Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-01
Things in General.

Germany discovers the fact that
i tradegmen, manufacturers and tavern 81
restaurant keepers are the most usual
matrimonial candidates. Both sexes ask
most about u.eney, next about intelli-t
gence. and least ABOUT religious belief.
An oleander at Spanish Town, Fla.,.
covers space aground SO feet in diam
eter. IL is divided into 20 or % sepa-
rate stems. the longest of Whiahis rs feet
high. The group is at least Eve feet
through and one single stem is IA inches
thick. j.. > @s. |@z5#| i
The Philadelphia Bulletin makes this
frank admission: newspapers can
make and unmake presidents. they can
.overturn corruption, they can forward
great enterprises, but they are helpless
TO convince single woman that decol-
lete dresses, or. high-heeled shoes, or
wasp waists are ruinous to health and
deleterious to morals" It is but fair to
explain that the Bulletin. in using the
term, "a single woman" does not ex-
cept married women. ss#'%
i a New York correspondent writes:
"An inquiry at the Christian association
brought the reply that SIS per week il
The highest pay any woman can hope
for either as teacher or book-keeper.
The best pay is earned by few expert
enced housekeepers, who are in the
servics OF the rich families, and receive
81 900 per year and board. Some artif-
ciai flower makers earn $i3 per week at
this season OF the year, and there are
hundreds of well-trained women who
would be glad to earn from IS to $40
week, while there are thousands whose
earnings are from So to &c."
- Somebody has been unearthinga lot
ofold dispositions in q Kentucky clerks
Office, and taking notes OF the bad SPELL
ing Of some Of the great men Of the past.
a deposition in the handwriting tf An
drew jackson contains such spelling as
reference" "deponants," ''untill,,'
esha.lance," "vallue," and difficult" Old
Hickory's use of capitals was quite re-
markable. Suck words Us 'Dollar" and
MONEY! be capitalized, while he also
wrote ''almighty God"
The capitalist who sits down and lends
his money for the highest rate Of inter
est that he can get is drone in the So
cial hive compared with thu active man
Of business who builds mills, factories
and furnaces, and gives remunerative
employ ment to hundreds of needy peo-
pie.
Mitleu,aine is Tao name Of a new GER
cal which has been introduced into
South Carolina from Columbia, South
America. 1t is allied to sorghum and
Guinea corn, and has the merit OF an al
most unlimited capacity to endure
drouth. Cakes made from the meal
have been described as better than corn
cakes, and the grain has boon prunoun-
ced by the chemist Of the Savannah
Guane Compnry superior in food quail
ties to wheat.
According to DR.. Sach, Of Buenos
Ayres, there is no danger of an exhaus-
ton Of the Qlsinins SUPPLY. The expert
mental plantations in Java and the Is
land OF Reunion ;,ave been very success
full; aud, oes!ues these nurseries, the
trees have been cultivated in Bolivia by
the million for ten years. At three
places IN the laat-nan!ed country, taken
AS they como, tiIn uunber Of trees grow
Ing is given, sevorally, at 100000, 200,'
900. aud 3,5Uc 900:
lne past season mas AGAIN oeen very
,discou:agIng to oyster cultivators in
England and the conviction has been
forced upon them that further expert
ments will be only waste Of money.
From one end Of the southern coast OF
England to the other, thousands of
pounds have been expended III endeav-
oring to protect the spawn at spawning
time, but without tue least sign of sue
TESS. The cause Of tie failure is the
want Of temperature. Only native oys-
.ters will sreai' in the estuaries of the
Thames, tut Of late years the summers
nave been SO short and cold that there
has been very little apat, and this il the
reason Of the scarcity and the conse'
quent dreRrness of the "native" which
the English esteem as the best Of all
oysters. Artificial breeding in England
has been q failure. The only real success
in tho artificial breeding of oysters has
been achieved at Areachon, in the south
of France, but even there, during the
last two OF three wet summers, the
crop of spat has been only about one.
fourt or what it has usually bsen.