Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-03-21
MISCELLANY.

miscellany.
Col. Gabe Wharton, of Kentucky,
who has made thorough inspection of
Mexico recently, is not favorably i'm
pressed with the land OF the Aztecs.
In the hotels of the City of Mexico he
found it impossible to obtain anything
to eat before the middle of the day ex-
cept bread and coffee. Everybody
CANDLES and nobody cares to work.
Mr. Wharton says he saw no Israelites
in Mexico, and he felt that it was q
poor country for business or trade. He
pointedly puts the question:: "What
are you to sell to nation with five
millions Of people within its borders
who never wore suit Of clothes ?"
Naturally we ought to expect to sell
| them some clothing.
An important precedent relating to
street fights has been established in Lon
don. Two boys were detected in such
an encounter by policeman, and ono
| of them, who summarily judged to be
the more guilty, was taken before mag
istrate. The culprit explained that he
was not the aggressor. The other boy,
he said, had been converted, and struck
him because he would not turn relig-
ious" too. His mother, moreover,
| confirmed her sons good opinion Of
himself, butcthe judge decided that the
Converted" boy was probably the bet
ter behaved OF the two, and fined the
unconverted half crown.
A gum importer of Gotham tells a
reporter: GEL Mahdi might sink all the
gum arabic in Africa into the Nile and
he wouldn't affect the trade in American
gulndrops. AS q matter of fact, the
dandy trade would not suffer appre-
ciably. There is not an ounce of gum
arabic in o million pounds of the ordin-
ary gumdrops like those which you seq
sold from stands in the streets. They
are made from the glucose Of the starch
factories, which is generally used, ex-
! cept in the manufacture Of some of the
finer grades of confectionery, in place
Of gum arabic. OF course, the candy
suffers; but there is no limit to adulter-
alton in the confectionery business"
A new and dangerous development of
| mesmerism was displayed she other day
at Paris to an admiring and sympathiz-
ing public by well-known mesmerist
who at the same time is lion-tam in a
certain menagerie. A beautiful young
girl, on whom the spirituaist generally
practices, was broughtinto cage of IL
ons, and after being thrown intoa cat
aleptic sleep, was submitted to the most
frightful ordeals. In one of these the
head and arms Of the girl were put into
the mouth Of the lion, which had previ-
ous1y been Infatuated by lashes from it's
masters whip. But the apparently
dead body did not excite the animals
appetite. At the end Of the scene
the girl was released and went
smiling away, while the mesmerist
earned rich laurels. Bnt suppose the
lion had eaten the maiden--what then?
The suit Of Prof. Fiske against Cor
nell University is again before the courts.
A correspondent of the New York Post
says evidence taken some time since at
Eau Claire, Wis, in regard to the value
Of the western lands owned by the uni
yersity, tends strongly to show that the
university, at the time Of Mrs. Fishes
death, possessed the So 100000 allowed
it by its charter. It looks at present
very much as though the university will
be unable to retain the fortune of near
" 50, 600, 900 which WAS bequeathed it
! by Mrs McGraw Fiske, the daughter
of one of it's earliest benefactors. The
Fiske~ Met raw mansion still stands
empty, and nearly ell the rich tapestry
and works of art were some time ago
| taken to Italy by Professor Fiske. Ow~
ing TO the present litigation nothing has
been done toward erecting the hospital
or. the large library building which were
contemplated. i.
The Rev. DR.. J. Parker, Of London,
declares himself out Of sympathy with
some Of the common talk about the So
called out-cast poor Of London. He
says that many Of the families which
| are pitied for having to live ii one
filthy ,unvantiIa lated room, neither ask OF
deserve pity. In fact they prefer to live
! in that way. and would do 50 If they had
| all heaven at their disposal. Dirt, !"
he says, has its warm friends, even
amongst people not numbered amongst
the outcast poor. { say this to guard sa.r
benevolent persons against the notion
that dirt and poverty are synony nous
terms. I am given to understand that
even some Christians have o wonderful
! likeness for any thing sloven1y and slip
|. shod at least have heard women
screaming to other people to hold the
| fort and ring the bells Of Heaven, whose
stock kings would have been the better
for b days darning $
BE Chicago Times: The February earnings OF
lie Chicago Milwaukee 4 ST Paul and the Chi
cago 81 Northwestern we're gTeater than last
i wear. the former gaining " " per cent and the
i latter l5sx per cent But compared with ISIS:
i tha Nofthwestes1i's increase was only 8 per
i cent. while tie So Paul shows d decrease of 4
Il per cent These and most other western roads
i lad excapti onally large earnings ii March lasl
! syyeIar Thus the St Paul earned Cope cent
Il fhe Northwa stern Sd per cent, the Omaha 81
i rer cent tho Bnrlin Ton 46 per cent the Hi
neis Central 81 per cent, the Missouri Pacific
40 nj cent md HE M hash So per cent Iaors
Is March than Nc Eehruary, and fhore WAS 3 al.
creaae from arcfa q April on - these roails