Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-01-18
No Sunshine without a Pig.

PA, let's move to the country.
don't want to live in town."
"Why not, Bobby?"
"Well. pa, ma says if we live here
till I'm grown up and gray headed she
| wont lemme keep pig"
A report from Monterey, Mexico, de-
clares that the miners in Mexico sub
stantiate the claim that the Chinese
discovered this continent long before
the days of Columbus.
An improved mail service has been
installed in Frankfort, Germany, the
tramway company having recently add.
ed seven automobile cars and seven
trailer cars to the street railway mail
service.
A hotel landlord in st. Louis has es.
tablished curfew regulations in his
house. Promptly at 10 o'clock at night
the curfew rings, and guests at that
time are expected to turn out the lights
and go to bed.
In New Zealand there exists brass
band whose members. are wholly
mounted on bicycles. This band, which
is located at Christchurch consists OF
ten players, and these not merely ride
their bicycles to practice, but fulfill
their engagements on the wheel.
The Cunard company has decided on
building several steamships which will
be expected to wrest from German
built vessels the speed championship
now held by the latter. Other English
lines will probably follow suit in the
attempt to Guido the Deutschland
The London Daily Mail says that the
days Of the banjo are numbered in
England and that that instrument will
soon be included in the same category
with the mouth organ and the accor-
dion. The either will probably be the
fayorite instrument the coming sea-
son.
The Boston park board has extended
the time within which borseless car
riages can be driven in the park sys.
tenn. Automobiles can now be run
from $3.50 until 1870 in the evening.
The vehicles must not travel at a
higher speed than ten miles an hour
in the park.
Professor Levin OF Berlin has found
among 900 laborers who constantly
handle copper eight men whose hair
had in consequence obtained a green
ish tinge. which no washing would re-
move. The phenomenon has been
known, be says, $50 years, but it takes
several years to produce it.
Half size pianos are being made In
Germany for the use Of children who
are learning to play. Doctors declare
that much permanent injury is done to
the muscles Of the fingers by endeavor-
ing to stretch an octave or more, 80 the
new pianos are made with keys half
such injury.
japan will shortly be the strongest
naval power in the far east. Three
new warships have lately arrived from
England. France and Germany, and
the Hatsuse is expected from England
In mere tonnage alone the four new
vessels surpass the total tonnage of the
II Japanese or the IL Chinese ships
that were present at the great sea fight
III the Yellow sea. =
Germany Is rapidly becoming a ma.
ton of whisky drinkers, according to
the report Of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Wilson More distilled spirits
are exported from this country to Ger
many than to any other foreign coun-
try. The Germans, apparently, are
partial to Bourbon whisky in prefer
ence to rye. For the year ending June
%. 1900, 4l1.489 gallons Of Bourbon
and 1877 .t7s gallons Of rye whisky were
Isent. & 81. .:s vt 7. Sd