Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-18
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] II ;;nety- nine infants were on exhibi-
1 don at the New Orleans baby show.
The first prize was taken by a seven
| months old baby that weighed thirty
one pounds SIS "a s.
The town Of Holdrage, .Neb., is only
1 four months old, has sixty-two business
! houses and a proportionate number Of
! yelling s. Pretty good for cold win
ter's growth. ,2 #|.
There are supposed to be about ! ,000,-
1 600 species In the animal kingdom. Of
4 beetles alone, over 100000 species are
/ known. and the whole number OF insects
/ is set at 500 900. Ofthe higher animals
/ there are 1900 mammals, 1900 birds,
/ 1000 reptiles and 10000 fishes.
| This country makes ne-tiffh of the
iron and one-fourth Of the steel in the
world, and furnishes one-half of the
| gold and one-half the silver of the
worlds supply. Taking all the mining
I Industries of the world, the United
States represents So; Great Britain, SO,
and all other nations 81 per cent. OF the
total. Anglo Saxondom. therefore,
represents 50 per cent. Of the mining
industry OF the earth. 4. ssa
Kansas City looms up second this win
ter in hog packing. Chicago packers
slaughtered and packed 2 ,055, 900 head;
Kansas City packed 425, 900. head;
| Cincinnati, 100000 head; St. Louis.
325, 900 head; Indianapolis, 274, 900
head. Milwaukee,, 255,000 head, and
Louisville, 141 900 head, The total
shortness at the points named aggregates
about $50, 900. $780,.
The lower house Of the Massachusetts,
Legislature has rejected the bill passed
by the Senate few days ago providing
q whipping-post for wife-beaters. The
idea of the bill was that the wife beater
should know just how it felt to be
beaten and be wise in time, which would
| be the next time. To reach this result
majority were ready to go back to dis
carded usages, and set up an old-fash-
toned Delaware whipping post right in
the midst Of the dignifed and learned
people of Massachusetts.
Everett" leading contributor to
the columns of the Christian Recorder,
the organ Of the colored people of Phil
adelphia, earnestly lifts up his voice
against the marriage Of a white man
with black woman or q black man
with white woman. He mentions no
names. but takes ''the recent marriage"
as his text.
Rhubarb or pie plant may not only
be preserved in cans, but may be made
into jelly. After rinsing the stalk in
cold water, cut them in pieces, and with
only about enough water to cover them;
put them in a porcelain kettle; let them
boil until nothing seems to be left but g,
soft pulp. Strain through flannel
jelly bag. To each pint Of this juice
add a pound of sugar; let it boil after
putting the sugar in, and try it by TAX
ing out little and putting it on cold
plate; when it "jellies" at once it is
safe to pour it into bowls.
$50 hot water is great cure, is it?
Well, shan't let any Of my boarders
get sick for want of that medicine.
Just put another gallon of hot water in
| oAitru ~ oucl nOup, haiIt, dAu guess you
had better take out the oyster now-it
might be too rich. "-Exchange.
About thirty years ago the town Of
Fort Ross in Sonoma county, Cal.,s was
established, The population was in
creased to about one hundred, at which
it has remained ever since, but in oil
these years there has not been death
in the town, and there is not grave in
the attractive little cemetery behind the
old chapel. The houses, stores and
churches are mostly built Of logs pro-
vided with PORTFOLIOS SO they might be
used as forts in case of attack from In
dams. The hotel embraces the block
house built by the Russian commandments
| 70 years ago when that was one of the
frontier posts, and long before gold was
discovered. as%-