Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-08-13
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
A MERE matter of form-Cutting a
dress.
WHEN mans aft collar button comes
off his choler rises.
THE trouble in this country is not SO
much that We cannot raise coffee as that
we can't settle it.
Fisk university, at Nashville, has
been presented with a bell weighing
1000 pounds.
We are told "the evening wore on, -
but We are never told what the evening
wore on that occasion. Was it the close
Of a summers day. 49,
We hear Of man who has made a
fortune by attending to his own bust
ness! This is authentic. But then he
had few competitors.
JONES says itisn't the color of her hair
that troubles him in choosing help
mate. The. color of her money is what
interests him vastly more.
81 DIDN'T at all expect company to.
day." said lady to her visitors, with a
not-very-pleasant look, "but I hope
you will make yourselves at home. -
"Yes, indeed" replied one of them,
starting off, II will make myself at
home as soon as possible"
"YEs," said witness, 81 remember
the defendants mother crying ON the oc-
casion referred to. she was weeping
with her left eye-the only one she has
and the tears were, running down her
right cheek" "What," exclaimed the
Judge. chow could that be?' "Please
your Honor" said the witness, "she was
awfully cross-eyed."
"YoU must not play with that little
girl, my DEAR" said an injudicious par
ent. "But, ma, I like her; she is a
good little girl, and I am sure she
dresses as pretty as l do, and she has
lots of toys" II cannot help that, my
DEAR" replied the foolish mother; cher
father is a shoemaker" "But I don't
play with her father; I play with her;
she amt shoemaker"
A YANKEE came running down to a
pier just as steamer was starting. The
boat moved off some four or five yards
as he took Jump, and, coming down on
the back of his head on deck, he lay
stunned for two or three minutes. When
he came to the boat had gone the best
part Of quarter Of mile, and, raising
his head and looking to the shore,
the Yankee said: "Great Jehosa-
phat, what a jump"
TAE earliest method of engraving was
upon wood, which was known. to the
Chinese before the Christian era, but
was notknown in Europe until the middle
ages, when it was introduced by the in
habitants of the Celestial empire. En-
craving upon metallic substances was
not practiced in Europe until the first
half of the fifteenth century, although
it is probable that the art in this form
was also known to the Chinese long be-
fore.
The Family Physician says that
there Is no more valuable indication of
disease than the temperature Of the body
as measured by the thermometer, and
especially in the case of children. It
gives early information Of disease, and
admits of an infected child being set
apart before mischief is done. The
Physician consequently advises mothers
to learn how to use q clinical thermome-
ter-a very simple process. The proper
temperature of the body is 1914 degrees
Fahrenheit.
We have often read of thumb-pots for
plants. An egg shell is . very mex
pensive one, and answers its purpose
well break one end little larger than
you do the other, making simply o small
hole; then fill with earth, and if you
wish to put plants in them, set in box
the height Of the shen fill the spaces
with earth the plants start splendidly,
and can be taken out and handled very
easily. As the shell, is much lighter
than pots, they are more desirable for
shipping; fill the space with moss or
any light substance used for that purr-
pose.
A DAMsEL from over the river was
looking. over some books in o Quincy
bookstore, endeavoring to make a.selec-
ton, when the clerk asked, Chow
would you like the, sAutocrat of the
Breakfast TableY" She replied: ooh,
we've got two of 'em now, one Of 'em
just as good as new-only been washed
twice. "-Modern Argo. -,
LORD BEACoNsFELD Is completing %
novel which he began long ago. Queen
Victoria has shown her kindly feeling
for him by hanging his full-length por-
: trait at Windsor. >, Somebody, it is said,
once asked him how it was that the
Queen showed him so much favor, and
gotta simple answer: !" Well er-the
fact is, --er-never contradict. and
er-I sometimes er forget" 8s
3 AwRrTRR In the. Boston Transcript
thus relates q tale of woe: The young
lady came and tried to sell me manu-.
script story. Ny teacher likes it, she