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

pint of water in one minute and fifteen Sec
Onds, key of beer being wagered that he could
not do it in two minutes. But he drank all
tho beer shortly afterwards in order to neutral
ize the effect OF the water. -7~,@-gze
Among SANKEY'S competitors in the field Of
steglitz, Germany. Oh the principle Of doing
at Rome as Rome does, he left home lhaving
started secretly with one shirt, one pair Of
stockings and an old oyerooat- # .
Professor Watson, whose salary was recently
reduced, has left Ann Arbor and gone to Madi-
son, Wis, to take charge of the Observatory of
the Wisconsin university, which he endowed
and is now in course Of construction. He will
be rendered the chair of astronomy.
+ Senator Bayard is accredited with saying that
in his opinion there will be three Presidential
candidates in the field in 1880-the Republican,
Democratic and Greenback candidates. 1t is
possible, too, that the House of Represents
tives may be called upon to elect the next
President.
In Brazil all males over 81, be they white or
black, and all civilized Indians who have ar
rived at the majority, are allowed the right of
suffrage. A traveller reports that elections are
conducted with seeming fairness, and without
any evidences of excitement or of partisan
bitterness.
In West Gardiner, Me-, lad saw an eagle
evidently fatigued, dragging heavy trap and
three feet of chain. The boy seized the bird
It was of unusual size, and had it not been
handicapped by the trap, must have been more
than enough for the youngster.
A horse that had been for years kept by q
gentleman of Manchester, N. H., was at length
sold to farmer who lived thirty miles away.
The horse did not seem satisfied with its new
quarters and after few months was missing.
1t was homesick, and it made it's way back in
to the stable it had so long occupied.
The jealous woman in New Jersey who con-
spired with an over-compiant postofice clerk
to intercept and open her husbands letters,
has put him and herself into the clutches of
the law. Both have been convicted-and the
warning is q solemn one for women who sus-
pect their "worser'' halves of improper goings-
ON.
The late Colonel Kinloch Falconer, secretary
of State for Mississippi, went from jackson to
Holly Springs, his native town, to help his
friends and family in their hour Of trouble.
His father died, and then his brother, and then
he himself was stricken. He served in the
confederate army on the staff of General 10
seph E. Johnston.
John Brougham has suffered severe bereave-
ment. His wonderful parrot, which for many
years has been his companion and friend, sue
| cumbed on Thursday to illness, and when his
master returned from q meeting of the mem
bers of the Dramatic Fund, he found him stiff
and stark at the bottom of his cage. The old
| actors attachment for the bird is well-known.
Edward Truelove, imprisoned four months fo1
selling Malthusian pamphlet by Robert Dale
Owen, had q welcome on his release from prison
which will not have failed to make its impres-
| sion. Mr.. Truelove is one of the most venerar
| BILE booksellers in London. He is man of not
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modest manners and unaggressive temper.
Mrs. G. E. Deihm, the New York lady who
owns the Centennial Safe,'' "a wonderful
| repository, which, being shut and sealed on
the 22d of next February, Washington's birth
day, will be kept closed for exactly one hundred
| years, has been in Washington to pay her re-
spects to Mrs. Hayes. The Presidents wife
| safe-with which the eight to seven commits
| sion signed their verdict
On the suppression of the commune in Paris,
| 500 boys were among the prisoners taken, and
| it was proved that large numbers of the MUIR
ders and incendiaries were committed by them
| They were sent to reformatory at Rouen, and
on being carefully inspected by two eminent
physicians, it was found that 937 were of very
delicate form and stunted growth. They were,
however, among the most u,lschievous, and all
| the children of drunken mothers.
What are called the Princess Mary's Village
Homes, at Addlestone, England, were estab-
lishe, chiefly for the benefit of infant children
of female felons. The children are carefully
| trained for industrial occupations and large
proportion of them turn out remarkably we'll.
! They require exceptional care in training, from
| the fact that so many of them have had drunk
en- mothers, which often produces in the off
spring what has been termed moral insanity.
| Miss Carrie A. Wheeler, Boston young lady
who has yet hardly hidden adieu to her teens,
has been busily engaged during the past sum-
mer in constructing an opera bouffe, which the
Hollis Street Dramatic club, of which she is a
member, intend to produce this winter. The
| operatta, which is now practically completed,
is wholly the work of the young lady, it's text,
songs, piano Accomplishments, Introduction,
dances, ETC., having been composed and written
ont nv hor