Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

'Duden u Co.. is the sign Of an east
ern firm. Every night the sign is COW
cred with wire screen to protect it
from mutilation. SThe boys try to
make us company Of dues by remov-
ing the ~ said memb Der OF the firm.
The cholera scare has stimulated the
authorities Of Vienna to unwonted &C
tivity in sanitary matters Not only
have they decided to take number, of
measures Of precautionary nature, but
they have published long list of the
most stringent regulations, to be carried
out in case cholera should make it's ap-
pearance in the capital.
It seems that the steps on the social
ladder in Pennsylvania are as far apart
as they are in England. Asuperintend-
ent of coal mine in Scranton refuses to
recognize the marriage Of his son--a
minor-with a Lowell girl, because the
latter is beneath her husband in station.
The officials charged with the man
agement of the hospital of P arts at Log
gerheads with the attending physicians
about the value of beer as medicine or
an article of nutriment. The doctors in
sist that beer shall be retained in the
list Of articles furnished tothe hospitals
and are sustained in this by the entire
medical fraternity of the French CAPT.
tai. The managers of the hospitals how.
ever. have the disposal of the fund, and
for the present beer is not among the
things that they supply.
In Quarrying sandstone in the yard of
the state prison near Carson, Nevada,
numerous footprints have been discov.
cred. Some we're made by ana nirna]
allied to the elephant; some resemble
those Of the horse and the deer; others
were apparently made by wolf There
we're also tracks made by. large birds,
and some which bore . trong likeness
to human footprints. Prof. Marsh, who
has examined photographs and casts Of
them, is OF the opinion, however, thai
the latter were: made by large Edentates,
and not by human beings.
Competition is necessary in the hotel
and tavern business in the Yosemite
Valley. A tourist, who is evidently an
Englishman, writes to New York pa.
per 10 complain that he had to pay 50
for French claret," which was neither
French nor claret, rs cents for blackine
his boots, and had live on ''sogged" no:
tatoes and bad bread, s'leatheryn. bee
and vile coffee, When he demonstrate
the hotel man replied: "Wen, you
need not expect to set every comfort
when you come here" The hotel
keeper saw that the tourist was 'sblars.
ted Brlt'sher," and ''socked it on tc
him." for such comforts as he enjoyed
From statistics recently published j,
appears that there are in the world nc
fewer than 1886 paper mills, producing
every year 95O,0OO tons Of paper from
all kinds of substances, including rags,
straw and alfalfa. About one half is
printed upon, and Of these four hundred
seyentysix thousand tons of paper,
nearly = three hundred thou.
sand tons are used BY newspa-
pers. The various Governments con-
sumo in official business 5000 tons;
schools, 10000 tons: commerce, 10000
tons; industry, 10000 tons, and private
correspondence another 10000 tons
Including women and children, the pa.
per trade employs 1920 hands.
Itisa wonderful fact that shipping
as old as civilization and once the grea,
carrier of the worlds commerce, hal
been far outstsipped in it's capitalized
value by the railroad. an institution bu
little more than fifty years old. The
value Of British shipping is s. GOO, CO.,.
| 600; value of British railroads, Sc, zoo. 900,
600; value ofAmerican rail roads, $500.
100000. Great Fl Britain herself, tht
| queen of marine commerce, finds he
railroad investment to treble that IL
shining whilo orr railroad r,1anf n 90 rlI,