Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-31
Current Notes.

Current Notes.
Robert P. Porter, writing on "Indus~
trial Germany says: SAN American.
could hardly. observe an election in Ger
many without the thought occurring,
that the great mass IF the people of the
Empire had outgrown their Institutions"
He says political discussions are not so
heated OF excited as IN the United
States.
A |aughable incident occuruedl in
Judge Lawrence*s Office the other. day.
The unexpended balance in favor of the
Interior Department amounted TO- $780,
99l-2. About 2 o'clock messenger
from the latter department appeared
half a cent. "I'll have to disallow this"
said Comptroller Lawrence, las it is in
excess of the balance" Ageneral laugh
folio we'd, but the Judge adhered to bis
decision.
| A remarkable counterfeit IS piece was
| lately stopped at the Boston Sub-Treas-
ury. 1t bore the date OF 1881, was the
exact eize and weight of the genuine,
and contained fine gold equal in value
to 81 IS.
Thirty years ago, in the heyday of tho
slavery regime, the total value of South.
ern crops Of cotton. tobacco, rice, hay,
hemp,and sugar cane was $138 ;605, 73S.
The census report of 1881 shows that
Southern agricultural products were that
year valued at $1,000, 900. Further
more, the South is becoming rival Of
the North in cotton and other manufac-
| lures.
Within a secluded enclosure on
Columbia ave., Philadelphia, fourteen
| young womensre practicing for positions
on two baseball mines which are to BIZ
composed of women only and are to
travel about tue country and play
match-game wherever it is thought
that the exhibition will prove profitable.
| The players, who are to be neatly un-
formed, are engaged on regular salaries
and their managers expect to make
fortune. Practice has now been going
on for about week, and if the street
urchins who during that time have
| glued their eyes to the knot holes in the
! fence, surrounding the ball-feld are
fair critics, reasonable degree Of pro-
ticiency has already been attained.
The San Antonio Express is authority
for the following extraordinary bear
story. A gentleman who was out hunt
! ing on the Nueces saw q bear 20 into q
| hollow tree. He made him come out
shooting him as be did so. Thereupon
in rapid succession six other large bears
came out Of the same tree, all Of whom
the mighty hunter laid low It is sup
( posed that the hollow in the tree COM
| municated with subterranean cave, in
which colony of bears dwelt.
For half a century the farmers within
thirty miles of the New Jersey coast
have gathered at a convenient point
along the beach on the second Saturday
! in August, to enjoy holiday called
"Salt Water Day" On Saturday 5000
men, women and children, in pictur-
esque attire, proceeded in all sorts of
vehicles to Wreck Point, near Sea Girt
The population of the New Jersey pines
then took its annual salt water bath.
The skin tight trousers must 20. An
accurate and interested observer says
that the heavy swells at Newport who
have just returned from "abroad' have
trousers much wider than before. and
thar sack coats cut in to fit the figure.
the shad," says aCalifornia paper,
although until seven years ago stran-
ger on this coast, has multiplied since
it's introduction to an extent truly 1e-
markable. They are now to be found
all along the coast of California, and
northward ale rapidly making their
way. From recent accounts, the run"
in the Columbia river is something Won
| derful, and at the present time the fish
are so abundant that they are sold for
| rs cents per hundred, and thousands
fail to find purchasers even at that price.
Pacific coast people in general consider
the shad rather a coarse fish.
chihuahua, Mex, city of 5000 peo-
pie, is now building its first street rail-
road. A. new state house and new
mint is also in course of construction.
They are being built of stone. The
blocks are being brought in On huge
wagons with wooden wheels. the rims,
or ties, of which are ten inches wide.
The oxen are yoked as of old, by the
horns, and goaded by a man with a long
stick with. a sharpened nail at the end
of it,, Blocks OF stone weighing fifty and
seventy-fve pounds each are brought in
on burro mules, saddle-bag style. One
burro trudges along under two of these
heavy hlncEs