Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-06-19
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Miscellaneous News Notes.:
The Duke of Bedford has RENTED an entire
half-year's rent to his agricultural tenants.
z It is proposed to initiate the New York ele-
waited railway system along the Liverpool
docks. zst &z -: ss7+s
4 There is an old lady, l07, in Boston who never
uses spectacles, and whose sight is as good as,
ever it Was. She was born blind. = >
Coffee growing has proved successful with
few planters in southern Florida, and its culti-.
walton there promises to be extended. .@''
Eighty thousand pounds of eggs were sent
from Omaha to San Francisco last month.
This indicates lively lecture season in pros
pect. .>5 ~ -
Philadelphia has the champion marvel. It
is q coroner who tried to save mans life,
when the decease of tho individual would give
him a case. -. = -'sa <.j'> -"
A Msrshalltown colored girl took dose of
laudanum, Saturday, because her lover had
gone back on her. A stomach pump brought
her through.
Troy. which has $4,000 inhabitants, makes
s,290, 900 dozens of cuffs and ISL, 900 dozens of
see q Troy man.
The Roman Curia has secretly granted di-
vorce between the Prince and Princess of Nom
AGO. The decree is said TO have been pro-
nounced Wednesday, May %.
Erasmus Hobart, of Titusville, aged IA, is
quite musical genius and plays the piano,
organ, violin, cornet, huto and other instru-
ments. learning without a teacher.
Mr.. Frank Marshall who wrote "False
Shame" is at work on a play to be called
"Robert Emmett" in which Irving and Miss
Ellen Terry will play the principle parts.
A Dubuque man beat his wife terribly with
club, and then poured boiling water over the
wounds, all because she refused to sign deed
of some property he wished to dispose of.
The Sioux City Journal says We could stand
the tramps, and the grasshoppers, and never
complain, but four book agents in town all at
once causeth our cup of suffering to bubble
over the brim.
Two of the COMPANIONS of Connt Antinori,
in the italian African expedition, have been
taken prisoners by a tribe hostile to the king
of shoa. Though in great danger, they still
Shoa bold front. .
Artificial ice, said 10 be superior to natures
product, is manufactured in the South at a
cost of only 70 cents per ton, It is turned out
| in blocks two and half feet long by ten
inches in thickens.
Mr.. Whistler's arrangement in black and
gold," which was the cause Of his action
against MIR. Ruskin, has found home at Strait
tord-on-Avon, having been purchased by Mayor
Flower of that town.
After Tom Sanders, Of Decatur, Ala, had
dreamed three nights in succession that he
could subsist 40 days and nights without food,
he concluded to keep the fast, but failed at the
end of SO days, when he died.
Truth intimates that eighty-four black balls
were dropped into the box at the Athenasum
club to show that the members preferred the
| room of Mr.. Charley, M. p, common sergeant
| of the city of London, to his company.
Mr.. st. Leger Hubert, who was on Lord Duff
| FERNS staff in Canada, and has been until now
| secretary to the high commissioner and clerk
! of the legislative council in Cyprus, will be
Sir Garnet Wolseley's secretary in South At
! RIGA.
The Queen of England presented to the King
of Siam last year the Order of st. Michael and
the Cross of St. George. An embassy is now
on the way to England to invest the queen with
the Order of the White Elephant in return for
| her compliment.
| He was a cold misanthropical man alone in
the world, loved by none, loving none fierce
hater of humanity. And when he died he left
his large fortune to be devoted to the purchase
of brass horns and accordcons for young men
too poor to obtain them.
Prof. Paschal Plant, of Baltimore, is re-
ported to have invented a machine for separat-
ing gold from earth or gravel without the use
miners for many years. Several of his ma
chimes have been shipped to California.
The Baptists in Great Rritain have 3,45l
chapels, with 1,028,000 sittings, The number
of church members is 276,348-an increase for
1878 oe 1872. There are 1870 pastors and
1852 lay preachers. The increase of church &C.
"'mmodations in the year was 10000. For
home mission work the sum raised was eI6, 1856
young man from Keokuk visited Sigourney
few days ago. wearing low quarter shoes on a
small foot, and red stockings. He was sus-
picioned, and retiring early, o'clock F. NJ, the
inhabitants were sure he was woman, because
good-looking young man could not be pre-
vailed on to go to bed that early. He was ar
rested for being woman, but was soon dis
charged.
Steubsnville Herald: When you see girl
hylng around a dry goods counter, and bother
ing the ladylike young man clerk almost to
death, to show her this piece of lace and that
piece of ruching, and this and that piece of
white dress goods, you needn't think she's
going to get married-her mind is on greater
things intent; she will graduate next week, or
the week after.
At meeting of the Paris municipality q few
days ago attention was called to Catholic edi-
ton OF Uncle Toms Cabin" copies of which
had been distributed as prizes even in secular
school, containing notes., according to which
slavery is not contrary to natural order, and
some laborers would be happier if slaves. An
assurance was given that such works would be
expunged from the prize catalogue
Pope Leo XIII. is tall and spare, with. a pa
trlcian air. He has fine head, crowned with
white hair, strongly marked features, the as
pect Of an ascetic, with something marble.like
in the general appearance Of the figure. His
face is lighted by piercing look, and his
smile is very winning. His voice is sonorous,
not 40 mellow as Pope Pius's, but more power
full. Though he is moderate in his opinions,
he does not lack frmness., ~cf'~
If man in San Francisco or in Oregon drops
in the postofice letter misdirected or without
stamp, as sometimes happens even with care
full correspondents, two weeks must elapse be-
fore be hears anything of it, for it cannot be
opened short of the dead letter Office in Wash
ington, whittier it ia sent. 1t is now proposed
to get over this difficulty by establishing branch
dead letter Offices in different parts of the
country, common-sense plan that is in prac-
itice in Great Britain.
Is The crown prince Of Sweden. is believed to
have gone to England with matrimonial de-
signs on the Princess Beatrice. He is tall and
dark, with good features, though his general
appearance is marred by his being obliged to
wearspeetacles The RIVAL rare of ~. I,.-,.