Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-03-05
THE PASSING SHOW.

It is feared that next seasons ice crop
has been seriously affecta1 by the frosts.-
Chicago Times-Herald..
Why this sudden desire ON the part of
John Bull to swap chewing gum and save
us his apple cores?-Washingto Post.
Maine is one Of the mighty few states
where the farmers outnumber all the other
occupations or professions in the legisla-
ture.-Boston Herald. -. ,...
The prisoners at Sing Sing are to be-
taught drawing In order to keep their
minds occupied. This is reducing prison
I work to fine art.-Ch Chicago Tribune.
Uncle Sam is bent and determined that.
Canadians shall not play in his back yard,
and yet he wants to help build canals:
across our front garden plot.-Montreal
STAR. -
There are over 6, ZOO, 900 people in Spain
who cannot read. We cannot but pity
chem when we think that they have missed
all the Cuban war news. Pittsburg
Times. .".a.-.
The proposal Of l cent postage has just
made it's annual appearance in congress.
What the country needs still more, how
ever, is better postal service for 2 cents
Providence Journal. -
The Lancet formally vouches that Queen
Victoria is not insane. This Is really re-
freshing in these days when medical ex~
perts in the courts are finding that almost
everybody is insane. Buffalo Express.
The Russians have presented King Men
elek with a brass band, u piano and an or
gan. AS yet the African monarch has not
developed any suspicious US to the friend
illness Of these gifts. Washington Star.
A fireman goes through enough at one
of these below zero fires to earn his salary
for a year. Don t forget that next summer
when you SEQ him sitting in front of the
engine house smoking pipe.-Chicago
Post ~ .... ~
1t is wonder that some one had not
before thought Of the round bale of cotton.
A round stick Of wood can almost defend
itself against fire. The round bale Of cot
ton is little injured ny fire or water.-St.
Louis Post-DispaJch. =.
It is recorded that President Cleve-
land freely and fully pardoned out Of
prison man condemned to durancs vile
for three months for hard swearing in
the District of Columbis- Undoubtedly
! feeling Of profound sympathy was the
motive for the pardon, President Cleve-
land remembering congress and the fear
full provocation to.profanity from which
he himself has suffered. @,.r..
y The Irish home rule party will have
an excellent and very. solid base
from which to conduct operations in
the overtaxation of Ireland by the
British government From that basis
they can agitate safely and tremendously
for home rule, and they will do the best
for their native land by trying to have
that grievance removed. The world will.
be in sympathy with them, even large
part Of the British world. The world
will also have considerable respect for
them if they do this instead of flying at
one another's throat and calling one
another all the hard names even Irish
eloquence is capable Of using, whereas
at present the world has no respect at.
all for the Irish home rule party in gen
eral. s= II v.
That was ridiculous law in Wiscon
sin which sentenced inebriatesto Kelley
institutes and made the county in WHICH
they lived pay . round sum tor their ex-
penses. No wonder the supreme court
of the state pronounced it unconstitu-
tional. Such law simply put . largo
amm ~ money into the hands Of the vend-