Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-23
= General Paragraphs.

| General Paragraphs.
The London Medical Times discusses
beverages from a sanitary standpoint,
and concludes that a light bitter beer,
brewed from malt and hops, will yet be
recognized as the most wholesome drink,
and one which will the most surely pre-
vent intemperance. III. # .#s
The largest oyster shell in the world
is in the church ofSt Sulpice, in Paris.
It weighs over 500 pounds, and is used
as baptismal font. - 5=:s $zs. s.
A court in Washington having decided
that milknen's cans shall no longer rat
lie nor their gongs resound, as has long
oeen the fashion there, sleep may now
rest upon the tired eyelids of the con-
gresham who has been out all night on
committee duty
The traffic in church livings still con-
tinues in England. ga desirable recto-
ry in Northamptonshire" is offered for
sale, its chief attraction being the glebe
Of about 700 acres. which might produce
san income of Ell 200 per.anunm" to ''any
clergyman having the capital and inclin-
alton" to farm it. An English paper
suggests that the advertisement should
| have opened in this way: WANTED, an
experienced farmer in holy orders. to
| take charge of a glebe Of 800 acres with
rectory attached"
A young man wrote to Chicago pa
per the other day that he was disposed
to marry, but that he thought he could
hardly make home comfortable on $40
| q week. Two young ladies have written
| TO the paper that they do not think $l0a
| week too small an income. Either
| would cheeriully superintend its dis
bursement, but one would insist on no
tobacco, and the other on no drinking
| habits.
Mules are now used, instead ofhorses,
| in the mines and tunnels of the west
! Mr.. Adolph Sutro describes those in his
famous tunnel as the miners pets, and
| are cared for with as much tenderness
as children. The animals become so &C.
| customed to darkness that they cannot
see on emerging into sunlight, and, to
obviate this difficulty. the men in the
Sutro tunnel are in the habit of covering
the right eye Of the mule while in dark
ness and the left when in the light, so
| that the animal will always have the full
| use of at least one optic.
A guest in tavern being disturbed at
! night by the incessant patrol of some
sleepless individual in the room over
head, knocked at the door of his apart
! ment and the following col]oquy eDsued p;
"You seem disturbed my friend. May
| inquire what's the natter" my dear
| sir, am in deep distress. I owe man
five hundred dollars which falls due to-
! morrow and have no means of paying
it, sis that all, well, nav advice, my
good sir, ls for you now to retire, and
| let the other fellow walk WHILE"
A rather curious case is now before
the Lexington, KY, courts. Some weeks
! ago capias was issued to a sheriff, who
was very small man, commanding him
to bring the body of good old minister,
who was very large and feshy, and
weighed $50 pounds. He was found
working in the woods on summer day.
lie did not want to go, aEd yet he was q
punctillous observer OF the law. So he
went and lay down flat on his back IN
the shade, and solemnly said: I'm COM
plience with the law hereby surren-
der my body to be taken by you,' and
be lay there TILL the little man got tired
ana went away. Now the question is,
did he resist ga otticer2
A gentleman who penetrated into the
unsettled regions of Florida recently
met there Spotted Tail, the chief of the
remnant Of the Seminoles who still in
habit that region, and Leaping Panther,
the old chiefs son. The royal pair were
dressed in all the pomp Of the tradition
al Indian, with leggins and moscasins Of
buckskin adorned with great profus-
ion OF glass beads and strings of wam-
pun. They wore coronets OF feathers
and had ulant!es Of dressed deer's hide
thrown over their shoulders. Spotted
Tail wanted to sell some slaves to his
visitor. When told that slavery had
ceased to exit, and that he had no right
to keep any human being in bondage,
Spotted Tail replied that he did not
know anything about that. He had
slaves, and intended TO keep them I'M
less he could get good price for them.