Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-18
Some CONVERSATIONS.

i
i among the long winters accumula
lions about your promises there shonlt
happen to be some filthy lucre, 20,
have achance to invest it in suburban
real estate. This kind Of propert
seems to be fast advancing in price.
! Into the lii Of loves blithe measure
there crept a curious jar and halt" sing
Ella Wheeler. It appears that Ella
pa, too, comes down to the gate some
times in his largest pair Of boots.
Tony circles in New York are terrib1,
shocked at the appearance Of the card
announcing the marriage of a lady, wh*
has been a widow less than a year, to
young man 20 years her junior. 1t is {
love match. 4 3.. z&.. z> {. s.
Two Boston society girls are credited
with taking the veil, having both found
the world hollow in falling in love with
the same actor, who turns out to be an
already married man. r.
a new and formidable fighting ship
has been built in England for the gov.
eminent Of Brazil She is named the
Riachuelo, and is a steel armored tur.
| ret ship, 3O5 feet long, having dis
| placement of 6,7O0 tons. She has fifty
/ eight water tight compartments and a
belt of steel armor eleven inches in
! thickness,
There are two unhappy persons When
castor oil is going down. One is the
man who has bought it at a higher fig
u1e. and the other is the small boy who
is taking tablespoonful of it..
The Irish population of the earth i:
as follows: At home, $500, 900; il
England, 2,5OO,0u0; in Scotland, g.
900, 000;' in Canada, 1900, 900; in Aus
tralia, 1000, 900; in America, 12,5OO,
900; elsewhere, 5,Oo0,OOO. A total il
| round numbers of 80 100000.
II have heard,' says London Truth
'Sof golden, of silver, and even O
iron weddings, but diamond we'd
ding has hitherto been unknown
known to me. In order to justify the
celebration of snch an event it seems
that the husband and wife must have
successfully endured the bends Of mat
rimony for no less period than sixty
years. At Campbelltown, in Scotland
| last week, ex-Baile Greenlees and his
wife celebrated such wedding day. thu
husband being eighty eight and the
wife eighty-three years of age"
A facetious gentleman who has sui
fered thinks the modern recipe for {
party is the following: "Take all the
ladies and gentlemen you can get, put
them into room with small fire anc
stew them we'll have ready a piano, a
| handful Of prints and drawings, and
throw them in from time to time as the
mixture thickens, sweeten with polite.
ness and season with wit, if you have
any, if not, fattery will do as we'll and
is very cheap; when all have stewed fol-
an hour add ices, jellies, cakes, lemon
| AIDES and wines" The Beacon.
The vapor Of tobacco juice has beer
tested in France, with great success, as
an insect destroyer in lighthouses. In.
stead of burning or smoking the tobac-
co, it is soaked or boiled, the juice is
then placed over a chatting dish, u fire
or the flame of an ordinary lamp, and
deposited in the greenhouse or conserv.
atory, Delicate plants which are very
sensitive to smoke are not injured by
this vapor, and it leaves no off es;ve
atmosphere. while it effectually dis
poses of tlrips, scales, insects and slugs
One quart of tobacco juice vaporized in
house containing $50 cubic feet is al
| ample amount.
Gen. Gordon's Forthcoming theolog.
ical work does not, it is said, PROFOUND
| any new views The writer reminds us
of the time of the Puritans, when the
love of parallelism between the Old and
New Testaments was at it's height whe1
the soldiers of Cromwell prayed aloud
to be delivered from the old Adam. Fol-
every incident connected with the fall
of man, Gen. Gordon traces in the New
Testament not only Il counter balancing
remedy to enable the fallen to recover
the lost ground, but an identity of the
means ofrecovery with the cause of the
original transgression. Thus he recog-
nizes in the act of partaking of the sacra
mental elements the meet and fitting
remedy against sin introduced into the
world by the act of eating the fruit Of
the tree of life.