Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09
General Miscellany
A tunnel measuring about 5, 900 fe

A tunnel measuring about 5, 900 feet
ong, and constructed at least nine Gen.
turtles before the Christian era, has just
been discovered by the Governor of the
island of Samos. Herodotus mentions
this tunnel, which served for providing
the old seaport with drinking water.
It is completely preserved, and contains
water tubes of about ten inches IN di-
ameter, each one provided with later
al aperture for cleansing purposes.
The tusAsl is not quite straight.
About 100000 gallons of handker-
chief perfumes are consumed annually
in Europe and British India. The
English revenue from eau de cologne is
$40, 900 annually, and the total revenue
of other perfumes is estimated at $780,
900 annually. There is one great per-
f,lme distillery at Cannes, in France,
which uses yearly 100000 pounds of
acacia flowers, 140, 900 pounds OF rare
flower leaves, 80. 900 pounds of jasmine
blossoms, 10000 pounds of tube.rose
blossoms, and ell immense quantity OF
other material
The new university st Stockholm has
established professorship Of mathe-
mates expressly for woman. This is
Mrs. DR.. Sophie Kowalevslli, whose
paper on partial differential equations
was recognized as sufficiently important
to warrant the establishment Of a chair
for her.
American sewing machine manufac~
turers do good and growing business in
sewing machines, especially since prices
have declined. The v alue of export
ed sowing machines for the past year was
$3,552,S14, which is the largest item ON
The export list. Locomotives come
next, 282 having been exported, worth
s2,6l9,946. Saws and tools come third
and firearms fourth. The sewing ma
chine companies have the very best
trade; they scour foreign countries for
business, and, from recent reports from
factories in New Jersey especially: a
good share of business is coming.
The beet.sugar crop of Germany this
year is estimated at 200, 900 tons, be-
ing an increase of 100000 tons over the
production Of five years ago. OF this
enormous quantity only 400,0 tons
are required for home consump tion, be-
ing at the rate of is pounds per head.
The result is that Germany will export
100000 tons of beet sugar, chiefly rare,
at a cost of not less than l0,000,000 to
the imperial government III the way of
bounties granted to the manufacturers
England is the greatest buyer of this
commodity, consuming 68 pounds per
capita, and the advantages which she
gains by a reduction in the price of this
necessity Of life far more than compen-
safes for the alleged injuries sustained
by her refine and colonial industries,
about which there has been lately a
great discussion.
During the siege at Paris horseh esh
was eaten as a matter of necessity, but
since 1871 it's consumption has gone on
steadily increasing. In 1874 the MUM
Der of horses slaughtered for food III
Paris was 1852 Ten years later the
consumption had more than doubled
In 1888 Paris ate 9,485 horses, 3O7 asses,
and 40 mules, or not far short of ). 0O0,
900 pounds weight of horse, ass and
mule meat. The explanation of this in
crease is, of course, the high price of
beef and mutton in the French capital.
While the artisan can purchase horse
steak at less than I'D pound, he has to
pay three times as much for a cut Of
beef or mutton. The flesh of the mule
or ass is esteemed much more highly and
that Of the horse and brings from Is to 20
per cent, more Ill price.
The London Lancet says that there
is nothing which will so derange the
nervous system OF person who is
eliminative in nervous force as 10 lie all
night in bed With another who is ab-
sorbent Of nervous force. The latter
will sleep soundly all night, and arise
refreshed in the morning, while the
former Will toss recklessly, and awake
in tho morning fretful, peev1sh, faint
hearted and discouraged. mo two
persons, says the Lancet, mo matter
who they are. should habitually sleep
together The one will thrive, the
other will lose. To some of extrem e
susceptibility the fact that the one
sleeps with the bed pointing east and
west is ominous. 1t is said by some
scientific men to be little less than
suicidal for certain parties thus to locate
their couches, The proper position of
the bed, they say, is north and south.
in harmony with the magnetic currents.
Three or four decades ago, says al
exchange, American men and women
were generally lean and bony. Our
women especially were lank and thin.
OF late years, however, change in the
shape Of o1lr people has been noted.
The change is not yet very marked LII
the men. But the women are growing
round and fat. At our watering places,
where people from all parts Of the coun-
try congregate: bony woman is rare
sight. Most Of the women are plump
and we'll rounded. It is TO be observed
however, that sickness and curved out
lines belong to the we'll TODD and
leisurely classes of society. Among
hard workers and the people on the
frontiers the lean and bony type still
predominates.
The Brooklyn tabernacle, Talmage's,
which has 5000 communicates, has the
largest membership Of any Presbyterian
church in America. The Third Pres
byterian church of Chicago stands next
with 2,lO3 communicates. The next