Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-05
People We Talk As1olut


of the don.-
People We Talk About.
A daughter of General Winfield Scott
is the wife Of a Virginian of the same
name. y,- -,s. xass.4&a 45.*aa<al1 80" - i,".f
Washington once specialized in Mo.
hawk Valley land, as is shown by an old
deed in the library of Horace Seymour.
From his familiarity with all subjects,
Professor Tyndall is winning reputa-
ton in England as professor at the
breakfast table,"
Evan gelist Barnes, after bribing o
policeman to admit him to the House Of
Commons, writes home how cleverly he
managed it, signing himself Ever in
jesus
The plate on the coffin of thu Count
de Chambord is inscribed with the
words, Henry the Fifth, by the Grace
Of God King Of France and Navarre,"
and he was that neither by the grace of
God nor hy the people.
The Able Franz List, who has been
staying for some time in Weimar, is Civ
| ing the finishing touches to his great
| oratorio, ''Stanls'aus," which he has
been hard at work upon for some years
past.
Mr.. Gilbert fatty denies the report
| that he would prevent Miss Mary An
derson from appearingas "Galatea."
"The smallest hair" says Goethe,
throws its shadow" It does, it does.
And if it happens to throw the penum-
bra across the butter, it casts its little
gloom over the entire community.
Gen. Putnam tsf wolf killing fame) is
buried in the pretty village cemetery,
half a mile southwest Of Pomfret, Conn.,,
an Enclosure of several acres, with quiet
| air, green turf, sombre frs, and dry,
| sandy soil. In g secluded corner of the
yard, among many broken messy tomb
! stones, a heavy table of marble lies on
! wall of brick that lifts it but five or six
inches from the ground. The stone is
| about six feet long by two and half
| wide, and marks the grave of Putnam.
| Fully third Of it has been Clipped of
! by relic hunters.
The Comte de Faris, although he has
assumed no new appellation since the
death of the Comte de Chambord, sign
ing himself simply "Philippe, Colnte de
Paris," has modifed his arms, taking
! what are known as les arnles frahches -
| The label which eharacter,Zes the arms
| OF younger branch disappears from his
escutcheon, which now bears simply the
| three golden heurs de lis upon an azure
field.
The Hon. George B. Loring. in bis ad-
| dress before the New England Agricul-
tura! Society showed that the farmers of
! New England are growing richer. He
said: THE decline OF certain branches
| of farming, especially of those staples
| that can be more cheaply produced else
| where, is attended by an increase OF all
| those products that enter into immedi-
| ate home consum ption; and hence It is
I taat the number offarms has increased, ,
the production Of butter has been en-
| larged, the sale of milk has become an
important branch Of the dairy, and the
! aggregate value Of the annual products
| o. the soil is greatly enhanced"
A story is told about w. w. Aston, our
Minister TO Rome. When he introduced
his wife to King Humbert that royal
parsonage complimented him upon the
beauty of the lady, to WHICH Astor re-
phed, with the utmost modesty: "Si,
| Majesti, ST." Mr.. Astor is now spoken
of everywhere as ''Si Maiesti, ST."
Mr.. Joseph Jacobs, in his "studies on
Jewish Statistics" disposes of the dis
position that John Bright is of Jewish
descent. He believes the statement
that Mr.. Bright's great-great-grandinot
! er, Martha Jacobs, was Jewess, is al
| together erroneous. That farmer in a
Wiltshire hamlet a century and half
| ago should have courted and won Jew
| ish bride is wild improbabilty. Jacobs
! is a common name in South Wales, and
Wiltshire is not very far from the Welsh
| border. There can be little doubt that
John Bright's alleged Jewish blood is
really Welsh.
Alexander III is the despair ofopera
! managers in St. Petersburg. Once the
Car was boon to them; for the an
| nouncement that he would ''honor the
performance" was sure to crowd the
house. But now the mere suspicion
| that Ire may attend scares the public
| away; for they see visions Of bombs, dvn.
! amite and sudden death. Yet the EN-.
| peror cannot be asked to stay away.
Devout Mosens confidently predict
the end of the world on November s,
the close of the Mohammf Ian thirteenth
century. Tradition declares that in the
| present month, during the Ramadan
| fast, the Sun shall rlsv - tie west, the
lay of mercy and forgiven ess shall cease
| and that of judgment and retciantion
begin. Thus, a proclamation has been
issued from Mecca warming all true be-
| levers to prepare for the coming day.
which has been widely circulated, and
has created a geat impression.