Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-11-24
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A muskrat was the cause of Steven
Vile, Ontario, going without electricity
for three days. Workmen searching
for the trouble dug down to the under
ground cable and found that muskrat
had chewed the cable to get the bees:
wax inside the insulation and had been
shocked tosdeath. = ~.
Kiss clinics for manageable girls,
to solve America 3 divorce problem,
are advocated by a noted Partisan
stage beauty, who is visiting Chicago.
ga woman s whole heart should be put
into every kiss she gives her hus'
band,' she declared. "a kissable
woman will keep any normal man an
chored at home. Too many wives think
they can hold their husbands through
their stomachs. Scientific love. is more
practicable than domestic science.''
Five thousand dollars was paid for
a single branch Of red apples in Fer
rell, New Jersey, by a nursery firm.
A record and agreement ( Of purchase
have been filed with the county clerk.
The owner received 1000 outright fol-
the purchase of the apple branch, and
viii receive $4,000 additional in install
ments at the rate of two cents each
for.every tree budded from this branch,
which is to remain on the tree in the
orchard, according to reports.
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A man in Gratz, Austria, who had
hanged himself from a tree, was cut
down >by a farmer. During the opera
ton one of his legs were broken, caused
by his landing in ditch. He sued
the farmer for hospital expenses. The
lower court granted his demand. The
superior court, however, considered
that the farmer had done a good turn
to the man who wanted to die, and his
duty as a Christian citizen. The high.
er court held that he could not be held
responsible for the consequences Of his
act and denied the would-be suicide
his claim.
The "christ of the Andes" is a stat.
ue Of the Savior, cast in the bronze
from the cannon Of opposing Argen'
tines and Chileans, standing nearly
$4,000 feet above the level Of the sea
at Cambre Pass, on the mountain from
tier between Argentine Republic and
Chill. 1t was placed there in March
1904, as symbol of the perpetual
peace which was then sworn to by the
opposing nations. An inscription on
it's base reads, "Sooner shall these
mountains crumble to dust than shall
the people of Argentine and Chill
break the peace which they have pied
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the Redeemer."
In the interior Of Argentine, cattle
are so plentiful that beef on the hoof
often sells for less than two cents a
pound and cattle are sometimes given
to the butcher on condition that he
shall return the hide to the owner.
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A. honeybee, Achievement Girl,
worth $500, is owned by man in
Armenia, North Dakota. She is prize
queen bee, member of colony which
last summer set one Of three world rec.
ords for honey production. She is
being sent to Alabama where she will
pass the winter.
"Savc the boys from the fascination
of the military career, if you would
save the world from war; This was
the substance Of an address delivered
by DR.. William L. Poteat, president of
Wake Forest College, North Carolina,
at national Boy Scout executive
conference held recently in the East
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An estimate made in behalf of the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace shows that the cost of the Great
War exceeded 1886, o00,000,000. This
amount is equal to the. combined
wealth of the United States, France
and Great Britain when the war began.
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The center of Negro population OF
the United States has moved north.
east. It is now: located in the extreme
northwestern corner Of Georgia; ap.
proximately~ 9.94 miles farther east,
and 19:4. miles farther north in 1920
than in 1910 Former movements have
been southwesterly.; i
Ex-Premier Clemenceau was at one
time librarian in New York City,:
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