Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-25
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ohm De1niio hn. off PERU ID. ], r.effus-
ed to d Is anne md thereby lost
ss 4 S 200 sS s.. Y 4 !.
he Nc ,on missions q Id the Sand
syiich island 81. aye published report
claiming ID en bership of $500. Is The
church owns q sugar plantation.
b Mineola has z.the a a gest wagon road
bridge in I'eyas. if IL. in the world.
1T 3is across the Sabine z iiyer and swamp
"a q mile - and /, three quart 'rs..s .sr
Therein aims Of Harvey, disco1 erer q
the: cireula ton Of the blood, q, ave Sbeen
placed IN = Thousand liar ma A'ple
coffin e! # in 81 M the .5' 5Royal Col llege Of Ply
tfll g s1asasssthirty rty years the
3fC Church Of En gland has raised $3.50, ,OOO,-
600. forK the bull and repairing of
9churehes and drhls, and $500, 900, :
900 for endoWnl ents. + -. %=:&. ~
y The wine products OF California the
present year will be about 10000, 900
gallons, 100000 gallons less than that
OF 1882, and about 1000, 600 gallons
less than the expected product. :.
King Cetewayo has now entirely re-
covered from his wounds, but is in
very unhappy state Of mind. His
''arnly' has dwindled down to about
sixty men and women. - - ..',"* =.
The highest point on the Rocky Noun
tains reached by the Northern Pacific
Railroad is 1900 feet below the summit
of the Sierras, on the Central Pacific
Railroad.
The elegant pastime known as the
'cake walk" hitherto known among
the colored circles Of society, has been
introduced at elite entertainments in
Philadelphia with great success.
1t is somewhat noteworthy that,
while the aggregate vote for Governor
in Ohio was us, l66, there were, as the:
official count shows, only eleven scatter
ing votes, all the rest being given to
the four regularly nominated candi-
dates. =
One Of the Chinese generals named
Fang seems to have q fancy for tall
grenadiers something like that of the
old Prussian King Frederick: Not long
ago he gave man eight feet and five
inches high a large salary for acting on
his body guard.
1t is said that no arrests for carrying
concealed weapons have been made in
Kentucky since Proctor Knott s inaugu-
ration as Governor. Whether the bows
have left their guns at home or q con-
cealed weapon is no longer contraband
OF war is not stated. ~: ~.
The Georgian's S mouth waters while
he talks of 'pos5uon, hedged in with
brown gravy and sweet :. potatoes with
sugar on them. A Georgia editor, who
attended afhupt and the; subsequent
feast, ranrarks: It was the first pos
sum we ever ate, but il our. legs hold
out it will not be the last one''.
Jonathan Davis was q bachelor of
sixty-tive and Elizabeth Elyett maiden
OF sixty. They had lived in the same
county in Geolgia all these years, but
they met for the first time at an evening
party last week. It WAS a case Of love
at iirst sight on both sides. Jonathan
proposed, and they were married then
and there. +
Sil&s Fl. Darlington, OF Bristol, Conn,
has, it isJsald, probably the largest col.
lection Of shells in the state, and an ex-
cellent collection Of stones, among
which is an agate that is said to be the
largest yet discovered. He*i is d ;sfarmer,
but has spent tue past two winters in
Florida, where q great part Of his col
lection was obtained,
One Mormon superstition is that
children, when i'll, may be cured by the
laying-on OF hands. More than 5000
OF the little ones are said to have died
in the last twenty live years who might
have been saved by medicine. The
laying-on Of hands is Of no benefit tn a
child, except Whsn he talks back 70 the
.: William Mather, who is in this coun-
try under 81 commission from the Brit
1sh Government, ito investigate and
report upon the condition and progress
OF technical education in America, finds.
in the United States "a manufacturing
skill and engineering ingenuity that
cannot be observed anywhere. else in
the world" ~. ..=es .s>-...:7>. ! .
DR.. !. Philip Livingstone Jones, a.
Brooklyn physician, was reported to be
worth $1,O0Q,000. According to his
will offered for probate recently, he is.
worth only about 81, 900, but it IS
thought he had forgotten he was the.
owner Of several valuable pieces of
suburban property, being very absent
minded about everything except mat
ters relating to his profession. -
i Z An ingenious. En glish manufacturer
has by q simple and work able invention
Of a coiled spring succeeded in dispens-
ing with the need of driving sewing
machines by hand or. foot. "A few turns
Of a han die winds up sufficient power
TO keep a machine going at. full speed
for over an hour. tis completely un
der control as to the rate OF. stitching
and stoppin and can be applied to
any existing machine at mod cost.
Come eeticrlt' s Board OF Health is in
Vestigating q poisonous wood from
Panama termed coko obola. IT takes q
brilliant polish, and is much used for
knife-h handles and orn amt entation, but
poisons the men who work il. Child.
rem playing in its saWdust# have had
their feet poisoned, and at 4 1arggefacto-
~ Id Elm street, Bird dgeporf. chic kens5
have died after eating the dust that had
settled ! g & on ! tll'. the grass. s = 4.
#3 The new ediiffce "a be erected in ST.
Petersburg as q memorial S5of the late
Czar, and which is to stand upon the
spot where the Car ffellll, BE an old
. .MuseoYite structure Of the seventeenth
ent1lrY It wi hare siix xcupo las,
resting; on columns Of given