Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-11
Things in General.

The new Sloane La ooratory at Yale
has now advanced so far towards COM
pletion as to make it's architectural ex-
cellence conspicuous. lis 80 feet wide.
1902 feet deep and ~ feet high. with
tower 80 feet higher than the main roof.
The interior. admirably adapted to its
purpose, will be finished during the sum
naer, and the building will be ready for
use next fall.
Italy has over $500 miles Of railroad,
which cost an average of almost $780,
TO the mile. tn population of the
country is more than ten times as dense
in proportion to the railroad mileage as
that Of the United States. There are
more than twice the proporti onate num-
Der Of employers that we have in this
country but they average less than half
the, wages. Il r 3..s>3 q. 4,s....-. ~
The people who. read and like to keep
abreast Of the times may as we'll begin
to inform themselves about india There
is fermentation going on in that vast
empire that will breed 1ireful trouble
ere long. Absolute despotism in India
is only tempered by official stupidity and
that simply makes matters worse. John
Bright, in an recent address, significant
ly remarked that India was to be Eng
lands great problem.
The other day as Utica clergyman
and his wife were admiring the size and
beauty of S2D gold piece which the
former had just received as marriage
fee, and exchanging condolences as to
the best way of investing it, messen-
ger arrived breathless from the BRIDE
groom to say that an unfortunate mis-
take had been made, that $50 was out of
all proportion to his means, aud that he
| was under the painful necessity Of ask
| ing the minister to accept much small
! er sum.
The assertion that the new bridge of
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
railroad, four miles from Alton, is the
| highest railroad yiaduct in the world, is
disputed by La Nature, which claims
that pre-eminence for the bridge of Gar
! ahit. France. That remarkable struc.
ture is l 300 feet long, and near the mid
die Of the great central arch the distance
! frona the bed of the river to the rail is
413 feet The length and maximum
height of the Erie bridge are said to be
respectively 2,051 and 3Ol feet.
| The Louisiana sugar planters were I'M
usually successful in their last years
cane crop. A portion of the sugar dis
trict was under water so late in, the sea-
son after the inundation of last spring that
| itcould not be planted but the yield on the
lands that were cultivated was very good
| vored localities planters say they will
| make $500 an acre. This shows that
| sugar-raising in that state is much bet
| ter business than grain raising in the
| west.
Only two gifts Of substantial value
have been received by Columbus COL
lege since it's foundation in 1754-one Of
SEE, 1000 from Mr.. Frederick Gerhard,
and another, of uncertain amount. from
Mr.. Stephen Whitney Phoenix, which
| will not be available for many years to
come. The uptown property OF the
college has now come to yield the large
sum of $2l4 $40 inground rents, free Of
! tax, which is equal to capital of over
1900, 900 at 5 per cent. But the trus-
tees want another 81 600, OO0.:
Early in March the weather on the
Mediterranean had been extremely
cold. Nothing like it had been known
| since 1910. Between Mentone and Mar
settles there had been snowstorms at
several points, while the thermometer
had been 10 degrees centigrade below
zero. At Marseilles three persons died
of the cold. Much damage was done to
fruit trees in the Atpes Maritimes.
kilograms from Aigeirs and Tun.s say
that the same low temperature prevail
ed in these regions, along with falls Of
snow. .v..
| A visitor to the old borough of Bed
ford, England, which has given a name
to so many places in this country, asked
native, whom he casually met, what
was the staple ofthe town. "Education,
was the reply. Four hundred years ago
London merchant endowed a school
there with thirteen acres Of London land :,
and this now supports first-class gram
mar school. commercial school, a pre-
paratory English school, a girls school
and an infant school. No stranger can
talk to the inhabitants, of whatever de-
gree; without. discovering that he is in a
most exceptionally erudite place. Next
to education. lace is the staple.