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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-05
TYpe- Writing.

The typewriter is generally supposed
to be machine ofsrecent invention, but
it really dates as far back as l714. One
Henry Mill obtained in that year IN
England q patent for . device that would
write in printed characters, one at .
time and one after the other" There
is no description Of his device to be ha1
now, but it is no doubt true that Mills
invention was the parent OF the present
typewriter. The idea seems to have
lain dormant for over one hundred
years, when it was taken up again by
various inventors, who sought at sun
dry times to embody it in machine
that would work satisfactorily, but ap-
parently without success until 1867.
when a firm in Milwaukee made type
writer that was actually used.
To such perfection has the machine
been brought, that even the most de-
tailed and intricate statements. contain
ing column after column of figures, can
be readily made with it, and in neat
and business-like form that is impossible
with the pen of the average writer. Its
use has opened field for women who
have to earn their living that never ex-
listed before. They are naturally expert
and skillful in using the fingers, and
they readily learn to use the typewriter
with great speed. A number of schools
have added it to their regular course,
and the young men who learn to use it,
find it far easier to obtain situations.
Charles Reade said: II advise parents
to have their boys and girls taught
shorthand writing and type-wrttng.
The shorthand writer who can type
write his notes, is safer from poverty
than a great Greek Scholar
DR.. Brudenell Carter, the famous eve
surgeon of London, when here visiting
the centennial, bought every American
invention that he thought would be OF
use to him, and among them q type
writer. In a treatise of his on the eve
and how to preserve it, published not
long since, he gives cut of type
writer, and advises all persons who are
':near-sighted'' to use it.
The speed with which an expert o|,or-
ator can rattle off words and sentences,
is wonderful to one who has never tried
to use the machine. The fingers play
with a swift and ceascless motion over
the keys, accompanied by the nlonoto
nous "rat~tat" of the machine, and
sheet after sheet of neatly-writtcn NAH
uscript is taken from the roller, from
two to three times as fast as the average
penman can produce it. Few people
write with a pen faster than twenty
or thirty words a minute: an expert viii
bring out Of the typewriter fifty to
lightly words in minute. What. then,
must be the value of clerk who is an
expert at both shorthand and type
writing?- Chicago Times.
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Authority on Eggs,

Little b Tommy Curtis. years old,
lives in the suburbs Of Madison, Wis,
and his mamma keeps chickens. The
other. day, in order to show what he
could do, ito q room full OF company, he
ransacked the hens nests, securing two
eggs, one Of ordinary size and the other
extremely large With an air Of inn
.portance he marched into the room and
exhibited the result Of his proves.
Dear me, = said ) lady, what an as
to y d y large egg Tommy, what
kind ola hen was it that laid this one?''
5, 81 want no hen. said Tommy, an
horitatively That's = rostoer's egg
Detroit Free Press.
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Married a Board of Trade Man.

Married a Board Of Trade Man.
A young woman with tightly pressed
lips and cleaning eye sat upright in
one of the seats of West-bound train.
She appeared to be mad, and the other
passengers eyed her curiously: Pres
emily near-sighted man came along,
sat down beside her, and, after awhile,
began with:
'Got far to go?"
Eyes. too far,'' snapped the young
woman with the cleaning eyes,, But
the near-sighted man returned to the
attack with:
"Been up to Chicago?'
Eyes, I've been up to Chicago"
"Visiting friends, I suppose?'
''No, on business
"Married?'
Eyes, l am.''
"And where is your husband?'
"Chicago.'
whats his business9''
His business is none of your bust
ness, you lmpcrtlnenC 0ude. But when
he came down to our place, putting on
style, and sparkling me, he said he was
Board of Trade man. Yesterday 1
went up to Chicago and called at his Of
fce."
Then he's Board of Trade man, is
he?'
Yes, he's one of the janitors. I'd
like to skin him, the wretch. But what
is this to you, I'd like to know?'
''Ah, excuse me; here is my card.
Should be happy to serve you. I'm a
lawyer on Clark street, and my special
ty is divorces. Laughing gas admins
tered, and alimony extracted without
pain. Call and see me. y Chicago Her.
Md
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A Continued Story.

"Tis twilight, and the purple haze''-
CIT cetcra, as tits in stories)
Zone of those perfect autumn days''--
''Departing rays Of sunlight glories."
A maiden, blonde-you understand
A hcro-sec some novels text;
He draws her closer to him, and.
To be continued in our next.
They gaze into each other eyes,
While he proceeds to grasp her firmey,
hey breathe the customary signs,
The broo!let purls its usual murmur.
The youth rcnews his grip again.
She does not seem at all perplexcd;
He holds her close once more, and then
To be continued in our next.
The twilight deepens soft and slow,
But still they lingcr there together
The kline screnely homeward go,
The perlumed air is filled with weather.
The question then he pops to her;
No need to say she is not vexed.
She answers softly, II should purr''-
To be continued in our next.
THE Rambler
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The Ethics Of CARPENTRY.

''Well, you're rather descent-look-
ing man to be here on a drunk said
Justice Duffy to gray-haired Isaac Par
ker, who stood at the bar. ''What's
your trade?''
I'm a carpenter, Your Honor"
:Let me look at your hands. They
don't look big enough for man that
handles tools. Where did you serve
your time?'
"In Yonkers."
''Then you're d country carpenter,
and can work anything in wood. What
is a mortice-plane?''
''1t's to make dovetails and tongues
and grooves.
"'Do you use one'"
ono"
why don't you, if you are carpen-
ter?''
Nobody does now. Machinery does
it cheaper
Right. 'Now, I own two houses,
and may need a carpenter to do some
work there. If l sent for you what
tools would you take with you? What
is a kit of tools?''
THAT depends on what is to be
DONE"
Eyes. Now. what kind of plane
would you take?''
"A smoothing plane.''
II wouldn't. I'd take a jack plane
''That's where I'm better carpenter
than you, Judge. / can Jack with
smoothing plane.'
well, Mr.. Clerk, if he can do that
write him oft discharge and lit him
90. "-Nea0 York World. ...
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A Mothers Love.

Where the autumn sun is shining,
Through leafy maze o'erhead,
There lassie sits repining:
All the Joy within her dead.
1t is but the old, old story
OF a lover proved untrue,
Yet life seems to lose its glory
All its hopeful roseate hue.
Then, with patient. sweet endeavor,
Lovingly her mother tries
To dismiss despair forever
Chase the sorrow from her eyes,
And the tender words, revealing
All the unspoken love of years,
Wake newer, holier feeling,
Bring the priceless gift of tears.
Well may hearts cease all repining,
In mothers love secure;
Love that needs no tire's refining,
Ever watchful, ever sure!
Love that's like pure stream yelling
From a heaven-fcd mountain crest!
Love all earthly love cxcelling-
Love the truest and the best
e. 1Featherlg
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The Elocutionist.

She was making a very favorable i'm
preston, and as she neared the end she
prepared to wind up with flourish on
the final line .@s. .s.- .5 4.
-tsThy lover lives, curfew shall not ring to-
night .#4z ~. S.
But the cursed ALTERATION .'queercd'''
her, and, as might be expected, she
said, in a voice that quivered with emo
ton: u. /. =ss5# s5.S
'.1'f.y liver loves. curicw shall not ring to-
5z5z n;D;,t-ii 81 2 5Es5zes#s E.5sEs
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Powerful Liquor.

Powerful Liquor.
General George A. Sheridan, whose
career in Indiana I mentioned briefly
last week, is one of the most entertain
ing conversationalists in the country.
1 met him up town the other night when
he was discussing intoxicants. Said he:
1T is a singular state of affairs that
there is no nation on the face of the
globe, so far as known, that has not an
intoxicant of some kind. had curiosity
once to go into an investigation of that
question in very thorough way, and
my statement is the result of very care
full study. The Indians, before we be-
gan to furnish them with fre-water,
knew Of plant from which they made
drink that was Intoxicating. 1t had
bulb in the center at the root and long
leaves from which the sap concentrated
in the bulb. 1t was then expressed from
the bulb and drank. The natives in
Louisiana as far back as 1880 raised
sugar plant from which they expressed
the juices and made sugar and from that
a sweet rum. The Mexicans have re-
markable drink. 1t is made from a
plant that grows in the country. They
skin a pig and tie up the hide at the
ends. They fill it with the juice from
this plant and then sew up the belly and
let it ferment. 1t makes delicious
beverage. You might drink a gallon
Of it at night without feeling more than
a momentary exhilaration. But when
you woke up the next morning you
would be more gloriously drunk than
ever before in your life, and it would
take forty-eight hours or so to get over
it.-GQth, in Men, York Tribune.
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Close Living,

II Berlin no less than so, 800 families.
comprising nearly 400, 600 individuals,
have 70 live, sleep, and often work, in
'.s''ltes Of = single room. IN 5000 Of
these rooms there. is neither stove 81 s.,
ir ep B. $50 : = !.
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GRAINS Or GOLD.

Method is the very hinge 81 business.
and thcre is no method without punctu-
atty. Cecil. '5.. z 81
A little praise is good for shy tenn
per; it teaches us to rely on kindness Of
others. =, <.< a.
Whatever you would have your chill
dren to become, strive to exhibit in your
own lives and conversation. Mrs. Sig
Quincy. ...-se. M .. ,-.:-..r.' 49,. =.
He that blows the Goals in quarrels he
has nothing to do with, has no right to
complain if the sparks fly in his face
Franklin.
IT'S an i'll thing to be ashamed of
ones poverty; but much worse . not to-
make use of lawful endeavors to avoid
it.-Thucydides. ~
Good nature and evenness of temper
will give you an easy companion for
life; virtue and good sense an agree
able friend; love and oonstancy good
wife or husband.-Spectator. j
The best rules to form a young man
are to talk little, to hear much, to re-
fleet alone upon what has passed in
company, to distrust ones own opin-
ions and value others that deserve it.
Sir ". Temple.
Retribution is one of the grandest
principles of the divine administration
of human affairs; requital is impercep-
tible only to the willfully unobservant.
There is everywhere the working of the
everlasting law of requital; man al
ways gets as he lives.-J. Easter.
Try to be something in this world and
you will be something. Aim at excel
lence, and excellence will be attained.
This is the greatest secret of success and
eminence. Il can not do it, never &C.
complished anything. Il will try" has
wrought wonders.-Hawes.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-05

stream may be gently warmed by flow
| ing over some object exposed to the
heat Of tho fire. For instance, we
might lead it round the wainscoting in
q suitable channel furl- ished with nu-
merous small pcrforations. or under
the floor and through the carpet; or,
again, to secure greater warmth, it
might be discharged onto the warm sur
faces near the fire. In this way con-
siderable body of air may be warmed
without the use of any special apparac
tus, the principle being to distribute it
over large surface slightly heated, and
the accomplishment of this may be aided
by fringes and curtains, or by anything
that will break the currents up and dis
perse them about the room. As long
as no large body of cold air is moving
in any one direction draughts will not
be felt, and to moderate the general
flow toward the fireplace we may pro-
vide the fire with q separate pipe for
its exclusive use, either communicating
with the outside of bringing the bad
air from the neighborhood of the cell
ing. 1t would be desirable also to pro-
vide some means of filtering the air be-
fore allowing it to enter the room.
Thus warming and complete ventila-
ton OF a room are by no means antag-
onlstic operations. The two great
points to be attended to are, to warm
the walls and windows SO that they may
not abstract heat by radiation, and to
provide an officially recognized entrance
for fresh air, and so to dispense it as it
comes in that it may be sufficiently
warmed by contact with objects in the
room, and may thoroughly change the
atmosphere of the apartment without
manifesting it's presence in the shape
of draughts.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-05

No Reason for Metempsychosis
Two philosophers:
''See her. believe in meten>psy-
Ghosts. I am convinced that after my
death my soul win inhabit the body of q
beast
on needn't die for that
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-05

Coatesville, Pa, claims to have coioreo
man, James Graves, 10 years old.
The false friend is always like the shadow Of
sun dial &s st&H#
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-01-29
Gates OF Happiness.

All men and women should rejoice
TO remain part child all through life,
however long it's co arse may run.
The games, the dance, the anecdote,
the assembly of friends, the feast, are
as much part OF humanity as its
natural power to laugh or to perceive
the points of wit. Amusement is one
of the forms OF human happiness.
This happiness, like old Thebes, has
q hundred gates for it's coming and
going-the gate oftea's, for man weeps
when he is happy, amid music or in
revisiting his mothers home, the gate
of pensiveness, for he is happy when
he reads "Gray's Elegy'' or walks in
the rustling autumn leaves; the gate
of admiration, for man is happy amid
the beauty of nature and of art; the
gate of friendship, when heart finds
its companion heart; the gate ofhope,
for man is happy when the coming
days are pictured with these angel fig
ures of expectation. Ofthese hundred
gates OF happiness amusement makes
unexplained by the Builder OF human
life. 1t must open before us and we
may all pass in and out as long as
the heart shall remain unbroken by
death or grief.-Rev. David Swing.
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London as a Social Forest.

London is a large social forest, marked
everywhere by the rich, struggling free
dom, unregulated variety, and indein-
tie limit which distinguish forest from
an artificial garden or q walled orchard.
And, like a great forest also, it has not
a few free green places scattered here
and there, to let in the light and give
currency to the breezes, while the long
lines of streets which we have mentioned
are like the green walks through for
est, which enable the woodman to use
his ak freel y, and to transport the fruits
of his labor with ease and expedition to
their proper destiny.
The opposite style of this rambling
character of London may be best seen
in Berlin. The magnificent capital of
Prussia~-or now, rather, of Germany
has more the aspect of a manufacture
than a growth. The streets run rank
and file, like the batalions of a great
army. They are utterly without the
freedom. the picturesqueness, and the
ever-changing diversity which is the
great charm of London-of course, we
repeat here, of London taken as whole.
There are parts and whole districts of
"
prosaic lines of streets in Berlin or
Mannheim, and as destitute of any dis
tinctive feature as a feeble curate's first
sermon, in which the skeleton of some
''preacher's help has been tricked up
into the customary proprietes Of the
pulpit. But these long rows of taste
less monotony in London are only parts,
which in other cities would make the
whole, and are, moreover, largely re-
lieved either by a grand sweep of the
adjacent parks or by those frequent
green squares OF open ground which add
a charm to the most prosaic architecture
of town, similar to that conferred by
the bending river on the monotony of a
wide champaign. AS to England gen.
orally, the presence of this fresh and
fragrant green-not in strips only acre
and there, but everywhere, in large, in
terminable sweepstakes charm to
the landscape with which neither Italy
nor Germany nor any fairest continent
tai country can vie, SO in London the
glory Of green trees, wildly fresh amid
the dizziness of old bricky courts, and
beneath the pail of frequently cloudy
sky, brings the memory, so to speak,
and certain af1atus OF the country into
the town just as the arms of the sea on
the west of the Highlands run with
graceful willfulness up to the root of
the bens,, bringing the strong breath of
ocean along with them. This strange
and unexpected combination of contrary
things fills the eye with changes of
pleasurabie surprise.
A great contribution to this delight
full internixture of town and country
is formed by what was. once the suburbs
of London, but what are now essential
parts Of the city; for it is rule, with
few exceptions, that men who do bust
ness in the city proper--that is, the dis
trict of which St. Paul's is the center.
with the Tower and the Strand as the
two wings reside not in the city, but
decamp regularly. about 4 or clock
into those comparatively open circum-
jacent districts which are either separ-
ate small towns or open green COM
mons surrounded with villas. - Casselps
Family Nag azine. IF, .... -..
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-01-29

Four score years and ten have not seen
the equal OF Ely's Cream Balm as a remedy
for Cat arrh, Colds in the Head, and Hay
once, and permanent benefit. A thorough
treatment cures the worst cases. Apply
with the finger into the nostrils. Price 80
cents at druggists. 60 cents by mail. Ely
Bros, Owego. N. Y.
For all forms OF nasal catarrh where
there is dryness OF the air passage with
what is commonly called "stufiing up" es-
pecially when going to bed Ety's Cream
Balm gives perfect and immediate relief
It's benefit to me has been priceless.-A. G..
Chase, NJ. D., Wildwood, Kansas.
/ have used one bottle OF Ely's Cream
Balm and it is the best remedy have
Found for catarrh in fifteen years ". G.
Babbage, Attorney, Hardinsburg, Ky.
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.lM,lAvERIC KITTENS.

New way to pay Old debts: Run new.
ones. 5s{ b. i.
Everything is adulterated nowadays.
4 a San Francisco man bought cork.
leg, and afterwards ascertained that it
was made of paper. + 5#5..@ &. II
"A San Francisco minister found a.
slice Of dried tongue lying beside the
bible last Sunday when he entered his
pulpit. He took the hint. i. .s
II you would hit a, roller-skater with
a barrel stave one half as hard as he
hits himself when he sits down uninvit-*
ed, he would have you arrested for
assault. .
A Kentuckian has recently patented
gin-saw. We don't know what GIN
saw is used for, but suppose it is intend
ed to saw off his breath. Bet he'll.
break every tooth out of it if he uses it
for that purpose.
a Tucson, Arazona, man, while pray
ing the other day was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. Sorry to
hear that he was killed. There is
certain somethingness," as Oscar
Wilde would say, in knowing that there
was at least one man in Arizona who
prayed.
''Oh, Miss McSwelter,'' said little
Lodi school boy to his teacher, II
heard pa talking to Mr.: Jones about
you."
''Indeed!'' replied the teacher, archly,
"What did he say?"
''He said you were the hardest work
ing teacher he ever saw"
"And what did Mr.. Jones say?" she
asked, pleasantly.
Gle said you didn't know anything,
and had to study hard to keep from
forgetting it.
Last Monday when it was raining vio-
land. While on the ferryboat Charley
MCCARTHY remarked that it had been a
cold, wet rain all the week.
Young Oakdude, who had been SIP
ping ginger pop, thought he would be
smart, and asked Mac if he had ever
heard of a hot dry rain.
II did," responded Charley. THE
good book tells us that a rain Of fire and
birthstone fell upon Sodom and
Gonorah. -
''How much for these oysters?" quer-
ried an eastern man, as he stepped to
the cashiers desk in an oyster house on
Market street.
''Six bits.' So
eyes, you struck it; six bits, and
mighty small bits they are! You ought
to get some Providence river oysters
out here"
Il mean the price is six bits, seventy
five cents.'
"Oh, the devil!"-Cal;fornia Mave-
ric.
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"Hope on, hope ever.' How many deli
cate ladies there are who, while they at
tend to thier daily duties, do so with ach-
ing heads, a sense OF iullness. pain in the
back and depressed spirits, who are "only
keeping about as the phrase is. Some
day they Ego into a Decline" and leave
would say, Cheer up" Timely use~of DR..
Pierce'e "Favorite Prescription" corrects
all female irregularities, weaknesses, and
kindred affections easily, pleasantly
and quickly.
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Mrs. F. Win ser. 544De Soto st., st. Paul,
Mimi, says her husband was 80 sick he
could not retain food on his stomach, ply
sicians could do him no good, at last Browns
Iron Bitters was tried, result as usual COM
plete cure. Mrs. w. says all her neighbors
when they are sick now use the medicine, hav-
ing been convinced Of it's value by Mr.. Win.
ter's recovery:
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IROlN
81 TIERS

80 5}tEe. 5t IN 4 L<x~ ~SxkAs - 3.
4 HEADACHE -.@-E
INDIGESTION +
BILIOUSNESS
DYSPEPSIA
NERVOUS PROSTRATION
MALARIA
]. CHILLS AND FEVERS 90,
TIRED FEELING -.
GENERAL DEBILITY
PAIN IN THE BACKR SIDES
IMPURE BLOOD ~.' .
CONSTIPATION +
FEMALE, INFIRMlTIES
( RHEUMATISM
I NEURALGIA
KIDNEY AND LIVER
TROUBLES
FOR sale BY ALL DRUGGISTS
., The Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed Red
Lines on wrapper.
TAKE NO OTHER.
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Try ALIENS LUNG BALsAM for coughs
and Group. 1t contains no opium in any
form. Recon- mended by physicians, min
isters and nurses. In fact by everybody
who has given it a good trial. It never
fails to bring relief. Sold at druggists.
Csc, SOC. and 81 a bottle
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-01-29

Mensman's Peptonized Beet Tonic, the only
preparation OF beef containing its ENTIRE NuTRl-
nous PROPERTIES. 1t contains blood-making
force generating and Life sustaining properties; i'll
valuable for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, nervous
prestration, and all forms OF general debility; al
SO. in all enfeebled conditions, whether + he re-
suit of exhaustion nervous prostration, over
from pulmonary complaints. CAswELI,, HAz-
ARD 8; Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by
Druggists.
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Has Mr.. Pasteur discovered Il cure for
hydrophobia? Why should he not? Greater
discoveries have been made. For instance,
Red Star Cough Cure contains no narcotics,
!s purely vegetable and yet quickly cures
the worst throat or lung trouble. Only
IS cents. -