Little Falls transcript., 1883-09-28
4 ELS LOVING AND GRATEFUL FRIEND,
s s., MICHAEL IANDY. .s zs zat M. IN

1 #s MICHAEL IANDY.
s And thus ended Mick's revenge. Love
for his old friend and her itue ones had
softaned his heart towards the whole world.
miscellaneous PA ragraphs. ...23
a Maggie Ballentine, q sweet Virginia
girl of seventeen years, was burned re-
Gently by her clothes taking fire from q
ing pipe she was smoking.
1t is estimated that within the last
three years over 13O,0O0,00 cans of
tomatoes have been consumed in this
country. The statistics indicate the
prosperity of canning factories and tile
growth in popularity Of the once un-
familiar 'tlove.apple." ..>a*y
at Mineral Park, Arizona. the coyotes
are SO tame that they come into town
and play with the dogs.
8 Louisiana claims that during the past
year great success has been achieved in
restoring her levee system to a high
state of efficiency. The embankments
resisted the great flood of last year bet
Ter than even the most sanguine could
have expected.
There are said to be about $4,000
drummers in this country, including
men who run around selling on commits.
sion. Some OF them get 81 900 a year
and expenses, quite a number from $3,-
600 to SIS, 600 q year; and the average sal
ary is about $l 500 and expenses, which
8, erage $6 day.
n dog of the shepherd breed, owned
by Aaron Hutchinson, of Mansfield,
Conn.,, not only possesses the usual &C.
complishments common to the educated
canins, such as shaking hands, await
jng the signal three to snap the piece
sings, s'Sit up, hold up your paw and
sing" saws his mistress, and Pedro viii
pose in most knowing attitude, and to
q musical accompaniment will join his
voice varying his song as the tune is
high or low, fast or slow, and stop when
the instrument ceases.
One of the prominent insurance com.
panies of Hartford recently appointed
young man to vacancy caused by
resignation Of a woman stenographer. It
is stated that this is in accordance with
what is now the settled policy Of the
company, which has hitherto employed
work we'll for a time, but it is said to the
at they are deficient in "staying quail
ties" ,,-
Louisiana boys take young mocking
birds just before they can fly and sell
them to New Orleans Creoles for 10 or
Is cents piece. The Creoles sell them
to German or Italian retail dealers for
80 cents, and the dealers, main ly ped
dlers, receive So and 81 for them in the
north. The peddIers say that rich peo-
pie do not buy birds; they prefer dogs.
Florida,lemons-A Jacksonville merch-
ant has just shipped north 200 boxes of
lemons grown n..Florida. They are said to
be as fine lemons as can be grown any
where, their color being perfect, while
they are finely favored, and as juicy as
the best Messinas. Mr.. Bean, the ship
per of the lot, says the fruit-growers
throughout Florida are paying very
much more attention to growing lemons
since a successful experiment was made
in curing them last seacon, and are set
ting out or budding, q large number of
trees.
According to recent reports, South
Africa will soon be important for some-
thing besides diamonds and Zulu wars.
Mr. David Jones, mining engineer,
has just sent to England fol- nal report,
in which he states that there is good
ground for believing that there are
abundant coal mines in South Africa.
The coal which has already been mined
is rather poor in quality, but tits stead
lily, becoming better. IT the. supply of
coal should prove to be abundant and
good, South. Africa will present many
attractions to the emigrant from Great
Britain.
Boring for coal at Jacksonville, ILL.,,
has been discontinued, after reaching q
depth OF 9S5 feet, leaving a balance OF
$400 against the enterprise in excess of
the amount raised for the purpose. The
last boring was in hard rock, and all
hopes Of reaching coal there seemed TO
have been abandoned. The result con-
firms the theories of the geoligists, and
the enterprise will probably never be
renewed in view of the failure of pre-
vious experiments.
Army officers are discussing propo-
sition to change the law regulating the
pay of enlisted men 80 as to retain in
The hands of the government half their
wages, upon which interest will be al
owed at the rate of four per cent. per
annum. This will assure each private
over $40O with which to start in the
world when his first term Of enlistment
expires, besides teaching economy and
q habit of laying up part of his earnings.
On the other hand some argue that,
though this may be an excellent plan
for giving young man start in life,
very few men with $40O in hand will re-
enlist in the army; and to Withhold half
the pay and allow privates only to re-
ceiye sc, ~ per month of their wages
would 60 far toward entirely stopping
the business of recruiting.