Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-30
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Personal Paragraphs,
: Englishmen eat at much shorter in
terva1s than Americans are accustomed
TO. The farm laborer eatsfour meals
day, and IN someFof the ibaronial halls
in England the tables are spread for
meals during intervals Of four hours
during the day and evening.
David Dudley Field, the eminent
New York lawyer, will be eighty years
Of age. on the. 18th of February next,
and has an income from his law prac-
tice and inventions of over 100000.
The agricultural classes of France
have 100000 900 on deposit in the
Government Savings Bank, on which
they are paid four per cent. interest.
They are also, in the aggregate among
the largest investors in Government
bonds.
The late DR.. Maceadam used to tell
Of q typsy Scotchman making his way
home upon bright Sunday morning
when the good folk were vending their
way to the kirk. A little dog pulled a
ribbon from tho hands of q lady who
was leading it, and as it ran from her
she appealed to the first passer-by. who
happened to be the inebriate, asking
him to whistle for her poodle. "Wom-
AMI" he retorted, with that solemnity
of visage which only a Scotchman can
assume, woman, this is no day fox
whustlin'." -Philadelphia Record.
Robert Bonner, writing Of the groom
who takes care OF Maud S., s&ys: He
sleeps on o cot in her stall, and one
night recently, when the weather was
warm, but threatened to turn cold, he
purposely went to bed with very little
clothing on himself, knowing that if il
turned cold during the night lie would
feel it, and would wake up, when he
could put additional clothing on the
mare. IF the men who figure in divorce
suits would treat their wives half as
kindly as this, our courts would not
have so much to do"
An aercnaut named Price was half a
mile high when his balloon burst, at
Nevada, Mo-, and for most of the dis
lance he fell with awful velocity; but
the bag happened to I'LL with air in
such manner that the decent was re-
tartled the rest Of the distance, and the
man was not fatally injured.
The Prince of Wales is thus hit of
by Kentuckian who writes from Lon
don to the Courier Journal: cite mix,
es e good deal with the masses, and il
very democratic in his manner. He re-
members names and faces SO we'll and is
so pleasant that if he were living in
Kentucky he would DO elected to the
Legislature. He knows which side his
bread is buttered on. He seems to have
sown ms wild oats, and has been be-
having himself frst-rate for five years.
The salary of Mr.. James G., Lathrop,
the new trainer for athletics at Har-
vatd, will be So, 900 year. The salary
OF q regular college tutor is generally
from $500 TO 81 200. Muscle before
mind.
Mr.. Ruskin touched sympathetic
chord whom he remarked in one of his
recent lectures: II do not speak OF the
Celtic race because I should now DO OK.
pected to say Kettle, and don't mean
to, ii only for fear that I should next
be required to say st. kekilia.
Lord Randolph Churchill has been
dealing with one of the London news
agencies which processes to collect and
supply anybody with newspaper cut
tings Of any and every kind. He ar,
ranged with one concern to supply him
with cuttings Of everything said against
him. "At the end of month";" said
the Lord, II found that owned them
about 80 guineas, 100 cuttings week
being fair average of abuse. It wou]l
have been much cheaper and pleasante,
if had arranged with them for only the
good things said about me-"
Harry Moss, well-known journals
OF Pascagoula. Fla, died lately, leaving
will in which was the following: q
desire that my body be dressed in sea
sonable apparel and placed on its bach
with pillow under it's head, etc., etc.
in a sapling pen sufficiently close tt
keep out mink and with good root
standing but one way; bottle of waite,
on each side tightly corked, door il
the pen fastened on the inside with q
latch without any string. to it. There
wish to be left for: forty days and nights
, If, after that time, any one chooses K
bury me they can do so if they are Ger
tain + am dead, beside my father or il
the graveyard at Bermuda, but 1 don
enjoin it upon any one to bury me- a
ALL" It is evident that the testato7
wished every precaution to be take1
against burying him alive.
The duke of Han1ilton's library sal,
! is declared to be the greatest book sal
on record. 1t continued over abou
forty days. and realized a total o
$3.50, 000 The Sunderland collection
brought only a little more than one
fourth rs mach, and the Gosford onl,
! $40, 900. The American demand 70
rare books in London is constantly in
creasing.
A Sa&is{;ea 0rsaooY1ian.