Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-17
Current Matters.

While England, with apopulation O
26,O0O,O0O, has only S, 500 students at
Oxford and Cambridge, Germany, with
a population of IS 1850, 900, has 25,.
900 students attending her universe.
ties.
1t is predicted that theivory supply
of Central Africa will not last more
than ten or fifteen years longer. Its
exhaustion will be good thing for
Africa, because the natives will not de.
vote themselves to the development Of
the natural resources of the country
SO long as they can frd tusks. The
sooner the ivory is gone, therefore, the
better for Africa and the Africans.
Mason and Dixon's line, which has
cut such a figure in Our political his
tory, was originally 800 miles long,
and was marked by stone posts at III
tervals of one mile TWAS the bound
vania and the states of Maryland and
Virginia, and the name is derived from
it's surveyors, Charles Mason and Jere.
miah Dixon. In 1920 the line was ex-
tended to the western boundary OF
Missouri. This is known as the Henry
Clay compromise.
Concerning the perfumery manufac'
tories at Nice and Cannes it is reliably
stated that these establishments al.
nually crush and squeeze no less thar
1874 900 pounds Of orange blossoms.
1920 pounds of ACACIA blossoms.
l54, 900 pounds OF rose leaves, IS, 200
pounds Of Jasmine blossoms, $4,000
pounds Of violets, $500 pounds Of
tuberoses and a relatively large
amount OF Spanish lilacs, rosemary.
mint, lime and lemon blossoms, thyme
and numbers ofother plants and leaves
and flowers.
In anticipation Of a clean sweep, the
postmaster of Golden, COL, has post.
ed up the following notice on the door
Of his office: II have to get out Of this
shebang about LIST of August coming,
and I want to close out all Of this store
truck before that time, and if any 0!
you have the welfare of fellow-beins
at heart, and arefond OF good smoke:
walk right up to the counter and drop
your shekels-you will neverget anoth
er such chance"
For the seventeen states OF Europe
the total of the armies on a peace foot.
ing is 2,52o,532 men. Calculating
their wages at 81 cents per day, and
emitting the holidays, we have a sum
Of $187.5O per annum for each man:
Multiplying this sum by 2, 529, 500, the
total comes to SA74, lO2,S75 per an
mum. Adding to this the total Of the
seventeen war budgets, which is $685.
363,9l0, the total loss suffered by
Europe annually on account OF her
armies is 1882, STA, 26O.
The transfer OF West Virginia's cap
ital from Wheeling to Charleston, on
the Kanawha, ends a somewhat bitter
contest Of factions. When West Nlr-
ginia became state, Wheeling was
made the capital but after the wal
Charleston became the seat OF govern
ment. In 1875 the legislature made
Wheeling again the capital, and the
CltiZc1lS uOlldLeu JIG SOittc IL DlliiSlllls,
for the capitol. In 1879 the legisla-
ture ordered a general vote on the cap
ital question, the decision to be a con-
elusive one. Clarksburg, Martinsbnrg
and Charleston were to be voted on,
and Charleston received the largest
number of votes. 1t is understood
that there will never be a change.
The New York Sun says ofthe bench
show OF dogs at the Madison Square
Garden: Ladies' pets were nu'ner'
Gus, and were almost without excep
ton the ugliest dogs in the show, Mrs.
Frederic NELSON'S bull terrier, which
tookza first prize, being phenomenally
SO. The mild faced collies, the mag.
nifcent st. Demands, who may Justly
be called the kings Of the kennel, and
the soft-eyed, intelligent red settlers q
Ireland are all passed unnoticed by the
fair sex, while fox hounds, poodles.
bull terriers and Chinese monstrositie:
are taken to their hearts and laps
But fashion must necessarily govern
the tastes and direct the affections Of
society women in the choice OF q LAP
dog, as well as in the capture OF an eli
gib,e husband or the selection OF g
hunter.