Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-05-28

CO1umuB o1u1U1tH I'll 0uUS3AVOT 10 re-
store the perpendicular, and at about
the same place the walls are strength
ened with iron bars. 49,: :, ,...~ =:
TIE season for "greens" has come, IN, ha,
With sasses and vegetable truck;
The festive cucumber will bid us ta-ta,
And to his spring work will buck.
The lively small boy viii keep an eye on
The place summer mischief to hatch,
Biding his time the war-paint to don
And sicken the musk-melon patch.
The embalmed head of Oliver Crom-
well is in the possession of daughter
Of the Hon. Mr.. Wilkinson, an English
gentleman. It is carefully preserved,
wrapped in costly envelopes, IN strong
antique box. At the Restoration the
embalmed body of Cromwell was taken
from Westminster Abbey and hung at
Tyburn. The head was cut off, pike
driven through the neck and skull and
exposed at Westminster Hall. The
head is said to be almost entire, the
flesh black and sunken, thehair remain
ing, and even large wart over the eye.
The splintered pieces of pike and
rusted iron are attached to the head.
/ The Emperor of Austria has lately
been the recipient of unique present.
It consists of suit of clothes made
from the wool Of an alpaca sheep that
eleven hours previous to their delivery
was still alive. The animal, superb
specimen of its kind, was slain at Gil
a. m. Four hours and thirty-three min
utes were employed in reducing the
wool to cloth. In two hours and TWEEN.
ty-ive minutes the latter was ready for
the tailor, who employed the remaining
four hours in making the suit.
PAR1oR notwithstanding in the
drawing
IT is said that the scorpion, when sur
rounded by circuit of fire, turns and
stings itself to death. Probably it feels
something like the young man after he
is Tilted, and whose only ambition is to
get out under the silent stars and kick
himself over fence.
A MEMBER of q School Board, not
thousand miles from Boston, visited q
school under his Jurisdiction. When
asked to make some remarks, he said:
"Well, children, you spells well and
reads well, but you hain't SGT still"
WHAT was it? I went out in the
woods and got it. After I got it I
looked for it. The more I looked for
it the less I liked it. drought it home
in my hand, because I couldn't find it.
A silver.
A GENTLEMAN wishing to send so cents
to ON Iowa City party, bored hole
through o silver half-dollar, through
which he passed a string and tied it to a
tag containing the address and a stamp.
It arrived safely. ..-.,. ... -. =. .
HENRY, upon being asked how many
boys were in his Sabbath-school class,
replied: IF you multiply the number
of Jacobs sons by the number of times
which the Israelites comprised Jericho,
and add to the product the number of
measures of barley which Boaz gave
Ruth; divide this by the number of
Haman's sons; subtract the number of
each kind of clean beasts that went into
the ark; multiply by the number of men
who went to seek Elijah after he was
taken to heaven ): subtract from this
Joseph's age at the time when he stood
before Pharaoh; add the number of
stones in David's bag when he killed
Goliath !; subtract the number of fur
longs that Bethany was distant from
Jerusalem; divide by the number of
anchors cast out at the time of Paul's
shipwreck; subtract the number of peo-
| pie saved in the ark, and the remainder
will be the number of boys in the class"
How many were there? zz<<s '''s'' > ;,
The young man who wants to get up
with the sun must not sit up too late
with the daughter. s., - ;;st.'..zzr 80. :
One of the mcst curious railroads in
the world is the 10.inch-gauge road
running from North Billerica, Mass, to
Bedford. It was 1t first hooted at BY
the people, but the road was completed,
making = length Of 8Imiles. There are
II bridges on the road, one of which is
over 100 feet long. The rails weigh Is
pounds to the yard. The read is well
built and equipped; one grade is 155
I feet. The cars and engines will at first
sight create wonder and admiration.
i Their perfect proportions give them q
handsome appearance. They are con-
structed very near the ground, giving
them great advantages Of safety. The
cars have an aisle with one seat on eacl,
side, in the same manner as ordinary
cars have two seats. The length Of the
cars allow 80 seats, each perSon having
q seat to himself. The cars are sup.
! Piled with closets, water tank, are heat.
| ed by steam, and have I'll the modern
improvements. They weigh but n
tons, ordinary cars weighing on average
Is tons The trains run at tho rate o.
10 miles an hour with perfect safety
The engine is placed behind tho ten: