Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-21
Current Notes.

In Baltimore, according to book
keepers statement, the wages of entry
clerks per week are from SIS to 81, ship
ping clerks from S. to $40, aud book
keepers from SIS to SIS, with the average
at So. Hold barriers get SIS a week,
bricklaye rs So and "a day, and cellar
dlggers 81. One reason given for the
hard times among the clerks is, that
there are many rich fathers who place
their sons in wholesale houses with the
understanding that they are to receive
nothing the first year In some csses it
is known that money has been paid to
obtain positions for wealthy mems sons.
Another reason is that there are so many
young r1en who 60 to the city from the
country, and are willing to work for next
to nothing.
It is wonderful fact that shipping, as
old as civilization and once the great car
rier of the worlds commerce, has been
far outstripped in it's capitalized value
by the railroad, an institution but little
more than 50 years old. The value of
British shipping is 81 600, 600, 900; value of
British railroads, So, 700, 900 900; value of
American railroads ,$6, 30O, 00O,0 900. Great
Britain herself, the queen OF marine
commerce, finds her airoadinvestment
to treble that in shipping while our rail-
road plant nearly double in value that Of
the mother country.
An illustrated edition of Gray's Elegy
to be brought out this fall reproduces
rejected verses-those which appeared in
.he original editions but were afterward
omitted. The most exquisite of these
VAS originally inserted before the "epi.
taph," but was omitted because the poet
Thought it was too long parenthesis in
this place." The stanza is very graceful:
There scattered oft, the earliest of the year,
BY bands unseen, are showers of vlolets
found;
The redbreast loves to build and warblo
there,
And little footsteps lightly print the
- ground
At a great Irish meeting in Chicago,
where ten thousand people participated
in the celebration of the first demonstra-
ton Of the National League Of Irishmen
the most sensible remark Of the day
was made by Thomas Brendan. lie said:
1.-The league proposes to establish read
ing rooms all over Ireland to educate
the people and to teach them that intel
ligent demands must be listened to. This
is the shorter way to Irish freedom. It
is not very revolutionary, but it is surer
and safer, it will teach men how to hold
their own. It is not he that shows lip
applause o. dynamite, but he who takes
the. lamp of knowledge to the people Of
Ireland who will achieve her freedom"
Another old story is spoiled. It has
been printed thousand times that the
revival hymn f'Hold the Fort" was
founded upon an incident connected
with the eight of Allatoona, in the At
lanta campaign-that Sherman signalled
from Kenesaw Heights to Corse, Hold
the Fort. for l am coming" and that
pior1sly determined answer came. But
no such message was sent or received.
Sherman was on Kenesaw during the
Allatoona fight, but was unable to get
any answer to his signals for a long time.
At last, by the aid Of powerful field
glasses, the signal officer saw the flag
through the einbrasures Of the fort dis
play letters which meant, "Corse is
here" After the fight, Colonel Dayton,
the following characteristic but impious
despatch from, General Corse: II am
short cheek bone and an ear, but am
able to Whipall hi yeti" It is difficult
to see how such message could have
been made the basis for revival hymn.
but@by the aid Of little romance it was
done. 0 s..s.s II # {. <@->
Gossiping about the large hotels Of
New York and the costly habits which
they stimulate, the Lounger" of the