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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
A Lucky Organ Grinder.

Organ grinders are not often en-.
gagged for a theatrical production, but
in coming London drama an Italian.
whose repertoire includes "The Holy
City," will take small part. The 9TH
er day at rehearsal the actor-man-
ager heard this song being played and
imagined it was being rendered by the
orchestra. Its splendid" he re-
marked, 'and it's just the kind Of
music we want in this scene" The
stage manager was surprised, and
confessed to the actor that he had
nothing to do with this unrehearsed
effect. cts a man in the street." he
added. Engage him, then to play
outside the stage door every evening
when this scene is on" said the mar
ager. The lucky Italian was accord.
ingly promptly engaged at $3.50 q
week for his work.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
THE POWER OF MUSIC.
0roat Composer Explains Necessity oR
Finishing lmp-oviaa&Ion.

0roat Composer Explains Necessity q
Finishing Improvisation.
The duke Of Saxe-Wefma7 once IN
vited John Sebastian Bach to attend
dinner at the palace: Before the
guests sat down to the feast Bach wss
asked to give an Improvisation. Tho
composer seated himself at the hnTpst
chord and stTaightway forgot all about
dinner and everything else. He p1ay-
ed 80 lorg that at last the duke touch
ed his shoulder and said: I'VE are
very much obliged, master, but ~
must not let the soup get cold" Bach
sprang to his feet and followed tho
duke to the dining room without utter
Ing a word. But he was scarcely sect,
ed when he sprang up, rushed back b
the instrument like one dementea.
struck few chords and returned t.
the dining room, evidently feeling
much better. II beg pardon, yoae
highness," he said, "but you Inter
rupted me in series of chords and
arpeggios on the dominant seventh
and could not feel at ease until they
were resolved into the tonic. It In -
II you had snatched glass of water
from the lips of a man dying of thirst
Now l have drunk the glass out anl
am content"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Cable to Our Islands

Within two years, if all goes wen
a cable will bind this continent with
hawaii and the Philippines. The re.
turn OF Clarence Mackay and the AZ
rival of the steamer Silver Town with
5000 miles of wire at San Francisco
means active work. The cable to he
laid is of English manufacture, writes
the New York Post. The india RIB
Der covering was made in Philadel
phla. No adequate facilities exist in
the United States for the construction
OF a cable of the quality required.
The weight of the copper wire will be
500 pounds per knot, as against 1ee
pounds in the old-fashioned cab1as.
The method of laying it is ingenious.
machinery being provided to give the
proper bend to the cable and preyeut
it from paying out too fast. The tsn-
sion OF the cable is carefully maaa-
ured, and it is so laid that it does MT
link or coil.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
CITY OF BIG NUMBERS.
New York a Place Where All ThInu
Are On a Laroe Scale.

New York Place Where All Thlnau
Are On a Large Scale.
A New Yorker of a statistical tuzu
Of mind has been figuring on what The
people of; that city pay for luxurl>r
and other things. For instance.
says: For our. daily newspaper read
Ing our papers use from $50 to 1.Ooo
tons OF white paper a day, which n
tho average eight-page paper amount
to from 100000 to 2O,O0o, 900 coples.
The various press associations cable
US between $4,000 and 100000 words
a day. Our entertainments in our
forty odd theaters cost US from ST.
700 to 100000 night. We sold &C
our stock exchange floor over 2N :.
100000 shares Of stock during the lsst
year, and while 100000 shares a day
IS large average, on May 9, 1901, the
traffic amounted to 3,336,695 shares.
And SO it goes. We surely are justd-
ned In declaring that New York is the
city OF big numbers, as we'll as biz
things"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
New East River Brjdne

The new East river bridge will be
immense. In one cable there are
6,956 wires. Each wire is three-six-
teenths of an inch in circumference
and is 5000 feet long, making a cable.
If stretched out in one continuous
wire Of 2o,S6S,000 feet, or 395 1,s
miles in length. If the wires of the
four cables were stretched out, they
would almost reach from Chicago to
New York and back again. The wires
in weight average about one pound to
every ten feet. Therefore, in one
cable there would be 2,ose,soo pounds,
or 1,O44 tons. The four cables would
weigh 4,176 tons.-New York Letter.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Etiquette in Japan,

Etiquette is the religion of japan.
No people in the world are as polite
as the Japanese. AS a nation the
Japanese are more clearly than any
other people. In nearly every way
they are superior to the Chinese, but
they lack the Chinese conscience and
the doctrine of commercial honor.
London and New York merchants sell
many Chinese merchants goods on
credit, but they have learned the Bit
ter experience that the Japanese mer-
chants freqdS .ly fail to pay their
debts.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Little Hound of Ancient Breed Could
Be Carried in = G{ove


Be Carried in a Glove.
There is no question that the beagle
IL q very old breed. Early Roman &C.
counts Of England contain references
to the beagle, even by name Books
published from about 1880 to 1910 de-
scribe several varieties of hounds, in.
Guiding ''the little beagle which may
be carried in mans glove" That
the miniature hound was extremely
popular at that time was evident from
Queen Elizabeth keeping pack which
were also said to be small enough to
put in glove, says the Country Life
in America.
This statement is frequently ridi-
culed when it is not understood that
gloves Of that period were not the
present-day kind, but gauntlets reach
Ing nearly to the elbow. What be-
came of those glove beagles we may
surmise from what we know of the
results of later attempts to maintain
packs of beagles of eight to ten inches
high, the result after some years be.
Ing weak puppies that fall short of the
line qualities of the little hunting dog
when they are grown up.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Mnety-three Courts Eiahty-Nine.

Nnety-thres Courts Eighty.Nine.
It is whispered in Brooklyn that
''Old Man Cochrane,' aged 80, is court
nag Mrs. Caroline Stringham, aged 80.
On his seven-mile jaunts afoot to Rich
mond Hill, Mr.. Cochrane wears high
boots of rubber so that he can safely
wade through all the ponds, mud
holes and creeks on the road. He
must, indeed, be boy again, as wad-
ing in puddles, etc., is the average
boys original sin. Mrs. Stringham
has nine children, twenty-seven grand
children and fifteen great-grandchil-
dren; lives alone in her own home,
does all her cooking, washing and
ironing, housecleans, makes her own
clothes, does her marketing, etc., and
is ready at any time to dance a quad
rifle.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Ex:t-Upstairs.

The "speed madness" of the present
day is finding expression, it seems, in
increasingly novel and unique inven-
tons. Not content with thinking
across the ocean," talking around the
globe, splitting the air with automo-
biles, flying machines, and other time
destroying vehicles, people have now
become impatient of the elevator
method Of ascending to tops of sky
scrapers, and the news comes that a
well-known torpedo inventor has per
fected safe and really simple con-
trtvance for blowing one upstairs.
There is no noise, no exertion, no
dtscomfort-one presses button and
thereupon finds himself floating up
ward. The contrivance is also said
TO- be comparatively Inexpensive.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
"Cure for Love-"

Take twelve ounces of dislike, one
pound resolution, two grains of COM
mon sense, two ounces Of experience,
a large sprig of time and three quarts
Of cooling water of consideration. Set
them over the gentle fire of love,
sweeten it with the sugar of forgetful-
ness. skim it over with the spoon Of
melancholy, put it in the bottom Of
your heart, cork it with cork of clear
conscience and let it remain, and find
ease and be restored to your senses
again. The things can be had of the
apothecary next door to reason on
Prudent street, in the village of con-
tentment, for 10 cents worth of deter.
mination.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
A Primitive REGION.

From the Lipar1 islands of mythol-
,ogy, the abode Of Eolus, the ruler of
the winds, and the scene of his meet
ing with Ulysses, to the Lipari islands
of today, is a ve-y far cry indeed.
There are no hotels, and the islands
are almost unknown to tourists, while
the $4,000 inhabitants are almost in a
state of primitive and patriarchal sim
plcity. They tender their services
voluntarily as guides and refuse pay
ment, regarding all visitors as their
guests. <.-js Il 4 4ss.s.s@y51t
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Fur Trade of the World.

Nearly the whole fur trade of the
world concentrates itself in the two
cities of London and Leipsic; but as
about two-thirds of the London furs,
which are sold at auction, go to Leip-
sic, the result is that the fur market
of Leipsic is really the greater of the
two. The Leipsic warehouses receive
raw and half-prepared furs from ST.
IBERIA. European Russia, America,
Australia and China, making the bust
ness of the fur exchange worth from
$15, 100000 to $17,O00,00O yearly"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
EuloQy for a. Mayor.

Col. Evan P. Howell has been an
nounced as candidate for mayor Of
Atlanta, Ga, and is hailed by a local
contemporary as zone Of the 1 old
guard" because Of his '.long fealty
and valiant services for many decades
in the interest of the city and the vel
fare Of it, people" The same writer
says: No manor dozen men, for
that matter-have fought harder or
done more telling work to make At
lanta what she is to-day, than he.'',
(. = 80. ~. tss-r~
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Guide Books Are Barred

A guide book is generally regarded
as harmless. Not SO in Turkey, as q
German traveller has learned to hi
grief. Officials found in his trunk u
guide through Turkey" and confisczt-
ed 1t. The next morning the book xB
returned to the German, but with moxo
than hundred pages torn out. TIE
traveller went to the 'censor,s admGo
to complain OF this inexplicab1e trent
ment of his book. But the censor 4H-
planned to him with irresistible lox1e
that an accurate description of Con-
stantinople could not be suffered, sine,
a knowledge OF! the locality was cd
culated to facilitate an attempt aa
the sultan's life.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Jesasa Of Paleaflna-

The Jews Of Palestine are entirely
descended from Jews who returned
to that land from Europe. Most of
them speak q corrupt form Of the Ger
man language.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
Watch Made OF ivory.

Henri Houriet, Swiss watchu1E-
or, has recently completed 4 watch
made entirely out of the ivory taken
from, billiard ball-works and caa
complete. It keeps good time.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02

The winter ERIN at Glenwood Academy
opens Jan. 6, 1908. In addition to the
regular work in the academic, Normal,
and com:nercialdepartm ents instruction
is also offered ia drawing, painting,
organ, and band music For catalogue
and information address Academy
G]enwood, MINI.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02

Money! Money Money! We have
iarge amount of money to loan on
arm lands at low rates.
SI0NOR &SCHALLERN
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
The Earraout Breed.

Encampment visitors contemplating
Admiral Farraguts historic old flag
ship, the Hartford, will thrill when
they think of Manila bay and Santiago
and realize that our navy still breeds
men of the Farragut stripe Washing
ton Times.
Oldest Pension Office Clerk.
Judge G. M. Tomkins is the Oldest
pension Office clerk in Washington.
He was appointed in 1861 and saw
the department grow from a little
bureau to one Of the largest and most
influential branches of the govern.
ment.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-03-21
FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
0ad BIts 81 Domestic Tor the
scrapbook Of the Young
Housewife.

A pretty effect for a sofa pillow top
is an arrangement of ribbon woven in
and out, as the paper mats for kinder
garten work are done. A sofa pillow
of this type is especially appropriate
for a den where strong decorative eff
fects can be used. Orange and black
r a good combination for such a
cushion, and so, too, are green and
pink and royal blue and white, says
the Brooklyn Eagle.
A small cushion that comes in handy
to tuck in at ones back when sitting
in an armchair is made of a loosely
stuffed center of silk. This is about
eight inches in diameter, and not at
all thick. Around this a putting of
silk is placed. A circular piece Of seal
Hoped linen, either white or ecru, serves
as a top. The white tops are deco
rated with yellow b~uttercups, if the
silk cover of the pillow be yellow, or
with v%iolets, if green or lavender silk
is used for the cushion top. The seal
Tops are far apart and deep, and they
are fastened down over the putting so
as to allow the futing to flare out be-
tween. The ecru tops are embroid-
cred in gold thread and oriental silk.
For an emergency lunch" a tempt
ing dish, is that is easily pre-
pared after these directions: Slice a
loaf Of bread, cutting off the crusts.
Toast these slices and butter them.
Prepare canned tomatoes by stewing
them with a little sugar, rice, butter
and seasoning, also a little finely
chopped onion. Pour this mixture over
the layers of toast as they lie upon
aplatter. This makes an excellent rel
tsh and is a good substitute for meat.
A practical and at the same time dec
orative arrangement for protecting the
wall at the back of the divan is a strip
of oriental material, about eight inches
wide, fastened to the wall just above
the top of the divan. In addition to
serving as a protection for the WALL
the strip serves as a photograph frame
for pictures of people, landscapes and
interesting views of buildings can be
slipped in at the top of the strip.
The newest design for sets of small
plates is that of Gibson heads done
in black lines, suggesting etchings. In
handling these designs are totally diff
ferent from any which have been put
upon china heretofore.
Wild fruits, such as beach plums.
wild grapes and wild plums make de-
licious preserves, the aromatic flavor
imparting a special touch of p~iquancy.
An expert housewife always puts I'D
at her summer residence on Long Is
land a quantity of beach plum pre-
serves, and from these many delicious
desserts are evolved during the win.
ter months. Beach plums have a puck
cry quality, but this is nuIlifed by boil
ing them first in water to which has
been added a pinch of soda. Afterthis
process boil them again in strip.
An effective window box seen re-
Gently was covered with oil cloth in
blue and white tile pattern. Blue and
white morning glory seeds were sown
In this box, producing a bountifuI sup
ply Of blossoms. Indoor grown morn
ing glories are more delicate than the
garden grown ones, and they made an
unusually pretty window box filling.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-03-21
R%ED-HEADED GIRL DID IT.
Her Young Man DELAYED the I'm,
gineeF for "GOO-GOOing" and
Saved Many Lives.

"As to railroad smash-ups," said
an old conductor who has long had a
run out of Detroit, you may hit or
miss by a close margin. Five seconds
at a crossing may mean safety or
tragedy. My closest call from a
head-on collision was mixed up with
a red-headed girl, and 1 feel that I
can never be too grateful. The girl
was a waitress in a railroad eating
house where our passengers took
supper, and I suppose / made goo
goo eyes at her occasionally. 1 sup
pose so from the fact that a Iustv
young man to whom she was en-
gagged sent me a letter threatening
to do me up if I didn't quit. I lit a
cigar with the epistIe and continued
to gOO-gOO.
Gone night we stopped as usual for
20 minutes refreshment, and / got
my orders from the train dispatcher
to make up four minutes lost time
in the next 20 miles. He gave me a
clear run, and though it was late in
the fall and a dark evening the
track was in good shape. 1 cut the
passengers short by a minute and a
half, and had just got the last of 'em
aboard when a man walked up to me
and planted a r~ight-hander between
my eyes. Lordy, but I thought the
heavens and the earth had come to-
gether. / was knocked as fat as a
pancake, and the fellow piled on to
me and got in two or three more
good ines before he could be hauled
off. 1t was the ~red-headed girTs
young man, and he was making GOOD
his threats. I was helped aboard
the train for repairs, but we had lost
six minutes. The brakeman was
about to give the signal to start
when a freight train of 80 cars came
booming in to take the siding. The
train dispatcher had made a mix of
it. Had we pulled out on time we
should have met that train three or
four miles up the road, and no one
a say how many dead and wound
ed there would have been. With my
nos skinned, two front teeth out
and my eyes going into mourning, I
sought out my rival and blessed him.
and 1 sought out the red-haired girl
and would have kissed her had She
permitted, and when we fnalIy
logged along there was a song in nv
heart and 1 didn't care a cept whetk.
er school kept OF naL'
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-03-21
FOR R
Simple Application Which Has
Been Found to Be Very
EmcaciOus.

Thirty years ago a Boston physician
discovered a simple cure for burns.
1t found its way into the Army and
Navy Journal. An army surgeon called
a number Of officers and sergeants to
the hospital office and demonstrated
this cure, 1 being present, writes a con-
tributor to Medical Talk.
He held his naked arm over a Light
ed candle and burned it until we were
all thinking he wanted us to taste
cooked human flesh. Then he seat for
a bandage and about one-fourth pound
of ~bicarbonate of soda (baking soda),
had it made into a paste with cold wa
ter, spread on the bandage the thick
ness of the tine of a fork and bound
tightly Ove the wound. In thirty
minutes he pronounced every particle
Of pain gone. In a few days the wound
was healed and finally left not the
slightest scar, without ever having
changed the bandage.
1 burned my breast severely a few
years after, by falling into a camp fire,
made the application a full week after,
when the wound had become horribly
infiamed and liberated by i~nattention,
as we had no remedies with us what
ever, I applied the baking soda from
a pound package bought in a western
ranch and presumably not of the best
quality. For half an hour 1 suffered
severe pain, then it ceased and 1 slept
well all night, Taking the plaster off
to look at the burn, all the accumuIa-
tions on the skin came off, leaving the
place as clean as it could be. In a few
days it was entirely healed and there
is no scar, only a slight redness of the
skin.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-03-21
PERSONAL AND IMpEpsoNAL.

A woman in Lyons, n. j., died from
the bite of a pet cat.
A Manchester (England) man is SUI
ing a for breach of promise,
and she is suing him on the same
charge. They won't agree to a COM
promise.
Congressman GoldfogIe, of New
York was towing a party of his con-
stituents around the capitol building.
Pausing in the rotunda, he said: "That
is a picture of Washington giving up
his commission" One of the party,
a practical politician, observed regret
fully: Il didn't know Washington was
such a sucker as to give up his commits
sion. How much was ftp"
Gen. Booth, the Salvation Army
leader, has been a pronounced vege-
tartan for years. He even refuses to
indulge in butter, milk or vegetables
cooked in fat, living entirely on cereals,
principally boiled rice. The general
says he is a vegetarian for two reasons.
Cine is his belief that primitive man ate
no meat and the other is that after a
4CA3 t44u4 u LAldg AICG uG MUS ululEG11
much younger than his years.
Queen AleXandra's. especial fad is
that of having her pocket money made
perfectly clean and bright before she
fingers it. Whenever acheck is turned
into hard cash for heruse the coins are
scrubbed in a Iather of spirits. of wine,
water and soap before being placed in
her purse, and any change that may
be rendered her when making pur-
ehases is taken charge of by the lady
ill-waiting until it has been subjected
to a like process of publication.
Senator Perkins, of California, who
spent years of his early life at sea,
tells of a stowaway being found in the
hold of a vessel. The lad was made
cabin boy to the captain, who took
quite a fancy to him. When the ship
made her first stop the captain gave the
lad $50 and sent him ashore for some
vegetables. The boy told a grocery
man what he had come for and the
storekeeper, pointing ia a barrel of
dried peas, said: ''Them's vegetables"
The boy invested the $40 and on rowing
out to the ship, which was anchored
in the bay, was hailed by the captain:
Have you brought the. vegetables"
''Yes, sir" said the lad, not very con-
fdently. look alive, then, and hand
them up one at a time"
Not long ago Sir Richard Powell, a
famous London physician, was called
to treat King Edward. The kings reg
ular physician, Sir Francis Laking, was
present. After examining his august
patient, Sir Richard said in his char
aoteristically brusque way: "You have
eaten and drunk too much, will send
you a prescription that will put you
right" Then he hurried out to see
other patients, when Sir Francis fol.
lowed and protested against his abrupt
way of treating the king. my dear
Laking," said Powell, "if there is any
squirming to do you return and attend
to it, I really haven't the time"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-03-21
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Insinuation.-Madge "She has a
lovely complexion" Marjorie-"No
wonder; that girl studied chemistry"
Smart Set.
Eyes, 1 believe that even inanimate
objects have intelligence Of a sort"
"For instance?" "WeII, for instance,
the policeman at the street crossing"
Baltimore News.
Glow is this-you have three invita-
tions to dinner tomorrow, and still
you find fault?' 'Why shouldn't 1?
They are all for the anne hour!"-
Journal Amusant.
One or the Other.-'T don't know
whether she has shaken him or prom
ised to marry him" "Why?" "He
has stopped buying e~xtravagant pres
ents for her."-CathoIic Standard.
His Future.-'That inventor has a
brilliant future" "He has. Inever
knew a man with so long a hist of great
things he is going to do. He is one of
the few people whose futures make
them famous. "-Washington Star.
The Safe Way.-Clerk lin village
drug store)-"Do you live here?" Gus
tomer-"Sure." CIerk-"Then you'll
have to wait till the boss comes back;
I amt allowed to put up prescriptions
except for strangers."-Detroit Free
Press.
Love in Spectacles.-He-"I suppose
now that I shall have to ask~your
father for his consent" She-'No.
Harry. After the first time you called
pa said I might have you if I wanted
you. Pa and I have understood it for
a long time. boston Transcript,