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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
CURTAIN RAlsERs.

James O'Neill Is quietly laying plans
for an important production next season.
Thomas w. Kcene finds that Shake.
spearean acting means study and continual
work.
Camille D'Arvillc, it is reported, will
abandon" Kismct" in favor of a new opera
uext season.
Clyde Fitch and Leo Dictrichstein ore
writing play for W. II. Crane which will
he produced next season.
william Courtlcigh has been engaged
by Tanicl Frohman for the New York Ly-
ceu,n thoater stock company next season.
J. Cheever Goodwin is said to be prepar.
ing a new version of LA Falote," recent
~ withdrawn from the New York Casino
Another gorgeous production is prom
Used by Fanny Davenport for next season,
when she produces her new American play
''.Nowaduys," says J. E. Dodson, ''tlc
drawing power Of I'm actress depends large
1y on two things-what she has on and
what she HASN'T
George Backus was selected by William
Gillette himself to succeed the latter in
his favorite role Of Augustus Billings In
''Too Much Johnson ~5<t...
ltIhas been discovered thut the sultan of
Turkey practices seven hours a day ut the
piano, which causes Charles A. Bigelow
to observe that 1t takes a despot to do these
things. -
Jessie Bartlett Davis has received very
large inducements to remain with the Bos.
,tNnians next season. This Is probably due
to the great SUCCESS she has won in "The
Serenade."
A Boston paper suggests that the ilrst
picture to be ',ung on the walls Of the new
sarmory of the Boston Cadets should be
that of r. A. Barnet, who has done so
much for the organization. -E>
Henry Miller was asked recently If he
ever suffered from stage fright. "Invari
ahly," he answered, as If astonished at the
query. And il is disease from which
I have never fully recovered"
SOME LAWS OF THE ROAD.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
Hot Slaw Dressing.

A half cupful of vinegar, half cup
full of cream, an egg, a tablespoonful
of butter, teaspoonful Of salt, a table,
spoonful Of sugar. Pour it on the cab
bage, sliced fine, set on the stove in a
covered kettle and let it come to a boil.
Serve hot. {.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
The senate will vote ON the ar.
.bitration treaty on May 5.
~ The Minnesota legislature adj
iourned w ednesday atnoon.

Senator Geo. r. Barr was Mon
day again elected president pro
tenn of the senate.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
Velvet Cake,

This cake, if properly made, will be
'"as soft as velvet" according to Bakers
Helper: Half a pound of powdered sug-
ar, 3 eggs, quarter Of an ounce Of bitter
almonds, blanched and chopped very
fine; half pound of good strong flour,
quartersof a pound of good butter, quar-
ter of "a pint Of good cream, "a level tea
spoonful of good baking powder. Cream
the butter, sugar and yolks of eggs to-
gether with what Aavoring you choose
say, mixture of lemon and vanilla
in like manner as for best pound cake,
then add the chopped almonds; next add
the flour and whites of eggs, which have
been previously well whisked; add a.
little of each at time, stirring each
lot we'll in before adding another. When
it is all in, drop the mixture into square
cake pans, linedwith paper; level them
and bake in moderate heat. The tops
of these cakes do not need washing or
busting with sugar. The baking powder
should be sifted in the -four. When mix
ing, if little milk is needed to make
the mixture the same lightness as pound
cake, add it.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
Yellow In Decorating

Yellow is absorbed by gas or lamp
light. So if you wish to make your COM
bination distinctly yellow you must al
low for that, while blue intensifies its
effect by night and is exceedingly dark.
Electric light makes but slight change
on yellow or blue. Where we have q
great deal of furniture unquestionably
the best way, and one which unites the
rooms and adds breadth to the whole,
is to repeat the same decoration on the
walls in each room. Let your wall COW
erings run through. also your carpets.
This as the connecting link will be more
generally pleasing, advises The Deco
ratOr and Furnisher.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-23
Back to 1t Every Time.


Mr.. Lakeside Ito his divorced Wife)-l
have come to tell you that it willSe sim
ply impossible for me to pay you any all
mony this year.
Mrs. dissatisfaction suppose there Is
no help for it. We must marry again.
New York journal.
The Hungry Brigade.
After their tolls
The spoils-
The office-high or low,
By night and day
They howl for hay,
And up to the rack they 60.
Up to the rack
On the dusty track,
And never an army can beat them back.
BY night and day
They howl for hay,
And up to the rack they go.
Atlanta Constitution.
EkIng Out n Salary.
"You poor schoolma ans are woeful]y
underpaid.''
"Oh, I don't know. I have taken
enough chewing gum away from the chill
dren to last me three years. ''-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09
Jay Gould net a Bisami$t.


New York, Aug. 9,-The lawyers In
the Angel case against the estate Of
Jay Gould say they will not credit the
report OF Mrs, Angeles confession that
she was never married to Jay Gould
There seems to DO no hope for press
Ing the case, however, and there may
be \ counter prosecution against the
conSpirators, The Gould lawyers have
taken the matter under advisement,
and they intimate that the matter will
hardly drop where ii is now, II they
carry out their intentions a second
trial of great interest may follow the
collapse of the first, II is settled be-
yonj dispute now. ON the authority of
Mrs. Angel the duped plainuff In the
case, that jay Gould was not biga~
mist, the Gould children are not lille
Ultimate, and Sarah Anne Brown An
gell herself was never married to Jay
Wild. the confession in full is rs
follows.
II never was married to Jay Gould,
No. married man named Derusso
in Champlain in 1853, and fine bit of
y man he was, too, He came from
Europe, and he come near having
SS.000,0 900, and that's the way Mrs.
Cody got mixed up, Yes, Mrs, Pierce
is my own child from Derusse, She
is my daughter, My sister, Mrs
walknr raulh mi sny Shn WnS OrDsrnt
when Mary Jane was born, for mother
sent all the children out OF the house
until 1t was all over. My sister Is only
six or seven years older than my
daughter No, Derussc was not at
homo when the child was born; he
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

The engineers OF both trains, with
their conductors, held u consultation,
and is finally backed to the next sid
ing, followed by II. and the tangle was
Strengthened out.
The next day the remains Of the
would-be wreckers were found in the
ruins Of the station. and the railroad
company's physician, after holding an
autopsy, declared that the man had
only been stunned by the lightning,
and while unconscious had been
smothered and then burned TO a crisp.
In all my experience with lightning
that was the luckiest bolt that ever
hugged wire" said the narrator MS
he finished his story, AM the lucky
stars of the people Of those two trains
were undoubtedly in the ascendant on
that terrible night st, Louis Globe.
Democrat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

became 4 Mecca for these learned men
OF the law, and the woman who hired
them, who knew neither how to write
nor read, who had never been twenty
miles from her native place, except
oree, when she had journeyed to Mis-
souri,, was the queen bee around whom
they all buEEed, AS a matter of fact
Jason or Jay Gould was in Rouse's
Point surveying in 1858, He was II
and Mrs, Angel was then Is. There
never was any marriage or other re-
latton between them. The conspira-
tors assert there WIS certificate, since
destroyed, but that the memorandum
vas preserved by old DR.. Leighton OF
the Presbyterian church. The reporter
who investigated the case had thus
two clews To work on--the old lady
herself and the minister. Strange az
1t may seem II was matter OF difficult
" to find the Angel house In the vii
lAge,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09
HouSEWoRK MADE LIGHTER.

Machines and Ingenious contrivances
for saving labor In the household are
continually being invented Some
times these contrivances are In the
market for year or two before they
have any great sale Several OF these
are just beginning to he popular. There
rs always n crowd around the new
darning machine, for example, Some
thing to save tho housewife from tho
drudgery of monding cannot fail to ut.
tract them, and inventors seem at last
to have created something which il all
II advertises to he The one referred
to consists OF three steel pieces, one
tor securing the work, ono for adjust
Ing the little machine to the size Of
tho hole or rent and the third consist
ing OF bent prongs, for keeping In
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09
CALVES,
Cow in North Chicago Gives Birth to
Triplets, Each Beauty.

The greatness that has come to
North Chicago causes the people
thereof to throw out their chests and
Geek their hats over one eye.
Waukegau Is III eclipse, and North
Anderson, Md, is frantically jealous,
North Chicago bows down and wor-
ships Farmer Arnold and his COW June,
June has given North Chicago the
supernal glory that radiates for miles
around Heretofore North Anderson
has been naughty an" proud, all be-
c'use a two-headed goat was born
there.
These have been relegated to obscur-
ity ny the three calves born to June
early last Sunday morning. June
rade such racket in the barn that
she awakened Farmer Arnold from Il
nightmare, IN which he saw three
chairs doing dance ON his bed with
the counterpano for skirts.
Burglars, exclaimed Arnold, and
he seized his gun. He started for the
barn. He was so startled by what he
saw that he fired both barrels. The
racket brought the nelghbors around
him. The news Of the great honor
that June had conferred on North Chi
C&go travelled fast, During the da.
the whole population came to view the
triplets with the white spots dottiuG
them. The village store was opened
to celebrate the event,
When night came enthusiasm had
reached such a pitch that the church
bells were rung fifteen minutes longer
than usual and bonIires We're lighted
Speeches were made, in which II was
pointed out that North Chicago bid
fair to rival Chicago itself and the
horse toSos near by were rele-
gated to the obscurity they deserved.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

came nome two or three days after
ward. Then, II had been married
to jay Goull, how could have mar
rled John Angel, while he lived.
What kind OF woman do they take
me for, anyway"
The famous case began two years
and half ago, when woman call
ing herself Mrs. Cody. spoken Of by all
today as that detective woman" by
many AS the divorced wife of n we'll
known actor, made her appearance in
The village of Rousc's Point She was
looking for woman called Sarah Anne
Brown. She proved to her satisfaction
that Mary Brown Angel and Sarah
Anne Brown were one and the same
person, and o she went to see John
Angeles wife. This was the beginning
OF the conspiracy.
Mrs. Cody declared that she had
authentic proofs which went to show
that Mrs. Angel, when she was girl
between 10 and lG years OF age, had
married certain Jason Gould, who
had been surveying In that part of the
col ntry at that time; that she had
child by him and that he had de
serted her few months after they
had been married. Jason Gould, the
poor boy Of II, an apprentice to a
surveyor, and the millionaire Jay
Gould were proved to be one and the
same person. Therefore, II Mrs. An
goll had married Jason Gould she
was the widow OF Jay Gould, who
had been bigamlst, and his children,
therefore, were illegitimnte. These
possibilities opened up vista Of vast
wealth TO be shared among the con-
spirators. and Mrs. Cody set TO work
to gather up her threads.
She had found the minister who had
married them, she recovered copy
Of the destroyed certificate OF marriage,
she found men and women living In
the immediate nelghborhood who re-
mcmbcred Jason Gould, remembered
him marrying Sarah Anne Brown, and
even located one man In Canada,
about eight miles across the line, who
made an affidavit that he had stood
up az best man with Jason Gould when
he had married Sarah Anne Brown.
When these threads were all gather
ed up Mrs Cody retained lawyers on
behalf OF Mrs Angel. Amasa J. Par
ker and Amasa J. Parker. Jr., Of Al
bany, and Lawyer Stearn Of Rouse's
Point attended TO her side OF the case.
The little hut on the Champlain road
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09
LIGHTNING NOT SO DANGEROUS

Writing on Tho Needless Fear Of
Lightning Edward w. Box, in the
Ladies' Home Journal, says that lit
will doubtless surprise the timid to
know that only two hundred deaths u
year occur ON an average throughout
this entire country from lightning, OF
one person in every three hundred and
fifty thousand people Now, in COM
parison, fifteen times as many people
are killed each year by falling out Of
windows; over twice as many from be-
Ing bitten by rattlesnakes. while
twenty-five per cent. more are killed
with 'unloaded pistols. More people
are drowned are und New York city
alone every year than there aie deaths
from lightning all over the country,
In fact, more pee pie, by fifty per cent,
are killed by being kicked by horses IN
New York city than die from lightning
throughout the whole OF the United
States. The casualties Of the south
show that the daI gers OF being
lynched and of being killed by light
ming are about the same, The trolley
cars of our cities kill far create
number Of people than do the lightning
storms. Now, these are facts hey
are strictly accurate and carefully
computed"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

place the thread, darning cotton or
other mendlng material, The operator
Goes not need To possess any skin,
children may mend with them, the
manufacturers say, and, since tn work
consists In running the needle back
and forth and catching 1t In the gar
mont only once as 1t Is taken across,
instead of over and under every other
thread az liz the hand method, Is
probably not untrue that Juvenile
seamstress could operate II. IL Is use
ful for many things, as 1t makes n hne,
even weave of thread. II may be used
to repair table linen by using linen
thread, wooden goods by using ravol-
ings and upholstering goods ny using
silk. IL Will also put neat new heel
on stocking.
Another device which. though used
commonly only by professionals, is
very generally approved ~ housewives
when once II Is tried, Is the oven
thermometer. For i long time sktllful
cooks demanded )f atoyemakers that
something be 'nvenJd whereby they
could tell definitely tho heat OF their
device, and To the entire satisfaction
ovens. Stovemakers did perfect such
of the class who made the demand.
The oven thermometer has clock
shaped dial on the outside OF
the stove. The thermometer con-
sists of two metal plates. one
OF copper and one OF steel, TO the
former OF which rod Is attached
which communicates with the dial.
The heat expands the copper and this
expansion Is recorded as the tempera-
ture OF the oven. As the copper and
steel go on expanding and contract
ing In the same degree nd inAnltum, or
10 long az heat liz applied and taken
away, the thermometer cannot get out
OF repair and is practically indestruct-
ible.
A dish which Is IN Improvement on
tie old-fashioned sfeam cookers Is arr
ranged 80 tn 1t the water placed In the
lower basIr is not c, injected with the
Inc, but liz allowed TO drop down on
a hot brass piece, thus passing at once
into steam. This dish Is also con-
triyed 80 that the steam. after passing
around the articles TO be cooked, can
not escape except by being condensed
in the basin again. and thus the steam
remains perfectly dry. taking away all
chance OF the food becoming water
soaked"--the objectionable thing about
steam cooking In general.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

Speaking Of Ewes first costume, .
the higher critic was saying, Il never
could figure out"
oh, guess 1t was pretty easy to fig
her out" put in the party who would
rather be funny than be president,
There was such thing AZ original
sin; possibly such a thing as an
original joke; but the subjects were
not germane. Detroit Journal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

A good Highland minister was en-
deayoring to steer a boat-load Of city
young ladies to landing place. A
squall was bursting; the steering was
difficult. One Of the girls annoyed
him by jumping up and calling an
xiously, oh where are we going tor"
If you do not sit down and keep still,
my young Teddy" said the minister
pilot, succinctly, that will vera
greatly depend on how you were
brought up"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

II has been found that liquid air ID
one Of the most perfect insuators, and
insulating materials cooled 10 the tenn
perature Of llquld air are much i'm
proved in insulating qualities. II Ia
suggested that, as Niagara is twenty
:our horse power, and that but a
email amount is ust ! at night. some
2. the surplus mi GIT u Utilized in Ii!
manufacture of ilalefeo air. Ele..
tricians are realizing the great posi-
bIlity Of liquid air as means Of energy
storage. and In electric engineering. II
j. however, too e1. ! to make any
predictions on the subject.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09

Acting Secretary Meiklejohn, OF the
war department, has prepared and will
issue new certificates of honor under
the act OF congress granting such
certificates to the telegraphers who
served In the late war. The first GER
tIhcates were prepared hastily and
were unsatisfactory.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09
QUEER LIGHTNING
TELEGRAPH OFFICE A SAFE
PLACE IN STORMS.
BUT MANY THINK 1T ISN'T

Stories Told by Railway Operators
How an Electric Bolt Saved Two
Trains From Destruction and Killed
the Would-Be Wreckers - An
Operator Has His Hair Trimmed.
The record-union., 1897-10-12
Popular Science.

The difference between a planet and
star is this: A star shines by its
own light; a planet by light reflected
from another body.
The roles of Jupiter are f1attened al
most exactly like those of the earth.
The phenomenon can be plainly seen
with the telescope.
Among the botanical specimens coll
lected ny the Cornell scientific party in
Greenland were some full-grown for
est trees less than three inches in
hight
In the useful report of DR.. Lintner,
State Entomologist of New York. it is
stated that the little red ant, a pest
introduced from Europe, has the single
redeeming feature that it is an active
and efficient enemy of the bedbug.
The Pleiades contain six stars Wis
ible to the eyes of ordinary keenness,
though twelve or fourteen have been
counted in this cluster by persons of
extraordinary eyesight. A two-inch
telescope shows about sixty stars in
this cluster.
Mathematical calculations show that
an iron ship weighs 81 per cent. less
than a wooden one, and will carry 115
tons of cargo for every 100 tons car
ried by a wooden ship of the same di-
mansions, and both loaded to the same
draught of water.
The most scientific forester in Eu-
rope says the Oldest trees in Northern
Europe are the pines of Norway and
Sweden, and that these are not known
to live more than so years. Ger
many's oldest oaks live only a little
more than 300 years
The record-union., 1897-10-12
BASEMENT FIRE.
Some Damage to w. NJ. Smith S
Store and a Market.

A few minutes before II o'clock last
night an alarm of fire was turned in
from box p, at Third and ] streets.
The Fire Department responded
quickly. but found no fire there, and
proceeded up J street to where smoke
was pouring out from the sidewalk at
No. 422, occupied by the American Fish
Market, and No. 424, occupied by the
furnishing goods store of w NJ. Smith
By the time the engine arrived the
fire was bursting out through holes in
the sidewalk. and it was seen at a
glance that the whole basement under
Smiths store was on fire
By the time a line Of hose was run
out it was discovered that the whole
wooden rear of the market was on
fire, and another line of hose was
quickly run out in the alley and two
streams of water turned into the base
1ment and on the wooden porches at the
back of the two buildings.
In a few minutes the flames were
completely under control, and what had
promised to be a nasty fire to fight
was almost extinguished. BY 1870 the
last spark had gone out, leaving the
basement drenched with water, but the
back porches, were very little damaged.
Mr.. Smiths stock, however was con-
siderably damaged by smoke, and some
by water but the amount of his loss
could not be aSceTfained
The record-union., 1897-10-12
Air Photography.

The experiments to be made by the
United States Weather Bureau in air
photography are expected to throw
light on many phenomena but little I'M
derstood at present. Little is now
known about the way in which the at
mospheric currents run. The nature
of a hurricane such as sometimes runs
up the Atlantic Coast from the West
Indies at this season is comprehended
in a general way, but mystery envel-
ops the working mechanism of the
storm. No one can say how a whirling
tornado plucks a chicken clean, drives
a piece of timber through a man, and
carries a baby a mile unhurt. In order
to ascertain how the air flows over
houses, mountains and through
bridges, a little model of each will be
placed before a camera and an inita-
ton breeze directed against it. and its
movements photographed The man
ner of photographing air currents has
recently been worked out by Professor
z. Mack Of Vienna. The discovery is,
however, due TO Fizeau and Foucault.
two Frenchmen.-Chica Inter-Ocean.