Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-03-12
Things Compressed.

Things @ Compressed.
Sixty million people speak the Ger
man Language, As, 900, 900 the French,
and loo, OOO, 600 the English.
The finest church in Buenos Ayres is
called the Church ofthe Remembrance.
Itis Of pure Roman architecture. in
Italian marble, and cost about $780,
600. It is the property Of Senior Don
Carlos Guerrero, q wealthy citizen,
who erected it as a memorial to his
daughter, who was murdered by a re-
jected lover about ten years ago. d
An alarm against violent exercise is
sounded by the medical and surgical
examiners. They sayit may be &C.
cepted as a truism that any nature or
amount OF exercise that will cause the
heart to jump or thump against the
chest-wall is exercise carried to an ex-
cessive and alarming extent. The
athlete and the slugger, for, this rear
son, are short lived. i: =. -
Norristown Herald: t'The new
special: delivery service is great
BOOM" said Norristown young lady
recently, sticking 1O-cent stamp on
81 letter directed to female friend in
Philadelphia, said missive conveying
the important intelligence that the
writer was out riding with Charley
and had all invitation to attend
wedding. ..:, =
The manager OF a circus which has
recently visited Canada says. "No-
where else in the world are audiences
so interesting to the performers, In
Quebec, Montreal, Hamilton, and Lon
don, notable fugitives from United
States law-such as Emo, Mother Man.
delbaum, and suppose not less than
so more-are pointed out to the ring
people by some resident person.
These exiles are sure to go to the cir
Gus to relieve the tedium of life in their
uncongenial cities; and they are inter-
esting to showmen, just as big tinan-
cial rogues are to all Americans"
The New Orleans Picayune says: IA
queen bee lays from 1000 to 5000
eggs in ninety-four hours. 1t is not
necessary to ask How doth the little
busy bee?' She doeth we'll, and should
be q shining example to the lazy hen
that can only be induced to lay one
egg in twenty hours, and then
only when eggs are cheap"
1t is worth remembering t.,at DUR
ing the first visit OF cholera at St.
Petersburg, in 1882, says Iron, firm
of iron founders employing five hun
dred men informed them that all those
who would not take teaspoonful of
powdered charcoal on entering the
works in tie morning must leave their
employ: The consequence was that
they did not lose single man when
myriads were dying around them.
The Hartford Times has the follow
ing interesting paragraph: "Jay
Gould's ancestor, Nathan Gold, was
the richest man in Fairfield, Ct, in
1910, and was an Assistant of his
colony an office answering to Senator
at the present day.. He died in great
honor and respect as The Worship
full Major Nathan Gold, Esq. in 1894
His son, Nathan Gold, died in Office
as Assistant Governor OF Connecticut
in 1928. The latter Was grandfather
of Colonel Abraham Gold or Gould
(Jay Gould's great grandfather), who
was killed at the battle of Ridgeield,
in 1777, the place where he fell being
shown to the present day."
In 1868 the Rev. Newton Chance, OF
Texas, killed an editor in Sherman
and moved to Mississippi. At that
time he was a lawyer, but becoming
converted, he entered the ministry.
Recently he returned to Texas, and
while on a visit to Sherman was ar
rested for the murder committed
twenty-five years ago.
Sir Arthur Bass (of Basis alefame)
has purchased Chesterfield House, for
nearly one million dollars. In the
hands of a famous architect it will be
restored to it's old-time glory, and
among the restorations will be the
famous mantelrieces which were taken
by Lord Chesterfield to Briefly.
The Severn tunnel in England, four
miles and a half long, has just been
opened. The distance was made by
five carriages in 19 minutes. It can
scarcely be called one of the great tun-
nels These are Mount Cents, other
wise Freius, about eight miles long,
which took fourteen years to make;
St. Gothard, nine miles long, which
took eight years to make; and the re.
Gently finished (September, 1884 Arl-
burg, about six miles long, which took
only two years to make.