Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-14
Passing Events.

A correspondent writes to London
Nature that "Kentish men who drink
chalked water are large boned, while
those people who drink soft water are
the reverse. At Glasgow, where the wa
ter is supposed to be very soft, there are
said to be more bandv-legged children
than at any other place.
The Cleveland Leader exhu1nes let
ter written from Ohio to England in
1898, wherein the writer states that large
turkeys cost so cents each, chickens
y l-2 cents, mutton, beef, veal and pork
cents q pound at retail or and l-2
at wholesale, butter from 8 to II 1-2
cents and cows from $40 to S25. That
was pleasant for the buyers with cash,
but the trouble was there was no cash
circulating, as the writer adds that
frequently men owning good farms and
plenty Of live stock were for weeks and
months without even a cent. On the
whole the present state of affairs seems
to be preferable.
The Maryland doctor who some
time ago, earned the title Of the champi-
on litigant, is still in the feel d trying to
beat his own record. It is noted in the
Baltimore Sun that on Aug. 6, he caused
to be issued 1o3 summonses, for 500 each,
against the Adams express company, III
for 500 each, and $50 for 1913 each. against
q flour merchant named chriner, and
$3.50 for 500 each against another party,
This gives total Of 1904 SUNNI onses.
1t is an expensive amusement, but so
far the lltlgious doctor has had the fun
of D ,ying the bills all to himself.
American watering places are thus
classified by the New York Graphic as
to specialities of the summer residents:
Newport-English celebrities and their
Amer lean imitators. Saratoga-Politi-
clans, musicians and sportsmen. Long
Branc h-Actors, actresses and railroad
kings. The Adriondacks, Mount Desert
and the Isle of Shoa!s-ColIege dignita-
ries, authors and authoresses. Long
Beach-Pagan Bob Ingersoll. Coney Is
land-The dear people.
A Brooklyn doctor ridicules the pre-
valing fashion Of bundling babies up in
hot weather, and writes: "With re-
gard for these three points-diet, cloth
ing and air (the first two limited, the
last stricted)-scarcely decently
healthy-born babe would die or even
become sick. There would be no dlar-
rhoea nor other ailments. The natural
and only speedy and safe cure for
diarrhna is to stop the food. The cause
is Indigestion. To continue turning
down food is to continue the irritation.
At the onset a day of absolute fasting,
patient desires, will end satisfactorily
almost any attack of d,arrhoea, with no
cost or danger from drugs.
In speaking of the modern naming of
towns, villages or crossroads the Boston
Advertiser says: 1.-THE railways became
the first great cooperative name-giver
of the country, and then forlorn sue
cession of attempts at a revival Of earlier
days was begun. Men in dirty
city Offices pining for fresh
al, and aglimpse of mountains and mead
ows, sprinkled fair-soun ling names with
almost wanton freedom along railways
they had never traversed. The term
nation, vale, bridge, crossing, valley,
and land coupled with the name of a tree
forms one Of the commonest kinds of
city-made Names" e., - -.
Itappears that the big East River
Bridge, connecting New York and
Brooklyn, is not high enough above the
water to allow the tallest- mas'ed Vessels
to pass underneath without damage.
Last evening when the ship Henry s.
Sanford was being toWed under the
bridge her fore p-galiant and main
top-gailant masts were broken off by
coming In contact with the cables. The
bridge IS reported to have settled about
fa,n