Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-04-30

Oars follow spring wheat. being
somewhat less hardy. u y Thought py
some that oats will take no harm from
careless seeding. But this Is . mistake;
for @ good crop, deep covering in well
prepared soil is needed; shallow-sown
seed does not tiIler; while that sown
deep will tiller about as much as wheat
with good covering, the seed may be
sown much earlier, and viii be safe
against changes Of the weather, while
seed near or on the surface will be de-
stroyed either by FROST or by dry weather.
as soon as it sprouts. = So.
To MAKE chocolate caramels take two
cups Of brown sugar, one cup OF mo.
lasses, one tablespoonful Cheaplng) OF
butter, Boil twenty-f five minutes; then
stir in half pound of grated cnocoiate;
wet in one cup of sweet milk, and boil
until it hardens on the spoon, with
which you must stir it frequently.
Flavor It with a teaspoontul OF vanilla
The following lis recommended as
cure for sleeplessness: Wet half
towel, apply it TO the back Of the neck,
pressing It upward toward the base OF
the brain, and fasten the dry half of the
towel over so as to prevent the too
rapid exhalation. The effect is prompt
and charming, cooling the brain and
inducing calmer, sweeter sleep than any
narcotic. Warm water may be used,
though most persons prefer cold. 10
those who suffer from over-excitement
of the brain, whether the result Of brain
work or pressing anxiety, this simple
remedy has proved an especial boom.
A NOVEL scheme--A proposition to
write romance.
Z A COMPANY of scapegraces meeting
pious old man named Samson, one Of
them exclaimed: "Ah, now we are safe.
Well Take Samson along with us, and
then, should we be set upon by thou.
sand. Philistines, he'll STAY them all
my young friend" quietly responded
the old man, ITO do, that I should have
to borrow your iawbonep .~
. SOME men: cannot call their soles
their own till they settle with the shoe
maker.
The deepest soundings that ever have
been made were recently taken near
Behring's strait, by an American officer.
The lead struck bottom at the depth OF
about eleven miles, and sample Of the
composition of the oceans bottom was
brought up.
A GOOD silver-piat,ng fluid is made as
| follows: Dissolve one ounce of crys-
tails of nitrate of silver in twelve ounces
of water. Then dissolve in the water
| two ounces of cyanide of potassium.
Shake the whole together, and let it
stand until it becomes clear. Have
| ready some half-ounce walls, and fill
| them half full of Paris white, or fine
whiting, and then fill up the bottles
with the liquid. and it is ready for use.
THERE are localities where it may
pay to grow small crops cheaply-where
one may skin the land for few years
and leave it, just as in some places cat
tie have been killed for their hides,
leaving their carcasses to decay-but
farmers cannot afford to adopt this
style of farming. The aim with them
should be to grow larger crops by the
expenditure of more labor upon the
land, and upon doing this depends their
! future prosperity.
| To MEASURE grain on the floor:
Make the pile in the form of pyramid
OF. cone, and multiply the area of the
base by one. third the height To find
the area Of the base, multiply the
square of its diameter by the decimal
1854. Example-A conical pile of
grain is feet in diameter and 4 feet
high, how many bushels does it con-
tain? Solution-The square of is "a,
and 81 times 1854 times 4.3 equals
| S3.776, the number of cubic feet
Therefore, S3.776 times As equals
67O2 bushels.
EXPERIMENTS WITH OPIUM SMOKING.
One Herr Maclay, in the course of
stay at Hong Kong, has made an ex-
pertinent upon his own body which
would appear to be pretty conclusive as
to the effect of opium-smoking. After
fasting eighteen hours he smoked TWEEN
ty-seven pipes, holding in ali 1O7 grains
of the opium used by the Chinese 1t
is interesting to know that after the
third pipe he ceased to be hungry, and
the fifth pipe left him unable to walk
about comfortably; the seventh brought
Ills pulse down from eighty-six to sew
enty; the twelfth caused singing in his
ears, and the thirteenth heavy fit OF
laughter. Twenty-Five pipes affected
his hearing, but, within an hour after
the trial, which had only lasted about
100 minutes, he was able to go home
and go to bed, where he slept SO soundly
rs to wake up fairly fresh and hungry
the next morning. During the whole
experiment he had no dreams or hallu
citations Of any sort whatever.