Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-31
Personalities,
A single fash Of lightning last 81

A single fash Of lightning last Sum.
mer struck an entire potato. field, Of
several acres, belonging to NJ. J. Wood,
Of North Sterling, IN Windhsm county
CT. The vines turned yellow and
sprawled over the ground When Mr..
Wood went to dig them q few days age
he found not potato on the whole
peice. It is the first instance on record
in which growing corp was destroyed
by the electric fluid.
One of the most peculiar characters
in Conneticutis John Maher, of Ansonia,
known as John Who Never Sleeps.
John is an hishman who is making for
himself d little fortune at $50 per day
by working thirteen hours iii the fac
tory. Thither he goes every day, rain
or shine, and he is never ILL., On the
remaining eleven hours he devotes sew
en- to labor and four to sleep. This
perpetual living without sleep causes a
great deal of annoyance to his neigh
bors and to everybody within a mile of
him who wishes to sleep when he is at
work. He is thin, nervous and as sup
pie as Rocky Nountain goat. He is
only 40, but looks aged, because of his
devotion to money getting. He has
never made but one losing speculation
Lieutenant Greedy recently wrote to
friend in New Orleans in response to
some cordial greetings from his old ar
my friends: "No words are more
grateful to mo at this time than those
from my friends and comrades of the
war time. There is somewhere among
the expeditionary property Masonic
flag which I send by Lock woods hands
to the Polar Sea, and which I hope
some day to send to my old lodge. The
active efforts Of the louisiana delegation
for my relief indicate, trust, that my
appoin tment to the army from Louisi-
ana is not considered an unworthy one.
AS q citizen of New Orleans nay inter-
est has continually remained alive in
my old friends there" 49,
The barons Alphonse and Gustave de
Rothschild, two Of the chief members OF
the great European financial house,
have been unable to attend the French
races in which their horses were en-
tered The illness Of both these mon
ely kings is SAID to have been caused by
overwork, the tremendous strain of their,
immense financial operations having
told heavily on! their strength. =. The
common idea that the great fnan-
cial magnates Of the world have an easy
life, is refuted BY the experience of
the Rothsenilds, who are the hardest
working of men. Some one asked
Baron Alphonse Rothsehild lately why
he did not give up his business. His
reply was: It would take me 25 years
to settle my affairs sufficiently to enable
me to withdraw from the firm. IS
Il The common people of England,
writes the veFacions Eli Perkins, all
love the prince Of Wales. There Is no
monarch in Europe so beloved as the
prince, The reason is this: The prince
Isl very Democratic. He doesn't act like
q king, he rides IN 8 simple carriage, he
goesgeveryWhere, he even dimes at the
Savage dub nth I lot of Bohenians,
He is now visiting around the country.
He has been q bad fellow amongst the
women, but the common people rather
like that He was intimate with Lady.
S1foraaunt, bnt lied about it like king.
He's been mixed up with Iangtry and
q DOZEN aetr esses, but it has all added
to his popularity He is now abont As
years old, his wild oats are about all
.sovn, and, as he soft les down, the peo-
pie all vote him q. jolly fellow He will
SUCCEED ID his mother shout any OPP
position. Every bod wants him "a
slide into the plaee, and everybody Will
be glad when he Is there.