Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-08
FACT AND FANCY.
Los Angeles county, California,

81 85ss ~ II uHS ,OIcAaru OF thirteen thOu-S
Il sand trees is being set out near Gilroy,
s. Cal. 4. ~.
Twenty dollars per cord is the price
of wood at Tombstone, ARIZONA, and
T it is scarce at that s5#s. 81
i Twenty two of the great sugar PLAN
4 tations of the island Of Cuba are farm.
! ed BY the Jesuit order.
4 There are 1888 boys on board the
! United States training-ship New
i Ham pshire, at Newport, r. l.. . =
/ It is stated that Lord Garmoyle at
the opera in New York changes his
| gloves whenever the curtain falls.
The largest potato starch factory in
I the world IS at Carbon. Me. Its ca
.pacity is from 100000 to 250,00o
bushels.
I New Hampshire has 1913 Presbyteri.
an churches. Seventy-five Of them DO
not sustain permanent preaching with
out help.
The Massachusetts, legislature has
refused to allow woman preacher OF
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
DIR. Dio Lewis says that tomatoes
are medicine and not a food, and
should only be eaten when prescribed
by physician. 4 49,
The Columbian university. of Wash
ington, has decided to admit women
to the study of medicine, with the
same privileges accorded to men.
The widow of Gen. Stonewall Jack
son has consented that his war-horse,
Old Sorrel, shall be exhibited at the
New Orleans exposition for the beneft
Of the Confederate Soldiers home.
A Kansas City physician expresses
the opinion that hundreds Of people
are buried alive every year, and that
an average OF three out OF every hun
dred corpses might be rcsusitated.
A Chinese opium den has Just been
broken up at Dalton, Tex, in which
peepholes were rented for Is cents per
! hour to those who wished to watch the
female victims of the drug enjoy its
influence.
A large meteor fell recently neal
Gainesville, Ga. Its course lay di-
rectly over the town. and, as it
passed, so intense was it's brightness
that it rendered objects in darkened
rooms plainly visible.
The diaphragm of new telephone
through which conversation has been
held between New York and Cleveland
is made of cork. The extreme sensi-
tiveness OF this substance to the tones
of the human voice is q late discov-
cry.
1t is like story Of 40 to read that at
a recent performance at the Standard
theater, San Francisco, an apprecia-
tive man became so enthusiastic over
the Introductory portion of the per-
Torrance that he began throwing
money on the stage.
The ink pencils lately brought into
use are stated to be dangerous lnnoya-
tons, as the transfer OF writing made
by them is 8; very easy matter. Any
signature can be reproduced by using
two sheets OF dampened paper. The
first will take the impression reversed
and the ne\t will receive it precisely
as originally written.
About decade ago German postal
official hit upon tbs idea of printing a
New Years wish upon the bands or
wrappers of mail matter that was adj
: dressed to foreign countries. The
conceit took, and now the middle Off
Gals in nearly every country in the
postal union greet each other, at the
/ beginning of the year, in this novel
way.
d.. Crudelli, of Rome, gives the fol-
!
remedy for malaria which has proved
relief: Cut up q lemon, peel ard pulp,
in thin slices, and boil it in Il pint and
a half Of water until it is reduced to
half /. pint. Strain through a linen
cloth, Squeezing the remains of the
boiled lemon, and set it aside until
cold. The entire liquid is taken fast
/ ing.
| The total number of banking institu-
| lions that failed in 1884 is l21, II of
which were national banks, 20 state
, banks. IL savings banks, and II private
| banking institutions. Nineteen of
! these failures are traceable to the fraud
of bank officers; % Of them resulted
from unfortunate operations in stocks,
disconnected from the element of fraud,
and 81, or more than onehalf of them,
| were due, either directly or indirectly,
to some form OF speculation.
It is asserted by some wicked person
that it is now the custom for lovers to
write peculiarly afectionate remarks
on the outside Of envelopes, and to
cover such remarks with POSTAGE
stamp. Thus @ young man may write
a note which any young girl could
! show to her mother, while at the same
time he could use the most Affection
ate language under cover of stamp.
All the young lady has to do is secret
ly to remove the stamp without de-
stroying the writing underneath.
For g. recent marriage the groom
purchased new coat and the bride
silk dress. The two were packed in
trunk for the bridal trip, and the
happy pair started west. The train
had not gone far when the baggage
master noticed the odor of burning
wool. and an examination resulted in
seeing smoke issue from trunk. It
was the trunk of the newly-married
couple, and the new silk dress and the
new coat were ruined. Spontaneous
combustion owing to chemical dyes IN
the silk, was the probable cause.
| A guest at fashionable reception
| .narrates that he overheard 16-year-
old dandy say to still younger belle:
81 am glad that my family got out of
trade fifty years ago. My father was
never in business, but devoted himself
to a science as a hobby. He made
! several discoveries, you know, that