Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-01
Miscellaneous Matters.

| The head OF large manu1act 1rlng eS-
tablishment, which pays its men weekly,
says men thus paid are better satisfied, ,
their credit at stores is be- ter, and they
are able to make their money 90 fur
Their in supplying their families with the
necessities of life than those are whose
wages are given to them only dozen
times a year.
There were SIS, $50 patients in the lun-
attic asylums of France last year, of
whom about q 900 were men and 81 900
women, showing that females are the
most liable to insanity. That they are
less influenced By treatment is shown by
the fact that the average duration of
treatment for men is 276 days, while Tor
women it is 295 days. - T.
The oldest and largest match factory
in the world is at Jonkoping, in Sweden.
1t was established one hundred years
ago, and there are now to be seen spec
linens of the matches used at the
beginning Of the present century, con-
sistlng of big faggoGs OF wood furnished
with a handle and q tip to dip in bath
Of sulphur.
Australia begs for more colonists
though it is receiving nearly 10000 a
year, and advertisements for laborers
often present such inducements as these:
"Healthfui climate, good shooting, and
free schools"
A Meriweather (Ga.) farmer discov-
cred one Of his mules feeding upon his
geese. The flock had been diminishing
mysteriously, and the loss had been at
tributed to foxes. One night recently,
hearing disturbance among his geese
in the borse lot, he seized his gun and
rushed to the lot to investigate the cause
of the commotion. Getting as close as
caution allowed, he fired in the direc-
ton of the noise made by the struggling
goose. At the report of the gun his ears
were greeted with a most terrific s4ual-
ling from .ne of the mules. A light be-
ing produced it was discovered that the
mule had received 8 part of the load in
his nose. 1t was the mule that had
been eating the geese.
Cinnamon in this country, and espec-
iallv in the west, have been quick to see
the increased value OF their services,
caused by the enforcement of the re-
striction act. Soon after it's passage the
Chinese laborers in California demanded
and received at least a third more in
weekly wages, and now many of them
are agitating for another increase. In
the Sandwich Islands Cinnamon are
noted for their propensity for strikes.
If drugs were thrown to dogs-and
| dogs were fresh enough to take them
! it would be greatly to the advantage of
humanity and the sheep business. And
there is more occasion for this reform
with US than anywhere else under the
sun-as appears from the Siglo Medico's
owa statistics Of the percentage of doc
tors to population OF different countries;
France has 29l per 10000 people; Ger
many, 3.2l; Austria, 3.4l; England, 6;
Hungary, $40; Italy, 6.lO; Switzerland,
7t6; United States. 1924. Happily,
however, we are not restricted for GEM
etery room, and cremutlonism is on the
Increase.
The Celestial Empire has long been q
fayorite field for miss ;onaries of the
Roman Church, which has established
itself in considerable force throughout
the country, as we'll as at Pekin. There
are no fewer than twenty-five bishops
and apostolic Wears in China. About
half Of these are French priests, two of
them being Jesuits, two Of the order Of
St. Lazare, and the rest mostly apper-
tanning to the Missionary Society OF the
Rue du BAG. The I.azarite3 have a
large and important establishment in
Pekin, close to the Imperial Palace. It
is a convent, originally given to the
Jesuits by the Emperor Randy, but Is
now governed by Mgr. DelapIace, Bish-
op of Pekin, who has been for thirty
five years missionary in China. It is
noticed rs popularity IF this convent
that every one admitted to it is required
to swear solemnly that he will not con-
nive at Chinese rites, which it was once
sought to combine with the Roman
Catholic worship, but were prescribed
10y bull of Pope Benedict XIV.