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

! IHIRTY-sEVEN railroads, embracing
eleven thousand miles, or nearly one
tenth of the mileage of the country,
were taken in charge by receivers last
year. ........ ~. J.
In the Massachusetts senate recently
resolution providing that a PERSONS
disbelief in God shall not effect his cred
Utility as a witness was defeated by
10 to "a.
= TIE cheapness of living is illustrated
by tbs fact that the price of borad for
students at Harvard memorial hall
was 1914 per week during January,
the lowest point ever reached.
{ SPEAKER MILLER, of the Dominion
senate, has issued an order excluding
Everybody, press included, from visit
Ing any of the adjacent rooms to the
chamber, no matter what his errand
may be. 1t is said he is afraid of dy-
Mantle.
! Mrs. Lucy STONE once made a plea
that 'if women go into the pulpit the
number of male church members will
increase" but it is said that the only
woman pastor in Massachusetts, has
lost 80 per cent. of the male church
members in four years.
: A STORY comes from Grand View,
o., that at revival meeting in the vi
cinity a German infidel went forward
Tor prayers, when the congregation
nearly wrecked the church for joy.
The next day the convert became in
sane, and drove tho minister from the
pulpit with a club.
!: STEEL-RA1L men have no reason to
be alarmed because the building of
new railroad lines is falling off. The
increase, of traffic at the same time in
creases the wear on rails, and the 110,-
900 miles of rail in the United States
will alone require over 100000 tons Of
new rails annually.
! A YOUNG Spanish artist has lately re-
eeiyed $1,000 from California lady
for painted fan OF black silk. The
subject is representation of the lam
guage of the fan in three ways: Il
hate you" II like you," and Il see
you," and it is exceedingly clever, as
we'll as delicate IN treatment
T. In small French town q new TWEEN
ty-four hour clock has thrown the
whole neighborhood into such disorder
that the authorities have all the
trouble in the world to preserve the
timepiece FROM stones and explosive
bombs. When the old clock strikes
twelve the new clock keeps on strik-
Ing with exasperating effect.
! A RELIGIOUS fanatic OF Erie has writ.
ZEN "new bible," which is described
rs being an incoherent tumble Of BIAS
phemy and burlesque.. In one part of
it the author mentions Noah as invit-
Ing the "boys'' to stake suthin','' af-
ter stepping out Of the ark. An effort
is made to prove that the Savior wore
red hair, and that John the Baptist
was twice before jury Tor: alleged
misdemeanors.
Ar an, excise suit tried recently in u
JUSTICES court in an Ulster county, New
York, town, Newburgh brewer
swore he could drink sixty glasses of
lager in q day and an evening and
still be '"perfectly SOBER" Another
citizen swore he could stake twenty
whiskies straight, day in and day out,
and feel all right One of the jurors
said he was of the opinion that,when
man put his umbrella to he'd and then
stood all night in the umbrella. rack in
the hallway, he was not sober. 80
! WHAT is said to be the greatest frieze
in the world is now making in Boston
1t is in buff terra Gotta, and will adorn
the army and navy memorial hall in
Hartford, Conn. The frieze will EN-.
circle the.entire structure, and will be
in two sections, eighty-seVen and
half feet in length and six feet nine
inches in height. The central figure
is that of a woman, the genius of Hart
ford, bearing the mural crown upon
her head, her hands extended toward
the returning heroes, to whom she
gives the wreaths of victory, Altogether
the frieze will have over one hundred
emblematie figures. & ~ -
: A NArURAL1sr gives tbs as an Illus.
tration OF the intelligence of the COM
mon spider: I took a large spider
from his web under the basement Of q
mill, put aim on e chip aed set him
afoat on the quiet waters Of a pond.
He walked about the sides of his bark,
surveying the Situation very carefully.
and when the fact that he was
really afoat and about a yard
from the shore h seemed ito be
fully compreheaded, he looked out for
the nearest land. This point fairly
settled upon, he Immediately began
to cast q web for it. He threw il as
far as possible in the air, and with the
wind. It'll bon reached the shore asd
made fast to the spires Of grass. Thea
he turned himself about, and in true