Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-29
PASSING EVENTS,

silVer ore has been discovered near
Abilene. Tex. .sassssE
American spruce makes the baskets
Tor the market gardeners il; London,
Goldfish is 40 cents per pound In
Guatemala, and is considered q great
sdellcacy.
Cornell university claims the best
arranged COLLECTION Of shells IN the
/ world. 1t has cost BIT, 3 900. .
a short time ago miner in Tue
| lumne county, California, took ten
pounds Of gold from mine IN that To- 4
cality. 5 iz
An Indian doctor In Utah was stoned
to death recently BY his TRIBE for hav-
ing failed to cure a patient placed
| under his charge. 5. e
| Mr.. George Riddle, Of Carroll coun-
| ty, Maryland has under. the same
roof with him no fewer than twenty
two unmarried daughters,
Electricity is now employed in ex-
tracing teeth, recently invented
machine pulling, in an actual test,
seven teeth in five seconds.
| q recent invention is a pocket for
coats which can be readily detached
and used as cap. 1t is expected to .
prove very convenient for travelling
men. r." ~
Stage robberies have become some
| what numerous on the Pacific coast,
one stage alone having been pinaged
no less than four times within six
months .....,"
The cost of maintaining the New
York schools is rapidly increasing.
Twenty years ago it was 81, 817, S14,
ten years ago $S,753,000, and now it
| is S4,6l6,641.
Some OF the southern cities have
very capacious and comfortable club
houses. One of the newest is the Cap.
| ltal City clubhouse at Atlanta, which
is worth $4,000.
The current of Lake Erie has an ef-
! feet upon the adjacent shores sufficient
to make the spring season from two to
four weeks earlier. in and around To-
ledo than at Buffalo.
France and Greece have one hun
dred holidays annually; Russia, sixty
six; Belgium, sixty-fve; England,
eighty-four; and the United States,
sixty. These include Sundays.
A large and valuable mineral deposit
has been discovered close to Bent noun
tain, near Roanoke, Va. An analysis
OF the ore shows so per cent zinc, S25
to $50 per ton silver, and 81 per ton
gold.
Liquor-sellers are sand to do good
business upon the grounds of the
United States at the Soldiers home in
Togus, Me. They claim that the state
has no jurisdiction over land ceded to
the United States.
The operations Of the mechanical
appliances in watch factory have be-
come so rapid and systematic that it
is possible to take the raw materials
from stock in the morning and have a
watch running from them by noon.
1t is reckoned that the marble bust
ness of Rutland, VT, has trebled in the
last ten years in production and in
wages paid. The total amount OF sales
in 1854 appropriated S2,00O.000, and
this year it is likely to exceed that.
Fifty thousand lawn-mowers are
produced annually IN the United
States. The cutting season has begun,
| cheerful chorus of the machines from
one part of the country to the other.
A farmer near Macon, Ga, has AOO,-
900 willows growing on his place. He
has set out $4,000 this season, and will
set his entire levee with them. A ton
to the acre is the average yield, and
when dried they are worth 5000 per
ton.
1t is told on the authority Of the sup
erintendent Of an ecclesiastical depart
! menti in a iewelry esta blishment, where
the work was dono, that New York
gentlemen has baptisnlal font made
for each child born to him, the number
at the present date having reached five.
Camphor gum is obtained by chop
ping the wood and roots fine, and boil
ing them until the camphor begins to
stick to the tool used for stirring the
mixture. The liquor is strained, and
the camphor crystallizes from it when
it is left standin e. Crude camphor re-
sembles moist unrefned sugar.
A champion eater signalized his ar
rival at Hollister, Cal, by eating
twenty-seven raw eggs at one sitting
After his repas. he offered 20 wager
that he could eat three of the largest
cans Of oysters in town and seven
dozen eggs. Those who were present
thought he could, and his offer was re-
fused. s r.. t,.%@
In Washington street CBoston)
window are five pairs OF shoes which
look as if they had been made for as
many giants. They are thirteen inch 4,
es long by five inches wide, and are
manufactured of stout pebble-grain
leather. The order for them came
from Nashville, Tenn, and they are
said to be intended fer q mother and
four daughters. They would be in
keeping with the Tennessee noun
tains, and a large romance could be
constructed around them by a genius
like Charles Egbert Craddock.
A resident of Silver City, New
Mexico. has a curious relic of the days
Of the Montezumas. It IS made from
what is called serpentine stone, and is
in the shape of a turtle with frog on
its back, and was worne as a charm.
suspended by a string around the neck. u
This is the kind of stone from which
the Montezumas manufactured their
gods. 1t is very rare, and susceptible {
Of very high polish. The stone con- !.
tains three different shades OF green. b
Fred Estes, farmer OF WatervaIe. &
Cnondaga county, n. z, advertised
recently In a paper that his wife had
left his bed and board, and gave the
| usual notice against trusting her on
his account. Thereupon the injured
wife sent the following letter for pub
51ication: 81 see in your issue Of the