Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
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There is an active demand for cot
tagess at Long Branch this year. B.
Nearly one-half the entire popula-
ton Of Buffalo is of veutonic origin. Y.
/. Corn has gone up % per cent. III
Monterey, Mexico, in the last few days.
One-fifth Of the legal voters Of Mas
sachnsetts are vetrans OF The civil war.
The construction Of a hotel costing
i $4,000 IS on The taps in Washington.
,The northwestern lumber resources
have decreased % per cent. in the last
! year. @ y z@S 5ss
Asdude has been defined in an At
lanta court as "a fellow who is mash
ed on himself" ~ s..#s T. Y 81 sS.s
Mrs. Black Bear, Piegan squaw,
7 died at the Blackfeet reservation,
Montana, aged 124 years. ~ ~ 8.
The first bee-tree ever found in east
ern Washington territory was discoV-
ed a few days ago near the Touchit. +
"a frisk,' is the fashionable
name for a ball In Philadelphia, and
4 a theater party of buds is a 'sdove
party. 4
new industry in Portland is the
making of clgar-boxes from Oregon
lumber, instead Of the imported Span
ish cedar. IL
A lawyer named Scipio Africanus
kenner is under arrest at Salt Lake
City, charged with stealing ten thou
sand brick.
| A statue of Moses in the Bullrushes,
by Herman Klein, is to be placed at
the lily pond III Paramount park,
Philadelphia
Large tocks of black birds in Los
Angeles county, California, are prov
ing a check to the depredations Of
grasshoppers.
The Dominion government has re-
duced the tax on timber in British
Columbia to Is cents tree or 20 cents
per one Thousand.
Salmon at 20 cents pound at Full
ton market enabled more people to
taste that choice fish than has been
possible for years.
The Washington territory Grand
lodge of Masons has declared retail
liquor dealers Ineligible to- member
ship in the order. ,a
The population of Macon, Ca, was
$4,000 according to the United States
census in 1880, and is now $4,000 ac-
cording to the directory census.
An italia liam ship has been sheathed
with glass plates, to take the place Of
copper sheathing. The joints are
made tight by the use Of nastie.
Bicycling is now utilized for wedding
journeys. The bride rides the tricycle.
and the groom the bicycle, or. more
easily, both ride the sociable tricycle..
Next to Senator Stanford's large
vineyard at Vina, Cal, Los Angeles
claims to have the largest in the
world, covering three thousand acres.
The toy pistol has ended its deadly
Fourth of July work in Pennsylvania,
ACCORDING to the decree OF the legisfa-
ture, and the parents Of small boys are
rejoicing at the ban.
An elevated railroad train was de-
layed 8 minute in New Yord owing to
the fringe on a lady passengers dress
becoming entangled with the button
on brakeman's coat.
A novel game of baseball will be
played at Carlton, Yamhlll county,
Oregon, a an early day. Nine young
ladies will play nine gentlemen, who
must be over 50 years of age.
An exchange states that if castor
oil plant is kept growing in room,
mosquitoes. tlies, and other pests will
not enter, or il they should they are
soon found dead beneath the leaves.
Fifteen tons of grasshoppers, COM
prising, it is estimated, $4,000, 900.
separate insects, were captured at the
Natoma whey yard, near Folsom, CAL,
by drowning in the irrigating bitches.
Strawberry shorteake has been
served out to all the prisoners IN the
Arkansas penitentiary, despite the
provisions of the constitution concern
ing cruel and unusual punishment.
One juror in Clarke county, Georgia,
has caused no less than twenty mis-:
trials, and now it is proposed to leave
his name and those OF other men who
the jury lists.
The Columbia Indians in nHarney
valley, Oregon. are huch incensed
over the recent killing by white mon
of two Indian horse thieves, and they
are reported TO be holding war dances.
The neighboring whites are alarmed.
In an account Of the war between
! the fishermen OF Ney Jersey and Della
ware The Cleveland Leader remarks in
an offhand manner that New JERSEY
had better annex the three counties Of
Delaware, that is to say,--the whole
state.
There Is a Hotel Boston in New
York, opposite the Central park, which
has a light sandstone front ornamented
! with blue trimmings, as if to indicate
associated with the first circles OF the
:sHub.'
A New Hampshire court has lately
decided that a physicians horse and
1 buggy are stools" and as such are
. exempt from seizure for debt when
they are necessary to enable him to
practice his profession with reasonable
! success. b ,.%
/ A curious statistical fact has been
discovered. There arc twelve thous-'
and stamp collectors among children
of the New York public schools, and
many dealers in stamps. The coilec-
tors Of buttons, old coins, and other
small bric-a-brac were not enumer-
! ateu. "& .s.. s# &f Il .
According to. Bill Nye, the sign Of
distress for a Maine man in search of q
drink is, close your right eye, hook
your right foot around and back of
4 your left leg, with the left hand exc
. cute the celebrated gesture Of Sam'l OF
Posen, and place the right hand on the
/ stomach. r. +* ~ y y NJ
i The Robbins family atGreen's Land.