Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-24
TJSEFU AND PLEASANT.


North Carolina spends S1S, 0oo, COO
annually for liquor. 5
a red yam grown at Tocoi, Fla,
weighs seven and a half pounds. # 3
A project for starting a large
public library is on foot in Charleston,
s. C. ss ast f
The new Indian industrial school Of
New Mexico will be ready to receive
pupils on April l.
Knoxville, Tenn, claims to sell
er town Of the same size in the
south. r. ~
Pierre Duyal, of Rutherford county,,
North Carolina, is dead. He fought
under Napoleon and lost a leg at
Waterloo. = =s% - #7 :
It is said that the ladies are very
much displeased at the change that
has been made in the state flag of
North Carolina.
The seal is gentle and harmless, and
rarely retaliates when attacked, says
an exchange. This is because it is a
fur-bearing animal.
Suppose, says an exchange, eaH
the world went to bed every evening
at sunset" Oh, we'll, the worlds gas
bill would be just as big at the end of
the quarter.
Some farmers of independence,
Ark, have a new variety of cotton
which they found growing wild in the
woods. The stalks grow ten feet IN
height, and it yields five thousand
pounds per acre.
In Dooly county, Florida 14-year-
old boy runs asix-mule farm and plows
all of tho mules himself. He uses
cultivator which cuts a swathe six feet
in width in one through. He prepares
from six to twenty acres day.
Els your master busy % asked the
tailor. mo, he is out" s'But [ Just
saw him at the upper window"
'.Well, I Just asked him for money,
and he said he was out. ''Oh, if that's
the case [ am out too"
Every dog has his day, the cat takes
the nights, the iceman and the milk
man takes the early morning hours,
and the scissor grinder with his bell
and the fruitman with his yawp takes
the rest Of a lifetime that is worth liv-
There is said to be regular trade in
human skeletons in New York. There
are a great many boarding-houses in
the metropolis, and therefore there
should be no difficulty in keeping the
supply Of skeletons fully up to the de-
mand.
A man in Wayland, N. X, runs
bar in connection with al undertaking
establishment. BY this means he Sc
cures money from everyone in the
town. If people won't patronize one
part of his business they invariably do
the other.
The state of Arkansas derives
$4,000 per annum from its peniten-
tiary by leasing the labor of eighty
convicts to cigar manufacturers, and
handing over 290 others to farmers,
the consideration being 1915 per
month and all expenses.
A scientist says that in three million
years the earth will be one gigantic
iceberg. Unless the good book errs,
in three million years a large number
of the present residents of this earth
will have peculiar reasons for wishing
they were back here again.
There are 1864 Irishmen in the
British army. The rest of the male
population of the emerald isle are
! scattered over the face of the earth,
either acting as policemen, or running
the political affairs of the country IN
which they happen to find themselves.
A curiosity in the shape OF q we'll
which produces warm water is excit-
ing no little interest among the resi-
dents of Quinton, N. J. The we'll is
situated in a window glass factory,
and it IS supposed that the water from
the springs feeding the well passes
under the furnaces and is thus heated.
DR.. Leland, a Georgia physician who
died recently, was for long time I'm"
conscious before death. ReYiving, he
told his family and friends that his
soul, separate from his body, had seen
them all weeping around his old frame
as it lay dead in the chair. He was
loath to return to it, but was forced
by an impulse he could not resist.
, George Lewis, colored, of Dooly
county, Florida. has q tame gopher,
which has made it's home in hole in
his yard for four years. He has nam
ed it lobe, and in warm weather,
when the children 90 to the hole and
call him by name, be will crawl out
and follow them all over the yard, eat
ing from their hands and doing other
funny tricks.
The sanitary side of our school sys-
tenn is examined in The AnQovar Re-
view, and the conclusion is reached
"that there are evils connected with
common schools which are more than
the necessary incidents of nearly
perfect system.' The point insisted
on is that the present school manage
ment contributes largely to the increase
of nervous disorders, and interferes
seriously with he health of the pupils.
The pastor OF a colored Baptist
church in Baltimore was charged by
members with having run away with
money belonging to the congregation.
On his return he showed that they had
never intrusted him with more than
S. at a time, intended as fortnightly
installment of his salary, and then
crushed his adversaries by asking some
one to explain how he could support
himself and run away upon such an
amount. o t.
4 The writer in THE st. Louis Medical
Journal advises young practitioners
never to make fun of an old woman's
remedy. lie will not OILY give Of
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