Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-05-16
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One Of the most curious customs that
attract the attention 81 strangers III
Panama Is TO see the native women walk
ing along the streets smoking long, slen 1-
der in much the same fashion as
men do here It is the custom Of thu.
people there, and especially OF the Wo-
men, to gather "a The public mark cts as
early as sunrise to gossip, talk over af-.
fairs while enjoying their orning
smoke. n s .fE1I III
Recent Roman Catholic STATISTICS show
that in England the numerical strength
/ Of that church has nearly trebled dur
ing the last forty years, while in Ameri-
ca the increase is nearly tenfold. The
United States is, in fact, the more
promising portion of the Pope's spirit
ual domain. There are 6 ,62S, 176 Cath
olics this year, against 636 $50 in 1910.
The large aggregate includes all nom
inal Catholics and baptised children. &
If the oleomargarine men do not look
to their rights, bad butter may drive
their goods out of market. A few
days ago a Brooklyn man bought IS. for
butter something that was not to his
liking, so he sued the seller for giving
him oleomlrgarine. He 1night have
gained his suit, for two dealers pro-
nounced the stuff oleomargarine, but q
number of experts agree that it was
genuine dairy butter. .#a: Z. i.
Emergency lectures have msde d fair
showing in the efficiency Of the Phila-
delphia police At q recent meeting OF
the Society for Organizing Charity,
nine members Of the force were pre-
sented with medals for their service in
arresting hemorrhages, putting splints
on and setting broken limbs, dlstln-
gushing between drunkenness and
sickness, reviving persons who were in
sensible from inhaling poisonous gases.
The valuation of Boston property has
been raised $10,00o,00o to total Of
$685., 100000, and the levy for state,
county and city purposes reaches 3d.
1880, an increase over the previous
year of So, 57S, 019, or nearly twenty five
per cent. This is at the rate of $19 per
81 900, OF one and one eight-tenths per
cent.
"a pronouncing bee" took place at a
church sociable in this city recently,
which was both exciting and instruct
i've. The competitors were subjected
to severe tests. They were locked in a
room and brought out singly to read
eight sentences printed on slips Of pa
per, and which contained, among other
words, "soot, depot, babe, acclimated,
aspirant, Asiatic, disputants, conversant,
fnanciers, irretragible, alteration, in
disputable, irreparable, indicatory, bla-
tant, blackguard, complainant, coadiu-
tor, incompatible, diagnosis, bronchitis,
gastritis, periostritis, menginitis, men
hits and morphine"
The following is given as ready
method Of testing water for sewage con-
tamination: A clean pint bottle is to
be filed three-quarters full of the water
to be examined; in this a teaspoonful Of
pure white sugar is to be dissolved.
Granulated or loaf sugar is good enough
for the purpose. The bottle is then
cor]1ed and placed in a warm spot for
two days. II in twenty four or forty
eight hours it becomes cloud y or mud
dy, it is unfit for domestic use; if it re-
mains clear it is probably safe to use
This method is known, as Heisch's test
for sewage contamination
Concerning bitters our excellent ex-
change, The Health and Home, says
'<Under the sanity garb of medicine the
market has been flooded for years.
Men and women swallow them by the
tubful under the belief or pretext that
they are taking tonic. When man
stops openly before saloon bar and
calls for a drink he knows that he is
taking intoxicating drink. But the bit
ters are taken under the dim del1lsion
that they are taking medicine, aud yet
to get single dose of the medicine one
has to swallow gallon of vile stuff" !