Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
Miscallanus Matters.

The attendance Of Roman Catholic
bishops at Rome is required once With
in each space of three years. A law
also exists obliging cardinals not to
leave the Eternal city without notifying
the pope. The former regulation leads
to a specially large congregation Of blsh
ops at Rome at this time, and the later
having been ignored By Cardinal ho-
h~nlohe is the cause of his disgrace in
Lac eyes Of the pope. T.. ...,..s> +. ....
A good illustration of the interdepen-
dence of industries, however wide their
national separation, is furnished by the
fact that an important branch of the
iron trade is mourning over the idle
ness of the whisky distilleries. When
only little whisky is made there is lit
tie need of new whisky barrels, and con-
seouently great decline in the demand
for hoop iron.
s:I'm tired OF hearing bout our fine
naval officers" said Admiral Porter the
other day. ''What good are our officers
| if they have not got anything to work
with. A navy composed of officers and
water don't amount to much. We might
have the finest carpenters in the world,
| but if they did not have any tools to
| work with Of what earthly use would
they be? The government has got all
| this surplus revenue and they had bet
| ter build navy, We 60 about Dragging
about the American eagle. Some day
| licked Then we'll wish We had two
| navies, and everybody will be blaming
| everybody else because there isn't one"
A Danish steamer which arrived at
| New York month ago with fire in
her hold had among her cargo $50 boxes
| containing 100000 eggs. The water
pumped into the vessel to quench the
flames became heated and boiled the
eggs hard. A SPECTATOR bought the lot
for $3.50, intending to retail them to no.
| tells and restaurants. He soon found,
! how ever, that the fumes Of the Swedish
! matches, to the spontaneous combustion
| of WHICH the fire was due, had impreg-
mated the eggs with the odor Of sulphur,
| and nobody would buy them, To add to
! his misfortune, the health authorities
refuse 30 take the $50, 900 eggs of his
| hands as otfal, and he will have to ira as-
port them to q suitable place of deposit
| at his own expense. What puzzles him
| is how the sample eggs which he ate be-
| fore making the purchase happened to
be perfectly sweet and fresh.
1t was a common saying among thirsty
! oystermen on the north shore Of Long
Island Sound, in the days when stack
companies had not begun to cultivate
large plantations under water, that two
acres of good oyster "land' were worth
as much as an ORDINARY new England
farm. There is money to be made in
growing oysters, but iftbe business is
more profitable it is also more risky
than farming On dry land. The oysters
most deadly enemy is the star-fish.
Near Bridgeport, c., about 1000 acres
OF submerged land are now undar cult
vation, and the star fish is rapidly de-
sJroyiDg the crop. In three weeks the
oysters on track of 100 acres have been
killed by the "fye~ingers,' SIS they are
sometimes called, and al old oyster
merchant has recently taken up 100000
Of the fish in seven hours by dredging.
This attack upon the oysters by their
enemy is not without precedent along
the Connecticut shore. but it seems to
De the most destructive one that has
been made in many years.
Mr.. Seth Green recently said to rep
resentative Of the Rochester Post Ex
press: my gang Of men have returned
from the Western lakes and I am more
| than gratiied with their success in gath
er;ng salmon spawn. They brought with
| them about four mi lions of tie finest
| impregnaled spawn I have ever had, and
| they are now at the @hatching house at
| Caledonia, where they will be batched,
and I shall be ready to send them out in
due time. The party who were at work
on the lakes consisted Of one man on
Lake Michigan, one on Lake Superior
and two On Lake Huron. Jonathan Ma
son was on Lake Huron, Edward Beam
was on both Lake Huron and Lake
Michigan, and Emmett Marks was on
Lake Michigan and Huron. These men
| 60 to the fishing grounds early in the
spring with tugs, and when any Of the
fishermen find q ripe female in their
| lakes the eggs are extracted, lmpregna
| ted with the mi't of the males and
! brought here in boxes"