Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-08

In youth, manhood or old age. The hab
its judiciously formed in childhood by
her fostering care, go down to the ut
most verge Of human life, however pro-
longed. i ! II
If there is no law for their protection
is it no: time for the farmers to take the
law into their own hands, and for their
own protection administer such effec-
tual punishment to II lamps who are burn
ing their barns and stacks, and poisoning
their cattle, that when once chastised they
went do so any more.
Since the adjournment OF the Berlin
Congress, the Russians are displaying
unwonted activity in Central Asia. The
railway from Orenburg is pushed east
ward as fast as possible, and troops are
advancing into Bokhara and towards the
frontiers of British India.
The gas which escapes from coal in mines
mixes very slowly with the atmospheric
AIR unless the latter is agitated,a and the gas
has decided tendency to arrange itself
in distinct zones. AR in a mine may
thus be quite safe in the very neighbor
hood of dangerous locality, and an ex-
p!osion may occur without any warning.
Mosby, the ex-guerilla, is described as
quiet.looking, medium-sized man of
pleasing manners, with clean shaven fea.
lures. good-siz.d nose, blue eyes, reso-
Lutte mouth and short gray hair. lie is
very reserved in speaking of his own ex-
PLOTS, but smiles grimly when reminded
Of some of his surprise captures of YAM
kee officers:
In this season of GIMP meetings, thou
sands thronged to the religious convoca-
tons. Recently, at Ocean Grove, New
Jersey, 10000 people crowded the relig-
ious exercises, and when the great con-
gregation joined in singing "Rock of
Ases," it was as the voice Of many waters
resoundiLg through the great open-air
auditorium.
Grants friend Childs, of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, says that the General has
given hi m to understand that he does not
desire to be President again, because he
is tired of public life and desires to settle
down again into the seclusion Of private
citizenship, and Childs thinks that if the
politicians tr7 to nominate him he will
give them notice that they must seek
somebody else.
The Rutland, w., Herald says: IAN
eminent legal .luminary, WHO is also an
intermittent preacher, spoke recently in
his, argument of the time when Noah
and his ark rested on Mount Siani,' q
speech that indicated how man may be
an earnest and able theologian without
knowing much about the chronology of
the Scriptures or the geography of Pales-
tine.
The celebrated and eccentric John
Randolph: of Roauoake. said, in his ma
ture years, but for the remembrance of
the fact, when he was a child, that his
mother clasped his little hands in hers,
and taught him to repeat: "Our Fathe:
who artin Heaven, ETC." he should have
been French in6del. Thus the influence
! of,a3mother often goes down through the
years of manhood, to beau,ify and adorn
manly Character.
The Smith sisters OF Glastonbury, Con-
necticut, will be remembered by newspa-
per readers. They were lonely old maids,
one aged eighty7two, and the other
eighty-six. They have always rel used to
pay taxes without they were granted the
right of snffcrage, and each year, for many
- years, have litigated with, their native
State, but without success. Some friend
would invariably step in and pay their
taxes for them, and save their properly
On the Oath ult, Abigail, the youngest
sister, died.
Monteller Uiz, at OF time, perhaps as