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Little Falls transcript., 1886-11-19
I VEAL TIL or TIE SAsToRs.

An Estate worth FULLY Three Hun-.s
dred millions or Dollars.
No one family in the country has SO
kept its wealth within itself as the
Astors, who intend to continue the
# financial policy originated BY old jobs =
Jacob Aston about the beginning OF the
century. It's commonly supposed
that he made the bulk of his fortune in
furs. He formed a gigantic project for
extending the business from the north
western lakes to the Pacific by means
OF various trading posts, BY establishing
central station at the mouth OF the
Columbia, and then by making . depot
at one Of the Hawaiian islands to supply
China and India directly from the Pa
citic coast. The project was partially
carried out, but meanwhile Mr.. Astor
saw greater opportunities for making
money in city real estate than in the
fur trade. He began to buy extensive
", and the growth of the town was 50
rapid that in some cases the property
increased hundred-fold. When he
died, nearly forty years ago, he was
estimated to be worth $40, 100000. He
left to his son William B. Astor, the
bulk of his estate, to be managed in
the interest of the family; William B.
left it in turn to his son, John Jacob.
and now John Jacob has intrusted it to
his son-his sole child, indeed-William
Waldorf Astor- This virtually amounts
to an entail, and prevents the wealth
from being scattered, though there is
small danger of that the Astors
being noted for conservatism and
prudent thrift. They have always in
vested in real estate, buying few bonds
or stocks, and have evinced great care
and discretion in their investments.
Their constantly increasing surplus they
have, SO to speak, put into the ground,
reaping extraordinary profits thereby.
They never sell; they are ever buying,
buying, buying, but keeping their tran
sactions as secret as possible. No one
but themselves and their agents have
any idea of the vast blocks of real
estate in their possession. They own
thousands of business houses and
dwellings. They never touch unim-
proved property, and now add each
year two or three hundred houses to
their immense holding. When it is re-
n1embered that wealth doubles at SIM
pie interest in less than seventeen years,
and in much less time when invested in
real estate, it is easy to understand
how theirs must have grown in the past
ninety years. One of the advantages
of such investments is that they increase
with the value of the city. They are
not confined, as bonds and similar Sc
curities are, to a fixed rate of interest.
Certain lots purchased thirty odd years
ago would pay to-day what is equiva-
lent to 40 or 50 per cent. per annum.
There is little doubt that the Astor
estate is by far the greatest here or in
the country. 1t can not be much short
of $500, 600, 000 and by the close of the
century, if managed as it has been. it
will be nearly doubled What will pre-
vent them in another hundred years
from owning most of Manhattan island?
--hea0 York Cor. Boston Advertiser
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The one hundred and twenty five
steam-ships plying between the Invited
States and Europe, cost 500, ,ooo. 900.
employ 1880 men, spend 81, ,OOo,-
600, 600 month for coal, carry 5O0,-
600 passengers q year and earn $22,-
600, 900 for passage money, exclusive
OF what is paid for freight.
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In the Second Rhode Island district,
where there were four candidates in
the field for congress, none of them
had q majority. Under the laws of
the State plurality does not elect,
but another election must be had and
at this election a majority is sufficient
to elect.
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The United States has an area OF
between 800, 600 and 4OO, 900 square
miles OF coal fields, 100, 900, 900 tons
of coal being mined from these fields
each year, or enough to run ring
around the earth at the equator FIVE
and halffeet wide and five and a half
thick, the quantity being sufficient
to supply the whole world for a period
OF 1900 to 1900 years.
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Florida is considerable larger in
area than the state OF New York, and
stretches the long way from north to
south over 400 miles, but New York
will remain the empire state for
some time to come, without regard to
area or anything else. ~.
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Little Falls transcript. L,
y u. :.| ". Il FULLER, Publ:shsr.
LITTLE FALLS. MINNESOTA
The Vermont legislature, after s1ms
debate passed an act giving women
the right to vote at town, city d. VII
lage elections, il they pay taxes on
5000 worth Of property. =. 2

The report Of the Illinois State su-
perintendent Of Public Instruction, is
published, It shows that the school
revenues OF the State from all sources
for the year ending June 80, 1886,
were $l2, ,442, 3O7.77. r..
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A writer In eassell's Aagasine says:
"A man who IS no breakfast-sa sater n,ust
either be g heavy supp per-eater 81 ii s
bad state Of health. q person Who -
quires the stimulus of 4 cup 81 - q, i.
any other stimulus whatever beiorie
psrtaking Of mild food i not 81 heslth.
e Ike to zee . mAn Ihaye his
] first and then feel AROUND & t,,
Aof coffee, tea 81 cho
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Bad Outlook

Citizen Qo farmer) How are thing.
out your way, Mr.. Hayseedp
Mr.. Hayseed gloomily j: They,
couldn't be much wuss. Ny wife and
three cows are down with plenro- o-pneu-
monia- Z refused q hundred dollars
apiece for 'em only last week Life.
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Takes Life Easy.

''See that man across the streetY''
"Yes.'' - s
Well, he's one of those men who
take life easily"
HE is! Why. he looks like 4 hard
working MANI .s II III.
"Well, SO he is. He's q butcher, and
a good one, too, they say. = i4sburok
Dsspatch. 8
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Henry W.sBullis. and aged and respected
He was well known there as hotel man.
Henry Bnin, of Ottawa, took horse to
LIE Sueur and sold it for $1O5, after which
he started for his home. He was followed
by four roughs and when halfway between
less and robbed OF all but 80 cents.
Judge Benjamin Pringle celebrated his
ssyenty ninth birthday on the 9th.
z A. French teamster near Fossum, threw
lighted match into the dry grass from
which prairie fire started that did an
immense amount of damage before it could
be quenched. Stacks of hay and grain were
consumed, and many OF the unhappy
farmers must now part with their stock,
AZ hay cannot be procured in sufficient
quantity to supply the loss.
7 There are said to I've several thousand
spurious silver dollars in circulation in
Southern Minnesota, 80 nearly like the
genuine that detection 10 almost impos-s
sible. - . @ .-, '-.s.'s.+z
There are now fourteen passenger trains
per day running from Minneapolis and st.
Pant to Chicago. and the demand for pas.
senser traffic begins to exceed the supply.
The following pension news is published.
Pensions allowed: Joseph II. Card, Min
neapolis; William Russell st. Paul; Henry
Zimme rman, Cleveland; j. II. Bonestett,
Sprin. Valley; Jeffersnn Bathrick, Winnie
bago City; Andrew Sandburg, Minneapolis;
w. Glover, Hamilton; George Porter,
Lydia; OTIS Aver, Le susnr; a. =. Smith,
Wadsna 8 Belly s Sleepy Eye " ;9
creased-J r Northrup, Balaton; j..
Wnlflren D w inrahasn ss( City. Inmea Lang.
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HEARING

factory. The reasons for her great speed
are several. There is little or no friction.
A yacht weighing eight hundred pounds
has been towed on smooth ice, without
wind, by two thieknesses OF common white
wrapping-twine. In the greatest velocity
the heat is at once absorbed by the ice, and
no more friction is caused in running one
hundred than in running ten miles per hour.
She makes no leeway, and thus loses no
sail-push. She meets the most resistance
in air friction, or in the force of the wind
against her in beating to windward. Her
great speed changes the effective direction
of the wind. Ii the wind came twenty miles
per hour from the south and she sailed
twenty miles per hour to the east the APP
parent source of the wind power would be
from the southeast. She can not sail with
the wind without running ahead of it dur
ing the lulls, losing the force of the wind be-
hind and being kept back by what is prac-
tically an adverse wind. She can not go
any faster than the wind on this course,
which is her worst one. A beam wind is
better for ingoing at right angles with the
wind, as she loses none of its force by her
own speed. Shecu across it, but does not
run away from it. There is some air fric-
ton here, however. She win make the best
speed on the course where there is the least
air friction, and receives the strongest push
in a forward direction. This course is the
one about as shown in the accompanying
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When the wind blows thirty or forty
miles an hour it is gale. A sixty-mile
zephyr is a hurricane. When it gets above
that it is cyclone or typhoon, and yet
ice yachts will average a mile minute in a
twenty mile wind for comparatively long
distances; and when it is considered that
on the Hudson where these tests have been
made, the ice presented distractions in
volving frequent maneuverings, and that
the speed at least half the time was under
twenty-fiv miles, it will be seen that dur
ing part OF the time, to make up tie av-
erage, a cyclone rate OF speed must have
been attained. An ice yacht is the fastest
machine on earth. The first ride is an ex-
perience to be remembered.
Passengers and crew are stationed on
the windward side for the purpose of ball
lasting her and relieving the strain on the
leaward runner. The first impression is
that one will fall through the spider-lke
skeleton which forms the groundwork OF
the boat, and be slid off on the surface like
q Skinny ball. Look downward O. moment
and it appears that the vast carpet of ice
is slipping away from under you. Then the
cracks and bubbles blur and patches OF
snow look like little comets with tails which
streak away in the direction you are trav-
cling. You begin to realize that the boat
is making very creditable time. In the box
astern lies the ice skipper with eager eye
and nerves braced, giving neither talk or
looks except to the business in hand. The
breezes may cut and sting, but he makes
40 sign. A dash through a window OF
snow may throw up cloud and momen-
tarily blind all hands. The man at the
helm may wink, but he does nothing else.
The runners cut into the ice with half
crunching, half-hissing sound. and lets Oh
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Is fund of wholesome sport, especially in
the latter, and O. source OF enjoyment be-
yond the ken of the person to whom the
idea of amusement is realized in an evening
at "a theater or bout at penny-ante under
the lea of some glowing base-burner.
Ice yachting is what may be termed safe
sport. With proper precautions it is safe
enough, but the faint flavor of danger, the
ever-recurring suggestions OF disastrous
possibilities, adds to it's attractiveness and
lends a charm width removes the drawback
of tameness. Accidents were common
enough in the early days of yachting, ow-
ing to imperfections of construction and in
experience, to satisfy the most sanguinary,
but a decent regard for safety of ife limb
and property has changed this and the
sport is as safe as the nature of it will per-
init. Experienced yaehtsmen need not hest
tate to take their families along under rea-
sonable conditions of wind and ice. The
chief drawback to the many would be
yachtsmen is the lack of stretch of ice
which can be relied on each month. Abso-
lutte smoothness of ice, such as skaters need
is not necessary, though desirable. The
presence of distractions, while preventing
great speed, frequently makes the sport all
the more interesting by bringing into play
all the nautical skill q yachtsman may
have. Going over rough ice and cracks re-
quires the exercise OF GOODNESS, promptness
and skill. The yacht must be brought up
go as to spill the wind and relieve the strain
and then headed SO that the runners will
not get caught in the cracks, something
which usually causes the rigging to all go
by the board if not securely stayed, but
more frequently results in wrenching off the
skate.
In sensations and effect ice yachting is
the nearest approach to flying that has
been invented. Ballooning has been
hkened to flying, but it is only by those on
the ground that the likeness is appreciated,
for in balloon sense Of motion is lost. 1t
is the acme of egotism. To the balloonist
his gas ball is stationary, while the earth
drops away from him. In ice boating the
sense of motion is ever present, sometimes
painfully so; as when one is bearing down
on an ice hummoc or the black stretch of
open water at the rate of thirty-five miles
an hour, with apparently thirty seconds
between one and disaster or drowning.
The inexperienced passenger, clinging to
the weather shrouds with grip which
would start the tar from the frozen rope,
can not help devoting second or two to
wondering what the imperturbable gentle
man in the stern sheets is going to do
about it. The speed of an ice yacht, under
favorable circumstances, is something to
take away the breath OF one who has only
Travelled at the speed which may be got
from an ordinary locomotive.
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cracked ice are thrown no astern like little

cracked ice are thrown up astern like little
fountains of diamonds. The object over
the bows that looked moment
ago like small black stick in
the ice is now boy waving his
hat at the yacht, and before second look
can be taken he is dropped astern, and one
only knows he is shouting his salute from
the fact that his mouth is open. But it is
advisable for the passengers not to pay too
much attention to outside beauties and in
cidents. The erratic movements OF the
yacht are such that unless pretty strict at
tention is paid to hanging on to the par
ticular stay or rail which supports him he
is liable to be cast adrift. The yacht an
swers her helm SO readily that it is very
perplexing to man accustomed to handle
boat in the water, and sharp turns are
frequent until the ice yachtsman becomes
accustomed to the superior sailing quail
ties OF his raft ON runners. But the most
exciting period is when in stiff or gusty
breeze the yacht is Swimming along on the
helm and the ice runners about half the
time. 1t is then the sense of buoyancy is
akin to flying and the ice sailor makes
flights through the air which causes the
less nervy many a cold shiver.
The whole machine can be compared to
nothin but great white bird fluttering
along the surface, alternately attacking
and lodging some invisible enemy.
Next to rearing Or heeling over the
most exciting feature is
JUMPING A CRACK.
When the crevice is wide this becomes genu.
inely dangerous, for should runner fail
to strike the top of the ice on the further side
it involved wreck and menace to life. Oc-.
casionally the actual danger is in meas
ure obviated by building low incline of
wet snow at the edge of the ice and allow
ing it to freeze, 30 that the ice-boat is given
an upward impetus when it strikes the little
hill, which carries it over the crack in
graceful fight through the air.
The greatest danger is when one yacht
is following another closely. An accident
or poor icemanship is quite liable to bring
them together, in which event wrecked
boats and broken limbs areno uncommon.
The bystander on the ice is in about as
dangerous position as any one, especial
ly if seeing boat bearing down on him he
attempts to dodge it. The advisable way
is to stand still and let the skipper do the
lodging.
Engineering and sporting papers have
treated the subject of the yachts speed ex-
haustively, but the explanations are con-
fusing to the average reader, and a purely
scientific explanation would not be salts.
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FRYING FOOD.
Why Perfect Frying Can Be considsFss
the Perfection of Cooking

Why Perfect Frying Can Be ConsaeEsa
the Perfection of Cooking.
Grease of every description is capable
OF being heated to a very much higher
temperature than water; in fact, u can
be made almost three times as bot a
boiling water. When fat is at its boil
ing point it is so hot that any article q
food brought in contact with Il y
actually burned. and this il precisely
the reason why, for purposes Of trying
fat should always be boiling. hot. Fo1
any article Of food, q doughnut, fcs
example, dipped into boiling fat, Z
Immediately covered all over by TIM
crust of burned dough, which preyenm,
the fat from penetrating further IN ano
enables the rest of the douginut 20 q
exposed to greater degrse OF heal
than can be applied to it by any otneI
process. without coming IN coniac.
with the fat, and the natural chemlcas
processes go on inside with a greater
degree Of perfection than can
be obtained by any other metllod
Perfect frying is the perfection q
cooking, but so soon as the fat u noi
sufficiently hot to. create the burnea
crusts around the article fried, the ~
penetrates it. and ABSOLUTELY preycnn
cooking from taking place at all. =
the fat is not boiling, bubbhng hot Ms
process that takes place is not cooking.
but simply drenching the food win !
tepid fat and rendering it totally ihot
gestible. It makes no difference non
hot the fat is afterward, the mischieI
done the moment the fat penctrates NV
inside
All perfectly fried food has fnin,
crisp, brown outside crust (whlcn naa
in itself relishing taste) and Is PEI
fectly free from the suspicion OF ~ y
side, except what was Intentionally pu
there by Che cook. All housekespen5
know that to fry well their tai sllo'' !.
be hot. But they do not attend 20 y 8
scrupulously as they would Il they ~
serstood the true philosophy q =
Boiling, bubbling fat can net pene s.ss,s
anything, and cooks to perfecs'vsi
tepid fat penetrates everywhere 80
does not cook at all, but actually ~,
vents cooking. Any house Keeper w
reads this and chooses to- prom Z, ~
need never put any greasy. fried nsl :.
cooked and indigestible food upon u q
table. The whole secret conslsss. ~
having the fat boiling hot peio1s =
things are put in.-Hoasesetper'
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iCE-YACHTING.

a Sport Which Leads the World for
Speed and Puzzles Scientists-sixty Miles
an Hour in a Twenty-Mile Breeze-The
Dangers and Pleasures of the Pastime.
There are two things in the physics OF
sport which scientists do not understand,
and not understanding, deny their exist
ence. One is the possibility of "curving"
bah, and the other is the fact that an ice
yacht win continuously sail faster than the
wind which propels it. Classroom philoso-
piers have furnished demonstrations galore
that BAH could not be curved and that it
was utter scientific nonsense than an ice
boat will race with and beat the wind, and
yet there stands the brutal and inconsider-
ate fact that both are done, and what is
worse, done by men who don't know the
difference between alogarithm and pump
handle. To scientific mind these rock
ribbed, pyramidal facts are something
bazarre, inexplieable, Flanniganesque. But
there is more amusement in ball-playing
and ice-yachting than the mere fun OF defy
ing scientific 'flaws'' and "truths". There
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o~
The boat is
heading north
east, with the
wind from the
vest Her speed
changes thedi-
rection of the
wind fore 9
from W Q 9 t,
which it would
otherwise b e,
to northwest,
which is a
b cam ind,
and as such
does not re-
tard her speed
to any appre-
ciable extent.
There is norun-
ming friction
to speak of, as
stated. 7 h e
direction of the
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How long did it take you to Cross the
ocean," asked Gus De Smith of very aris.
tocratic lady just returned from Europe.
II was seven days on the water"
Seven days! Why, when my brother
went across it took him eight days."
Probably your brother went over in the
Storage. was a first cabin passenger"
she replied, proudly.-Texas SHtngs.
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The hat of DR.. Richmond, Of st. Joe, was
found on the river bank near the depot, but
the doctor is stin missing.
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SAM said master to sleepy headed
apprentice, "have you ever seen q suaiisn
" Yes, SIR Then You must have met it,
" Y. LEDGER
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support himself and not worth a cent in
the world to take ring which he pur-
chased by money stolen from his grand
mothers cupboard and put it on the finger
OF the bride, saying.
With this ring thee wed and with all INV
worldly goods thee endow
1t is amazing to see how some women
VIII marry men knowing nothing about
them. No merchant or merchantess would
sell hundred dollars worth of
goods on credit without knowing
whether the customer was worthy
OF being trusted. No man or woman would
buy house with Membranes of mort
cages and liens, and judgments against it
uncanceled; and yet there is not an hour
OF the day or night for the last ten wears
there have not been women, by hasty mar
rage, intrusting their earthly happiness to
men about whose honesty they knew moth
ing, or who are incumbered with liens and
Judgments, and first mortgages, and Sec
ond mortgages, and third mortgages of
evil habits. No wonder that in such cir.
cumstances parents, in coniugatinc the
verb In question, pass from the subiunc-
i've mood to the Indicative, and from the
indicative to the imperative. In nearly
aII the cases of escapades that you win
hear OF the rest of your lives there viii be
headiong leap over the barriers Of pa
rental common sense and forethought.