Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-06-25
FACTS AND FANCIEs
! THE selfish man cares for No. 1. and
often no one cares for him. S. Y ss:.:g*'t.
PHYs1o, says On old surgeon, is TIL, art
Of amusing the patient while nature

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oftan no one cares for him. s. e.: 81.
PHYmo, says On old surgeon. Is III, art
Of amusing the patient while nature
cures the disease. a...s'+,s z:.c. .: .
- SHE was my idyl whom Wooed
NY idol when won;
. ..,-.. NY ideal when, In after years ~ "t.iet.$
Ways idle she had mona :. 49,, -. -
To PREVENT ingrowing toe-nai]s: Gut
or scrape groove down the center and
pare the ends off square never cut the
sides. 4.
on that score. It's only when she scores
another that she begins to wonder who
invented wrinkles.
SQUIRE Got your eye in mourning
again, I see, Pat 2" Pat-"Oi have. It's
in mournin' for the batin' I gave that
brute Rafferty, this day. :" ..ss''s .-,.'7.
"DoN'r be afraid" said a snob to a
German laborer, .'sit down and make
yourself my equal" ct would haff to
blow my praius out, was the reply of
the Teuton.
A CASE of excessive alteration: Curl
osity- hunters have carried of all the
buttons from the cushions in the pews in
Christ Church, Alexandria, where Wash
ington once sat. -
SEED about which there is any doubt
should be tested before planting to as
certain whether it will grow. Badly
kept seed often causes disappointment
from its failure to terminate.
els BUSINESS good ?" inquired a friend
Of q Newark undertaken. "Business
good?" he reiterated. "You bet-two
in walnut, two in rosewood, and three
on ice at this blessed moment"
"GooD-MoRNNa, Patrick: you have
got new coat at last, but it seems to fit
you rather too much" ''Och, there's
nothing surprising in that; sure, WASN'T
there when I Was measured for it."
BLIGHT is quick conner which gives
no warning. The best that can be done
is to cut away the portion "struck"
down to the live wood. If the tree is
badly affected it is best to remove it en-
tirely.
eve wish, lays Texas newspaper,
that few Of our citizens could be per-
mitted to live till they die natural
death, so as to show the world what
magnificent healthy country Texas real
~ is"
A LADY said to a little boy, aged 4:
"Don't stand up in the carriage, be-
cause you might tumble out, and then
there would be no Harry" "Oh, yes"
replied he, "there would be Harry on
the road"
In q certain Massachusetts normal
school the word Eucharist was given
out not long ago to be spelled and de-
fined. More than three-fourths of the
gr-beg pardon-young ladies wrote
eucherist, a person who plays eucher."
A Boston lawyer told another lawyer,
who asked him question, that he usu-
ally received pay for his advice.
Then, said lawyer No. l, extending
so cents, "tell me oil you know, and
give me back the change"
"MY wife," remarked prominent
manufacturer, "never attends auctions.
She went once, and, seeing friend at
the opposite side Of the room, nodded
very politely, whereupon the auctioneer
knocked down patent cradle, and asked
her where she wished it deliyered."
TOLLS were first paid by vessels pass
ing the Stade on the River Elbe, 1109.
In England toll-bars originated in 1867,
penny being asked for every wagon
that passed through certain manor, and
the first regular toll was collected q few
years later for mending the road in Lon
don, between st. Giles and Temple Baz.
A BOOK was kept in the English mon
asteries wherein details of the scanda-
lous enormities practiced in religious
houses were entered for the inspection
OF visitors, under Henry VIII, in order
to blacken the reputation of these insti-
tutions and hasten their dissolution !;
hence, possibly, the phrase, "Ill set
you down on the black book"
"AFTERal remarked the young man,
Swimming n lightly over the gravel walk
in the general direction of the front
gate, "after all, what boots it," And
the misunderstanding old gentleman at
the top of the porch steps, with his
spectacles jostled little crooked, said
that if the young man himself didn't
know, he didn't know anybody in that
township that did.
EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY.
Should bless my welded state,
No, nothing else but Kate.
My sainted aunt was called the same;
Ny love for It 10 great;
Yes, doctor, that must be her name
She shal 10 christened Kate.
What Twins7 Good gracious, how they squal'l
Doctor, bemoan my fate
Both girls well, we'll, I still can call
Them Kate and Rupl-Kate.
A LITTLE 5-year-old friend, who was
always allowed to choose the prettest
kitten for his pet and his playmate, be.
fore the other nurslings were drowned,
was taken to his mothers sick-room the
other morning to see two tiny, new twin
babies. He looked refiectively from one
to the other for minute or two, then,
poking his chubby finger into the cheek
Of the plumpest baby, he said, decidedly,
"Save this one."
BUNKER HILL monument is 221 feet
hiph. and is blilt of hawn Quincy Gran.