Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-08-21
PASSING EVENTS.

/ Work has commenced on a SlUO,UUU
courthouse at Ell Paso, Tex.
The population of Atlanta, Ga, is
increasing, at the rate OF nearly i've
thousand a year.
A deposit of zinc ore thirty feet thick
and two miles long has been found IN
Marion county, Ark. = 5@%
After druggist has filled a prescrip-
ton it belongs to him, and not the Gus.
toner who brought it to his store.
A large number of miners are leav-
ing Victoria for new diggings in Alas
ka and northern British Columbia.
The convicts in the Ohio peniten-
tiary ate 4,500 boiled eggs at Easter,
an average of three to each inmate.
It is stated that the advance orders
for the revised bible already exceed
those of the revised New Testament.
Kentucky has usually been classed
as southern state, but now figures IN
the biographies as an eastern central
state.
A novelty in Long Island farming
the present year will be the extensive
cultivation of peanuts as an expert
mcnt.
1t is said that there has not been
such a run OF shad in the st. Johns
river, Florida, for ten years as during
the present season.
Spiritualists assert that the excessive
use of tobacco drives Off good spirits
and attracts all sorts of bad ones,
which work mischief.
! The NeW I1ora; Null says a we'll
known society woman gave a large
dinner party to celebrate the reception
OF her divorce papers.
: Accident has added more than one
weapon and appliance to the armory
/ of war. The discovery of shot is due
to q mechanics dream.
An unusual humber of houses are
now for rent in New York, and MANY
private residences on Fifth avenue are
beng converted into stores.
The Philadelphia custom house
comes under the civil-service rules.
The mint does not, but in it's manage
ment the rules are invariably followed.
There are saidSto be over two thou
sand postmasters in the United States
with salary of less than $40 year.
At Redella, N. c., last year, the salary
was 8 cents.
It is comforting to remember that
cold, late spring brings good har~
vest. According to the ancient saying:
When April blows his horn.
1t doth good both for hay and corn.
The first fox-hunt eff the spring has
taken place near Baltimore. After q
good day, the CLUB returned without
the fox, which went to earth near
where it started.
There is a salt lake in Hida]go
county, Texas, which is one mile in
length, five miles in circumference,
and from three to four feet deep. Its
bed consists Of crystals of pure salt.
A house at Los Angeles, CAL, was
supposed to be haunted, but an inves-
tigation showed that an immense
swarm of bees had made their home
in one of the walls and had stored it
with large quantity of the finest
honey.
Every Salvation army officer pied ees
himself in writing not to court any
girl who belongs to his post. Unless
the New York Salvation lassies are
executions to the rule, says The Grupk-
&c, we should think the prccaution en-
tirely unnecessary.
Fiftv-three gold deposits, amounting
to 1900 ounces, were made in the
Helena, Montana. assay office up to
March 81, 1884. Up to March 81, 1885,
1859 deposits were made, amounting to
23,507 ounces, showing an increase
over 1884 for the same period Of TO-
ounces.
Two writer's, German and Aneri- !:
can, have written new learned treatises
on the site Of the Garden of Eden. !
The German decides that that resort
was the Syro-ArAhian desert. The
American locate Eden at the North
pole. Both results are equally con- |
vinciDg.
That pegged shoes and boots are
still quite extensively used might be
inferred from the fact that peg
manufacturing company at Bartlett,
n. H., is turning out the little wooden /!
articles at the rate OF 1900 bushels a /
day, and has orders on hand that will :,
require several months TO fill.
The steamship Roanoke, while COM i
ing down James river atcw nights ago
with her electric; light in fuu blaze,
ran into flock of canvas-back ducks
and played sad havoc with them. The
poor birds. dazzlcd and bewildercd by
the brilliancy of the electric light, flew
into the rigging and against the house,
and some one hundred of them fell
dead on the deck. while large num-
Der tum blcd into the water.
The Grand Army post of South
Abingdon, Mass, intends giving a
powell nterta,nment-a pic party,
really. Each lady is to contribute
pie, the pastry of which shall bear her
name. The pies are to be wrapped IN
paper and sold to the highest bidders,
who they are expected to do escort
duty for the remainder of the evening
for the lady whose name is ON the pie.
1t is presumed that gentlemen only
are to bid.
A: leading man of New York thea .
ter illustrated the hold which super
stition still maintains on many who
would be least suspected of the weak
ness. Going up to a minor actress
who felt complimented to be addressed
by the prominent actor, he begged p
favor. ''Do not carry an open parasol
on the stage. 1t is bad luck. The
play will not succeed if you take on
that parasol, am sure.'' To oblige,
the offending article was closed and
the actors fears calmed.
An Atlanta, Ga, man claims to have
discovered 3 new principle in hydraui-
les that will revolutionize pumping.