Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-03-14

ss@'s The only nalsg wing 81 had when
left the cutter |" says Lieutenant Rhod es,
The Gay Head he1o was about my ba-
.lby. You didn't know that i had one,
did you? He is q bright little boy about
1.-TWO years old. His mother died some
time ago, and as left IN the boat I
called out to the captain To- look out for
him il anyt thing happ ened TO me.
Mr.. Bradlaugh,s brother IS as pious
70 Christian as he is the reverse. He
began mission at Exeter the other day,
and in the course Of his opening address
! said he had complete faith in the ulti-
mate conversion 81 his brother, and
i would not be surprised to receive at any
moment intelligence that the great inf
/ del had come over to the Lord.
Queen Victoria, it is said by German
papers, will leave England in the begin
ming Of March in her yacht Osborn,
for Flushing. After remaining in her
/ villa near Bad len Baden until April, she
/ will 20 to- Darmstadt to be present ct
the marriage Of her grand daughter ,Prin-
cess Victoria, to Prince Louis Won Bat
tenbert. The Queen will return to
England at the end of April, after a
visit to the Biviers. s
Sir Stafford Northcote5 has. been.
amusing literary society by lecturing
upon the subject Of Nothing" though
he reminded them that he was not the
first person who had attempted to dis
cuss that theme. Lord Rochester, the
friend of Charles II, addressed very
clever poem to "Nothing;;" : French
writer, quoted by DR. J ohnson, wrote a
Latin poem to show that Nothing is
purer than water, N othin =; richer than
gold, Nothing is higher tiyn the heav-
ems, and SO on. The speaker defined
mastery inactivity as the aft Of sitting
still and not committing yourself in any
action ats time when it is not convenient
you should do so.-s5aas>,. VIII /.
| A few months since the wife of Rev,
Adirondack" w. H. H. Murray, for
merly of Boston, received the degree of
M. D. from the University of Vienna af-
ter passing . very creditable examina-
ton. Mrs. Murray has taken house
in New Haven and intends to practice
her profession. ~
Music Hitod, Emperor of Japan, who
is now 80 years old, is the 123d esover-
eign of that country. He has reigned
since the death of his father, in 1867.
His is the only dynasty that has ruled
in Japan, and began $50 B. C. There
is noiother monarch in the world who
can boast so unbroken a descent from so
ancient stock. tx ~.
The most exciting leap-year incident
SO far reported is that: which comes from
St. Elmo, Ill. It appears that while the
Rev. Mr. Pierce, a young divine, was
occupying his pulpit in St. Elmo, Mrs.
Mary Smith, dashing young widow,
left her seat in the body of church and
went up and stood beside him. To the
astonishment Of the congregation she
announced that she was about to become
Mrs. Pierce She had, it is rumored, be-
come infatuated with the young divine,
and to this and the excitinent of
religious revival, at which she was con-
verified, her temporary insanity is at
tributed.
Mr.. A. NJ. Broadley, the legal defen-
der of Arab Pasha, has rooms in the
Temple, London, furnished in strange
contrast to the remainder of that SOM
bre, dingy, and prosaic precinct. Their
entrance is o. Saracenic archway, hung
with a Tunisian portiere, and within are
Shiraz carpets, zdivans, colored lamps.
velvet wall-hangings, blazoned with
Koran texts-once pals covering the
catafalque over the grave of the Sidi
nearly 1000 years ago--and a host of
brilliant, quaint, and curious tokens of
North Africa and the Orient.
Earl Grosvenor, the eldest son of the
Duke Of Westminster, who has just
died, was chiefly remarkable for his
greatness, for his age, immense size;
his habit, which probably occasioned.
this size, of staying in bed until three
In the afternoon, and his passion for en-
CINE driving. He had been subject
from one-and twenty years and upward
to epileptic attacks, but when on the
engine "Wild Irishman" was always &C.
companied by the usual driver and stok-
er, SO that the public suffered no risk.
His young widow is one of the beauti-
full daughters of Lord Scarborough,
and thsir little boy, Lord Belgrave, who
is destined to inherit the vast estates, is
a fine little fellow, called in the family
"Ben DOR" after his grandfather's
Derby winner. 2z -, " e.
Things in General |
The battle Of Waterloo was fought