Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-18
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General Notes.

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g eneraI N otes.
| Tie Dismal swanp is fast losing al
lus romantic eli rms under the invas-
Lion of gutilitarian Ilssn Its morasses
are DeiBg converted into fertile fields,
| canals and railroads penetrate it in
ieVery direction, and even Lake Drum
nlond, THAT famed hapnts of ghostly
maideIrs, will probably soon be drained. !
All the coffee grown in the New
World has sprung from single plant,
which a Pye1seb naval officer carried tor
Martin ique, i'm I72O, depriain himself
Of water when parchIng wish thirst In
order to nougish his coffee plant. From
D this one tree, it is said, all che Ameri-
| can tropical colonies obtained the,F
seed. which. has multiplied t# such an
extent that Brazil, Mexico and the
West Indies produce as much coffee as
Java and Ceylon.
Tskasivi-Bakin, q japanese novelist
introduced so many personagesein his
novels that in ardernet to get his char,
actess inextric tbiy mixed, it was his
habis to surrouad himself with a. num-
Der of tiny dolls, appropriately aaired,,
and named after his heroes and hero-'
ines. When he had tsstt a couple to-,
gether. he knew that be had married
them. When he shut them in a box.
he remembered them dead and buried
When he had put them in a corner Of
his ch,seaber, he could see they had
gone cn' % Journey.
4 dogs owned III Fortlttna, Me-, has
quite a laasev for travelling When the
freak tales him he goes abroad the Bos->
ton boat aud makes quiet trip OF $50
miles by saa- When the boat reaches
Boston he disappears in the crowd; butt
never falls 80 return and nakethe home =
ward trip sla night. No one knows where =.
he spends .the day after leaving the boat
! nor how its manages to keep posted on ,
/ the boat de aperture, which is two hours
!, earlier in Winter than in Sunaueer, but
| he never gets left.
/! The splendid life-sze portrait OF
/ Washingto" painted by Stuart. which
hangs IN the Senat Chamber in the
Connecticut Capitol, has recently I'M
,iergone cleansing process. This fine
picture was purchased OF the artist soon
after it was painted, by vote Gin 1902
OF the General Assembly, for 81 400. 1t
would now, NO. 40 lot, fetch s)is ,U,i0 ifthc
Stsurt painte<hN from his original head
otaWashinston,. whi.l. he sold TO Boston,
where it hangs in the Athel&eum.
The whip ping Of the stud - in. Har-
ward college prevailed unto *i35, ana
the Instructors were privileged to box
the ears Of offending ones for several
years after. Corporal punishment was
succeeded byss peculiar and extensive
system Of finess Absence from prayers
waspunished by "a fine Of I'd; absence
from public worship by fine Of Cd;
hardness, I'd; top gong to church be-
fore the ringngof the be J. ed. for pro-
posed; for graduates playing cards, Is.
ID Lying, ]s:r6d.; going Oh top of the
college, Is. 3D.; sending Tor beer, Cd;
fetching beer, is. Cd; for going Into the
college yard without the proper garb,
cd.
Tie settlers <Flic, have located around
Winnipeg in. Manitoba, congratulate
themselves upou. she uniform weather
| experienced in,that region Of country.
The Thermometers indicates from ten TO
twenty-five degrees below zero all the
| winter through, and no thass CT warm
days ever cume.-tc. disturb the ir llahi~
tants, or induce them to let the FIRE on
! the hearth go out. II people ean live
and be happy El,s4sch q country where
| no fruits ,wll grow and very lhtle in the
| way Of vegetab les, can be raised. We see
no good reason fer despairiug of the fu-
tnre settlement of Alaska and other arc
tic regions by, people from more south
! ernaclilneS.
AlColorado Tanner has invented duck
hunting outfit, which discounts the Cal
! ifornia rsan's~ COW. He stripped the.
| hide from aballeck and mounted it on "a
wirs.ske|eton which looked as natural
| as a living animal. He cut away the.
| belly, ofhis wire bulIock for his body and
| to take sight ttarougl When he wants
| a duck-shoSJtlia drops his skeleton over
| his head andistarts out for the tuies. Ill,
| can'wa. k right. iaato flock of ducks with.
| out startiin.; H,em and has on one. on
| two occasions returned home to his
| hiding place full Of teal caught with his
| hands. He.nases fails to Kill AS many az
| he wants..
Editort WayIhasd, of the National Bap~
| fist, Phibadelphia. read paper before
| the weekly meeting of the Baptist min
listers last week He said notable tca-
ture os:modelra saws for the punishment
of criminals w;Gs-the agitation foE.the re-
| turn to. the whipping-post Of Moses.
"Garretting, and Wlfe-beaung is 50 pun
ished in England and that most justly"
said the speaker. After telling OF a bysi-
tai instanceof wife beating that; came
under his o@n observation he said: II
IL
! please me-moae than to see that man
hngged until up to his ankles III blood.
10 talk, of degrading such a criminal is
like talking ofcorrupting the late MIR
Tweed. I shall favor the whipping post
un'li the Lord makes greater chang
IN my views than he usually does.