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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
Agricultural Items,

All fruits ripen better in the dark
than in the light, tomatoes included,
says the Farm Journal.
Mr.. Thomas D. Baird. in the Ameri-.
can Garden states that he tried several
experiments with tomatoes, and found
that those which had been stopped"
Cutting of portion of the upper part)
were larger and four days earlier than
others not SO treated. Vines not staked
were, and the vines that were only sell
dom pruned bore the poorest ofall.
A method of treating raspberries is
mentioned by Mr.. Hopkins Of Frank
lin county, Ind, who with half of thirty
hills OF red raspberries upon one and a
sixteenth rods of land, which are eigh-
teen years old, procures good crop OF
fruit every year-as high al sixty-two
quarts in season. The bushes are trim
med to two or three strong stalks per
hill each spring, and cut back to two
feet from the ground The ground has
never been hard, is we'll mulched, and
all sprouts picked off the vines as fast as
they come up, aud added TO the mulch
thus keeping the soil moist and free
from tLe SN1. lulS IatS Va y4CIA WOuAA
give go bushels to the acre.
Says the Farmer Fruit Grower
,"Clover seed retaited at the enormous
tgere of So per bushel this spring, and
was scarce at that. 1t is strange, our
farmers do not make the seed farm
crop. The first growth Of clover can be
cut in June fer hay, and the seed may
be taken from the second crop in Sep
tember." e- g
A correspondent of the Fruit Record
er mentions that he used carbolic acid
and soapsuds on his plum trees, with
perfect success, as q remedy for curcu-
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
Incombslstible Paper.

Mr.. G. Meyer, at recent meeting of
the Societe Encouragement, exhibited
new paste combination designed for
the manufacture of incombustible card
board or paper of all sorts and shades.
Asbestos Was the principal thing en-
ploved in its manufacture, He present
ted specimens in writing, printing, en-
craving, etc. made with his inks Of diff
ferent co ors, and also showed water
ctlor drawing that had been submitted
to the fiery ordeal Of the potter's fur
mace. The painting had preserved all
htr Gyhogranb P5per 1 csnt nex
tiers, was placed between two layers of
glass in a state of fusiog.. On removal
the paper was found to hay, completely
resisted the action of the heat, and the
ensrav'ng to have preserved all its
sharpness ~ e !. I. :; ..~...5.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
Rotation OF Crops.

A correspondent ofthe County Gen
tleman says that cit is now generally
admitted that rotation Of crops is rem
dered necessary, not, us formerly sup.
posed, because the soil becomes exhaus.
ted Of some important element, or be-
comes unwholesome for that particular
plant, owing to poisonous excreta left
by the roots, but because insects. and dis
eases accom- any the plant which are
special to it, the eggs or spores OF which
are left in the soil TO tack the same
crop in the next following year with d
hundredFold increase Of numbers and
power. Prof Bessy Of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College shows how this is the
case with smut, which grows up through
all the interior Of Il wheat plant aud fin
ally developes it's spores within the
bran casing Of the grain, filling it not
with -four, but with innumerable black,
sinking seeds Of the parasites which,
when set free float out and stick fast to
sound grains Of wheat and also to parti-
Giles Of the soil, wi here they lie ready to
enter into the circulation Of the next
years growth of wheat plants, unless
killed by sleeping the pol! uted seed in
blue vitriol solution and drying off with
lime. As to the polluted soil, it is puri-
fed from the contamination only by
using it for some other crop on which
the smut plant cannot take hold"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26

The story comes from North Carolina
of dog that climbs trees after opossums
and coons. He doesn't stick his toe nails
IA like cut, but climbs like boy. Re-
Gently he Skinned up a big elm and
,.aught an immense coon. During the
fight that ensued they both .ell to the
ground, but the dog had the best Of the
fall and won tho trick. RS
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
Bonnet Ornaments

The bonnet ornam ents are very rich
and unique. L1r2Fe silver gilt balls are
set with Rhine pebbles. S >me pins have
finely engraved oxidizel silver heads IN
ma y unique designs, such AS arrow
tips, ]ances, red gold battle axes. enam~
ele,l sprays Of flowers, sphinx heal in
antique silver, sharks skin head stud
utd with ylittarin. steel, gilt spiders,
all manner Of bugs: SOU rrel's feet mount,
cd on steel and other small legs and
feet of some unknown animals in brown
or white fur, set in oxidized silver.
Owls heads oil immense and small size
and wings and pompols Of the greatest
variety, the hatt ned back and head OF
a rooster and other flat shapes of birds
are used in profu~ioll. Ribbons are TWO
inches wide for one pair only Of strlugS.
The novelties consist Of pretty orna'
ments OF carved wood. showing grilf1ns,
unicorus, Dragons tusks, tasteutsl on to
long steel or silver pins; old silver and
oxi>|lzed silver Of Gree nawav children
at play; q stiln anu girls leaning against
it; a Windmill and Don Qulxote at full
charge; hounds in chase, swallows on
The wing, ard many other curious de,,
signs of p funny character are exc uted
in the finest metal.
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Miscellaneous Matters.

they thought Of the female sex. II q
man and woman were convicted Of a
capital crime, they banged the man and
burnt the woman. Mr.. Bonner's Led
ger recalls the last Instance of this fine
Discrimination. 1t occurred in l775, at
Cambridge, when two servants were ex-
were drawn on a sled to the place Of ex-
ecution, and Mark, fellow of about
thirty, WAS hanged, and Phyllis, an old
creature, was burnt TO death.
The Yellowstone National Park is
larger than Delaware and Rhode Island
combined, being IS miles wide by S.
long, and embracing 1875 square miles.
1t lies mainly in the northwestern cor
ner of Wyoming, but includes thin
strip of Idaho on the west and Montana
on the west and north. The body of it
is between ITO deg. and Ill deg. west
longitude, and Al deg, and IS deg. north
latitude. The lowest elevation in tho
park is 5000 feet abovesthe sea level,
and its highest mountain peak from
10000 to 12,OOO feet. 1t is an immense
table land, with a surface broken into
mountain ranges, gorges, canyons and
valleys.
An amusing incident recently took
place at Chalons-sur- Marne, where q
nlenagerie had arrived. The lion-tamex
was struck by g. bright idea, and got up
a rattle for 8 lion whelp. This new kind
of lottery attracted great many idlers.
all anxious to VIII, and yet frightened at
the motion. A bankers clerk won the
lion, and turned dreadtully pale. His
wife screamed and cried so energetical-
" at the notion of the invasion Of this
new inmate into her household that the
colonel ola regiment bought the ami
NAL for 200 francs.
The owner of an iron furnace in Ala
bama states that he is steadily produc-
ing pig iron at a cost of $8 per ton. In
Virginia the cost is $12 per ton. in Ten
nessee $ll, while at Pittsburg each ton
turned out cost $l9. This difference in
favor Of the southern furnaces is largely
due to the cheaper labor Of that section.
Another cause contributing to the low
er cost Of production there is tbs fact
that the southern furnaces are located
Immediately at, or very near the mines,
and the expense of handling the ore be-
tween the mines and the furnace is
therefore very nominal. In Alabama
the iron ind ustry is new one, and the
one is reached at no great distance be-
low the surface. It may be added that
the Alabama pig iron is at present made
ct less cost than that of England.
a eountryman strayed into store in
Springfield recently, ard found the pro.
prietor talking through the telephone
what are yer doing thar agin the wall
Mister" Talking to my friend" "But
whar is he7 [ don't see him" 'Why be
is eight miles away" With the exc!ama-
ton, ''By tnunder!' the granger stalked
of. Atnight he said to his wife, Il new
or want to go to Springfield again; they
lie so like biazes there. I wouldn't trus,
'em with q clam shell. Why, wife tar
| nal fool there talking away at a boarG
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26

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THE HORSE 1T FULL SPEED.

By the aid of instantaneous photo
graphs taken from twenty-four cameras
in line, as horse galloped past them,
It is shown that the position of that an
imal is not what it has been represented
to be.
Painters show the horse, when at the
top of his speed, as N cavalry charge,
to be raised above the earth, with his
body stretched to it's full extent, the
fore legs thrown out horizontally in
front, the hind legs almost horizontally
in the rear. Now deer and hares do run
in this way, but dogs and horses in a far
different fashion. The horse completes
a gallop in eight positions during only
one of these is he entirely free from the
ground in all others he has from one
to three feet touching the ground. In
the only position when he is free from
the earth, all four of his legs, instead of
being stretched out, are doubled under
him as if he were lying down in mid-air.
This of course deprives the figure of
that spirited movement of activity and
speed which thrills the spectator. The
question is whether the artists must
hereafter be faithful to nature as science
demonstrates it, or to nature as the eye
reveals it.
1t would seem to admit of ready an
swer. Since the artist appeals to the
eye and to the mechanical sense, he
must give the same impression on can
vas which the horse itself gives to the
eye of the spectator. The horse looks as
If he were flying, with his feet off the
ground, and the painter must make him
look SO, too. Ii he does not he fails TO
reproduce that spirit, elan, speed, elias
ITCHY, grace and vigor which a fast-gal-
loping horse produces. He is no more
obliged to Put the horse in constrained
and awkward position than he would be
if in painting a tower or II house he
should paint, not the picturesque effect
caused by distance and the atmosphere,
but the coarseness, responsiveness or
stiffness Of the stones, the masonry
courses and other realistic features
which, as a close examination proves,
produce the pictorial result. Detroit
| Free Press.
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THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.

In speech in favor of the bill to pro-
mote the efficiency of the Life-Saving
Service, Congressman S. S. Cox pre-
sented the following interesting statis-
tics of the service since its establishment
ten years ago:
Number of disasters reported, 1,347 ;
value of vessels endangered, SIG, 6,O83,-
800; value of cargoes, S,429, 167 value
of property saved, $14, 958, $50; value of
property lost, s9,853, 592; number of
lives imperiled, IL, 259; number of lives
saved, II, S64; number of persons sue
cored, 2,610; number Of days succor af-
forded, 1850.
Beside II, ,8G4 lives saved from vessels
in distress, the lives Of sixteen persons
were saved who were not on board YES
sells. OF 395 lives reported lost, 1873
were on the Huron and Metropolis, the
loss of the former vessel happening
when stations were not open while in
the case Of the latter the service was i'm
peded by distance from the scene OF the
disaster.
1t is only in the last five years that
the operations OF the Life-Saving Serv-
ice have embraced the sea and gulf and
part of the lake coasts of the United
States. In 1871-72 its operations were
confined to the coast OF Long island and
New Jersey.
Mr.. Cox said that before the estab.
lishment of the Life-Saving Service the
loss Of life on the coast of New Jersey
alone amounted to hundreds annually.
Since its establishment 315 disasters
have occurred, imperiling the lives Of
1854 persons, of whom 2,725 were
| saved.
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- EATING BEFOHE SLEEPING.

EGsn is the only animal thatcan be taught
to sleep quietly on an empty stomach.
The brute creation resent all efforts to
coax them to such violation of the laws
of nature. The lion roars in the forest
until he has found his prey, and, when
he has devoured it, he sleeps over until
he needs another meal. The horse will
paw all night In the stable, and the pig
will sqacal in the pen, refusing all rest
or sleep until they are fed. The ami
mails which chew the cud have their own
provision for late meal just before
dropping off to their nightly slumbers.
Man can train himself to the habit OF
sic ping without preceding meal, but
only after long years of practice. As he
comes into Uhew0rId nature is too strong
for him, and he must be fed before he
will sleep. A child's stomach is small,
and when perfectly filed, if no sickness
disturbs it, sleep follows naturally and
inevitably. AS digestion goes on the
stomach begins to empty. A single fold
in it will make the little sleeper restless !;
two Will waken it, and, if it is hushed
again to repose, the nap is short, and
three folds put an end to the slumber.
Paregoric or other narcotic may close its
eyes again, but without either food or
some stupefying drug it will not sleep,
no matter how healthy it may be. Not
even an angel who learned the art of
minstrelsy in a celestial choir can sing a
babe to sleep on an empty stomach.
We used the oft-quoted illustration,
"sleeping as sweetly as an infant " be-
cause this slumber of child follows I'M
mediately after its stomach is complete
Iy filed with wholesome food. The
sleep which comes to adults long after
partaking of food, and when the stom
ach is nearly or quite empty, IS moi
after the type of infantile repose
There is all the difference in the worlo
between the sleep of refreshment ano
the sleep of exhaustion.
To sleep well the blood that swells
the veius IL the head during our busy
hours must flow back, leaving greatly
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THE LITTLE SHEPHERD DOG.

The best OF those dogs are worth <, Il
or even more. One Eeider, whoa ~
met at Co &nring ranch, shovel us
very pretty ou@ nat he said il, wa
not sci fcr 500. SIZE hal al tll.,J '.}.,
four ycutz ipp.es. The night ~ :
rived we ,i..-e5, his camp. anl W
greatly i...elt5tel in Tie little ,nr.:'.
and Lcr nur>in~ babies. An.li IT,.
Wild, vast mount..ls, this little n.-s.
motherly devot;o- and baby tlt>. S..
very beautiful.
While we were exclaIming. tie a.,~:--
ant herder came to saY that tEo.. ,s,
more than twenty sheep ;2issiaE. =.
male dogs, both larger than tA4 IL:
mother, were standing about with t..
hands in Their breeches, doing notn.a
But the herder said neither Tom ,:.
Dick would find them. Flora must 81
It was urged by the assistant that liz.
foot was sore, she had been hard a
work all day, was nearly worn out, al,
must suckle her puppies. The boss ILL
sisted that she must go. The sun was
setting. There vas no time to lose.
Flora was called, and told to hunt foi
lost sheep, while Ler master pointed t.
a great forest, trough the edge OF
which they had PISSED on their way up.
She raised her head, but seemed very
10th to leave her babies. The boss called
sharply to her. She rose, looking tired
and low-spirited, witch head and tai
down, and trotted YEARLY off toward the
forest. [ saia:
"This is too bad"
"Oh, she'll be right back. She'a
lightning on stray sheep"
The next morning [ went over tc
learn whether Flora had found tht
strays. While We were speaking The
sheep were returning, driven by little
dog, who did not raise her head nor wac
her tail, even when spoken to, brt
crawled to her puppies and lay down b.
them, Offering the little empty breast, ,
She had been out all night, and, whu
her hungry babies were tugging ava
fell asleep. 7 have never seen anythili,
so touching. So far as I was concerned
"there was not dry eye in the house.
How often that scene comes back t.
me-the vast, gloomy forest, and tha
little creature, with the sore foot ant
her heart crying for her babies, impine
and creeping about in the wild cavern
and through the long, dark hours, find
ing and gathering in the lost sheep!
wonder if any preacher of the gospe
ever searched for lost sheep under cir
cumstances so hard and with such pain
full sacrifices? But, then, we must no
expect too much from men. It is tn,
dog that stands for fidelity and sacrifice
The best part of man is the dog that i
in him.-Dio Lewis.
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PAWNBRokERs IN GREAT BRITAIN

Some one has taken the trouble to
collect statistics of the existing Jew
pawnbrokers in Great Britain. Their
total number is 4,372, and during a sim
gle year they take in, it is estimated,
some 200 100000 pledges. Returns
made by 731 pawnbrokers represented
a business of 80, 500, GOO pledges, and the
total of 2OO,OOO,O 600 is calculated from
these returns. II appears that the 32,-
100000 transactions involved 1, 1897 cases
in the police courts and the arrest and
imprisonment of 456 persons-facts that
do not indicate as much irregularity and
trouble as might have been looked for.
Only 2,311 of the pledges were given
up. They represented total valuation
of S., 400.
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diminished volume behind the brow
that lately throbbed with such vehem-
ence. To digest we'll, this blood is
needed at the stomach, and nearer the
fountains of life. It is fact established
beyond the possibility OF contradiction
that sleep aids digestion, and that the
process of digestion is conducive to re-
freshing sleep. It needs no argument
to convince US OF this mutual relation.
The drowsiness which always follows
the well-ordered meal is itself a testi-
mony of nature to this interdependence.
-NeaO York Journal of Commerce.
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Confirmation Of Assessment, for Sprink.
ling Grove Street,
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST.. PAUL, Minn., July Z, 1888.

OFF,CE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST.. PAUL, Mimi, July Z, 1888.
The assessment of benefits, costs and expenses,
arising from the sprinklirg of Grove street be-
tween Lafayette avenue and Mississippi street.
in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, until Nov
ember lst, A. D. 1883, under contract
of Patrick Norris, having been COM
pleted by the Board of Public Works in and for
said city, said Beard will meet at their Office In,
said CITY at $50 D. M on the Doth day of July
A. D. 1883, to hear objections (if any) to said
assessment, at which time and place, unless
sufficient cause is shown to the contrary said
assessment will be confirmed by said Board.
The following is a list of the supposed owners
names, description of the property benefited,
and the amounts assessed against the same
to-w;t
Schurmeier's Subdivision of Lot l, Bass Ou
Lots, st. Paul.
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al AM sorry that you did not bring
your poem sooner" said an Arkansas
editor to a troublesome contributor.
why, am too late for this issue?"
"No, not particularly" "Then why are
you sorry?" Because, if you had
brought your poem sooner, I would
have had an earlier opportunity of re-
iecting it. ."-ArkanSalU TraUeler.
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We once heard of a traveller at Penn
sylvania hotel, who rose from his bed at
night to examine the weather, but, in
stead of looking out upon the sky,
thrust his head through the glass win
dow Of cupboard. Landlord, cried
the astonished man, "this is very sin
gular weather; the night is as dark as
Egypt, and smells of cheese !"
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"WHY is lady unlike a mirrcr -
asked a cynic Of lady. She "gave it
up" Because" said the rude fellow,
ga mirror reflects without speaking; a
lady speaks without rejecting" every
good" said she. "Now answer me.
Why is a man unlike a mirror?" 81
cannot tel you" because the mirror
is polished and the man is not"
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-, exchange contains a long article
entitled, "Was Hamlet Mad?" Well,
Hamlet didn't seem to like it very well
that his father had been murdered and
the murderer had married his mother,
butyou can't judge much by appearances.
He may have been tickled half to death
to think that the old man had been so
neatly slugged. --Peck'S Sun.
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THE destruction of the Notifications
of Paris will add large habitable area
30 the city. The space either actually
occupied by the Notifications or re-
served in connection with them COM
prises 1915 acres.
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Confirmation Of Assessment for Sprink
ling St. Peter Street
OFFIUs OF THE Board OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST.. PAUL, MINI, July z, 1888.

The assessment of benefits, costs and expenses
arising from the sprinkiing of st. Peter street,
from College avenue to Iglehart street, in the
City of St. Paul, Minnesota, until November /,
A. D. 1888, under contract of John Gehrke,
having been completed by the Board of Public
Works in aud for said City, said Boari will meet
at their Office in said City at 2SO P. NJ, on 9
10Th day of July, A. D. 1853, to hear objections
(if any, to said assessment, at which time and
place unless sufficient cause is shown to the con-
trary said assessment will be confirmed by said
Board.
The following is a list of the supposed owners
names, description of the property tenefted
and the amounts assessed against the same to-wit:
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Kittson's Addition to St. Paul. .
Dayton's Addition to St. Pau
Supposed owner and
description.

Supposed owner and
description. Benefi-s.
Augusta Young. Commencing at NE cor
of block l, kittson's addition to st Paul;
thence s Ely along Pine street 80 ft;
thence WHY along middle line of said
block 66 IT; thence My at right angles
to Grove street SO fit to Sly line of said
Grove street; thence Ely to beginning. So %
Chas Clifford. Commencing on Grove
ttreet 100 feet Ely from " corner of
block l, kittson's addition to st Paul;
thence Sly at right angles with Grove
street SO feet to N w corner of land con-
veyed by Hill to Nygren; thence Ely
along Nygren's land 80 #; thence My
at night angles to Grove street SO it to
south line of said Grove street, thence
WHY 3O TT to beginning g.......... So 81
Chas Williams and Annie Will
Ilams. Commencing on Ely line of
Broadway 80 it My from S W corner
of block 1, Kittson's addition to St.
Paul; thence Ely parallel with Twelfth
street lO2 ft; thence My along Nygren's
WHY line % ft to N WHY cor of Ny
gren's land; thence N Ely parallel
with W line of block l and Mississippi
st 69 ft to line of Grove st at a point
100 1t Ely from N w corner of said
block l; thence WHY along Grove street
to Mississippi st; thence S WHY along
Mississippi st los ft to intersection of
Broadway; thence SLY along Broadway
46 1T to beginning, being part of block l,
hlttson's addition to st. Paul ... S23 35
All objections to said assessment must be
made IN writing and filed with the clerk of said
board at least one day prior to said meeting.
JOHN G. TERRY, President pro tenn
Official: r. L. GORMAN,
Clerk Board of Public Works. l9I-19a
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IngerS0ll'S (iYiliZ2!.S.

Ingersoli says plug hats md Suspend
ers arc nerded in the South before she
viii make mach headway, as no people
WHO wear slouch hat, and let their
tro~t5e = hang slovenly on their hips can
ever become civilized. Yhat'a i. With
the L niger OF hrealing his Srspealcrs
and having his 81 hat smashed staring
him in the cace a man vii be slow about
going into a fight. Boston Post.
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POVERTY is the only burden which
grows heavier in proportion to the num-
Der of dear ones who have to help
bear it.