Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
pith and Point.

l'ith and Point. 81
The man who fails for d million dol /.
lars must con mand respect.
}8s New York has received as many a I
loco 600 bananas per. day That is a
good as SOC, 600 slip ups. :,s8I
It may. do Tor the logians to call il
.sSheol but the old term is good
| enough for most OF us in the usual
daily walks Of life
No sooner did a real Boston girl re-
move to Chicago to reside than she
dated her letters from Chicago-by-
! the Lake, = Sd 5s5
1t was a Nashville cook this time
Ewho mistook arsenic for baking pow
der. OF course she kept them side by
side on the shelf.
The consumption of beer has in
| creased by $4,000. 900 gallons in one
year. Somebody's head must be get
ting used to the motion.
Ten yards of Irritation and q bushel
of gush are mentioned BY the Boston
| Globe as a full seaside outfit Tor the
average young lady. #s. .ss.@ :,
England 8 big cannon bOOms a
| charge OF almost 800 pounds of powder
at once. Such spendthrift habits
should not be encouraged in a gun.
! It has been satisfactorily settled
that q yachtsman need not know how
to sail a yacht. All that isneeded is a
uniform and a roll to his gait. n.
This country imported about Is, O00,-
900 bottles OF wine last year and con-
sumed 29,OOO,000. Nobody. got hold
Of a bottle that wasn't imported"
New Hampshire could put about
| 800 militia in the field il occasion de-
handed, but they would have to carry
ritchforks and wear their everyday
| clothes. 5s5js Is ..@.%l. ~. 80 's&
They keep finding indictments
| against Ferd. Ward, but after a man
has, been drowned fifteen or twenty
times it's no use to pour moro water
| over him. &
The New York Evenusg Post gives
up the fight at last and says: 1.-The
| time has arrived for bidding farewell
| in these columns to Keely and his
motor. ''- "t =
| Apples are getting large enough to
way down stairs at every grip, and
the opportunity should not be lost by
Il single youth. "a
| Ii it can on the one hand be called
''cholera infantum, why can't it on
the other hand be referred to as stchol-
era adultum?" The infants shouldn't
have all the advantage. : ..
1t is believed that if Miss Dudley is
kept in prison much longer she will be
driven to- write poetry, and for this
reason many influential people are
moving to have her released.
A St. Louis woman was spit on from
a third-story window by a boy and
she has sued the lads employer for
S., 900 damages. The defense will be
'contrjbutory negligence"
Eighty-two per cent of all the fires
Occurring in New York city are traced
directly to carelessness. It's no Won
der an overworked reporter slips his
grammar now and then.
A chap in Arizona has improved on
the idea of an art loan. He has got up
.:money loan" scheme, and only the
other day eight stage coach passengers
1enL nlm nearly cl,OOO.
The Brooklyn Eaqle knows of pro-
fessional roller-skater with bullet in
his head. We can't see anything odd
about that. That's no place TO shoot
one OF those chaps if you want 10 lay
him up. If
Prof Proctor says that at least $780,
600 meteoric bodies fall from the heav-
ems every hour of the twenty-four for
the entire year, and yet it is hard work
to find q chap who has had his hat
knocked of.
OF the nine great musical composers
EOf Germany not one Of them had a
face an average man would like to
meet on a lonely road at twilight's
solemn hour. He'd count on either
being dunned or thumped.
A Chicago paper asserts that the
young man who starts out in life with
the feeling that he doesn't know beans
from broonsticts has at least $1,000
capital over all others. No such man
ever started in Chicago.
Fargo has all along supposed that
she had 1900 population, but a CEN
sus taken by the police fails to show
quite 10000. How 1000 people
1 slipped out of town inside of two days
is what bothers those who didn't 90.
I More than 100 men and women over
60 years of age have been injured or
killed in skating Kinks within the last
six months. Most of 'em were wild
ows and widowers who were trying to
show off like people of 20.-Deiroit
Free Press.