Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-16


the lower edge With crescents, attached
to it by chords of black silk. The upper
edge may be fastened to the shelf by
tiny silver, headed nails, Or it NAV be
tackled on the wrong side and turned
over, so that no heading is necessary.
Current Paragraphs.
The GeorgiAn's mouth waters while
he talks Of 'possum, hedged in with
brown gravy and sweet potatoes with
sugar on them. Old hunters tell US the
''pessum hog will never eat a possum or
the bones OF one. A Georgia editor, who
attended hunt and the subse quent
feast, remarks: sit was the first >possum
we ever ate, but if our legs hold out it
will not be the last one."
Water is scarce in New Orleans, and
in consequence over 500 600 worth of
property has been burned in less than a
month. An exchange says the cutters
smell to heaven; only tue rich can az
ford the luxury Of a bath; washer Ho-
men have struck; the water-cart has q
monopoly at high prices OF drinking wa
ter; and burglaries of water ar commit
ted at night by men armed with buckets.
British adminstrat ion in Cyprus is
greatly improving the condition of the
people. The law courts have been re-
formed, the people are able to buy
more luxuries than formerly, crime is
diminishing, and the revenue has in
creased As per cent. Sheep and goats
are increasing in number, sanitary ar
engagements are improving. and the gen
eral condition of the people is that of
steadily advancing prosperity. The ac-
QUESTION of the island was costly job
for England, but the prospect now is
that it will IN time become self.support-
ing.
The story is told in Paris of an Amer.
lean lady who at an inn in Normandy
was deputed. as being the best French
scholar in her party, to make athe ar
engagements for their accommodation.
She did her best-which Was long way
short of perfection-but the clerk did
not catch her meaning, and his remarks
were jargon to her. Finally, in despe-
ration, she said, slowly and with awful
distnctness: "Do-you-speak-Eng-
lish?" "Wa'al, meow you're jest talkin,''
shouted the clerk. "Guess I'd orter
SpSAh LuSllau, Il WdS IalS6u t0u mllSS
from Bangor"
A correspondent of a. Georgia paper
sensibly remarks: 1T is a pity that
every farmer in Georgia could not have
an opportunity to ride through New
England. The wonderful economies
which the people have been compelled
to adopt, and the wonderful energy that
has made the adoption possible, are
evident on every hand and even a
heeting glimpse would be more convinc-
ing than hundred columns of descrip-
ton"
In New York oyster shops, stabbers,
as the openers of oysters in the Boston
style are called, are taking the places of
the crackers, whose fashion is to lay
the blvalve on a block and break off a
piece of the shell at the thin edge. Still
another kind of workman is the sculIer,
who holds the oyster in his left hand
and gives kind of sideways sculhus
motion to the knife, differing from the
direct stab.
In England an absurd fashion has set
in of undertaking pictures as ornaments
for a room. The room itself. say the
apostles of the new dispensation, must
be picture. Nothing but decorative art
is permissible, An art patron not long
since got we4l-known decorator to pro-
duce an ideal dining room. When it
was finished he asked. "Where shall |
put my pictures2" The reply was.
"Your pictures would spoil the room.
You must build a gallery" and the art
decorator laughed scornfully when the
poor householder pleaded. ':But T
bought my pictures to live With" Fewer
and fewer pictures are now hung on
English wallis.
1rish-Americans who haye visited the
old country during the summer report
that the farming class has not been for
years in 80 prosperous condition. The
report of Sir Rivers Wilson, Controllar
General of Savings Banks, Just issued
confr lis this. Last year the average OF
deposits In Ireland was larger than in
England or Scotland, reaching GG Is Id
while in England and Wales it was "a IS.
and in Scotland, e3 4s l0d..
Every theater critic has his own pe.
cu'iar style. The editor of mining
camp newspaper, for example, has this
to say ola popular songstress: Gas a
singer she can just wallop the hose Of
any that ever wagged jaw on the
boards. From her clear, bird-llke up-
per notes. she would canter away down
to the bass racket. and then cushionen
back to a sort of spiritual treble that
made every man in the audidnce imag-
inc every hair on his head was the gold.
en- string of a celestial harp, over which
angelic fingers were sweeping"