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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-07

OF purity S1ulS SS1l$OuT SAISlAnS 0HvCAs CuAS
rcncy undisturbed. the silver dollar a legal
tender MS much as ever under the Bland
law and the government free to coin oil
the silver bullion on hand Into silver dol
lars. All the law of 1903 accomplished
was to reliepe the government from the
duty Of purchasing 100000 ounces Of SILL
yer every month
UncOined Bullion. ;.
More than two-thlrds Of the silver bullion
purchased under the Sherman law is still
uncolned In the treasury. bnt Is being
time. Seven million i've hundred thousand
four hundred and twelve dollars Of It was
coined during the SIX months ending June
50, 1906, and this IL only $500, 900 less than
our total coinage Of silver dollars prior to
1851 Up to the LIST day Of July, 1895, there
had been coined In all since the passage Of
the Bland law. In 1873, exclusive Of trade
dollars and subsidiary silver, 400, IA, 514
silver dollars, and this silver money has
not, like our silver money IN the days OF
free coinage, taken wings and left us, but
IS still with us and In circulation or In
the treasury. On the silver coined from the
LIST day Of July, 1873. till the LIST day Of
July, 1896, the selgniorage, or proht to
the government-being the difference In
value between the cost Of the bullion and
the silver dollars made therefrom--has been
81, 1887. Had there been free coinage
this profit would have gone into the pockets
Of the mine owners and the bullion dealers
and not to the government as now. On the
Lat day Of June. 1900 We had In eircula'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

Englishmen are argry over mes.
sage given by Ii Hung Chang to the
Westminster Gazette as the result OF
the experience of a few miles in an
American special train in the most lux
urious of private cars. The Niceroy
says "the Marquis Of Tweeddale and
the Duke of Devonshire and the direc-
tors of the Barrow-in-F urness railroad
told him while in England that the En-
glish railroads were faster and more
comfortable and safer than the Ameri-
can railroads, and the American trains
were full of accidents and many more
people killed by them. The Viceroy I'M
derstands that this is all kinds Of lies"
The London Chronicles comment on
this statement is: whether the Ameri-
can car or the British carriage is more
comfortable is matter of opinion, but
that the British railroads arevery much
safer, that our percentage of accidents
is very much less, and that, on the
whole, our fast trains are faster than
American ones, are facts"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17
Statues.

To the uninitiated it is always a
puzzle to know how a bronze or marble
statue is made The natural impress
sion is that the sculptor armed with
mallet and chisel. chips his conception
from a huge block of stone after mod
cling it in clay.
Such was the method of Michael An
gelo, but to-day another manner pre-
walls. The sculptor having modelled
his figure most carefully. a plaster cast
is taken. In the meantime. skilled mo
chanics have prepared block cf mar
ble
The plaster cast is placed beside this
block and used as a model, the stone
cutters copying point by point, meas
uring the cast with square, rule, and
callipers.
The cutting goes on until Il general
outline of the statue is attained, when
skilled artisan, specially trained
takes it in hand, making most faith
full copy of the model under the sculp-
tors personal superintendent and di-
rection.
When his work is completed, it only
remains for the artist to give the fin
ishing touches, a line here, an inden-
tation there, bringing the statue into
nearer realization with his conception
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

Keeping a WeathercOck.

Old Bartle was a perfect example of
the type which sees only the poorest
and meanest sides of life and society,
and one of his friends, a blacksmith
with a quaint numor, thus accounts, in
conversation with the squire Of the
English village in which both men
lived, for Bartles idiosyncrasies:
Its my belief, squire" said Samson,
"that there old chap Bartle have
a-sWallowed the east wind, and it
haven't agreed with un."
''Swallowed the east Wind?" said the
squire. 'Why so, Samson?'
why, how else could he go on as he
do? From morning to night, from one
weeks end to another, it's nothing but
grumble, fidget and growl.
First it's the dreadful accidents, the
fires and the murders; then it's the fe.
yer and riots in Ireland; the paupers,
the jails and the strikes. Everything'3
going wrong, and there's no good news
anywhere.
''Why bless e, he come into my forge
the other morning, and what's he do
UuC OSSIh IoldSlu dDouL stIIOl1E NY
tools and putting them to rights-'mak-
ing 'em tidy he says-and upsetting
things to that degree that every bit Of
fire went out of the Goals and put me
all of a cold sweat.
"'Be off, Bartlev I says at last. Get
away out into the sunshine there, and
take a good drink of that, and see if it
can't clear all them cobwebs out of
your brains' And with that squire,
away he goes out of the place like a
mad March harev'
''Well done, Samsonv' said the squire;
''well done! II he would but take your
advice, that wretched old croaker
would be different man in a month.
Now he is nothing but a nuisance to
himself and all his neighbors. Good
night, Samson. How's the wind?"
"West, sir-west to everybody in the
place but old Bartle. But he keeps his
own weathercock, he do, and it's moth
in but east-by-northeast and dirty
weather. It's pity such people was
ever born
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

wind blow. He was desperate. Bor-
rowing gum overcoat from one Of
the policemen about the police station,
he started just as a funnel-shaped
cloud was scudding along. He reached
the corner of Sixth and Jefferson
streets and was about to turn the cor
ner, when a gust of wind struck him
and lifted him off his feet He might
have been carried over to the court
house yard and drowned in the foun-
tain but for his presence of mind in
grabbing the iron railing that runs
around the steps leading down into the
basement. He chung there for a mo-
ment with the wind right in his face.
He turned his head, and as he did so
there was a sudden jerk that dislodged
his hat and fairly unraveled his neck
tie. Then there was a lull, and when
he crept back into the station-house
he made the startling discovery that
the aching tooth was gone. The wind
had pulled it. He tells the story him
self, and if it is not true Mr.. GaZzollo
has grossly deceived me.-Louisville
Commercial
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

The Y ray has taken new hold upon
public interest. and one recent Saturday
it appeared in various forms of news
items. From New York came the in
formation that Edison has demonstrate
ed beyond a doubt that the blind can
be made to see by means of the tluoro-
scope. At Salem, Mass, the Roentgen
discovery is asserted to have caused
hair to grow on 4 bald head. IL Wash
ington there is a nidn who claims to
have been terribly injured BY the ray
while subjected to its influence during
a search for bullet in some part Of
his anatomy, and from far-otf Butte,
Mont, we learn that the district court
has rejected the Y ray as evidence in
Il suit for damages. Altogether it was
a great day for the ray.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17
One Well-Mortgaced Cow.

"There are tricks in all trades but
ours" remarked the carpenter, land
we sometimes drive screws with a
hammer" A few days ago, not more
than thousand miles from Lake
County, a collector called on a farmer
for the payment of a note secured by
chattel mortgage. The farmer was
obdurate and gave no satisfaction that
he would ever pay the note. Finally
the collector said, "Well, I'll have to
take the eleven cows named in the
mortgage" ooh, no; you haven't got
a mortgage OH eleven cows on the
farm" "Why, yes, I have" And the
collector pulled out copy Of the
mortgage and read as follows: zone
red and white COW, 1 cow spotted red
and white, 1 red COW with white spots,
1 cow with white spot in forehead, l
red COW with two white hind feet, 1
white cow with red spots on side, 1
white and red cow, red cow with two
white fore feet, l white cow with red
spot on shoulders, 1 red cow with
white spot on hips, 1 white cow spot
ted with red Now, how do you like
that?" continued the collector. "Oh,
that's all right; l see you've got eleven
mortgages on my old red and white
COW; there she is down in the pasture;
the boys will go down and help you
catch her. "-Vermillion Freeman.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17
Where Do Old Pianos Go?

What becomes of the old pianos?
They seem to disappear from the world
almost as mysteriously as pins. Per-
haps, considering their size, the fact
that the streets are not blocked with
cast-off pianos is more curious than
that the face of the earth fails to be
overlaid with pins. An experienced
dealer says he has known of but three
that were cut up for firewood. Yet
they often sell for little more than so
much pine would bring. 1t is the GUS
tom of most houses to take old inst,71-
ments and allow something for them.
The deduction is counted as almost
dead loss, but it brings trade. The
Old instruments are refitted and mol
lshed up, however, and sold again-in
many instances becoming the property
OF clearinghouse keepers. BOARDING
houses are the chief refuge of second
hand pianos. Then they are sold nv
small dealers to country people all over
the land. Men that go into that branch
OF the trade can get pianos pretty
cheap, for the first-class houses some
times get so overloaded with them that
they are almost willing to pay to have
them carried away.-Boston Traveller
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17
Facts Regarding Divers.

| The dress of fully equipped diver
weighs 169h pounds, and costs about
| $500. First of all comes S1a pounds Of
| thick underclothing; then follows the
| dress itself, weighing Il pounds; boots,
30 pounds, monstrous things with lead
Ell soles; breast and back weights, 80
pounds; and lastly, the helmet, which
weighs 35 pounds. When the hull Of
the Great Eastern was cleaned by div
ers as she was being loaded with the
cable for the Indian submarine tele-
graph the contract price for the work
was FL 800, and it was completed in six
weeks by twelve divers. The incrusta-
ton on her bottom was more than a
foot thick, and after it was removed
she lifted fully two inches. The great
est depth at which diver may safely
work is $50 feet. There have been,
however rare instances of diving to 204
feet, and sustaining pressure of SS1a
pounds on every square inch on the
body Of the diver Diving was first in
cepted by the action of the elephant in
crossing a deep river, when he swims
beneath the water, elevating his trunk,
by which method he breathes. The
work Of a diver consists in recovering
lost articles, and singing them in such
manner that they can be easily haul
ed up, cleaning and coppering ships
bottoms, cleaning propellers, and COM
municating by slate and voice. When
able to work at a depth of 100 feet
diver is considered fully qualified. The
flag ships in the British navy carry
| eight divers, and the cruisers four each,
fully quipped-Strand Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

to them as friction lights" The de-
velopment Of matches to their present
perfection is an interesting subject Of
inquiry. 1t suffices to say, speaking gen.
orally, that the man who invented
matches more richly deserves mouu-
ment than all the inventors of improved
guns combined. The public recently
did honor to the man who first applied
anesthetics to relieve pain. He deserves
a monument. Likewise does the man
who invented matches deserve one.
How many lives have been saved by
the ability to produce light quickly will
never be known. The world will al
ways build memorials. That there will
yet be a fairer distribution of them
than has appeared in former days may
well be anticipated. England should
erect tall monument to John Walker
after the pattern of modern parlor
match. A device in imitation of brim-
stone at the top would hardly be appro-
pirate, however.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17
INGENIOUS HORSE THIEVES.
Nove, Manner in Which Nebraska
RAND Piled Their Trade.

| ~.r in Which Nebraska
Rand Piled Their Trade.
.vhen / was in Nebraska, near the
snake River, north Of the Great sand
IIyl IN 1885," said a Lewiston citizen,
.,uo had four camps situated about
o;ab+aen miles apart, and to go from
Thorne's camp to Dunham's camp it
-ros necessary to GO through long
,,ioce of nine woods. For number OF
months everyone who had gone through
tho woods alone never came back. one
dav II was necessary that should go
+brouph with q lot of money and no
| escort and set out on a horse that l
co+ fvom n stable keeper near Ih0rne
camn. When had nearly reached the
woods five miles out my horse was
taken i'll and foaming at the mouth and
| refused to go on. Clearly to my medlcal
ave it had been poisoned slightly by
some one. A man not so well UP IN
medicine might not have known 1t.
Soon what looked like a hunter came
along on a horse and offered to swap,
taking mine back to the stable II l
would leave him near Durham camp
with a trapper I ought to have seen
through this, but did not. got on
to the powerful horse of the stranger
and started through the five miles OF
woods. Half way through without ap-
parent reason the horse broke into a
trot, gallop and a run, and dashlng
off the trail through the woods picked
his way among trees as nicely as II he
had gone that way hundred times.
Pull as 1 would at the bride he paid no
attention, but ran the faster. When
he had leaped a brook and landed on
the sand beyond, the marks or foot
prints alarmed me and | slipped off at
the risk of my life. He ran UP ra-
vine and / hid, fearing that it was
trap, as it afterward proved. In lit
tie while three men armed with rifles
came back on the trail, one riding the
horse, now calm as lamb. | picked
my way to the road and got to the
camp. Two weeks later nineteen Of
us followed man who had hired a
horse at the same place | did | was
taken i'll and the same trapDer came
along on the same horse. When the
horse dashed into the woods, as he had
been trained to do, nineteen Of us dash
ed after him and finally arrived at q
mountain camp of the robbers. We
took every man-seven of them-and,
well. law was not well supported out
there then and no court sat nearer
than 200 miles. We didn't carry the
r@scals away from their own camp fire.
The trained horse met the fate Of it's
oWners."-LeWiston Journal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

The town Of Trilby, Fla. was named
for the heroine of Du Maurier's novel
before this became Il fad. but it is only
within the last few weeks that the town
has been laid out and its streets and
squares named for characters in the
book. The lake near by-Lake Little
Billee-has been renamed Lake Du
Maurier AT the suggestion of friend
of the manager of the railroad which
runs through the town a letter appris-
ing Mr.. Du Maurier of the name given
to the town and bearing the Trilby
postmark on the envelope was sent to
the novelist last spring. and called
forth from him a charming note of APP
probation on behalf of himself as god
father and of his heroine as godmother,
for IAN honor that does not usually fall
to the likes of Trilby O'Ferrall.'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

Following horrifying picture is from
letter in the London Times: Dongola
is in ruins; not house in it remains
whole; every building has been Quilted;
where once We're busy streets the
palms now rise above the wrecked hab-
itations, and every thoroughfare is
choked with dense underground of
thorny bushes and tall, rank grass The
great bazar, with it's covered arcades.
one of the chief marts of Africa is now
heap Of rubble. OF the public build
ings and the handsome, well-furnished
mansions of the principal merchants
the red brick walls, with gracefully
arched doors and windows, alone re-
main standing, While within them one
can still see traces of columned CORR
doris and delicate Eastern ornamental
tion Where once extended riverside
quays. swampy ground now slopes to
the Nile. The broad avenue where the
ed; the pleasant gardens of fruit trees
ana flowers have been destroyed. For
twelve years Dongola has been unin-
habited; for the Baggara declared it
to be-as the city of the unbelieving
Turks-an accused place, in which no
man should be permitted to dwell.
Those who knew the Dongola of old
find it difficult now to find their way
through the wrecked streets, and can
scarcely recognize the house in which
they formerly lived. 1t is a scene of
wanton destruction: the proverb says
that ''where the foot of the Turk has
trod. the grass does not grow" So it
is with the Baggara. He disdains to do
any work; by profession he is robber,
and destruction is his pastime; he en-
slaves where he does not kill, and in
the place of what he destroys he Gre
ates nothing. Civilization is abhor-
rent to him; after plundering and de-
stroying the city ne left the bodies of
the massacred and mutilated inhabit-
ants to rot in the streets, and went out
into the desert content to live the life
of a savage in one of the squaiid how
els of which Dervish deym, or perma-
nent camp, is composed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17
Aluminium Burial Caskets

Aluminium collins are the latest and
are of uniform width. square ends and
vertical sides. They are finished with
a heavy molding around the bottom and
at the upper edge, and with pilasters
at the corners and round nodded TOP.
Aluminium baskets are not covered. but
finished with the metallic surface bur-
nished. The noncorrosive qualities of
aluminium, as we'll as the lightness Of
the baskets, recommend them. A six
foot aluminium coffin weighs about 100
pounds. They are, however, very ex-
penSiye
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

are always smiling at the people whom
they see, it is easy to understand why
they have delighted all visitors to the
museum.
The girl, Fatmah, is 16 years old,
25.35 inches high and weighs $50
pounds. Smaun, the boy, is hardly IA
years old, about two inches shorter
and weighs about half a pound less
than his sister They were presented
to the Berlin Anthropological Society
last month by Professor Virchow and
aroused an altogether uncommon inter-
est ON the part of the scientists. 1t is
said that Professor VirchOw will soon
publish Il monograph about them. Ac-
companying the little people are their
parents--Monag Song, the father, and
Maschina, the mother-as we'll as their
brother, .lulai-en, who is II years old
and of normal size. All three are of the
truly Indo-Chinese type.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

When Sir John Sloane died years ago
IN England he left three sealed cup
boards which were to be respectively
opened in 1866, 1886 and 1896. The first
and second were found to contain valu-
able statuary and pictures for the
Sloane museum, but the third, which
was opened last week, proved to be a
testamentary joke, for the cablegram
says it had nothing in it but a lot of
valueless papers. 1t must have been a
bit of grim humor on the part of the
testator to devise such a joke on the
museum which he founded. 1t is more
likely that the contents of the cupboard
were stolen years ago or that the pa
pers are not so valueless as is supposed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

Referring to the statement by The
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst that "a beer drink
or is depraved," and the observation by
the Buffalo Times that ''all Kentucky
will agree with him." the Louisville
Courier-J ournal says: ''This is hardly n
fair statement. Kentucky does not re-
gard a beer drinker as necessarily de-
PRAYED any more than she does water
tlrinker. Both beer and water have
their uses. 1t is the man who habltual-
ly drinks beer in preference to anything
else that Kentucky regards as de-
Orayed"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17
pERS0l5R'5EA9s1
Regqg1 zGal@Gg.Igss'

The Jefferson family has been OH 'no
stage for five generations.
The Princess Of Wales IS cai''1
"granny" by her grandchildren.
Archbishop Temple is the nlst .ee
totaler to sit on the throne OF Cah'ei
bury.
The Duke of Marlborough is havlns
grounds for lawn billiards prepared a.
Blenheim.
Mckinley is another Of the long lis.
of American Presidents who were no'
college graduates.
New Orleans forbids high hats III its
theaters and puts an official time lihii'
to the wearing of straw hats.
The German Emperor is fond OF hsn'
and bright colors, and has a paftlcuial
dislike to see the empress in BLACK.
The rector Of Clonfert, Ireland the
Rev. Canon McLarney, has undertaken
the restoration of the ancient calne-
dral there.
1t is regarded as entirely appropriate
that the most successful horse dealei
in Nodaway County, Mo-, is nan
named Goodpasture.
Gov. Morrill,, of Kansas, will conilhe
his European trip next summer TO q
three months tour Of England, Ireland
and Scotland.
The bankruptcy Of President Capcn'
of Tufts College. was brought about Dy
his having Endorsed number OF notes
for friends.
Rabbi Emil G.. Hirsch, Of Chicago,
has made new translation ana reVls-
ion of the Jewish prayer book prepared
by DR.. David Einhorn.
The Sultan has appointed five chris
tians-one an Armenian, the otherf
Greeks-as deputy governors OF dl1fers
ent provinces in Asia Minor.
Sir Alexander Milne, who is 80, and
who entered the navy eighty years ago,
is the oldest admiral, and the one who
has served the longest.
Lord Salisbury is 66 years of age
He spent fifteen years in the House OF
Commons, and has spent tWenty-four
years in the House Of Lords.
DR.. Temple, the new Archbishop OF
Canterbury, as headmaster Of Rugby
was regarded as one of the greatest
schoolmasters of the century.
Miss Willard vouches for McKinley's
temperance principles and the determi-
nation of himself and Mrs. Mckinley
to Danish wine from the White House
tables.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt, who long
withheld her patronage Of the Wheel
now finds that it restores and refreshes
her more than anything after fatigu-
ing night at the theater.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-17

A highly interesting decision has re-
! Gently been made by the English court
of appeal upon the subject of strikes
and picketing. The English law recoS-
nizes the trades unions, and affords
them large latitude in respect to deal
| ings with employers, and when strike
is on protects them in the use of all
equitable methods Of action. 1t also ad-
mits Of 'picketing," and the question
now decided is what does ''picketing"
mean. The Workmen in a certain bust
ness went on a strike, and afterWard
not only 'picketed'' the place of their
employer, but also threatened another
firm, with whom they had no dispute,
that if this firm continued to do bust
ness with the one against which they
had struck their workmen would also
strike and their place be ''picketed.'
An injunction was applied for against
the trades union, to which the worl1nen
belonged, to prevent them from "Dic.l
citing" the first firm and from threaten
ing the second. The court of last resort
granted the injunction, holding that the
striking workmen must not injure their
former employer by their acts nor pre-
vent his doing business with other
firms. They could picket his premises,
but picketers must not prevent other
workmen from taking the employment
they had left, and that the picketing
must be confined to the giving and OBJ
tanning information. The court also
held that peaceful persuasion could
not be prevented on the part Of the pick
eters toward new employees. In view
of such decisions by the courts theprin-
ciple of arbitration by state boards on
all questions between employers and
employees should be more and more en-
couraged.