Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-07-18
Items or Interest.
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Items or Interest.
Buzz sauce-Honey.
A fat ofice--the soap boilers.
The early angler catches the worm and
a cold.
The coal production of China is reck-
oned at 100000 tons annually.
| Twenty nine ferries connect New York
city with Long Island and New Jersey.
It is said the ladies of the upper. class
in some parts of South America chew
! tobacco.
The Alaska waters contain more salmon
than all the other waters in the known
world.
The hairpin crop of this country equals
| $10.OOO,O0O annually. The early crop is
sown in beds.
The number of individuals entitled to
wear the cross of the French legion o
honor is about $1,000.
There are no fewer than ID, 900 washer
woman at work on the banks of the Man.
zanares, in Spain.
| A good man will be doing good where.
soever he is. His trade is compound of
charity and Justice.
While out hunting near Knoxville,
Tenn, a pack of hounds attacked a flock
of sheep, and killed twenty five OF them.
| In selecting husband at seventeen, a
woman desires good looks; at twenty-five,
good habits and at thirty, the man.
1t is little troubles that wear the heart
out. It is easier to throw bombshell a
mile than feather--even with artillery.
Emperor William gets along with four
and a half fingers on his right hand.
Half of his forefnger he blew off nearly
sixty years ego.
s. B >rkley Hazeltine, of Bakersfield,
Mass, aged eighty eight, has been elect
ed town clerk fifty eight times, and for
the last thirty years not vote has been
cast against him.
A young lady who is doing the Alps
reports progress to her guardian: Il
tried yesterday to climb the Matterhorn
didn't near reach the top. 1t is absurdly
high-everything in this country
please send mo s."
A newly arrived Chinaman has only
twenty. five letters of the English alpha
bet to learn, he is we'll acquainted with
T.-CsncinnQti Saturday Might. He is
also sure to have Cue iii his head.
$50 there's another rupture on Mount
Vociferous," said Mrs. Partington, as she
put down the paper and put up her specs.
1.-THE paper tells about the bursting lath-
er running down the mountain, but it
don't tell how it got on fire."
The dueling pistols used by Aaron Burr
! in his duel with Alexander Hamilton are
said to be in the possession Of a citizen of
Louisville. They were left to him by his
uncle, an army officer, who himself pur-
chased them from Burr for $500. 1t is
asserted that they have been used in
eleven drels.
A powerful bar magnet, in connection
with Grove battery, has been success
fully used in London in extracting chip
of steal from the eye of mechanic.
When the magnet was four inches from
the eve, the chip of steal sprang from the
lens where it had been lodged to the inner
surface Of the corner, whence it was remov-
ed without much difficulty.
Sufferers are compelled to take life
easily whether or no. Two men thus af-
flicted were at work on forge. The
iron was redhot and placed on the anvil,
when the first one said
"John: s-s.trike it ha-ha-hard."
| Tue other answered.
Jim, wh-wh-where sh-sh-shall I hit?'
sNo m-m-matter now, it's COCO cold, >
was the reply. and he bar was put into
the fo-ge again.
| Miss Eastman, of Massachusetts,, has
seen crowd vf men, each smoking his
pipe or chewing tobacco, yelling for
brea1 or work, and she asks: What
would be thought of procession of des-
titute woman demanding relief and
every ony of them eating candy9" We
would think they had better save the
money they spend for candy and buy sew
en-button KID gloves. p. S.-We have
a vague idea this is not the eorrec,
answer.
l Quarrels, like thrnder-storms, wou
end in sunshine if it were not for the
! determination to have the last word. II
YOU are scolded or criticised just bite
your lips and keep still, and it vii! soon
be over; but if you retort you are in
" for three years or the war;" Many a
man who pturs himself in torrents OF
rain for five minutes, and then breaks
! out into the sunshine of good temper
agaiu will settle down into a three days
dismal drizzle if he is weak enough to
| insist on having that last word.
! An Ohio stumper, while making a
spec ch.{ paused in the midst of it and ex-
/ claimed: =" Now, gentlemen, what do
4 you think2" Instantly man rose in the
| assembly, and with one eve partially
closed, with strong Scotch brogue, re-
piled: I think, sir, I do indeed, sir l
| think If you and i were to stump the
country together we would tell more lies
1 than any other two men in the country,
sir, and I'd not say . word myself during
the whole time, sir r. u a5sssa.5...it s...s
/ Try 1t gradually :, temporarily ana care
| fully; then watch, and report the results.
IA writer; says:-Since the. advent of toe
cabbage worm, almost every. one has
been at loss to know what to do to raise
La few c.bbages. Some have tried one
thing, ana some lave tried another, and
mostly to no purpose Last year
wear l set out three hundred; and thirty
| fine plants, and picked off the. worms
BY hand as they came, for about two
weeks, which took anout two hours each
.lsy. This seeming to be much work, and
Is lhxye we'll of sOftwatar near by, / took
10 fiye.paiI kettle, set il near the we'll and
put into it : pint of soft soap and the
same of salt, .apd then filled it mp, with
fwater.l 4 lei iinis stand till the water was
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