Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17
FACT AND FANCY.
,ronto has a water famine.

tory this winter are placed as high as
68 per cent. 8
Harvard students complain that the
faculty give them moro liberty in their
studies than in their sports.
1t is said pinch of powdered alum,
dropped into a pitcher of muddy water
will clear it almost instantly.
Of the 623 newspapers and periodic
ais published in foreign languages In
this country 4S3 are in German. !.
On the 1st of February the sum Of
SIG, 343.53 remained as balance In
the general treasury of Mexico. i,
From the various signs of Candle
mas day it was inferred that there will
be six more weeks of winter weather.
Oysters are becoming SO scarce in
Maryland waters that several vessels
havo given up the business as a bad
Job.
Piano-tuning has been added to the
course of instructions for women in
the New England Conservatory of
Music.
It is expected that the subscription
opened in the City of Mexico for
Spanish earthquake sufferers will reach
$4,000.
A New York letter says: "1he feel
ing against O;Donovan Rosa since he
was shot by Mrs. Dudley has been very
marked here.''
The February moon fulls on the 28th
at II o'clock in the evening, SO that We
come within an hour Of having no full
moon in February.
Fall River roughs took the Saliva
ton army at its word, with a volley Of
stones. disabling several women, and
fatally injuring one.
Seth Green is probably the first fish,
dentist in the world. He recently ex-
tracted a live trcut's teeth without in
juring the ::'specAled beauty"
Legislation against the sale or gift
f! Of cigarettes to boys under 10 years of
age has already got through one
branch of the North Carolina legisla-
| ture.
The Chinese government intends
making the expulsion OF Chinese from
Eureka, Cal. an international matter,
and win claim indemnity from tho
United States.
a Maine judge recently gave pris-
oner a light sentence, saying he was
entitled to some consideration for not
taking the stand and adding perjury to
I, lis other crime.
A file and knife throwing artist
nailed coniiding Winnipeg youth to
to the back of the stage while illustrat-
ing how near be could come to hitting
him without actually doing so.
Good, cultured Boston is shivering
on the brink Of big social sensation
that promises one or two divorce suits
and an interesting chapter In the ca
reer Of at least one local literary idol.
A correspondent asks Western ed
itor why it is more natural for women
to shed tears than it is for men, and
he replies that it is because women as
q class drink more water than men do.
1t is more than suspected that very
many OF the snake bites causing death
in India are caused by parents desiring
to put an end to superHuous offspring
in a manner which defies discovery Of
guilt.
A person sleeping on his right side,
according to celebrated French phys
iologist, will have incoherent and abb
surd dreams, but when sleeping on the
left side the dreams will be of an intel
igent nature.
Many southern railway companies
have this year placed their old cross
ties at tho disposal of the mayors of
towns along the zines Of their roads to
be distributed to deserving poor pco-
pie for fre~wood.
In dry-goods fight at Chambers
burgh. Pa, one firm put the price of
calico down to one quarter of cent
per yard, whereupon the rival concern
offered calico at one-eighth of cent.
or eight yards for cent.
Prof. Bauer of San Francisco states,
rs result Of careful research, that a
sure remedy for phylloxera is to mix
half an ounce of quicksilver with its
weight of clay and introduce it into
the hole in which the vine is planted.
"What makes you 50 late coming to
school this morning?' asked teacher
in one of the New York public schools
of tardy pupil. ''rhey arrested q
burglar on 1ifty-eighth street, and ma
sent me to the station-house to see if
1t was pa" was the reply.
Asteamship captain who was marri-
ed in Boston recently was denied the
the pleasure of his wife's company on
his return trip to Europe, as it is
against the rules Of the company by
which he is employed for captain to
have his wife with him on his trips to
and fro across the ocean.
An extraordinary amount Of suffer-
ing among the widows and children Of
the lost Gloucester fishermen is re-
ported by The Cape Aa', advertiser.
The fund subscribed for the benefit Of
these people is nearly exhausted, and
the stores of provisions and clothing
collected for them are rapidly dimip-
ishing under the steady drain that Is
made upon them.
Bookmaking five hundred years ago,
was costly business. The bill for de.
signing and writing in manuscript in
1402 has just come to light. The
parchment, the writing, the miniatures,
the silver nails, gold-plated and enam-
eled, ink figures, seventy smaller gold
plated silver nails, a gold-plated silver
clasp, sky-blue satin, and binding to.
gether cost, according to present
value, $l86, the miniatures alone cost
ing $50. The missal is now no longer
extant, but is called pulcherrsmsunn ct
eIeg0zat1s sia1etns in the bill.
The Revista de Monterey makes
known discovery that calls to mind
the prediction of Nostradamus that
the world would come to an end in
1886. There was recently found in the
church at Obervel, in the diocese of
Trevera, Mexico, a stone upon which
is an inscription to the effect that tho