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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-03

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nR. N. w. CHANCE, Physician and Sur.
~ xeon. Office cover Tanners store.
Residence Corner Broadway and Eight
street East. S5S>S
Telephone connection, WetzePs Drug
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MEDICAL.

T NJ. ROBERTS, Physician and Sur
J. geo.. NJ. D. Philadelphia, Pa. l..
G. c., London, England. Speciality; nose
RHODES BLCyx, : LITTLE FALLS, MINI
Residence at Hotel Buchanan. 5gtszt
Office hours 8 to II q. M, 2 to and to \
p. m. Telephone tS5s9f On Va. r I'm ss,.4
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One in a Hundred Million.

Travelling on American railways IS
attended with little risk, according to
the tables compiled by the Railroad
Gazette. One passenger was killed in
1896 for every hundred million miles
travelled, and but for two or three
serious accidents the showing would
have been more favorable. The pas.
senger fatalities of 1896 were greatly
in excess of those in 1895. Last year
there were 1913 deaths, largely due to
negligence in operating, while in 1895
only thirty.eight lives of passengers
were lost. There was an increase in
the number of fatalities among en-
ployes. Three hundred and eighteen
were killed in 1896 and and 302 in
1895, but as the train mileage went up
from S34, ,2OO,O 900 to $40, 100000 in
1896 the death rate was practically un.
changed. The tables prove that, not.
withstandjnS the killing of passengers
in carload lots, it is safer to ride on
trains than to handle them.
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ground. Then rtraddling them and
holding their heads erect with his left
hand he drew his great knife in his
right. The reindeer could not rise.

In their position they could hardly
struggle, and the Lapp was ready for
battle. He had hardly got into posi-.
tion, though the operation had taken
but moment, when the dogs were on
him again, eager for reindeer meat.
With one sweep the Lapp cut at the
first two dogs. There was wild howl
of pain, dripping of blood and the
two leaders lost interest in the fight.
The other dogs were nothing daunted
by the fate of the first and still pressed
forward. The Lapp swung his knife
back and forth with loud cries, and at
every swing some dog was yelping with
pain and retiring to give his comrades
a chance. By the end Of a minute
there were but two or three dogs on
the active list, and with final whoop
the Lspp frightened them into retir-
ing to a respectful distance. The
Lapp stepped aside and released the
reindeers' heads; II on instant they
were on their feet. He lesped into
the sled once more and in few SEQ.
onds only cloud of snow flying into
the air told where he had gone"
In case the dogs pluck up spirit for
q pursuit after first failure, the Lapp
repeats the process of disposing of his
foes until enough have been killed or
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About the Ostrich.

An ostrich will never go straight to
its nest, but always approaches 1t
with many windings and detours, IN
order, if possible, to conceal the local
ity from observation.
A champion of the ostrich has arisen
and declares in a current magazine
that for the last few thousand years
that bird has been horribly and pa
thetically misrepresented.
It seems That the ostrich of reality,
Pliny and all other writer's to the con-
trary, is neither stupid, cruel, coward
", savage nor especially feet. He
does not hide his head and suppose
himself to be entirely concealed; |;
neither does his spouse allow the sun
to hatch her eggs. In short, almost
all our time-hallowed beliefs about
this cruelty maligned bird are con-
vincingly demonstrated to be merely
fairy tales.
There are only three ostrich-raising
farms in the United States. The
largest is in California, near Los
Angeles. and contains nearly 200 ma
tive birds, the original stock of Afri.
can ostriches having died of, unable
to survive the change of climate. The
chicks from now on are expected to
increase at the rate of about 100
year.
The breeding birds are very vicious
during the laying season, and attend
ants who are Obliged to enter the cor
rails do 80 in fear OF their lives. The
ostrich has at command a terribly
quick and very powerful forward and
downward blow with his feet, and has
been known to injure horses 30 severe
ly that they had to be shot.
The average ostrich is over seven
feet high, weighs between $50 and 300
pounds and lives about seventy years.
its ordinary food is alfalfa hay and
sugar beets, and its appetite is not
very large. The feed for one COW
would support ten ostriches. ''The
digestion of an ostrich" is an allusion
to the fact that the long.legged bird
has a habit of picking up pebbles,
ground bones and other hard sub
stances, which are used to grind the
food in its stomach.
About 800 feathers are plucked from
each full-grown bird in every eight or
nine months. The most valuable are
those long white plumes which grow
ON the wings of the male. The rest
of the feathers are drab on the female
and black on the male. The feathers
from each bird bring in about $50 a
year to the producer, and the cost Of
keeping the birds is comparatively
small.
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About Bibles,

The finest and largest collection OF
bibles in the world is said to be at the
bible house of the British and Foreign
Bible Society, in Queen Victoria
steeet, London.
One of the best manuscript bibles
which have come down from ancient
times is copy made by Thecla, no.
BILE Chistian lady of Alexandria, in the
fifth century. 1t was brought from
Alexandria to Constantinople, and
given by the patriarch to the English
ambassador to hissovereign, James l.,
and remained in the possession Of the
English Kings until the royal library
was presented to the nation by George
II.
Bible printing in England is done
"by privilege of the Queen" privil-
ege held by only three establishments
the Oxford press, the Cambridge
press, and Messrs. Scottiswoode and
Eyre, the Queens printers. India
paper, which has revolutionized bible
making, is said to be mechanical
mystery and O trade secret, known
only to three men. 1t is made at the
Wolvercote mills of the Oxford press,
and in order to preserve the secret no
employc is allowed to he in touch
with more than one stage of the pro.
cess. The use of this paper has re.
duced the thickness of the bible by one
half.
A writer in a current magazine has
lately visited this building and de-
scribes some of the famous and curious
bibles he saw; there were sixteenth
century bibles, with columns and
pages daubed out with red ochre by
the hand of the censor bibles of dead
kings and queens, containing the sig-
natures of their owners; the Wicked
Bible, issued in 1882, which said,
Thou shalt commit adultery" and
brought fine of 1000 marks to its un-
happy publisher for unintentionally
leading weak world astray, and the
Breeches Bible, of 1861, which said
that Adam and Eve "sewed leaves
together and made themselves
breeches
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A MODEL HAUSFRAU.
Quiet Tastes and Domesticity Of tho
Empress of GERMANY.

Quiet Tastes and Domesticity Of tho
Empress Of Germany.
It is stated by a writer who is in q
position to know, that there is no
snobbishness about Augusta Victoria,
Empress of Germany. All through
the German Empire the Empress is
cited as model hausfrau. She never
interests herself in matters Of State,
but gives her whole attention to her
large family OF children. About the
only affairs outside of the royal home
IN which she interests herself are her
charitable works, which she person
ally attends to. Augusta Victoria was
not accustomed to luxury when she
was girl, and it is all the more cred
liable to her that she has not been
spoiled by her change in circum-
stances. Her father was Duke Fred
erick OF Schleswig- -Holstein Sender
burg. It was an obscure and shabby
little court there, and Augusta and
her three sisters we'll knew how to
practice all the little domestic econo-.
mics which the families of impecuni-
GUS German mobiles are SO often COM
PEELED to resort to. Although dukes
daughter, she learned to bake and
sew and darn and make over her own
frocks. .a.
But, the day arrived when Prince
William, destined to become kaiser,
visited the court of Prlmkenau. Prince
William looked with admiration on
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Miss Pauline French, of Daly's com

Miss Pauline French, of Daly's COM
psny. She is tall distingue-looking
girl, and was wearing an elegant gown
of chocolate broad-clotb., The trim
little Eton was tight-ftting, with
braid in the popular military fashion
and open just enough at the throat to
show pale blue satin ribbon twisted
several times around the neck to form
a four-in-hand knot in front. The
sleeves were of the regulation coat cut,
and had braid at the wrist. Miss
French, on the stage or off of it, is al
ways marked figure.
Poor lonely man! We are going to
have a male school of cookery. Now
that the new woman threatens to grad.
ually forsake the domestic stove for
clubs and stump oratory, an academy
of cookery for the instruction of men
is about to be opened.
The idea is to have a new dog every
night and try the food on him. If he
survives, that will be the test of whether
the food prepared by the students will
be fit for human consumption.
Many beautiful gowns were seen at
the reception rendered to Mrs. Julia
Marlowe. .Taber, the actress, by the
Twelfth Night Club ian organization
composed of all the prominent actresses
in New York; Among those that
stood out prominently was one worn
by Mrs. Thomas Whifen, of the Lyceum
Theatre Company, who looked dignity
itself in a mixed Scotch cheviot of
green, black and old rose, A pointed
open fronted Eton coat with broad
revers, stitched several times had three
buttons at the bottom, and the skirt
hung faultlessly. A silk shirt of old
rose, and high turn down linen col
lar were worn. The hat was close
shape, with punches of violets at each
side and two tall black wings sticking
straight up in front.
An insurance company, in calculat-
ing in its annual report the wisdom of
insurance, and seeking to confirm the
truth of the adage Nothing is so GER
tain to happen rs the unexpected" "
mentions a number of queer accidents
and the amount of monetary consola-
tion which the policy holder in each
case received. Part of the list was as
follows: Lawyer fell over pile OF
briefs, S400. Gentleman missed dog
when trying to kick him. struck sofa
instead, lnjuring great toe, Sl00. But
the most noticeable item was: Literary
man (poet) pricked quick of finger
with pin, blood poisoning, S525. Who
says there is no more money in
poetry?
Very large hats called "aops,
trimmed with a simple wreath of roses,
are much in vogue.
Black dressed kid gloves are taking
the place of white.
Eli Perkins, known throughout the
country as lecturer and humorist,
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ing no attractions for members of the
household. The most crying fault in
the American house of moderate di-
mensions is still that the parlor is
made too formal, and is not given the
true home atmosphere.
From the architectural arrangement
of most detached houses the parlor is
rarely one of the best lighted rooms
nor is there any need that it should be
nor is it generally as we'll provided
with artificial heat. For these reasons
it is q mistake to furnish in cold tones,
such as white and gold. Delightful
as the contemplation of such room
is, it is not comfortable nor home
like. nor is it worth the time and pa
tience it requires to preserve it in the
midst of full-fedged nest of young
Americans.
The color scheme is the most i'm
portant part of furnishing; there
should be certain warmth in color
ing, and this will rarely be found in
gilt papers or moquette carpets. If
the rest OF the house be simply fur
nished the parlor can still be elegant
with mating and rugs on the floor,
rattan or bamboo furniture and mus.
lin curtains. The only important
thing is to the different pieces of fur.
niture in one room of similar style
and effect, and to have the decora.
tions correspond with the furniture 30
as to give good general Effect he
details are matter of preference. As
most houses are laid out the parlor
has at least one long, blank wall, and
perhaps two-to make these attractive
is the supreme test Of furnishing. A
few large pictures hung several feet
above the line of vision is the usual
treatment-and the result is depress-
sing to degree. The wall should be
covered as fully as possible with pic.
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habit of using it. A witness to the
conflict tells how the Lapp deals with
the dogs:
"The Lapp WAS driving o pair of
deer. A dozen great Eskimo dogs
thought the time had come for fresh
meat and gave chase. Before the
Lapp knew what was coming, sled and
reindeer were surrounded and the
dogs were leaping and barking before
the frightened creatures. The Lapp
gave series of shouts that frightened
the dogs for moment. Then in the
moment OF respite he leaped from the
sled, ran to the heads of the deer and
threw them with their backs on the
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the modest and comely Augusta Vic
toria 1t took him q short time to
make up his mind that she would make
an ideal wife. He returned for SEQ
ond visit, and was a suitor for hec3
hand. They were married at Berlin
amid pomp and display. She has now
been married about sixteen years.
Some of the more brilliant women OF
the royal German family, such as the
Emperor's sister, Charlotte of SAKE.
Meiningen, and his mother, the EN-
press Frederick, regard Augusta Vic-l
toria as dull and stupid. But her.
ambition is only to bea devoted wife
and mother. :
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tures, and plenty of small ones should
be interspersed in order to give diver
sity and infornslity. The mantels
should be we'll filed with objects of
art, and none of them should be triv.
ial. Above all there should be plenty
of books in the book case not ponder.
GUS gift books, blazing with gilt and
stamped leather, but books to read
and books that ars talked about. 1t
should be remembered that there are
no better aids to furnishing any living
room, than supply of prettily bound
books.
The accompanying plan provides a
parlor of attractive shape and size
that lends itself to the treatment indi-
Gated above.
The wood work is painted a deep
cream and the walls, coral; the floor
is stained deep red brown, or COW
cred with "old rose" or dark copper"
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THE MODERN PARLOR.
Wherein 1t Differs From That of the
Past-Its Proper Furnishings.

The improvement in public taste in
this country during the past few years
is shown in few ways more strikingly
than in furnishing Of the parlor. In
the olden times, when houses were
heated with difficulty by open fire.
places or little wood stoves, it became
the custom in winter time to shut off
the portions of the house that were
not needed for living purposes for
economy OF fuel. The parlor was not
n necessary place for family use, as the
household generally gathered for COM
fort in the kitchen or dining.room.
Therefore the parlor was the
first room to be closed on the
approach of winter, and the last
to be opened on the advent of
summer. 1t is scarcely generation
ago, and veil within the memory of
persons of moderate age, that the par
lor was darkened day and night, hold.
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Yearly Fire Losses.

The average yearly loss from fires
in the United States during the past
twenty years has been about $780,
100000. During the past year, &C.
cording to the chronicled fire tables,
there have been 3S,0 fires, destroy
ing 33,964 pieces of property. The
total loss entailed has been Sl42, no.
233, with an insurance loss of 1884,
6S9,O In this tall column of disas.
ters there were %, I'll dwelling-houses,
$40 churches, 500 colleges and school
houses, SOP theatres and public halls
and 528l manufacturing establish.
ments.
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A Costly Suit of Clothes.

One hundred thousand dollars for .
suit of clothes is the latest yarn from
Idaho. Five years ago Morris Yenzel,
a tailor in Moscow, in that State, made
suit of clothes for miner, taking in
payment 5000 shares of Leroi stock.
then quoted at a cent a share. An.
English syndicate now wants to buy
the Leori mine, but refused to do so
unless it could get all the stock is-
sued. The 5000 shares were advertised
for, and suddenly it dawned on the
tailor that he had them. He has de-
manded $40 share for his holding.
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desolate country, if only the reindeer
flourish and rultiply.

oSSOIdGc CoudGkyy - SAay tA0 20AhSSSt
flourish and 1cultiply.
But there hsve been great times in
getting the reindeer his footing in AL.
aska. He was an assisted immigrant
and had to be protected against all
sorts of dangers besides those found in
his native country. The main dangers
feared were from the Eskimo dogs, the
hungry Eskimo himself and the loss
that would come from neglect of un.
skillful or careless herders.
The Eskimo is little removed from
a wolf. He is hungry and savage and
the reindeer ie eatable. Consequently
there was trouble. The Eskimo dogs
are thick abou! the station and Eskimo
villages. Dogc are part OF Eskimo
wealth. as the only pack animals of
the frozen north up to the arrival of
the reindeer, but are easier to get than
to feed. So when the reindeer were
brought to the Teller Reindeer Sta.
tion at Pert Clarence the Eskimo dogs
made an attack on the herd. They
were out for gam and had to be driven
off again and again before they learned
the lesson that it was not good to at.
tack the herd. Then they gave their
attention to the sled deer that were
kept about the station for hauling.
For time even the presence of men
failed to restrain them. One or two
deer driven by themselves were too
tempting, and for weeks they were
liable to he assailed by bowling pack
of ki.yis. The station had brought q
party of Lapps to take charge of the
reindeer, however, and the Lapp
knows how to deal with dogs. The
Lapp carries knife with blade ten
or twelve inches lcng, land has handy
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stone; first story, clapboards; second
story, gables and roofs, shingles.
Interior finish: Two coats plaster,
hard white finish; maple wood foort
ing; trimming, North Carolina pinet
staircase, ash. All interior woodwork
grain filled and finished in hard oil
varnish.
A careful selection OF colors for
painting have been selected by the
architects, the plan and accommoda.
ton being one of unusual merit.
The cost to build is $4,000, cot in
Guiding msntels, range aud heating
apparatus.
Copyright 1897.
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Hiphest Hotel In the World.

The highest hotel in the world is in
the Himalsyas of Western Thibet. 1t
is what is known as the Sevai at Tin
grail located n&he Chang-la, pass in
Ladak or Western Thibet. The build
ing is over 16. 900 feet above the level
of the sea. The extreme height OF the
pass in which it is located is 1s,36S
feet. Villages are situated at either
end of the pass. Culinary on the one
side is 12, 400 feet above the ses level,
while Durgu Oh the other side is IA, 800
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has seven tiny japanese poodles which
he brought from Japan. They are OF
great value. Recently his particular
favorite among them was taken Ill;
dog doctor or his assistant stayed with
the brute for two days and nights,
finally rescuing the pup from an un-
timely grave. Many human beings do
not get half such good care.
The costumes illustrated herewith
were designed by The National Cloak
Co., of New York.
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ALASKA'S REINDEER
THEIR IMPORTATION HAS BEEN
GREAT SUCCESS.
How a Lapp Protects the Animals
From Eskimo Dogs-Reindeer
Solved Alaska's TranspOr-
tation Problem.
TTHERE are reindeer in Alaska.
' q. L.. 1,oor f1r

So much has been known for
three or four years, fol- the
Government bought them
from the Siberian deermen and put
them there. And the reindeer are
Aourishing and multiplying. That ls
the report that comes from the far
North from the men who were put in
charge of the deer and told to teach
the Eskimo how to use and raise them.
This verdict of success with the rein.
deer is thought to mean great things
for Alaska. Just now there's little to
eat in the biggest part of thai big
country up North. Got up above the
Aleutian chain of islands that make
stepping stones for giants half way
across to Asia, or 60 over the mount.
ain wall that faces the coast Of South
ern Alaska, and food must be got fl ON
the outside, fits to be had at all. Little
or nothing can be raised, wild animals
are scarce and cattle couldn't live there
even if there was anything for them
to eat.
But the reindeer pastures-they're
immense! There are 400, 900 square
miles of land covered with the fbrous
white moss, and all on earth it is good
for is to feed reindeer. The pasture
lands run back thousand miles or
two from Bristol bay and stretch across
the Yukon and far to the north-even
to the ever frozen region of Point Bar.
row. According to the calculations of
Sheldon jackson, there is pasturage
for 100000 reindeer on the Bad
Lands of Alaska, and as reindeer are
worth SO or $40 apiece there is a
chance to do a very respectable bust.
ness in the stock-raising line in that
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MADE OF SLATE GRAY DIAGONAL
CLOTH, WITH A VIOLET BLOUSE.
''No, indeed" I replied; 81 come to
see a woman very much alive"

''No, indeed, l replied; 81 come to
see a woman very much alive"
She had changed her gown and her
maid had vanished. So we chatted
quietly and had a good opportunity
to study her. Very lovely she looked
in an exquisite gown of a1iue dark
green worsted. The three-button cut
away had single Cart from the shoul-
der holding the coat well into the
figure in flont, and the smart little
sailor collar had buttonhole on each
side. At the neck and from the bot.
tom button very handsome waistcoat
of green seeded wool and silk with
tiny speck of red was visible.
She is as supple es fawn; has large
dreamy eyes and mahogany-colored
hair. met her some years ago in
London before she had won her pres
ent hold on the public, and then I felt
sure she would be great actress one
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Cost of Garbage Burning.

The city of Lowell, Mass, with a
population OF about $4,000 inhabi-
tants, burns its garbage for about
eighty cents ton. The cost OF
operating its plant for one week.,
during which 100 tons of garbage waa
burned, was SS0.75. Burning at the
rate of 100 tons per week, the cost Of
operating such furnace is about
$4,000 per year. =