his wife's wooden leg. It was an
| l-leg-itimate transaction.
Florence Davenport, the youngest daughter
of the late E. L. Davenport, will soon make
her debut on the stage.
| The proprietor of the Monument cheese fac
tory recently shipped 20, 900 pounds of Colorado
cheese to Cardiff, Wales.
Fifty years ago 40 per ceut. Of college g:adu-
ates in the United States became clergymen;
| now the per centage is only II.
Five hundred and sixteen deaths, 489 births
and 1875 marriages were reported to have oc-
Cured in New York, last week.
A Boston firm has . British order for 5, 900
/
going to take bath, apparently.
Henderson, KY, has a hermaphrodite pig
| with blue eyes, the Jaw of a child, and a snout
and ears like those of an elephant.
Brother Potter is said to be enjoying domes-
tic ease preparatory to another move upon
fraud after the November elections.
Queen Victoria has appointed the king of Siam
an honorary knight grand cross of the colonial
| order Of St. Michael and st. George.
/ NIL J. 4. - L go
q pond at lnsterburg, Conn.,, proved that an
intoxicated fish is a queer fish indeed.
The new bonanza in Nevada is right on a line
| with an old lode that was once very rich. Thus
do great mines run in the same channel
DR.. Babcock. who invented the fire extin-
| guisher. is drunken outcast in California.
It was fre-water that extinguished him.
1t has been decided at last that it is the lady
| mosquito that does the biting. It ia the gen
| tleman mosquito that makes the racket around
your ears.
Tue Countess Bismarck, only daughter of
| the Prince, is engaged to Count Rautzan, Of
! the ancient 6chleswig- Holstein family of the
| same name.
A company has been formed for building q
narrow gauge railroad from Jacksonville, Ore,
to the ocean. Capital $2,000,000; length of
road 100 miles.
A London publisher spent $12,5OO in adver.
| Using new magazine before the first number
was printed, of which loo, 900 copies were con-
sequently sold.
The Germans of Shreveport, La, who sent an
address of sympathy to the emperor when he
was shot by Nobiling, have received a cordial
| letter of thanks.
Musical festivals, the Detroit Free Press
thinks, are well enough for such towns rs never
have Opponents and incendiaryi fires. They
| encourage such things.
A tomato weighing two pounds and measur-
| lug eighteen inches in circumference, grown by
w. A. z. Edwards, near San Jose, CAL, is the
latest vegetable wonder.
In Mesnil-Sevin, France, resides an old man
in whose house it has been the custom for the
past thirty years. for all couples married in the
| village to pass their wedding night.
Bernard Donohue, of Yonkers, N. Y, who
has made $400, 900 by the recent rise in Sierra
Nevada silver mining stocks, once worked in a
buckle shop in Waterbury, Conn.
| The Chinese at home never ''go visiting"
! When one wants to see his relatives he journeys
| to their abode puts up at a hotel, and sends
for them to come over and shake hands.
Homer Griffin, who died in Lodi, Ohio, last
| week, aged 1O6 years, was total abstainer-
during the last four years of his life. The bar
tender wouldn't put it on piece of ice."
In the midst of the deep gloom that over
spreads the South, reports show that the cotton
crop was never more promising. There is now
no complaint from farmers in any quarter.
The mob that tarred and feathered w. j.
Jones in Truckee, CAL, used hot coal tar, which
was not only poured over his body. but into
his eyes. His sight was entirely destroyed.
When Chinaman makes love to white girl
he doesn't rave about how his heart pants for
her, etc. No, he simply tells her he loves her
better than he does rats, and she believes him.
An Austrian resident of Bangkok, Siam,
| q n
religion, has publicly reno unce dhisfaith and
been formally received into the Buddhist priest
hood. -. =
| George Gorham, secretary of the Republican
Congressional campaign committee, is quite
seriously sick with some kind of kidney COM
| plant. The election returns have nothing to
do with it.
''Here am for YOU" were the last words of
Mehemit Ali as he rushed out from the burn
ing tower at Jachova into the midst of his as
sasins. He was ruthlessly cut down with 200
attendants.
Madame Keller, Lady of the Sacred Heart
and general directress of the academy of that
order at Manhattanville, New York, died in
that city on Saturday. She was well known
and much beloved. :
The talk in st. Louis, Mich, is about Ste
phen Dodge, an exhorter, and one of the pio-
neers of Gratiot county, who has abandoned
his wife and children, and has eloped with an
inmate of the poorhouse. .'tss
Raphael Maurice Suegne de Morales, the
Spaniard who, when an invited guest of Prin-
cess Rattazzi, of Paris, slipped into her bed
room and stole some jewels, has been sentenced
tn one years imprisonment.
Over $4,000 persons are employed ON the
East India railroads. The greater number are
natives. In fact, the working of the lines is
practically in their hands-in some cases not
even under European supervision.
Mr.. John Parker! of Louisville, whose father
died recently in Paterson, N. j., leaving him
! $15,0OO. has written letter to the executor,
distinguishing all right to his interference, COM
ing as it did from man who voted for Lin
F.! cOln.' ........il II =,
Billiards and pool have been introduced into
jerusalem. They are talking of introducing
soap and water if the billiard rooms do we'll.
A drunken man in New York, when he came
to his senses the other night, found that some
woman had bequeathed him a baby to take
care of.
He was getting certificate from the clerk,
and in reply to the usual question, first or
second marriage?" he said: Its my second
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