Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-03-26
Things In General.

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California produced 100000 boxes
OF raisins last year.
About 10000 copies of Haw-
thorne's ''Scarlet Letter" have been
issued.
The Pennsylvania superintendent Of
public instruction sadly admits that
there are $4,000 children in that
state not attending school, and grow
ing up in ignorance.
The Bell Telephone company raked
III 100000 in New York city last
year, on an Investment of 5000, 900.
The production OF copper in 1885
showed considerable increase over
that Of the year1s84, while the price
Of the product shows a considerably
decrease.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage ex-
presses the opinion that he who has
no reason for his matrimonial choice
except pretty face ''is like a man
who should buy farm for the dahlias
in the dooryard." Moreover, ''there
are times when the .plainest wife is a
queen of beauty"
The fair Vassar students are going
in for physical culture, and the alum
mace have already raised ST., 900 to-
ward fund OF $50, 900, which is to be
devoted to the organization OF an ath-
letic department.
Lucifer matches were invented by
Godfrey Hanckurtz, of London, Eng,
in 1880. Friction matches were in.
vented in 1929 by John Walker, g.
chemist at Stockton-upon-Tees, Eng.
The United States Capitol extends
seven hundred and tifty.one feet, four
inches in length; the greatest breadth,
including the steps OF the extensions
is three hundred and twenty-four feet.
The whole covers AN area of three and
a half acres, or 1853, ll2 square feet.
Its cost to 1879 was about $l3,OOO,-
900.
The disappearance of river is
noted in California as one of the re-.
suits OF the recent great storm. The
stream was known as the Clearwater,
and it flowed out Of San Gorgonio pass.
1t is explained that so much rock and
earth was washed into the channel
that the waters were driven out upon
the Colorado desert to be lost in the
sand.
"Shorter hours" says Wade's Fibre
and Fabric, ''mean more machinery"
Shorter hours also mean shorter wag-
Is. The advantage to be gained for
workingmen lies in the direction of bet
| ter health, a leisure that may be wise
| ~ improved, and, in handiwork that
cannot be supplemented by machine
work, better division oflabor among
persons willing to earn their bread ii
they have the chance.
A member OF the faculty OF one Of
the 40 medical schools in the United
States says there are 100000 prac.
titioners, that the profession is "al-
ready crowded." and ! 900 students
! now lifting themselves to press into
It's walks; that there is "a doctor to
every 1916 OF our people, and the bus
mess OF doctoring is overdone" And
he frankly adds the suggestive state
ment that 'fnedicine is for the most
part harmless stuff, else would the
American people be already threatened
with determination"
The PRECEDENT is allowed a salary OF
$4,000 year, payable monthly, and
"the Use of the furniture and other ef-
fects belonging to the United States
and kept in the Executive Mansion. "
He is also authorized to employ in his
official household a. private secretary,
an assistant secretary, two executive
clerks, a steward and q messenger,
whose salaries are paid by the Gov
eminent: The diving expenses" OF
the President are paid from his own
pocket.
Harper's Bazaar is afraid that the
American girl is spoiled by too much
chivalry. She forgets to be po-
lite and deferential, and disregards
well-meant attentions, because she
looks upon them as a right rather
than a matter OF courtesy. 'Certain
women think that they establish indie
pendence by abolishing good manners
and by ignoring refinement, gentleness
and elegance" Men despise that sort
Of independence, and are apt to put q
check upon their chivalry when they
witness it.