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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01

The Spellbinders, club composed
of speakers who worked under the ma
,ional Republican committee during
the campaign, will participate i'll Il
banquet in Washington on Saturday
evening. The name Of the club was
coined by Chauncey NJ. Depew, its
president.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01

Gov. Merriam has made many posi-
tive moves since his Inauguration, and
he has shown that he. will act accord
ing to his own best judgment in mat,
tiers aud take chances Of public ap,
prevail. He will be one of the hes,
governors Minnesota has ever had
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01

Senator Washburn has gone to
Washington and will take his seat in
the United States senate on Monday
next. 1t is understood that there is
not mucn political friendship between
The Minnesota senators who vii! serve
together for the next four years.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01
NO1.ICE.

! l,laAss la1ely lo,lg ht ont g. 4.
Squire and opened my Photo
graph aud jewelry business
there. Those wishing good
photographs at bottom prices
slisila slt g once and got the
rsanesa Drlices for 80 days.
watches, Clocks and JoFiery
clsaned, repaired and FOR sale.
Rrices way down. Al work
{ .arantaed satlsfactory.
j "a. E6HEY.
Artist ana Jewesey. ]. ate 81
DAst1ls. aa
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01

The earnings If the Northern Pa
cihc road, both freight and passenger,
show a most satisfactory increase each
week over the corresponding season Of
last year. The company is in most
excellent financial condition.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01

The Union League club of Mime
apolis was DESTROYS Of attending the
national league of Republican clubs
which met at Baltimore on the 2Sth
nit. but abandoned the excursion be-
cause Of failure to secure reduced
rates on railroads.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01

Jim Blame will be secretary Of
state Of this nation after Monday
next, and the United States will then
have foreign policy that will be
creditable.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01

The presidential party reached
Washington at 2:3O p. m. on Tues
day, after trip that Vas rs much Of
an ovation as the few stops made
could permit.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01
WORK u coaaRess.
The Senate.

The Senate. .t
: WAsafNaToa, Feb. "a - seuatoss
Teller and Butler wsIe Appointed to 1T.
tend the annual examinAti0n Of the ca.
diets at Tho naval academy. n !
bills authosising the sonstructisn Of
Alsna, Wis, and across the Tensas
river q Daniels Ferry, La, and for the
establishment Of . collection district at
Tampa. Fla, were severally concurrsd
In. .. ,-,f%z>~ 49,
An effort 10 cali mp the resolution 70
lating to the election cases was success
full, but it was laid aside and the senate
resumed consideration Of the sandry
civil appropriation bill: The bill was
passed. III D..
The senate then proceeded TO the con-
alteration of the agricultural Appropria-
tion bill, which WAS passed without
amendment. ~ 81. -.
The house amendments to The senate
bill for pension to the widow of Gen.
Sheridan were non-concurred il and a
conference asked. -
An attempt was made TO- can up the
election ortrages bill, but the Democrats
fiiibustered against it, and the senate at
$40 adjourned. .,.orstge..
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga number ,of
petitions were presented and refal4e6,
after which Mr.. Hoar called up the MO-
luton relative to the election outrageS ia
certain states. Mr.. Daniels, Of Virginia,
addressed the senate at length on the
subject. \
WAsHINGToN. Feb. 28.-A number Of
lSrph I'D nj
passed. The request for conference on
Sheridan, which as, amended by the
81, 500 year, was withdrawn and the
amendment concurred in.
The senate passed the house bill to d.
vide a portion Of the Sioux reservation
in Dakota; also the bill to rstify and con-
firm on agreement with the Ute Indians.
The army appropriation bill WIS then
taken up, Senator Cullom giving notice
that when it WAS disposed Of he would
call up the Oklahoma bill. At s oclock
the resolution On the death OF the late
Representative Buyues, of Missouri, vas
taken up, and sulogies were delivered by
Senators Cockrell, Ingalls, Voorhees,,
Hale. Hampton, Coke and Vest, after
which the resolutions were adopted
unanimously and the senate It 4:25 ad-
iourned. =;
WASHINGTON. Feb. a7.-The biz for
the relief Of William r. Wheaton and
Charles R. Chamberlain, Of California,
Formerly register and receiver Of the
land Office in California; for money paid
by them for clerk hire, which was vetoed
BY the president, was reported back and
passed over the veto by vote OF yeas
IS, nays 8. a number OF bridge bills
were reported from the cona4bitfee and
placed on the calendar. The, army sp-
preparation bill was then taken up aid
passed. The senate passed large mum.
Der Of minor measures and after q short
secret session adjourned.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01
FRIDAY MARCH |, 1889.
It must have been nice gang Of
Legislative clerks that would let them
selves be knocked out in one round.

The Thirteenth regiment band Of
Now York will be q leading attrac-
ton ut the Minneapolis exposition
next fall.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-03-01
TREE AGENTS WANTED!

To Sell Hardy Fruit Trees on COM
mission.
We want local agents throughout the
northwest to tell our Ironclad Fruit
Trees. No varieties sold that will not
stand the winters here, As degrees north
latitude. A general assortment of APP
pie, Cherry and Plum, Currants, Goose
berries, etc. No clapper-tongued trav-
cling agents wanted. We simply want
to pay men liberal commissions to sell
trees to amouts of $50 to 500 or more.
'mong their neighbors and townsmen.
Address, for full particulars,
EVERGREEN NURSERIES.
ErERGREEN, Door Co., Wis.
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Like to BE Humbugged.

The Chinese themselves do not be-
lieve in dissection and there is no body
snatching here. They believe that the
heart is the seat of thought, that the
soul exists in the liver, and that the
gall bladder is the seat of courage.
For this reason the gall bladders of
tigers are eaten by soldiers to inspire
them with courage. The Chinese doc
tor ranks no higher than the ordinary
skilled workman. He gets from Is to
20 cents visit, and he often takes
patients on condition that he will cure
them within certain time or no pay.
He never sees his female patients ex-
cept behind q screen, and he does not
pay second visit unless invited His
pay is called golden thanks" and the
orthodox way of sending it to him is
wrappedtin red paper. The dentists
look upon pulled teeth as trophies, and
they go about with necklaces of de-
cayed teeth about their necks or with
them strung upon strings or tied to
sticks. Toothache is supposed to come
from worm in the tooth, and there
are set of female doctors who make
business of extracting these worms
When the nerve is exposed they take
this out and call it the worm, and when
not they use slight of-hand by which
they make their patients believe GER
tain worms, which they show them,
came from their teeth. [ have heard
persons tell of Cinnamon who claimed
to have had ten worms taken from their
mouths in a single day, and I saw
woman actually at work upon patient
in the street here. China is as full of
superstition as the West India islands,
and the people like to be humbugged
quite as we'll here as we do in America.
PRANK G. Carpenters letter from
Shanghai.
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A Ten-FOOt Beard.

Hakluyt tells us of a certain Master
Killingworthe, of the court of Ivan the
Terrible, whose beard was five feet
two inches long. It is also on record
that John Mayo, the German, painter,
had a beard which swept the ground
as he walked. These hirsute growths
have hitherto been unrivaled of their
kind, but they are now put altogether
in the shade by a beard which has
reached the extravaganza length of ten
feet, and, we are assured, is still grow
ing. The owner, a certain Louis Gou-
Ion, is foreman Of ironworks at Mont
lucon, in the French department of the
Alller. He was born in the Nievre, and
at the age of u was obliged to shave.
No sooner was the razor used, however,
than whiskers, mustache, and beard
became quite unmanageable, and, not
withstanding the activity of all the
BARRIERS and the nostrums of all the
quacks in the department, soon quite
covered the waistcoat of the youthful
patriarch. Goulon is now well adj
vanced in years, and his beard, which
was originally brown, is almost white.
The silvery hairs are, however, as Wig
orous as their chestnut predecessors,
and daily increase in length Goulon
has learned to turn his monstrous ap-
pendage to practical account, and he
uses 1t as a comforter and chest pre-
server, and sometimes even as a belt.
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FrOst.PrOOf Flowers.

1t is possible, even in our northern
tier of States, to have out-of-door bios
SONS from April to November, by prop
er selection of varieties; but how few
there are among the multitude of flower
lovers in them that can attain such
desirable condition of things. There
are so many that must and will have
flowers Of some kind, that have to do
the best they can with the varieties
that drift into their possession; and
after they have nursed their petted
darlings into blossoming freely, how
often they sigh, some early fall morn
ing, to find them all blackened by the
frosty breath of single night, in spite
OF the most careful covering.
Rufus Choate once said, speaking of
New England's climatic variations,
that they were sure of ninety days
corn weather." so we of the Northern
States are of our blooming season; but
most flower cultivators find it all too
brief, for without special advantages
but few can get their ANIMALS and bed
ding-plants to blooming freely before
the middle of July; and we all know to
our sorrow how often there are frosty
nights in the middle of September
Experience is a good teacher" if q
dear one; it often takes many, failures
and hard knocks to get any kind of an
idea into our heads; this occurred to
me this fall, after all the hard frosts
and firts Of snow way into October,
while looking at my fower-beds. For
the pink and purple verbenas, petunias,
red catch-fy, sweet alyssum, pansies,
and double chamomile were blooming
as brightly as if they had not been froz-
en- stiff so many times; and even the
first of November, one of the neighbors
had bed of purple ten weeks stocks
as brilliant as if summer skies were
smiling over them. While looking at
them the idea struck me very forcibly
that by planting such hardy varieties
the blooming season might be extended
month or more, which would be quite
a consideration to fower-lovers. We
should find it hard to give up all our
tender beauties, and do not grudge them
their care; but the varieties named are
beautiful enough at any season to salts
fly most people; proven frost-proof quail
tiles are a strong item in their favor.
Of course, to have nice-looking bed
in the fall all the varieties in it should
be frost-proof, and to keep them in a
blooming condition the withered flowers
may be clipped during summer; but
few minutes use of the scissors once q
week will be sufficient for that.-Port-
land TRANSCRIPT.
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him to high pile of dry leaves under the

him to high pile Of dry leaves under the
elm trees.
What can be the matter?' exclaimed the
peasant woman.
Father! mother! do come here! O. come
, and see!' called little Anna Maria. and an
instant later all the children circled around
the pile of leaves, their faces e PRESSING
the greatest establishment.
CONF. let us see what it is urged the
wife.
20. besh! It can be nothing very much
dead mole. hedgehog. or something OF
that sort" replied the peasant. slowly ris-
ing and preparing to follow her.
A few moments later they had reached
the spot. The sight which here presented
| itself threw them into CONSERVATION. In
the center of the pile lay lovely little
child. perhaps nine months old, wrapped in
an old gray wooden shawl. The old man S
face looked like marble as he gazed at the
child. and Anna M;slia was on her knees
kissing and stroking the little thing, while
the Oldest boy in his roguish way called,
| oh. good! Good old father Claudius has
found a living Easter egg-a nice living
Easter egg!"
Very true" said the peasant; and now
the question is. who found it?"
For shame!" said his wife, THE first
thing is to revive the little frozen body"
And taking the little thing into her arms,
she baGe them all follow her into the house.
There she quickly undressed it and began
to rub the little limbs with coarse flannel.
and from time to time she wet the dainty
lips with some spirits. Soon the little
fingers began to move, it opened it's eyes.
and before the children had time to express
their JOY by 1T lives! it lives!" it joined the
chorus by a loud cry.
Get me some warm milk, quck!" said
the mother.
Anna Maria was the first to obey the COM
C1an1i1C 10 n ri
fed skeleton. A few minutes music and
then the voice was hushed by long draughts
of warm milk.
Husband, will you go to the attic and
fetch the box packed with our baby's gar
ments?"
everything needed to clothe the little found
ling, even to the little socks. After it had
had its warm bath and was dressed, it went
sound asleep again.
johnny will you lend baby your crib to
sleep in?"
"Es-es." stammered the little boy.
But. mamma, the baby does not belong to
us; Father Claudius found it and ought to
take it home" remarked the eldest.
You are right, my boy" said the father.
Father Claudius, you will take the child
and care for it WE'LL"
The dickens What can do with the
thing? l have no woman to take care of it. y
What difference does that make? You
have nothing to occupy your time; you need
some employment; it will do you good"
20 fudge! [ have plenty to do without
taking care of babies. Your girl leased me
into the garden. and you have as much right
to it as |. say, add it to your stock; I'll
let you have it for nothing.
The impudence of this speech aroused
the wife's temper. Like flash she jumped
to her feet and, with the child in her arms,
confronted the old man, saying:
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We'll, to be sure! What an awkward. stu
pid man you are! Fortunately. brought
another portion, for that which gave you
is wasted"
Then she gave him lesson in nursing the
child. She repeated her visits every day.
and trained hir' SO we'll that he not only be-
came attached to his ward but also his
business
AS the child grew to the cunning age
when it could say Grandpa, grandpa" it
brought back to him all the scenes of his
married lie, and it was only then that he
realized that blessings often come in dis
guise. and that God does not always punish
according to our transgressions.
He could not bear the child out of his
sight moment. AS she grew up to girl
hood he begrudged even the hours she had
to spend at school. But against his ow
wish he was destined to become grand
father and great grandfather, and had the
pleasure of seeing his name established for
generations to come.
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Oil on Troubled Waters.

The army and Macy Journal prints
a letter from naval officer, who sug-
gest that the ancients who knew the
value of oiling troubled waters learned
this method from observing the sea
birds. All fsh-eating birds, cape
pigeons, petrels, and the like, elected
oil from the mouth when captured. In
the south Atlantic and south Pacific
the writer had Witnessed sea birds float
ing in spaces of comparatively quiet
water when the sea around was rough.
The unusual smoothness of the water
was evidently due to considerable guam
titles of oil deposited by the birds.
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Carl PretZePs Philosophy.

Yoost gift cord of good hickory-nut
wood to der poor, und when you vas
gone to dot Borneo abofe you will find
yourself out dot it has been recorded
dhere also.
You can gadder crops of wild oats"
yoost so good in der gas light as eny
odder man.
Diem shpirds abofe ockuby dheir
times in readin Obituary nodices.
Diem shpirits below vas set EN- ub.
Dond nefer shteal, or you got der
shmel of brimshtone about your pan
dyloons poorly gwick.
Some mems may always been around,
but obey vas nefer shgware
Der reason Why der boys dond got
der mitten- SO much now, vas because
der gals dond can knit Sunday Ma
tiOnnl.
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in the house all winter rushed outdoors
and rummaged under the branches of all the
bushes and in the tall grasses.
Easter that year had fallen unusually late:
therefore the gardens and fields displayed
tho colors of spring.
The leaves of the gooseberry and currant
bushes began to peep out and warm them
selves in the rays Of the April sun. Apple
and plumb trees were arraved in their
white and rosy bloom. The lilies of the
valley opened by thousands their tender
white calyx and the lark thrilled a joyful
resurrection song.
Il found it." triumphantly called a voice
from the corner Of the garden. and the
youngest girl, with beaming countenance,
crepU from under the gooseberry bush, in
the thick branches of which she had dis
covered a bright, speckled Easter egg. Her
older brother, whose seerch had been re-
Warded only by an empty bird S nest. called,
Yes, yes. | have found two. no, three; yes.
one under the bush, and, hurrah! there I
see two behind the dog house"
Then the other little girl cried: See this
beautiful blue egg. 1 found it in the elder
arbor."
Only the youngest of the boys stood with
sad face. just ready to cry; his large black
eyes staring into the sky, his little empty
hands folded behind him. He said plaint-
lively: Hans finds nothing and can see
nothing"
Because Hans does not seek earnestly"
said the youngest girl taking him gently
by the hand. Come with me; I will help
you hunt"
She led him away back of the garden,
where the old willow trees bounded the
meadow. Meanwhile the peasant woman.
taking her knitting. seated herself on the
old log before the house, watching the
merry play of her children.
Her husband. muscular built man in
the prime of life, his meerschaum pipe in his
mouth, dressed in his Sunday coat with
gilt buttons, made fine appearance as he
stepped out of the front door, seating him
self at his wife's side, who greeted him with
a hearty Well, you have come just right
Lit does our heartgood to see the merriment
of our children; they seem to complete the
scene of nature on this beautiful Easter
day."
Yes" he responded, nature is wonder
full and mysterious! 1t is incomprehensible
to me how the sunbeams can bring forth
the buds and flowers and clothe the fields
in living. green" And after pause he
added: And yet there are many people
who never admire nature and quarrel with
fate, even when all around them is bright
and Joyous"
You must have met Claudius, and he has
vexed you" remarked his wife.
The man nodded. 1T always seems as if
somebody stabbed me whenever meet that
man. with his gloomy countenance and his
eyes cast down. He just came sneaking
along like d shrveled-up mole that can not
endure the light"
We'll, every one has his troubles, and
perhaps his burden is unusually heavy"
said she.
The peasant putting his pipe, replied:
No doubt. but he owes the most of his
misfortune to his own imprudence, and he
has to blame himself for having to live a
lonely and embittered life"
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NEW POSTMASTERS.
A Big Batch of Appointments Made by
President Harrison.


The President has appointed the following
named POstnasters:
julius A. Rummel at Mauch Chunk, Pa, vice
j. L. Stedman, nominated Dec. II, 1885, but not
confirmed
Sidney A. Breeze at Cottonwood Falls. Kan
vice Miss Luella P. Paugh, office becoming Pres
idential.
Oliver P Brown, at Camden, Ohio, vice a.
Perce, appointed Jan. II, 1889, but not COR
tirned.
Albert M. Brooks, at Seattle. w T., vice John
M. Lyon, removed.
James C. HARDWOOD, at Clarion, Iowa, vice 81
W. Summers, nominated Jan. II 1889, but not
confirmed.
Egerton B. Williams, at Ironwood, Mich, vice
George F. Kelly, nominated JAM 9, 1889, but not.
confirmed.
James c. Rodgers, at Eldorado, Kan. vice.
Thomas P. Fulton, resigned.
Andrew GaEoraith, at Toulon, III, vice ]. X
Knoxhall resigned.
Clarence A. Murray, at Waukegan, IN, vice
James Moran, Jr., resigned
Henry Lorans, at Clarinda, Iowa. vice II. c.!
Ridenour, commission expired.
James FL. Merrill, at haywood Ill, vice
Samuel G. S. Kemp, nominated Dec. IL, 1888.
but not confirmed.
Harrison Barden, a. Char1evoix, Mich, vice
Charles j. Strang, removed.
Walter w. Lindley, at UrEala, ILL., vice s. B.
Radebaugh, removed.
Almon S. Palmer, at Orargs, H., vice Joseph
Brelsford, removed.
John j. Spalding, at Towanda, Pa, v7c8
Elijah A. Parsons, removed.
William F. Harpster, at HoutsdaIe, Pa, yies
George w. Dickey, resigned.
Alonzo E. Raynes, at Yreka, Cal, vice Elisha.
De Witt, resigned.
Eli Werhalt at Wadsworth, Ohio, vice g. F.
Sonnanstein, nominated Jan. 9, 1889, but not
confirmed.
Ambrose Bray at Central City, Col, vics
Palemon Wiley, commission expired
Augustus E. HAPPIER, at Pawnee City, Neb..
vice O. A. j. Moss, resigned.
Peter K. Bonebrake at Knoxville, Iowa, yiea
j. n. Davis, removed.
Joshua A. Pike, at Florence Kan, vice AZ
phoEse Bicket, nominated Dec II, 1881 but nos
confirmed.
Augustus S. Smith, a. MarysvIIBe, Cal, yica
Thomas Farrell, removed.
Lyman G. Wilcox a5 Bay City, Mich, VICE.
George Washington, removed.
Alexander Cameron, a. Madison, D. T., yico
j. j. Fitzgerald, nominated Dee IT, 1888, but not
confirmed.
Joseph W. Hostetter, at Orville, Ohio, reap.
pointt d.
Abraham Andrew, at Watseka, ILL.,, vlco WIZ
lam II. Harris removed.
Carl L. Peterson, at Livingston, H. T. EIce .
John S. Setuff, resigned
Charles w. Dawson, at New RieMEaeE6 Ohio
vice John W. Davis, nominated Jan. Ii, 1880
but not confirmed.
John L. Hudiburg at Knoxville, Tam, VICE.
James M. King, resigned
John Poole a. Redwood City Cali vice Louis
jackson, nominated Jan. 3d. 1850, but not con-
frmed.
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One of the CuriOsities of Paris.

To the curiosities of Paris belongs a
placard on the wooden shutter of a
bakers shop in the Rue de Rennes. It
was posted in 1871 at the time of the
commune, and exhorts the soldiers of
the Versailles army on their return to
Paris to throw their guns away and to
come and sit down at the hospitable
hearth of the communists. The shut
ter being only put up for few hours
during the night it has never been
taken down, and the rain has only eff
faced few words of the interesting
document.
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Easter Customs.

HE sacred festival of
Easter has been appro-
priately term ed tn e
queen of festivals" It
has been observed from
the foundation of the
Christian religion. and is
celebrated in every part
of the Christian world
with great solemnity and
devotion.
The flower decorations
of the koman, of the Eng
fish, and of the American
churches on Easter Day
excel those of any other
nation; but the home
amusement of preparing