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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-28
Remarkable Memories.

There was Corsican boy who could
rehearse forty thousand words, wheth-
er sense or nonsense, as they were die
tated, and then repeat them in the re-
versed order without making single
mistake. A physician, about sixty
years ago, could repeat the whole OF
Paradise Lost" without q mistake,
although he had not read it for TWEEN
ty years. Euler, the great mathema,
tician, when he became blind, could
repeat the wholezof Virgil's ssEneid,"
and could remember the first line and
the last line in every page of the par
ticular edition which he had been &C.
customed to read before he became
blind. One kind of retentive memory
may be considered. as the result OF.
sheer work, g. determination toward
one particular achievement, without
reference either to cultivation or to
memory on other subjects. This is
frequently shown by persons III hum
bic life in regard to the Bible.
An old begger man in Stirling, known
ABOUT fifty years ago as "Blind Alick,"
afforded an instance of this. He knew
the whole Bible by heart, and If a SEN
tence was read to him he could name
both the chapter and verse; or, if only
the book, chapter and verse were
named, ne could give the exact words.
A gentleman, to test him, repeated q
verse purposely making one verbatim
accuracy. Alick hesitated, named the
place where the passage was to be
found, but at the same time pointed
the verbal error. The same gentle
man asked him to repeat the ninetieth
verse of the seventh chapter of the
Book of Numbers. Alick almost in
stantly replied; ''There is no such
verse. That chapter has only eighty
nine verses" Gassendi had acquired
by heart six thousand Latin verses,
and in order to give his memory exer-
else he was in the habit daily Of recit-
ing six hundred verses from different
languages. Saunderson another mathe-
matician, could repeat all Horace'e
odes, and a great part of the other
Latin authors. ~. s.:,:s
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-28
Elephants at Play.

There would be the fine old patri...
arch with his harem. and tho young
ones performing the most fantast;e
aquatic gamb0ls. The clumsy d1isr
portings Of q baby elephant, Sat . loss
to know how to give full vent to the
exuberanee of his spirits, ii ono of III.
most grotesque sights imaginable, and
one only to be witnessed under such.
exceptional conditions 40 / have de-
scrlbed. Looking through 4 peephols
in the brushwo0d screen, one could
watch them ct ones leisure. On one
occasion. on their return from the
water In which they had been pady.::
ding and splashinz themselves to thu
jungle thewho herd would bavewalk.
ed straight into the hole IN which / was
sqnat ting had i not shown myself. T
bad already marked the father OF the:
flock % the one I intended 60 kill and
he Mss not 10 spaces from me when
q fired. He stopped while the herd
scattered,An md, fearing he would CHARGE.
-IgaYe hinthe second barrel. and he
sank ponderouSly 10 tho 0arth. In
ms 4xntementI did not stop to 10
load but making suro hes Was dead.
ont TO secure my trophy
Id rot out my k.4s1 md = -
- pbin ont my hand 60 Iay III
his toll toscut e 81 hen 10 my 81
gust ~ slowly Iaose Al,l galE III
alter tho Id leeyiraR No airI6a d,
and coli6oui1d ]. "a ~ "a = lcf n p.
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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-28
An American Princess.

representative w. ID: Kelley, Of
Pennsylvania, has gone to New York
to meet his daughter, who has been in
Germany about three years. Before
eoing she was simply Florence Kelley;
she returns ash Princess Neschnewetsky,
and society is eagerly awaiting to see
this real live Princess. Her husband
{ is not, ST is true, a scion Of any royal
family extant, but is a direct descend
ant Of one of the old kings Of Poland.
tits even rumored that he can trace
his descent to q ohm Sebroski, the ia
nous Polish monarch, who drove the
Turks from The gates Of Vienna and
saved Christend ON from Ottoman do.
mann. However that might be, Nesch-
newetsky bears the title of Prince,
and his wife can claim the name of
Princess even if she is only q
plain American girl whose father was
once a journeymanjeweler. The Prin-
cess is well known here. Before she
went to Europe she Was d regular at
tendant at the sessions of Congress.
She had the reputation Of being The
ablest politico- como mist il the conn
try, and never let an opportunity
pass when she could add TO her knowl-
edge, even Il abe had to listen TO the
dry Congressional speeches. "A long
speech on tariff matter. seemedtogive
her infinite delight, especially il 8 it
touched on her fathers hobby pig
iron. Social prob was her chief
study e. order to investigate the So
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-28
Old -style Fireplaces and Hard
wood Finishing Again Coming
Tnfn TTan

O~~. SVyAO Ia OpASAOCo &AAu AAAI IL
wood Finishing Again Coming
Into Use.
From the New York Mail and Express.
Although the building trades are
harrassed by strikes and the agita.
ton of the labor question generally,
there are many fine edifces in the
course Of erection, and the builders re.
port that work is lively. The greatest
activity is shown in the suburbs and
the upper end of the island. The re-
modelling of old houses downtown,
which are hereafter to be devoted to
business, and the erection of
and Hat houses on the East and West
Sides, however, justify the assertion
OF superintendent D Uench, who claims
the movement is not confined to any
particular section of the city. The
noise of the trowel and hammer may
truthfully be said to be ever present
on almost any of the thoroughfares of
the city, but the work going on IN
the region north of Sixty-ffth street,
between Eighth avenue and the North
river, is enormous. Not only do the
figures Of the present year show a
great increase over those for g. CORE
spending period of last year, in point
OF numbers, but they show hand
some increase in the estimated cost as
well. The favorite style of architecture
Tor private dwellings, seems to be the
Queen Anne, Gothic and Moresque.
Stone is beginning to supercede brick.
and the once popular tile trimmings
are making way for the less expensive
and in many particulars more ornate
embellishments of terra Gotta. Some
few of the buildings now under way
will have entire fronts of terra Gotta.
Hard woods are again coming into
favor for interior trimmings, cocobola
wood being extensively used. The old
style open fireplaces are also being
made a feature in the buildings in
tended for private residences, while in
the fat and tenement houses q system
OF hot-air heating is to be introduced,
not only in the halls, but in the rooms.
From the plans now on file at the
Bureau of Buildings it is estimated
that the work done in 1885 will be
exceeded by that of the present year
by at least 10 per cent, and will keep
carpenters, masons, plumbers and
others in the building trades busy UNI
til long alter Winter has set in. :.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28

The House Military Committee Favors an
Appropriation for a Grant Monument.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The House committee
on military affairs today instructed Mr.. Viele to
report fayorably to the House the bill introduced
by Mr. Dowdney for the erection of monument
in New York city to the memory of General
Grant The bill appropriates $500, 900 for the
purpose of'erecting the monument on ground to
be donated by the city. The President is au-
thorized to appoint an officer of engineers of the
army and FIVE commissioners, the commissioners
to serve without pay, who, with the executive
committee of the Grant Monument Association
of New York, shall expend the money under the
direction of the Secretary of War 1t is pro-
vided, however, that no part of the money SO ap-
propriated shall be expended or drawn from the
Treasury of the United States until the sum of
$3.50, 900 shall have been subscribed and paid
into the funds of said Grant Monument Associa-
ton and is available for the purpose of erecting
the monument
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28

for the appointment OF an assistant secre-
tary The section presented for in
corporation in tho bill of the labor
committee creates the Department of Agricult-
ure and Labor. with division which shall be un-
der the charge of Commissioner Of Labor, who
shall be appointed by the President, with the
advice and consent of the Senate He is to hold
Office for four years, unless sooner removed and
to receive salary of $4,000 per annum The
Commissioner shalt collect information upon the
subject of labor, its relation to capital the hours
of labor. the earnings of laboring men and wom-
en-, the means of promoting their ma
terial. individual and moral prosperity. and
the best means to prevent accidents in
mines, workshops, factories, and other places of
industry. The Secretary of Agriculture and
Labor is empowered to inquire into the cause of
discomfort which may exist between employees
and employers within the United States, and he
may invite and procure sworn statements from
both parties concerning the matter in contro
versy The Secretary shall make q report TO
Congress annually upon the condition of labor in
the United States. with such recommendations
as he may deem important
The bills to establish a department of industry
will be reported back to the House by the COM
mittee on labor with the announcement that
their main features have been incorporated in
the bill to be reported by the committee on agri
culture.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28
as a Union soldier, has long been unable to work:
Deceased was the father of Mrs. j. A Cooper, OK
t. AZ.

as a Union soldier. has long been unable to work.
Deceased was the father of Mrs. j. A. cooper Oh
Indianapolis.
John McHafie has recovered $500 damages
from the Brazil Block-coal Company, because
OF an accident resulting from machinery en-
ployed in their mines, causing the loss u al
arm.
Andrew Hoppe, farmer living in Union town
ship, Vanderburg county, while digging into an
Indian mound on his farm. unearthed large
number of stone implements and curious uten-
sls, besides human bones.
There are 800 students attending the Normal
School at Terre Haute. Robert g. Gillum, prin,
cipal of the Anderson schools, has been elected
general assistant, and will take the position at
the beginning of the spring term.
1t is reported that William johnson, colored.
Of Anderson, has just fallen heir to an estate OF
given his freedom was rewarded with sum OF
money by his MASTER whose name was Dobson.
Charles Spiker. proprietor of the general store
at Spikerviile, Wabash. interrupted two burglars
at work on his safe. One of them escaped; the
other, by the aid of neighbors, was captured and
brought to Wabash. He is q professional from
Chicago
The ferryboats at Jeffersonville were draped
in mourning and the flags set at half mast, on
Tuesday, FOR the death of Capt j. =. Dorsey.
an old river man. He was school trustee. and
the Jefferson schools closed during the funeral
exercises.
The chief of police Smithwick. of New AL
bany made tour at o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing and found one policeman asleep in brewery
and another mapping in hose-re house. He
has registered charges against four officers as
the result of his early walk-Struck, Hollis.
Springer and Haugheyg
Vincennes Commercial: Seventy-one mort
cages were yesterday, satisfied by the county
recorder. which completes the cancellation Of all
claims as between the Vincennes Building Asso-
citation No. and its members. The association,
during its existence never had a lawsuit. lost
dollar, or paid out cent, except to its own
members
Lam Tong, q Chinese laundryman, at Fort
Wayne, who married Miss flyers, black-eyed
German girl, Of that place, three weeks ago, and
at the same time applied for naturalization pa
pers has been fined $ll Is for beating his wife.
He says he whipped her, because she associated
with women and men who fail to come up to the
Confucian standard in respect to morality.
The company to bore for natural gas at North
Vernon has the fact to 90 upon that at the Tun-
mel mills in September, 1865, we'll was being
bored for OIL and at the depth of 800 feet flowed
gas, which was ignited by accident, and flashing
up thirty feet above the opening, burned for
thirty-six hours before it could be extinguished.
The gas boring company will start with So, 600
capital stock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28
Nominations Confirmed.


WAsHINGToN, Jan. 27.-The Senate confirmed
the following nominations:
United States District Attorneys-C
P. Black, Eastern district of Michigan; D. O.
Finch, Southern district of Iowa. r. c. Smith,
for Montana
United Safes Observation-Disclosures II. Marsh,
Northern district of Illinois; Edward Campbell,
ir., Southern district Of Iowa; A. j. Goss. for
Kentucky.
Registers of Land Ofices-Thomas j. Butler
New Orleans; D. FL. Hail. Eureka, New; H.
Pefey Boise City. l. t.; w. S. Austin, Van
cover, w. IT,: B. Mcfarland, Coeur dAlene;
S. E. Thayer Wauseon. Wis.
Receivers of Public Moneys-Tyrel H. Bell,
Evaslie, CAL. VIM. o. Mills, Eureka. New; J.
0. Keane, Vancouver, w. T.; H G.
Branstetter, Boise City l. r.; W. j.
Cody, Bodie, CAL; s. S. Kepler, Eau Claire
Wis; 0. c. Ha.se, La Crosse Wis; M. D. Nc
Henry, Des Moines. Ia.
W. J. Mckinney, collector Of customs, Caya-
hoga, Ohio
A. Warden, supervising inspector of steam
vessels for the Seventh district.
w. d. Bloxham, surveyor general of Florida
Postmasters-Jas. Rutherford, Milford, Mich,
Patrick Calligan Alpena. Mich; Geo. Crawford
Mineral Point, Wis; John Pepper, Boscobel,
Wis.
None of the predecessors Of the above named
appointees were removed" or suspended"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28
THE SILVER QUESTION.
A Number of Propositions Presented Fl
Consideration by the Committee.

A Number of Propositions Presented for
Consideration by the Committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The House commit
gan the consideration Of the silver question.
The whole subject was discussed in an informal
way, and while the members spoke more freely
than heretofore, they did not state their views
specifically, but in very general terms. The dis
cussion took very wide range, reference being
made to the French monetary system and our
own paper money. The following resolution
was introduced by Mr.. Lanham during the ses-
sion of the committee:
Resolved, That it is the duty of the committee on
coinage, weights and measures, at early day as
practicable to report to the House bill looking to the
free coinage of standard silver dollars.
duced as substitute for this resolution the fol-
lowing:
Resolved, As the sense of this committee, that the
best interests of the country be promoted by
any bill before the committee looking to the free
coinage of silver.
Mr.. Bynum, of Indiana. also introduced a
resolution on the subject, which reads as follows
Resolved That it is the of this committee that
the laws regulating and providing for the issue of gold
vide for the retirement of the and for the issue of
coin certificates in their stead.
No action was taken by the committee upon
any of these resolutions, nor did they elicit a
distinct expression Of views from any of the
members. It was resolved that the question
from different persons interested in the question
until Feb. TO- when the committee will proceed
to consider the distinct propositions now before
them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28

suit was instituted. 1t could have had but one
result Pollard was compelled to make a new
and honest settlement of his trust
The ink was hardly dry upon the record of this
Judgment when the announcement or Pollard's
nomination was flashed over the wire from
Washington. The astonshment of his neigh
bors made way soon to their indignation at the
Presidents choice. They could scarcely believe
the report. 1t was monstrous The President
must have been grossly deceived 1t was only
when they heard that Voorhees, had recommend
ed Pollard for appointment that thew understood
it at all 1t was necessary that Polard's nomina-
ton should be defeated. They set quietly to
work looking over the court records. Their
labor was rewarded by the discovery of more of
Poilard's peculiar transactions In one case it
was shown that Pollard had induced simple
minded girl to deed to him her share in her
fathers estate, worth s., 700, for $3.50. In an
other it was shown that Pollard altered
deed after the death of the grantor,
William Allen, SO as to conform to the
wishes of one of the grantees under the will. A
Democratic journal denounced Pollard as
Jury hxer," and men were found who had heard
Pollard himself boast of his accomplishments In
this field. By othsrs it was asserted that Pol
lard was unable even to spell correctly and In
support of this statement they produced the
record of a case in which Pollard acted tempo
rarily as public prosecutor and in which an in
dictment for horse-stealing was dismissed on
the ground that Pollard had spelled the word
horse" incorrectly in the Indictment Ine
President and the Attorney general wh dis
missed Judge Vincent without giving him an op-
portunity to be heard in his defense because ne
appointed Dorsey as commissioner of jurors, are
hardly worth while to move in the case of Judge
Pollard. They prefer the Judiciary committee
of the Senate to explore this scandal, and I'M
doubtedly the committee will do it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28

Albany Express.
What unselfish patriots the Hoosier Democrats
are! Mr. Voorhees, is anxious to have Washing
ton Territory admitted as State. No one sus
poets that the fact OF his son being congres
sional delegate, who would thereby become on
titled to FIVE thousand per year, has anything
do with the fathers anti Democratic course But
what of Holmanf The immaculate Holman one
short year ago his forciple Il object" entitled
him to be called 'the great economizers Thai
happened under a Republican administrative
Who has heard Of Holman objecting or econo
MIXING since the Democrats have man
aged the distribution of the govern
ment patronage But worse things m
yet to be told of this illustrious mcss.bacI
He had Republican department clerk drOppsa
from duty for offensive partisanship,' the
consisting in having delivered three RepuDleessa
speeches during the last campaign But DIX
Holman has a nephew in government posne0n
at an annual stipend of eighteen hundred vn'
is a stanch Republican. He certainly is an o 3
but nevertheless holds the fort Worse than -
this, Mr. Holman has son, an incompeseas
whom he has retained in Office since the aomLI
istration of President Hayes. Although Ila
son has held Office under successive kepuoilSass
administrations, Mr.. Holman is in the froLs rAaa
of those who howl for the decapitation OF hepug
licans. 1t is sad, sad spectacle Wnen IN N
see such good old sinner as Mr. Holman NE
from grace, we wonder whether there 10 fssA!
such thing as political righteousness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-28

Statements of Fact Which the House Re-
fused a Receive.

Statements of Fact Which the House Re-
fused to Receive.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Congressman Bou-
telle to-day sought but failed to obtain, leave to
lay formally before the House Of Representa-
tives, and to have printed in the Record, certain
citations from official documents in support of
his statement, made last week, relating to the
destruction of the dry-dock at the Portsmouth.
Va, navy-yard. Congressman Wise, of Vir-
ginia had declared, in reply, that the dry-dock
dad never been destroyed. The citations which
Mr.. Boutelle offered are four in number, of
which the following is the substance:
Majorgen John F. Wood reported to the
Secretary of War. under date Of Fortress Mon
roe May IL, 1862, that on the 18th he had visited
the navy yard and found all the work shops.
store houses and other buildings in ruins, hav-
ing been set on fire by the rebels, who at the
same time, partially blew up the dry-dock."
Flag Officer Goldsborough. Of the North Atlantic
blockading squadron reported on May IL 1862.
to the Secretary of the Navy that be had visited
the navy-yard while the property was still burn
ing He said: Nearly everything is destroyed.
Of the buildings, the officers quarters alone re-
NAMED intact The dock gates are all
destroyed, and the pier ends connected with the
gates blown up to partial degree, but other
wise the dock itself is uninjured."
The next day Admiral Goldsborough reported
as follows THE reports in the papers about
the navy-yard at Norfolk are utterly and entirely
false. To have destroyed it more effectually
than has been done would have been difficult
task. Essentially. it is inutter ruin"
Commodore Joseph Smith, Chief of the Bureau
of Yards and Docks, in his annual report,
said of the work at the Norfolk navy-yard: THE
dry -dock has been pumped out by the aid of
temporary pumps, SO that its condition could be
ascertained The turning-gates were destroyed,
and the masonry about them considerably in
jured to the depth of about twenty feet below
the coping. The floating gate was seriously in
jured by fire and powder. The mason
ry at the entrance and below the points, twenty
feet from the coping, appears to be injured. The
steam-engine for pumping out the dock was de-
stroyed by the rebels, but the pumps were but
slightly injured