Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-10
miscellaneous Matters.

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Miscellaneous Matters.
The longest bridge in the world is tho
Maintenon Aqueduct, 16,367 feet; the
aext is Victoria Bridge, over the st.
Lawrence, 9 ,437 feet; the third ,Parkers-
burg Bridge, West Virginia, ,O45 feet.
Brooklyn Bridge, $3.50 feet.
The mountain of ice at Parker's Glen,
n. Y, is reaching colossal proportions
md is remarkable sight. It is now
rom seventy-fiye to eighty feet high
md in circumference it measures two
aundred aud fifty feet. It is similar
IN grandeur to the famous column at
,he Katerkill Falls, in the Catskiu
Mountains, and hundreds of sightseers
have visited it. The little stream of
water at it's top steadily trickles down its
tides and as steadily adds to the column.
Among other wonderful things found
by number Of descriptive writer's in
Wyoming Territory are mountain Of
solid hermatite iron, 8 mile vide, two
miles long and 600 feet high, bed OF
Ignite coal big enough to warm the
world for several centuries, eight lakes
If solid soda, and great petroleum
basin from which oil is oozing all the
lime.
"Experience has indeed shown that a
perfectly healthy community, main
tanning within itself pure morals and
1ormal habits Of life, may closely inter.
marry with impunity, and even i'll some.
eases with positive benefit. But it IS
equally clear that opposite conditions
will lead to opposite results; that IS to
say, an unsound and morally depraved
people will transmit their weakness in
an exaggerated form. leading to tiua!
iegeneracy and ruin"
Through the death of Lord Cairns
there is now not a single law lord in re-
eeipt OF pension as all ex-lord chan
callor, state of things which is 1lnpre-
oedented in English history for nearly
sixty years, An chancellor pension
is $25 900 year.
The sign of Libby prison is in the
possession of Edward J. Bartlett, Of
Concord, Mass. He took it from its
place on the building on the morning
Of the first occupation of Richmond by
the Union troops The sign is small
one, made Of tin, and bears simply the
words, Libby g. Co..
President Cleveland at church," says
a member Of his congregation, SIS an at
tentive listener. He prays in an audi
bic undertone, sings in clear baritone
voice. and is not addicted to the habit of
turning in his seat to look at late corners.
Altogether he is modest churchman."
About year ago an English gentle
man, travelling in Germany, came
across al officer employed in supcr;n-
tending some detsAle of military railroad
transport. He hs,& been captain dur
ing the Franco German war and allowed
his company to n, surprised. After
being imprisoned f,r eighteen months
he was placed in HE military railroad
transport service, nud told that he was
never to receive promotion. Being sur
prised by al enemy is regarded as the
one objectionable SIN by the Germans.
United States Senator Warner Mil
ler of New York, has returned from
New Orleans, and the Syracuse Journal
quotes him as saying: "There seems
to be general stirring up of the South
ern country, in business sense, largely
in consequence of the Exposition, It
has been in the nature of a revelation
to the south Of her own resources and
power which she has rever before real
lied. In this result alonei it has been
worth all the money expended on it by
the government.
"Ouida" is the pseudonym OF Louisa
de Ia Rame, all English novelist, born
at Bury St. E1munds, Suffolk ounty
Eng, about 1870 She is Of French
extraction. Her pen name originated
III q childish INSTRUMENTATION Of Lou
isa. She has written a great many nov
els, among the best known being
";Strathmore, "Cnandos, Under Two
Flags" "Moths," I'm Maremma,'
Wanda"
One of the finest houses on the most
fashionable streets in San Francisco is
the residence OF Mr.. and Mrs. Porter
Ashe, who have just returned from
Europe, and, being new people on the
avenue, their story has been raked up.
Five years ago, Porter Ashe was a law
yer's clerk, and too poor to smoke, or
drink, or indulge in any Of the gentle
manly vices. He fell in love with Miss
Amy Crocker, and asked her mother for
her, but the old lady was opposed to the
match. The couple ran away and got
married. The generous mother called
her children back, forgaye and blessed
them with present Of 800, 900, and
sent them off travelling. On their re-
turn, lately, she made them present
of $780, 900 mansion, and told them to
live in it and be happy. That's the
proper way to forgive and bless runa-
way children. The Ashes ought to glow
with gratitude and never grow cold.